The music business, and rock music normally, continues to be very a lot male dominated. So what can a lady do if she’s a musician who needs to share the stage with legendary girls rockers corresponding to Lita Ford or Nancy Wilson? This Dec. 5 to eight in Hollywood, these desires could turn into a actuality, because the Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp presents the third installment of the Girls’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp, that includes guitarists Wilson from Coronary heart, Ford from the Runaways, and Sheila E., amongst many others.
Musical director for the Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camps, and guitarist for ‘80s rock band Vixen, Britt Lightning said that it was her initial concept to get an all women’s rock camp getting into 2022. “I had the idea for an all women’s rock camp, because I noticed at all the camps I was doing there were five or less women musicians,” Lightning mentioned. “I think it’s because it can be an intimidating atmosphere, in this male-dominated industry for women.”
Lightning isn’t any stranger to the music business with expertise each within the enterprise aspect and as a musical performer. Apart from Vixen, she has performed with a variety of musicians corresponding to Alejandro Sanz, Alejandra Guzmán and Jason Derulo. She holds a level in music enterprise from Northeastern College, and has expertise working with Reside Nation and Common Music Group. As an East Coast native, she mentioned shifting to L.A. was the most effective determination for her profession. “I joined Vixen because I moved to L.A. from Boston and just got into the rock scene jamming with musicians and networking. L.A. welcomed me with warm arms, especially the rock scene,” she mentioned.
In 2019, Lightning was a musical counselor for the Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camps and had such an awesome expertise that founder and Chief Government David Fishoff took discover of her abilities and employed her to hitch his workforce. “I just did so well, and got such great reviews from other campers and counselors, that they liked that I had a business sense as well as musical talent. David Fishoff loved that combo. Some people just wanna be artists and not deal with the business aspect, but I can do both.”
Nancy Wilson reveals a Girls’s Rock Camp pupil a couple of chords on stage.
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Lightning mentioned this installment of the Girls’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp will make sure you have simply as a lot emotional and constructive, highly effective impacts on the campers as earlier efforts have confirmed.
“There is just so much more camaraderie and vulnerability at the women’s rock camps,” Lightning mentioned. “Everyone is just so open. If the genders were mixed there are always egos involved; someone wants to look good and impress someone else. But we all need to let our guard down and get better. That is what these experiences are about, challenging yourself to new things and tackling new songs. Some people don’t wanna be vulnerable in front of other genders.”
This 12 months, Wilson mentioned she is worked up to participate, nevertheless it’s not her first rodeo. “I’ve done a few rock camps over the years. Only the second one that is specifically for women,” Wilson mentioned. “Obviously, there is a major difference between the vibe of an all-female camp and a camp with all genders. But there is one common denominator: Everyone is there to rock. The musicians all want to get in a room with different musicians in their favorite rock bands.”
Melissa Etheridge on stage with campers at Girls’s Rock Camp.
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Wilson mentioned she’s wanting ahead to the camp in December in Hollywood, and may’t wait to satisfy her followers. “For a lot of the fans, it’s a weekend experience of a lifetime to hang with your favorite rock bands and learn their songs, and play on stage with them,” she mentioned. ”What’s so cool about it in my expertise, is that each time to date we get to not solely meet our followers, but in addition discover out what the songs imply to them. Clearly we’re gonna play Coronary heart’s music; completely different teams of campers will kind bands and I’ll get to play with these completely different teams of musicians.”
Wilson mentioned she most enjoys assembly and connecting along with her followers. “Events like this are so cool, because this puts you back in touch with the true fans, the diehards. These are the loyal fans who show up to your shows all these years. They get your autograph and get to have photos taken with us, and there are Q&As, guitar sessions and more. It’s a lot of fun.”
One other legendary feminine musician in her personal proper, Sheila E., can also be becoming a member of this 12 months’s Girls’s Rock Camp. Sheila E. mentioned she has completed the occasion previously, although it was not an all-women’s model again then. “I’ve done the rock camp before for this organization before, but this one might be different from the one I did many years ago,” she mentioned. “I was on tour at the time with Ringo Starr at that time, and that was how I got connected, through his manager; and we got to play with a lot of people who don’t play music for a living but they were musicians who wanted to jam with us. It was a great time and a very fun experience. I had a great time.”
Sheila E. mentioned she remembers assembly her fellow Rock Camp musicians, Ford and Wilson, on earlier events. “It was a long time ago, but still, I am looking forward to hanging out with them and the other rock camp musicians,” she mentioned, including that she thinks the occasion might be tremendous thrilling and necessary for girls musicians. “I think at this moment there are so many women musicians out there, and that we have the power to encourage them all and bring awareness to empower them.”
