Check out this epic sizzle reel of Camplified 2011 sponsor Epiphone! During the Camplified 2011 tour, campers were given the opportunity to participate in a guitar clinic sponsored by Epiphone/Gibson Guitars. Each clinic was taught by a Camplified artist who led the campers in an impromptu jam. Clinic teachers include bands and musicians Jonas Sees In Color, Tailor Made Fable, Michaela Wallace, Jackson Harris, McKenzie Comer, Taylor Bright, Jessarae and more. For more info on Epiphone, visit http://www.epiphone.com.
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Epiphone Helps Bring The Rock To Camplified 2011
Monday, November 14th, 2011
ShareThisCamplified Rocks Camp Ingersoll
Saturday, July 9th, 2011Check out this amazing piece on the MiddletownPress.com about our visit yesterday with Camp Ingersoll in Middletown, CT! The reporter even interviewed our own Andre Bouie, the Tour Manager on this year’s Camplified tour. Nearly 550 campers came out for the show which featured McKenzie Comer, The Age, Jackson Harris and Taylor Bright. Click here for the full story.
Official Camplified 2011 Tour Poster
Monday, June 27th, 2011
This Just In…
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009CAMPLIFIED PARTNERS WITH PRIMARY WAVE MUSIC
Playing In Front Of 40,000 Teens And Tweens At Over 35 Different Camps
NEW YORK, NY, August 24, 2009 —In its 8th and most successful summer, the CAMPLIFIED tour played in front of 40,000 teens and tweens at over 35 different camps. CAMPLIFIED is a nationally recognized musical endeavor, providing teens and tweens at summer camps the experience of a rock concert, complete with the VIP/backstage experience.
The brainchild of Aimee Berger and Carl Freed (of Trevanna Entertainment), CAMPLIFIED was conceived in 2001 when Berger, frustrated by the dwindling monies being set aside for artist development within the record industry, had the idea to get back to grass-roots marketing.
“I started reminiscing about the good old days at summer camp,” recalls Berger. “I wanted to put a tour together that would bring emerging artists into the camps where there’s a captive and receptive audience.”
Berger partnered with Primary Wave Music in 2008 to help expand the Camplified brand with sponsors and create a digital community, www.camplified.com for campers online. “The CAMPLIFIED event is a unique marketing vehicle for both brands and bands during the summer, but best of all, the digital community being constructed at Camplified.com will allow the bands, brands and campers to interact long after camp ends,” says Berger.
At CAMPLIFIED events, the campers are able to interact with the performers, and participate inage-appropriate sponsored activities such as a Rock Band Competition presented by MTV Rockband. This year, other sponsors included Little Brown Books, Cartoon Network, YuGiOh, Scholastic Books, Ian’s Natural Foods, HP Computers and Sonicbids.
Lisa Ickowicz of Little Brown Books says, “It’s great for the sponsoring companies because they are able to reach their target audience to promote products while also adding to the kids’ camp experiences.” Ickowicz adds that the company wanted to jump on board because CAMPLIFIED events seemed like the perfect place to merge different forms of art, “It’s a great situation for the kids because not only are they having fun at camp, but they get the added experience of seeing a great new band or meeting a favorite author”.
Doug Pierce, the owner/director of the Pierce Country Day Camp said, “CAMPLIFIED did an outstanding job involving the kids,” says Pierce. “Their artists were camper-friendly. It really became an interactive event.”
The bands/artists included Jaicko, 2AM Club, Kicking Daisies, Duke Squad, Loomis and the Lust, Lauren Frost, Jersey Kidz, Misha Williams, Lansdowne, Taylor Bright, Phil Bensen, Rick Seibold and Faces Without Names.
