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Hello, welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World.
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As you can hear, I am surrounded by music.
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So currently I am in the auditorium at Compert Opera Theatre as part of the Great British Music Camp.
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And we're about to start a new session.
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I'm going to be interviewing lots of people who are part of Great British Music Camp, including campers and tutors.
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And I hope you enjoy finding out more about Great British Music Camp and hearing about some of these young musicians and the tutors who are helping guide them.
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The music you can hear in the background is uh two of the campers playing banjo and guitar.
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This was Lawrence and Henry.
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And as I'm editing this, I will introduce each camper, our tutor, in turn.
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So the first camper I spoke to was violinist Sonny.
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So Sonny, this is your first year at GBMC.
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How have you got on?
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Uh I've been doing well so far right now.
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Okay, and what have you really enjoyed most musically?
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Uh well I've enjoyed uh playing uh folk group and country.
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Ah, okay.
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Is it the first time you've done folk and country?
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Uh yeah.
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Okay, so what sort of music do you usually play?
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Um classical?
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Yeah, more classical, I think so.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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What year are you in at school?
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Uh current I'm in currently in year nine, which we'll go into year ten soon.
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Ah, so you're gonna start your GCSEs?
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Yep.
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Okay, you're gonna do music GCSE.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Yeah, well you should, because you're obviously a good violinist.
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So yeah.
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So um what else have you enjoyed about music camping apart from the music?
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Camping.
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First time doing it.
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Oh really?
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Yeah.
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And who are you sharing a tent with?
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Waldo.
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Oh, okay.
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And has that been okay?
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Have you enjoyed that?
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You haven't met do you didn't know him before?
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No, I have no.
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Oh, you did know him before.
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Ah, right, okay.
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But it's been okay sharing a tent.
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Oh, cool.
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Oh, that's brilliant.
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And do you think you'll come back next year?
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Yeah, probably.
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So I'm here with three of the girls from GBMC.
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Two have been before, one hasn't.
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So do you want to first of all tell me your names, girls?
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I'm B.
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I'm Amelie.
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And I'm Lily.
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Okay, so Amelie and Lily, you've been before.
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So, B, let's have a thing.
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First of all, what are your first impressions of GBMC?
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Um, I think it's it was really good.
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There's like a good community and everyone's quite like it's like very everyone's looking to look forward to the same things.
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It's quite like everyone's motivated.
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It's just good to be around and stuff.
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Okay, good.
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So Amelie, what have you enjoyed this year that you didn't have done for the first time?
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Um last year we didn't have any rap battles or dance battles, so that's been fun.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, that's kind of just like um spontaneous thing that we didn't really do.
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Right.
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Right.
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You know, it's just camper-led kind of thing.
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Which is nice, isn't it?
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That you can do things like that that you want to do.
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Okay.
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So Lily, what have you done this year that you hadn't done before?
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Um, I've done RB and I've really enjoyed it.
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I've never kind of played that kind of music before.
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So it's really fun to kind of jump into that kind of drumming.
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Okay, brilliant.
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And what has been your favourite non-musical thing that you've done, any of you?
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Coco Knight, that's fun.
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Just like meeting new people through friends.
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Yeah, very good.
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Okay.
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Um I think I'd agree with being making new friends.
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Lovely, fabulous.
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So, play, you were a camper, but then you were a tutor, and now you are joint camp director with Molly.
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So, how has that journey been?
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How have you got so deep into GBMC?
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That's a really good question.
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Yeah, um, I don't know quite how I got so deep into GBMC.
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Um I think so, when I was a camper, I particularly as an older camper, I would um put together items for the concerts and I would try and include as many campers as possible in those.
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I was always trying to create, you know, like a big band style of thing.
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I remember doing a performance of In the Mood where we had like a tuber and an accordion and all the rest of it.
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Um, so it was really just capturing that chaotic energy of GBMC and trying to piece all those things together.
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Um and I remember actually after that performance, Adam um coming up to me and asking whether I'd ever thought of being a teacher and you know, whether that was something that was really in my skill set, um, and that it was really impressive how I'd led all of those campus together.
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So having that support, encouragement, belief in your skills was definitely foundational, definitely helped me develop some confidence.
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Um, and then yeah, being invited back as a tutor was incredible.
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Like all of these people that have been so inspirational, that I've looked up to so much, all of a sudden they become peers and friends, and I'm still learning from absolutely everybody, even now that I'm director.
