Music City camping at DSC April 17
Four of the nation’s, if not the world’s, top guitar wizards will converge on Daytona State College’s News-Journal Center in beautiful downtown Daytona Beach April 17-19 to share their techniques during the college’s first-ever Nashville Guitar Camp.
Hosted by Daytona State’s Mike Curb College of Music, Entertainment and Art and its Center for Business & Industry, the camp’s focus aims at helping students and aspiring guitar professionals of intermediate to advanced skills reach a higher level of play.
The camps will be led by Nashvilleguitar icons Pat Bergeson, Richard Smith
and Guthrie Trapp, each world-renowned in the music industry for their mastery and particular style of play. Joining them will be jazz guitar great Barry Greene.
“This is a great opportunity for any serious guitar enthusiast interested in learning new skills and techniques from four of the best ax men around,” said Jake Niceley, assistant chair of the Mike Curb College and head of Daytona State’s Associate of Science in Music Production Technology program. “These are world class guitar players who want to be a part of our program. They are attracted by the sophistication of our facility, the fact that our academic program focuses on high-level music production and, most of all, by the caliber of our students.”
The college’s News-Journal Center is a two-theater venue featuring the most cutting-edge technology available within its two production studios, rehearsal and isolation rooms. The weekend camp will include a Friday kickoff concert followed by intensive lectures, classes and evening jams that cover a range of topics,including studio techniques, fingerstyle, jazz, blues, rock, country and more. Registration is limited to 50 guitar players.
The cost for the camp is $600 per person. For details and to register, visit www.
nashvilleguitarcamp.net.
Tourney to benefit students, community April 14
The Sugar Mill Golf and Country Club in New Smyrna Beach will be the setting for the 40th annual Score One For Kids golf tournament on Friday, April 24, benefiting scholarship programs at Daytona State College and supporting community activities of the Kiwanis Club of Daytona Beach. The shotgun start begins at 8:30 a.m.
Participants will receive a continental breakfast, green fees, golf cart, range balls and soft refreshments. Stonewood Grill & Tavern in Port Orange also will host wine and appetizer stations on the course. Lunch will be catered by the Sugar Mill Country Club. Businesses or individuals also can support the fundraiser through sponsorship and donations, and door prizes are welcome.