It’s Wednesday, and the songs are coming together.   Good thing, too: Friday’s showcase is coming soon.   The bands are working together on more than just their songs.   Today was the merchandise-making and silk screening workshop, a perennial favorite.   Band logos were...

The first week of the 2017 Girls Rock Camp season began today, as dozens of campers descended upon Pawtucket’s Jamstage. Some arrived with friends; others didn’t know anyone. Some brought their instruments; others had never played a musical instrument before.   Today, the campers ...

So far this week, the weather has been beautiful. Over fifty adults are spending much of this week in the small windowless rooms of Pawtucket’s Jamstage.   Girls Rock! RI has two paid staff members. Everyone else working at camp is a volunteer. They took time away from jobs and fam...

What’s happening with GRR! this spring, you ask? As you’ve probably heard, Girls Rock! RI now has a new headquarters on the west side of Providence at 769 Westminster Street across from Classical, Central, and PCTA high schools, and sharing the street with several other awesome youth-f...

  This week, seven former campers were GRITs, part of the Girls Rock Internship Training program.     Today, they wrote letters to future GRITs, reflecting on the experience of growing up at camp and taking on more responsibility in the Girls Rock! RI community.     Here are ...

By day three, the campers have settled into their temporary home for the week.   Their hosts at the Rhode Island Philharmonic Music School are very generous, and the campers have been careful to clean up after themselves.   The main recital hall became a dance hall as Bummer, to...

Alert: the band known as “Fuzzy Tacos” is now “Au”, as in the symbol on the periodic table for gold, and the unnamed band is now “Thee Unnamed”   On day two, the GRITs - the seven former campers who are documenting camp this week - captured video from the group lessons, including th...

For the second of this summer’s Girls Rock Camps, seven former campers are on duty to help document the proceedings in words and photos.   These GRITs (Girls Rock Internship Training program) formed their own band, as well (“True Grits”), and participated in the group instrument les...