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In fact, probably more so.
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Um but yeah, just everyone's so supportive, and that that support extends right from the bottom all the way up to the top.
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I feel supported and encouraged by the campers and inspired by the campers as much as I want to be that role model and that support for them as well.
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I remember Blae as a camper, and it's so nice to have her as joint camp director this year.
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But up now is Scott.
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What I've enjoyed about the camp so far is like you know, there's such lovely people, like lovely staff and everything, and I love everyone to pieces here.
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And you know, being here, like you know, the first day can be scary, and I feel like you know, it's it's how it is, but obviously when you get to like the second or third day, you love it to pieces.
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Like this camp, after me only being here for like three days, it's just fabulous.
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Like, I love the camp to pieces, and like you know, I could do you know a lot of things here, like I wouldn't be able to do at home because you know it's the inspiration, the stuff you have here, and the people you know, it's about giving that confidence of yourself to just you know get out there and embrace who you are.
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Because I feel like the main key thing to being, you know, being able to speak to people at a camp is just to be able to be yourself, don't you start through everything else?
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I can't even begin to explain how inspirational these young people are.
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And up next we have Gracie.
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Well, it's it's nice to play my guitar here, and it is quite nice and it's nice talking to people, and all the people here are very lovely, and it it makes me a lot more confident in my ability.
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Is this your first camp?
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Wow.
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What have you done here that musically that you haven't done, been able to do?
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Um perform with a group of people?
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Right, okay, okay, and and what else, what else that's not musical have you enjoyed about camp?
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Foodie is really good.
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Go on then.
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So, George, tell me about being a camper having been involved in GBMC for so long.
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Being a tutor's child is really interesting because it lets me uh see how GBMC has evolved throughout the years and how it's changed, but also how it's kept so the same.
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Like it's kept the same structure since I was a child, and it's really interesting to see that and how it's changed, yeah.
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And how do you think your role here has changed since you've been here as a camper now?
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And you're one of the older ones.
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So, how do you feel like that's different now?
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Well, when I was younger, I wasn't really involved in any of the sessions, and since I've been older, it's really cool to see how much you can just get involved once you're actually here.
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And it's scary to think about being in a group of loads of people that you might not even know.
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But once you're actually here, it's so natural.
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At GBMC, it's so cool to see how you can just mix different genres together.
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So in the creative concert, there might be a song which is rock and they turn it into something country.
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And how at home I usually listen to electronic, rap, pop, rock.
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But here it's cool because classical music is such a key part of GBMC as well.
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Next up is Ben.
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Is this your first camp?
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No.
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Right, so how many have you done before?
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So this is my second year.
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Okay, and what have you done differently this year to what you did last year?
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Uh so I've been musical theatre and the atomity has changed, so that's just new things to wear on and improve.
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Okay, and um do you think you'll come back next year?
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Yeah, 100%.
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Okay.
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What would you like to do next year that you haven't been able to do this year?
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Uh classical rock.
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Okay.
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Probably the one thing that I really want to do with this camp.
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Next up is Shay.
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At camp I've enjoyed just playing music all day.
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Okay.
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What have you particularly enjoyed about the music?
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Um enjoyed performing it and stuff like that and the sessions.
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And this is your second camp, right?
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Second camp.
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Right, so how do you feel differently about camp now compared to when you first came a year ago?
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Um, I was quite nervous first time, but now I think I'm settled in a lot more.
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I'm getting I get quite excited for it and stuff like that.
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And Oakley, is this your first or your second, or how many?
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Uh this is my first GBMC.
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Excellent.
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And and how have you found it?
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I think it's really fun, and like the food is definitely like a lot better than I thought.
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Like food's top quality.
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Yeah.
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And also everyone's just, I think there are so many like talented musicians that it's quite fun that like people can just get on with stuff, as opposed to having to spend like three hours trying to learn like one chord progression.
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It's just people can just get in a room and make something happen in like an hour and just like complete it, and it's like, yeah, it just makes everything a lot easier and a lot more fun.
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And also the performances, the performances are awesome.
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Aren't they?
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They are like just the motivation that everyone has to do them, and the variety of different things that you people do in them is just really cool.
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And the fact that no one really gives people like hate, like if they're just trying something out and they're yeah, and they're like not like doing the best, or like they mess up or stuff, people still just like give them the support they need to like keep going in that performance.
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I just think it's really it's really cool, it's a really cool atmosphere, and just everyone is really nice.
