This summer, a small handful of teens will have the opportunity to write and produce music in a collaborative, professional studio environment when the inaugural Amplify Arts Project x Push-Up Bra LA Writers Camp takes place in Los Angeles. The five-day intensive, open to 14 to 19-year-old girls and gender-expansive youth, includes songwriting sessions with professional mentors and workshops on subjects like music publishing and marketing.
“We want to give them a positive first impression of what it’s like to be in a recording studio,” says Devin Davis of Amplify Arts Project (and also of the band Ramonda Hammer), the organization that runs music and arts summer camps for girls. To do this, Amplify partnered with Push-Up Bra LA, a local non-profit working to empower women in music through writing camps, live performances and networking events. The goal of this summer’s teen Writers Camp is to function much in the same way a professional one would.
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