Campers at The Farm have full access to the music program at The Farm's sister camp, Camp Ballibay. Instrumental, vocal, and rock/folk/pop music instruction is available from full-time instructors. Campers study guitar, drums, bass, brass, woodwind, strings, and piano, and we have instruments available for lessons and practice.
Campers are invited to try new instruments for the first time at camp, or continue studying instruments with which they have some facility. We encourage campers with experience to bring their own instruments.
Campers perform what they have learned around the bonfire, during our Camper Cabarets, before evening programs, at art openings, and even outside the dining hall before meals. Camp is filled with the joy of music, from folk songs to classical pieces, rock bands to free improvisation.
The camp radio station broadcasts 24 hours a day via low-power FM: music, news, talk shows, and camper-produced programs of all sorts. Every day begins with an early-morning live radio show, and pre-recorded camper shows are broadcast 2 or 3 times daily. Campers learn how to make great radio both on the microphone and behind the nixing board. Campers take portable audio recorders around camp to record interviews and musical performances, and learn to edit these into radio programs. Campers tune into the radio station in the cabins and in the art studio while working on their projects. Making and listening to camp radio is an exciting part of The Farm experience.