New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Recording Academy) Artist/Creative Participants include: Current GRAMMY nominees: Hit-Boy, music producer (Album Of The Year); Makeba Riddick, songwriter (Best R&B Song); and music producer Harmony Samuels (Best R&B Song). Additional participants include: Evan Bogart, songwriter/producer and Recording Academy Los Angeles Chapter Governor; Matthew Cherry, music video director and film producer;
Carlos Lopez Estrada, Latin GRAMMY-winning video director; Gooding, lead singer/guitarist of the band GOODING and founder of the GOODING Financial Literacy Tour; Ludwig Göransson, music composer for "Community" and critically acclaimed film Fruitvale Station; JoiStarr, GRAMMY-nominated songwriter and vocalist; Ziggy Marley, GRAMMY-winning artist; Delfeayo Marsalis, trombonist and music producer; and music video director Elliott Sellers.
Industry Professionals include: Besidone Amoruwa, community manager of REVOLT Media & TV; Christine Ayres, Secret Road
Music Services; Troy Carter, founder of the Atom Factory and GRAMMY Foundation® Board member; Ryan Chisholm, talent manager, Nettwerk
Music Group and co-founder of Hollywood Hack Day;
Jesse Collins, president of
Jesse Collins Entertainment; Ivory Daniel, artist manager and Recording Academy Los Angeles Chapter Governor; Jason Feinberg, vice present of digital strategy for Epitaph Records; Ethiopia Habtemariam, executive vice president, creative affairs - urban of Universal
Music Publishing Group, senior vice president of Motown Records and GRAMMY Foundation Board member; Taylor Kahan, vice president of marketing and business affairs Crowd Surf; Gerrick Kennedy, Los Angeles Times entertainment journalist; Tiffany Starr Kumar, vice president of Primary Wave
Music Publishing; Kylie Erica Mar, entertainment reporter for "Made In Hollywood"; Fairley McCaskill, entertainment publicist; Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy, the GRAMMY Foundation® and MusiCares®; Heather Prunty, event producer/founder, Synapse Presents; Rusty Rueff, Chair, the GRAMMY Foundation Board and new venture backer; Shara Senderoff, CEO and co-founder of Intern Sushi; Chris Woods, co-owner of BOE Global; and
Monica Young, Blue Key Management.
WHY:
To encourage careers in the music business, GRAMMY Camp — Basic Training provides high school students an opportunity to interact with music industry professionals in educational settings throughout the country.
WHAT:
Top music industry professionals discuss the realities of the music business and careers in music with more than 700 Los Angeles-area high school students at GRAMMY Camp® — Basic Training, a GRAMMY in the Schools® initiative of the GRAMMY Foundation with support from the Flourish Foundation, Ford Motor Company Fund and the Starkey Hearing Foundation. GRAMMY Camp — Basic Training conducts a variety of workshops focusing on various fields in the music industry, utilizing the entire USC Thornton School of
Music campus.
WHAT:
Starkey Hearing Foundation will hold a hearing mission to provide the gift of hearing to people in need. The Foundation's team of audiologists and staff will fit approximately 60 individuals, ages 2 to 85, with customized, top-of-the-line hearing aids, opening up the world of sound like never before. Celebrity supporters will be on hand to interact with patients and assist with the fittings. The hearing mission will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the University of Southern California's Davidson Conference Center.
WHERE:
University of Southern California
GRAMMY Camp — Basic Training Starkey Hearing Foundation Mission
Thornton School of
Music Davidson Conference Center
820 West 34th Street 3415 South Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, California 90089 Los Angeles, California 90089
WHEN:
Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014, 8 a.m. - 2 p.m.
8:30 a.m. Press Check-In (Booth Ramo Concert Hall)
9 a.m. -10:25 a.m. Career Workshops: Session One (Various Classrooms)
9:30 a.m. - 9:55 a.m. One-On-One Interviews with Session Two participants (Booth Ramo Concert Hall)
10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. Press Reception/One-On-One Interviews with Session One participants, and leadership from the Ford Motor Company Fund, GRAMMY Foundation and Starkey Hearing Foundation, in addition to the winner of the first annual
Music Educator Award presented by The Recording Academy and the GRAMMY Foundation
(Booth Ramo Concert Hall)
10:35 a.m. - noon Career Workshops: Session Two (Various Classrooms)
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Starkey Hearing Foundation Mission (Davidson Conference Center)
12:05 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. Lunch
12:50 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. GRAMMY Camp — Jazz Session Performance (Tutor Center Grand Ballroom)