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How did you hear about GBMC?
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Uh, from my friend Jasper, who I go to school with.
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Oh right.
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I basically like I met him before summer last year.
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Right.
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And so he was like, uh, because we I only joined my we all joined our school last year because it's starts in year 10.
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Oh right.
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And so I met him, and basically in like the first few weeks of knowing him, he was just like, oh, I go to this music camp, you should totally come.
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And he like he basically tried to recruit as many people as possible to get this.
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Uh that's how me and my and the uh some of our other band members uh Joe and Chloe through Jasper.
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Right, that makes sense.
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And and you don't just play one thing, do you?
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No.
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So tell me what you what you play and sing and uh well so I play drums, I've been playing the drums for since year seven, but I reckon I've probably been like actually like locked in for about since at the middle of year eight.
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Right.
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Uh I've been singing the same amount of time, I reckon.
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I might have locked in a little bit later in like year nine.
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Right.
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And you're now going into year 11, is that right?
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Yes.
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So are you doing music GCSE?
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Uh so it's it's interesting, it's a different qualification.
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Ah.
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So instead of doing a GCC music, I'm doing a diploma a UAL level three, uh level two diploma.
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Right.
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So it counts as four GCSEs.
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Yeah, right.
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Uh which means we get like a lot more in-depth, yeah, in-depth stuff.
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Like we I've got like a music law class, like composition, uh, the prop practical is just really good because the fact that everyone is like like here, everyone is just good at what they do, so it's just easy to get on with stuff.
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Brilliant.
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And you've got two more years you can do before you have to stop.
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I'd love to come back here for the next, like for the next two years.
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It'd be really, it's really cool.
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And everyone here's just like I've definitely like it.
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Usually takes like about a week a week, like at least a week to actually get to know people.
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But I felt like I'd been here for a week in the first day, and everyone was just like really chill.
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And I felt I thought it felt like oh, I'm gonna go back home tomorrow, and I've realized, oh wait, it's the first day.
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Yeah, okay, Charlie, how many years have you been to camp?
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Including this one, um, I think around four or five years.
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Okay, why why do you come back?
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I come back because I love how close everyone is.
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I think this is one of like those rare places that you come to and that just everyone gets you.
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I love I just love how close everyone is as a community here, and I just feel like it's one of those places that's like just sort of tucked away in the world that you're just lucky to be part of.
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Okay, and what do you do while you're here?
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I mostly do um vocals.
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Um I I always join in with the musical theatre section.
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Um yeah, and you've got a lovely voice, haven't you?
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Thank you.
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What do you particularly so so you sing some of your own stuff, you sing some um classical stuff?
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What do you what do you particularly like?
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What is your favourite thing to sing?
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I really love jazz music.
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Very good.
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That's the music that I like.
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Okay, so um what what jazz singers have inspired you?
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Probably people like uh Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, all those people.
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All the good artists.
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Excellent, very good, very good.
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And unfortunately, this is your last year, is that right?
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Yeah, it is.
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I'm good.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So what are you uh what are you hoping the fut the musical future will hold for you?
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I'm I'm not really sure.
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Personally, I think I'd love to come back as a like a tutor here at some point because I really don't want to leave something this amazing behind in the past.
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Yeah.
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So, Ezra, talk to me about your experience of GBMC.
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I started as a camper in 2018 and I came for one uh two years, 2018-2019.
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Um, and I just every year describe it as the best week of my life.
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Genuinely such a wonderful experience to see so many people and just get to it's like it's literally just making music for a week and not thinking about anything else.
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It's lovely.
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Yeah, and um what do you think particularly makes GBMC special?
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I think the community is really, really, really nice here.
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The variety of like the diverse diversity of people and the uh there's just no judgment.
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I really felt like when I was a camper I was able to come and be me in a way that I hadn't really been before.
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Um I feel like it's a really encouraging environment for everyone.
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That's brilliant.
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And um other things that you think we could improve on at GBMC, other things that you think you'd like to introduce as you get more sort of experience as a tutor here?
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Yeah, I mean I this is my second year as a tutor.
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Um I am more on the tech side of things.
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Um I think it would be nice to it would be cool to be able to teach some of the kids um some of the tech side of things as well.
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I know there are a couple of uh campus who have been interested in the past.
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Um and just some like general like mic technique and and um a basic rundown of how some of the sound works, I think it would be pretty cool.
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Yeah, I agree.
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I agree.
