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Radio Camp 2012 – Day 5 – A Good Friend
Welcome back, campers! Week 2 started with a conversation about friendship: What makes a good friend? How are we good friends? We wrote down our thoughts in our reporters notebooks and wrote some ideas on the board. Overall, we decided that a good friend is nice, helpful, likes to play, is respectful, doesn’t keep secrets — and of course, we are all very good friends! We then worked with our friends in groups to record our thoughts in the handy-dandy H1 recorders.
Live Music: Peter King
New at Neighborhoodvoices: Songwriter Peter King recently released his second album, “Dancing on a Long Leash” which is inspired by his dog, his wife, and samba music. We’re happy to welcome Peter back to the show as he performs his original songs, with accompaniment from bassist Mark Perna, live on SLB.
YES: Diviapaed
New at Neighborhoodvoices: Local singer-songwriter B. Greiner, 15, is ‘Diviapaed,’ a fusion of soft-rock, folk and christian music. We’re pleased to welcome this young talent, live on SLB.
Radio Camp 2012 – Day 4 – A Time I Achieved Something
It’s hard to believe an entire week of camp is already done! We have had an amazing week. Today we got to get our hands on our smaller H1 recorders. The campers broke off into groups of 2-4 and learned how to be their own engineers and use the equipment on their own! As we suspected, they picked it up really fast and started making amazing recordings already!
We took some time to write in our reporter’s notebooks “A Time That I Achieved Something”. As we all know, there is nothing too small to be proud of. Whether it was getting on Honor Roll, winning a medal in a sport, getting lots of Promise Dollars in one day, or cheering the loudest in the morning meeting, it was exciting to hear all the things our campers are proud of. We couldn’t be more proud of them. Thank you for sharing your pride with all of us!
Radio Camp 2012 – Day 3 – A Time I Helped Someone
Helloooooo radio world! Our camp today was great! We are still learning to work with our professional radio gear, and everyone is picking it up so quickly. There is a TON of natural talent in our class. Even the kids who were a little shy have showed that they have what it takes to be a radio camp star!
Radio Camp 2012 – Day 2 – Three Things
Today, we brought out the professional radio equipment! We are using microphones and an H4, so we learned how to hold the microphone and how to be a good listener while our friends are recording.
Since we are still getting to know each other, we each recorded three things about ourselves. We have a lot of athletes, musicians, readers, animal-lovers, singers, dancers — an EXCELLENT group of kids by every measure!!
Radio Camp 2012 – Day 1 – Introductions!
Hurray! The Summer Dreamer’s Radio Program has officially started for its third year in a row. Today we met our campers and played fun ice-breakers like “Human Knot” (anyone still tied up?) We brainstormed as a group and came up with our Radio Camp station call letters! Block one came up with KWHB for Work hard, Have fun, Be nice and block two came up with WHRS for Hollywood Radio Station. We are so excited to see what else they come up with!
Welcome to their blog, where we’ll document all of their educational adventures and store all of the audio they create. We’ve got an exciting five weeks ahead of us, weeks filled to the brim with unbridled awesomeness. See you tomorrow!
CRY America / Toys Du Jour
New at Neighborhoodvoices: CRY America Pittsburgh’s 8th Annual Festival in the Park features Indian food, music, culture and a movie to benefit underpriviledged children in India and the US. The event was Sunday, July 15th from 5pm to dusk at Flagstaff Hill in Schenley Park, Oakland. Joining us is Adam MacGregor, long time volunteer, Sri Babu, an intern, and musicians Toys Du Jour, who performed at the festival and shared some of their distinctive tunes with us, live on SLB.
YES: Michael Boyas
New at Neighborhoodvoices: The Pittsburgh Concert Society’s Young Artists Competition provides a recital opportunity and support to talented classical musicians. This week, we’re delighted to present winning artist Michael Boyas, tenor, sharing with us recorded performances from his March recital.
YES: Children of the New World Chorus
New at Neighborhoodvoices: Children of the New World is a summer camp offered by the Pittsburgh School for the Choral Arts. Taught by leaders of the Oakland Girls Choir, the camp includes a week of musical learning, art activities, dance classes, and games which focus on different cultures in the Americas. This performance is a culmination of the music they’ve learned over the week, from a group of 1st through 6th grade girls.
