Letter to participants of Camp Musica

Padasjoki 18th July 2008

Dear participants of Camp Musica,

I hope you have settled in with your host families and enjoy the Finnish summer. Unfortunately weather has not been too kind so far, but we are hopeful it will improve for August.

Welcome to Camp Musica 1^st – 9^th Aug 2008. We will meet in Padasjoki on Friday 1^st Aug, between 3 – 6 pm. At 6 pm we will have dinner together and start to get to know each other during our evening programme 7.30 pm -. We have sent your host families instructions how to find the camp site.

Our aim is to create good camp community and international fellowship with mutual respect and understanding. We hope we have a good time together. We play music in smaller groups and prepare concert to be held on Friday 8^th Aug at 8.30 pm in the church of Padasjoki. Don’t panic. You need not be a professional or half-professional musician. We hope we can play and sing together in a relaxed atmosphere. If you feel that your skills are not good enough, let’s practice together!

During the mornings we play music. Every afternoon and evening we have a special theme:

Friday 1.8 Welcome to Camp Musica

Saturday 2.8 Who are we, what are we supposed to do here and

where on earth are we?

International musicians in the Finnish summer evening

Sunday 3.8 Citius, altius, fortius. The Camp Olympics 2008

Laugh faster, more loudly and more forcefully.

Monday 4.8 Lake… Row, row, row a boat

Tuesday 5.8 Forest… and robber roast with smoked musicians

Wednesday 6.8 SSS in Lahti (ski jumping, shopping and satama)

and the International Evening

Thursday 7.8 Päijänne… Lake Paeyaenea

Friday 8.8 Concert and farewell

Saturday 9.8 Goodbye

Don’t forget our website www.lions.fi/C/campmusica .

We have also our blog http://campmusica.blogspot.com

We have sent you the list: What you need for Camp Musica? Don’t forget it, especially the last items: good sense of humour, co-operation, flexibility and interest in other cultures.

Looking forward to seeing you

With kind regards

Juha Lind

The camp director

Hello from Istanbul

Hello,

I am one of the participant of The Camp Musica !

First of all I want to introduce myself.
My name is Emir (male) and I am 20.
I am studying Political Science and International Relations at Boğaziçi University
I am living in İstanbul for 3 years (from the beginning of university)
I am playing guitar for 9 or 10 years and I am singing for 4 years.
I am playing and singing in very different project also in different kinds.
I mostly like singing and playing soft musics but I try to imrove myself in other kinds too.
I have a Classical Turkish Music training for 2 years, which also known as Ottoman Music.

After these information lines about myself I want to ask some questions about the camp.
Will we have live performance on stage alone or together at the camp?
Is there any training about any kind of music in camp?
and lastly
Will we attend any concerts in Finland because I know Finland as the heart of metal music.

That is all from me.

See you.

Emir.