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I think this is such an important part of our world, isn't it?
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Yeah, and there are so many people that we miss.
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There are so many voices that I feel like we miss because they just don't know quite how to use a microphone, and it's a it's a real shame.
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Yeah.
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Prim.
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Talk to me about Music Cap.
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What do you like about it?
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I like that it's a social place.
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I like how long it lasts.
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How it's a week because even though you love it so much, even after a week you feel like you want to go home a bit.
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Because like if it was only half a week, you'd be really depressed and not and you wouldn't be fulfilled.
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But a week is a really good amount of time.
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Okay, good.
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And um, what have you particularly enjoyed doing this year?
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Um, I I really liked um the choir and vocals.
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Okay.
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What have you learned this year that you didn't know before you came?
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I learned that in singing there's four levels and not three.
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I learned that there's I know there's I knew that there was alto soprano and bass, but I didn't know that there was a tennis.
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Okay.
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Okay, very good.
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Okay, and what are you gonna what are you gonna particularly look forward to for next year?
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Um being more of an experienced camper, maybe, being a bit better at singing because oh maybe because that we believe do we like music more at high school?
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Uh hello, my name's Bella.
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Right, okay, so it's your second camp.
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What have you enjoyed particularly about this year?
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Um and like the friends I made along the way.
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Brilliant.
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And what about musically?
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What have you enjoyed doing?
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Um the the pieces were very nice and yeah, some were very calming.
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Okay.
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And um, do you think you'll come back next year?
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Yeah.
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Okay, and what would you what would you like to do next year that you haven't been able to do this year?
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Probably given another instrument apart from instruments I already do.
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Okay, what instruments do you play already?
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Um, guitar and violin.
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Okay, Chloe.
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Um, is it your first camp?
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It is my first camp.
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And have you what have you particularly enjoyed doing?
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Um, I particularly enjoyed the R and B sessions and the Neo Soft, because that is my favourite kind of genre.
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I specifically the Fujies and Lauren Hill, because like in like my previous like at my school, we did protest gig once and I did a do-up and I learned the whole rap.
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So when I found out that we were doing do-up again, it genuinely I was so happy.
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Brilliant.
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And what instruments do you do you play any instruments?
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Yeah, I'm vocalist, I played piano, saxophone, and a little bit accordion and in it once.
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Okay, and do you think you might like to do some more accordion?
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Um, not particularly.
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I'd like to learn bass.
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I feel like that could be really cool.
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Fantastic.
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And so, do you think you might do that in between so that you brought your new bass to camp next year, or do you think you might try next year?
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I feel like I'm gonna learn over the course of the year.
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The thing is, I don't want to buy like a 700-pound base to then proceed to not play it because I got bored.
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Yes, no, absolutely.
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Um, right, so uh you're gonna are you gonna come back next year?
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Oh, 100%.
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Okay, and what would you particularly like to do next year that you haven't been able to do this year?
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Funk and hip hop.
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My name's Joe.
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How long have you been involved with GBMC?
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Um, I first came as a camper in 2014, which was the first year.
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So I came as a camper 2014, 15, and 16, and then I've come as a staff member most years since 2019.
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Right, yes, because we didn't have it for two years, did we, anyway?
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And then there was one year where you couldn't come because you were somewhere else for doing something.
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That's right, yeah.
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Yeah, brilliant.
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And um so you've experienced life as a camper and as a tutor.
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What have you found the most interesting thing about those two different experiences?
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The most interesting thing was probably how how informal it actually can be to be a staff member.
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I sort of had the impression that there was a lot of responsibility and it could be quite stressful and scary, but maybe a bit more like being a teacher.
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But it's it's it's actually a very different environment to a school, isn't it?
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Oh yeah.
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Having been a camper, do you think that makes you a particularly useful member of the teachings of the staff?
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Yeah, I would like to think so.
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I suppose uh I I I feel like I know what the campers are looking to get out of it.
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But the the thing that the thing that I feel uh the most aware of having having come as a camper is it's just so much fun.
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I I had such an amazing time when I came here.
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And i if you're a if you're a young person who likes music.
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There is nothing better than hanging out with your friends and playing music.
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I think it's it's even more valuable than than having lessons throughout a year.
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Because there's so much freedom and I suppose knowing that as a staff member, I don't feel like I I have to get them to do anything or there's like a certain level that they have to reach.
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Right.
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Because it's it's just about having fun, and I I feel like that's that's the most valuable part of your development as a musician.