Press Contacts:
Primary Wave Music
Justin Shukat
212.661.6990
jshukat@primarywavemusic.com
Tiffany Bakker
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About Primary Wave Music Publishing and Marketing
Primary Wave is one of the largest music publishers and music marketers in the United States. It is a global music company that markets its unique repertoire, which includes an interest in the Beatles songs written by John Lennon, the catalogs of Kurt Cobain/Nirvana, Steven Tyler/Aerosmith, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Robert Lamm, Jimmy Pankow, and Lee Loughnane of the band Chicago, Maurice White (Earth, Wind & Fire), Steve Earle, Lamont Dozier, Daniel Johnston, Bo Diddley, Holly Knight, Sara and Janna Allen, Justin Furstenfeld/Blue October, Six Degrees, Marvin Hamlisch, The Matrix music production team, Tennessee Ernie Ford, and approximately 3,000 titles from a major film music publishing catalog as well as a 50% interest in the original music company Think Music.net, a joint venture with Pulse Music. In addition, Primary Wave has co-publishing deals with The Airborne Toxic Event, Anberlin, Saving Abel, Shwayze, Albert Hammond Jr, New Boyz, John Forte, The Boxer Rebellion, Matt Serletic and Emblem Music Group, Saxon Shore, Steve Morales, Taddy Porter, and The HitterZz as well as marketing and administration agreements with Graham Parker, Katrina and The Waves, Reveille, Evolution Entertainment/Twisted Pictures, QED, Team Baby Entertainment, Andy Razaf, Reggie Watts, Ray J, and Gregg Allman. Primary Wave is based in New York with offices in Los Angeles and Austin, Texas.
Camplified 2009 Artists & Bands: Part 1 of 3
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009The summer has gone by so fast this year and I believe that is due to the wonderful artists and bands that we have on tour with us! As the saying goes, “Time flies when your having fun”. Over the course of the next three blogs I am going to give all of you a recap for the good-times and great music that I have the privileged to be apart of.
Taylor Bright
Getting to know the campers
has been one of those artists that has made time fly by because of her energy and charismatic personality both on and off stage. She may be young but her but watching her perform and hearing her sing you wouldn’t believe her age! Below is a song entitled
“My Worst Best Friend”
[soundcloud url="http://soundcloud.com/lisa_marie_smith/my-worst-best-friend-1"] this song has been a major hit among all the campers on this tour.
Another amazing young band but with older voices is Kicking Daisies
Rocking the Skate Park
. Their music is of a rock/punk genre, with two female and two male members this band knows how to rock the house. A great fact about this band is the drummer for Kicking Daises is the world’s fastest female drummer! Here is a song that really got the kids pumped up!
“Go”
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A big thanks to the artists who have already graced the 2009 Camplified stages (more to come as the tour wraps up!!)
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Phil Bensen at Mid-Island Y Summer Day Camp!
Loomis and the Lust hanging with Takajo campers!
2am Club playing MTV's Rockband!!
Faces Without Names performing at Pierce!
Duke Squad closing out their time at Camplified 2009!
Lansdowne rocking out at Danbee!
Michael and Marisa at JCC Medford!!
BYS at Mid-Island Y!!
Rick Seibold starting a dance party!!
Misha Williams bringing the excitement!
Lauren Frost and her many fans at Kennybrook!!
Jersey Kidz lounging in the Cartoon Network kickballs before the show at Pierce!
Taylor Bright kicking off Camplified 2009 at camp Deerkill!!
Kicking Daisies tearing up the stage at NJY!
Posted by Alicia Pettine
Camplified ’09 pulls through Oakland to visit Camp Matoaka!
Saturday, August 8th, 2009Our time in Oakland, ME continued today as we visited Camp Manitou’s all-girls sister camp. The girls involved in today’s Camplified tour stop ranged in ages from 7 – 16 – and they were ALL excited. It was a great environment to walk in to! There were some talented musicians-in-the-making who taught us some tricks on MTV’s Rockband. A few of our own Camplified musicians were playing some tricks of their own with our sponsor HP’s MediaSmart Software.
Oh no, they're multiplying!
Next up, we had autograph and signing sessions with all of the musicians. Each musician visited with each camper who came by – it was pretty special to see the artist-fan interaction. Here, Taylor Bright takes a goofy picture with some happy fans.
Everyone say cheese!
Today’s afternoon concert was pretty exciting. The girls were already super fans of Taylor and Misha Williams – they walked around camp singing the songs!
Misha started the show and got all the girls out of their seats
Taylor sings her heart out - and the crowd loves it
Duke Squad took the stage and were greeted by hundreds of screaming fans. These girls were ready to rock!
Phil from Duke Squad greets some very happy fans
The concert was a huge success! Combined with the autograph sessions and the activities, the concert just topped off the amazing day that we had with the campers and staff at Camp Matoaka. It was a great few days in Oakland, ME – see you guys next year!
Posted by Jess Fontaine, Crew Member
Oakland, ME welcomes Camplified!
