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Your Camp Experience

At jazz camp, you'll attend master classes on your instrument, plus presentations/lectures on applicable traditional jazz topics.
You'll participate in mixed ensembles under instruction by professional musicians/instructors.
Organized jams will held in the evenings at LCC. Friday's jam will be held at the Springfield Eagles Club which will welcome Eagles Club members as an audience and dancers. Drinks and food will be available for purchase at this venue, so you won't need to go elsewhere to eat dinner!
Lead sheets and arrangements will be provided to campers via PDF files available electronically at this website prior to camp. Parts will be made available for C, Bb, Eb and bass clef instruments. You'll want to print out your parts for practice and for camp.
You'll enjoy a private lesson with a specialist on your instrument.
Instructors will perform demonstration concerts, while also presenting tips about how you can best play effectively with your band mates.
A final concert/recital will be held on the last day of camp. Your spouse, companions or friends will be welcome to attend.

About the Camp Organizers

A summer camp where traditional jazz musicians gather to learn, play, and grow together in a friendly, inspiring setting.

We Are the Moldy Figs

...what the heck is a Moldy Fig?

In traditional jazz, "Moldy Figs" are fans and musicians who mostly prefer older styles of jazz, particularly New Orleans, Chicago, Kansas City, or early 1920s styles. In the 1940s, this term was used by the modernists to describe what they considered stubborn jazz lovers who weren't as crazy about bebop, or what was eventually termed "Cool Jazz." (Traditional jazz was alternately dubbed "Hot Jazz.")

The organizers of the Bert Barr Trad Jazz Camp have adopted the moniker "The Moldy Figs" due to their appreciation of the older forms of jazz. They are members of the Eugene, Oregon jazz band, "Leo's Jammers."

Your hosts (the organizers of the jazz camp) are: Michele Piastro, Vicki Cox and Tim Prendergast. They wish to share their enthusiasm for trad jazz with fellow musicians, and feel a responsibility to carry on that tradition.