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SOUND CHECK
WHAT’S PLAYING AROUND
THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
AUG. 10�17, 2022
Rock & Roll camp returns to Pendleton
Live concert happens
Friday, Aug. 12, on
Main Street
This week,
Pendleton
Center for the
Arts welcomed
By Lisa Britton
Go! Magazine
PENDLETON — After two years of a
virtual experience, the annual Rock & Roll
Camp is back in-person with a live concert
in downtown Pendleton to celebrate the
week.
The week-long camp, off ered free for
up to 60 teenagers from ages 13-18,
started Aug. 8 at the Pendleton Center
for the Arts.
It culminates with a public performance
on Friday, Aug. 12, from 7-10 p.m. in the
400 block of Main Street.
Journey Hahn attended the camp
from ages 13 to 18, and this year is help-
ing organize it as an employee of the art
center.
“Now I’m right back where I started,” she
said with a laugh on Wednesday, Aug. 3.
As a camp alumni, she’s excited to be
involved with helping today’s youth experi-
ence everything the camp has to off er.
“It’s a wonderful tool to build your self
confi dence and your creative process,”
she said.
During her years as a camper, she
learned about music production, screen
printing, musical culture and how bands
get started.
Other opportunities include songwrit-
ing, playing instruments, music journalism,
photography, sound mixing, marketing and
more.
This is the camp’s 17th year, and many
instructors return year after year. Hahn said
the camp staff is mostly Portland-based
musicians, although some have come from
the Seattle area and California, as well.
Hahn said Friday’s performance will
include quite the variety, “from indie-rock
to full-on metal.”
“We work really hard to foster their cre-
ative ideas,” she said.
campers for the
17th annual Rock
& Roll Camp,
which returned
to an in-person
experience after
two years as a
virtual event.
Pendleton Center
for the Arts/
Contributed photo
CONCERT
Campers at the 2022 Rock & Roll
Camp will present a live concert
Friday, Aug. 12, 7-10 p.m. in the 400
block of Main Street in Pendleton.
Ian Summerfi eld did not attend all the
years he was eligible — and he still regrets
missing the fi rst year.
“I was kind of scared and didn’t know
what it was like,” he said. “Then I saw all the
pictures and was extremely jealous.”
He then attended as long as he could,
then switched to the role of counselor.
“It was exceptional, surrounded by mu-
sic,” he said. “It’s a really special program.”
If any teen seems reluctant to try the
camp, Summerfi eld is quick to encourage
him or her to give it a try.
“Absolutely,” he said. “You have full
range to try any instrument you want to try.
Everyone is so encouraging.”
He now teaches teen ukulele classes
at PCA and plays with several bands. The
Rock & Roll Camp, he said, helped encour-
age his music and songwriting.
“They are very talented and very inspir-
ing,” he said of the camp instructors. “All
walks of life and all infl uences of music.”
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