Friday, August 7th, 2009Camplified ’09 visited Camp Manitou in Oakland, ME today. The all-boys camp was a real treat as the campers took part in MTV’s Rockband activities and played some Yu-Gi-Oh! with our experts.
The campers get into MTV's Rockband
Yu-Gi-Oh! expert Robert goes through some rules and tricks with campers
Tonight’s concert featured sets from Taylor Bright, Misha Williams, and Duke Squad. The camp was ready for us – for the last few weeks, they’d been listening to the music of tonight’s artists daily. They were pumped for tonight’s show!
The evening started out with Taylor Bright’s set. You would think a teenage girl would be intimidated playing to a room of a few hundred teenage boys…but Taylor is no average teenage girl. She had them all in the palm of her hand in no time – and they came to visit her to say hello later, too.
Taylor puts on another great show for the campers at Camp Manitou
Next up was Misha Williams. Misha plays a great set filled with dance songs and some slower acoustic numbers. She has an amazing voice so even when she slows the show down a bit, the campers are still completely mesmerized with her and her performance.
Misha entertains the masses
Last up was Duke Squad. The Duke Squad boys are super high energy and always have a great time on stage. So, playing to a room of teenage boys gets pretty rowdy. The boys are jumping around and having a wild time within minutes – it’s crazy!
the Duke Squad boys are ready to rock
At the end of the night the artists sat and met with the campers – everyone connected through email or Facebook or whatnot, and all the kids left happily knowing they’d get updates on when they could see these musicians perform again.
Taylor Brights meets and signs some posters for some very excited campers
Camp Manitou laid out a great day for the Camplified crew and artists. We had a wonderful time setting up the tour at camp – thanks Camp Manitou!
Posted by Jess Fontaine, Crew Member
We Camplified Weequahic!!
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009Spending the day at Weequahic was a blast and an extremely unique experience!
Not only did our activities go off without a hitch, but we were honored to help break their color war! It was amazing! Most of the Camplified crew had never seen such a thing, including myself, so we were pleasantly surprised by the enthusiasm and excitement that soaked the camp.
Color War !!!!
We threw a Rockband competition earlier in the day so the winners could grace the Camplified stage and play for their fellow campers. Little did they know that their prize would be COLOR WAR!!! All of our artists on the bill that day participated in the fun!
One of the finalists!!
Duke Squad closing out the exciting night for Weequahic!
All in all, Weequahic was a unique experience for everyone. Camplified broke a color war and it couldn’t have been better!!!! Thanks for letting us help you begin your color war, teams Army and Navy!!!!
Posted by Alicia Pettine
Camplified brings the rock to Camp Kenwal
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009Camp Kenwal, in Melville, NY welcomed the Camplified tour onto their campus today. Kenwal is a great day camp with kids of all shapes and sizes – we don’t see many really young kids on this tour, so today’s visit to Camp Kenwal was fun from the minute we rolled into their parking lot.
We were very lucky with a beautiful day today and we set up to Cartoon Network and MTV Rockband activities outside on their tennis courts. This proved to be a very smart idea as we had so many kids that wanted to be involved – it was hard to get them all close enough to the activities! First up was Cartoon Network where FusionFall was set up. We had five HP laptops running the game while different groups of boys and girls alternated turns. We had some campers that were familiar with the game and had played in at home, while others were just hearing about it – and getting to play it! – for the first time.
MTV’s Rockband was also set up on the tennis courts. Between two stations Camp Kenwal campers drummed, sang, and strummed their hearts out. The rock “anthems” still reign supreme when kids are selecting songs, but that’s ok with us. Rockband’s got a great selection!
Later that day we had some music. Today’s concert featured Taylor Bright, Misha Williams and Duke Squad. Taylor had made some friends at camp who joined her onstage, while Misha brought up a few campers to help her dance it out to a song. Both girls were great today.
Taylor brings their campers to their feet
the kids loved Misha!
Duke Squad closed the show with a rowdy set – full of rock and pop and lots of jumping around. Although the stage is was set up in the cafeteria-area, the kids were out of their seats and dancing through most of the show. It was a great show!
Phil from Duke Squad makes some fans very happy
Thanks again, Camp Kenwal. We had a great time playing with you guys, and enjoying some rock music – hope you did too! As these camps get better and better, I find myself not being able to wait until tomorrow. See you guys at Camp Weequahic on Wednesday!
Posted by Jess Fontaine, Crew Member