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And you as a professional musician the rest of the year, do you find this is rejuvenating for you?
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Because I I mean I certainly do, but yeah, definitely.
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How do you think that works?
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Why do you think it does that?
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Well the there's no well, not no pressure, but there's a lot of the pressure is is removed here.
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It's it's it's sort of a funny thing, but the fact that we don't do this for any money, you know, you just you come into this with with no expectation, and I you know, I I almost don't I'm not stressing about how well this goes because I'm giving up my time and and it will be what it will be.
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But it also that also means you enjoy it so much more, isn't it?
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I think it's funny how money affects what you get out of something, isn't it?
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Yeah, and I think the the fact that we are we are all doing it for nothing, we are all volunteers, means that we are quite close, you know, there's no there's no element of like, oh well she's my boss because she's being paid more than me or whatever it is, and I think there's a real collaboration between the tutors which then moves toward to helping the campers then collaborate, especially music.
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Yeah, yeah, we were talking about that yesterday, weren't we?
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With like if if money was involved, I think I would feel like there are things that I'm here to do and things that I'm not here to do.
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But because it's it's such a collective thing, and in theory, no one is more important in terms of staff members, no one is more important than anyone else.
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It makes me so much happier to cover, you know, cover ground that someone else hasn't covered.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Because I suppose we're all we're all just working towards we we all just do it so that the campers can can have a great week.
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Yeah, and I think for me, one of the things is that we're working with campers, some of whom have uh not played an an instrument before either for for a long time or not at all, and they're picking something up or they're they're very, very new to it.
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So so you know, so for instance, in orchestra, I'm sitting behind two trumpeters who you know I don't in fact I don't know if they've had any lessons at all, but they want to play it.
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And that's really special because the other side, then there are people who are you know in the higher, you know, they're doing exams and they're doing grades and they're studying it for GCSE and you know, exams and all sorts of things.
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Um, and we're all we're all together, just experiencing that music together, and that's a really special thing.
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I think yeah.
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I I had in the concert yesterday, I had my first first moment of the seeing the campus playing the music bringing me to tears.
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It was the one, it was the indie session where they put the chaperone uh what was it, red wine supernova and oasis champagne supernova together.
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Yeah, and they they they were all just having so much fun.
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Yeah, yeah, and there's a freedom, isn't there?
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Yeah, and then and although we have a session called freedom, actually there's freedom to all of the sessions, yeah, because we work to whatever level people are at and then try and bring them up a little bit.
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Yeah, exactly.
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You know, and sometimes it's I mean it's extraordinary the the the standard of musicianship that comes out.
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It really is, isn't it?
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Yeah, I I think it's been it's been especially good this year.
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There's the in the my jazz session, there's some really really impressive stuff.
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That that's another thing, get getting getting kids to improvise for the first time.
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Yeah, that's such a special thing to to be part of.
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We've talked quite often, you know, informally between uh the members of staff about this being an absolutely a safe space, and that's in so many different ways.
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But I think it especially in terms of jazz and improvising, it absolutely is because no one's gonna laugh at you because we're all kind of in that state of kind of we've all done improvising where we've gone, oh no, that was really a bit boring or whatever, but you know, it's really nice that, and then you and I, you know, particularly, and then you know, there are others who are really experienced in improvising, can kind of we're we're then saying, Well, you could try this and try this, you know.
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If you played this note, you know, it's be really specific and drill right down, and it's it's just such a pleasure, isn't it?
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Yeah, yeah.
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We're I think we're really honoured to be able to do this, you know, for nothing.
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Yeah, it's just it's very, very special place.
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Yeah, you have to enjoy it, don't you?
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Yeah, yeah, otherwise, why would you keep coming back year after year?
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Fantastic.
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Well, thank you, Joe.
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That's a real pleasure to talk to you.
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It was a real pleasure to chat with all of those campers and especially Jo at the end, who I've known since he was a camper.
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I hope that's given you a little bit of an insight into the great British music camp.
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All the links are in the show notes, so do check out what they're doing there.
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And the music making is just extraordinary.
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What you're listening to now is a piece specially composed for me by Gracie and Lily, two of the campers who are extraordinarily talented.
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So thank you for joining me once more for Harmonious World.
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Hello, welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World.
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As you can hear, I am surrounded by music.
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So currently I am in the auditorium at Compert Opera Theatre as part of the Great British Music Camp.
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And we're about to start a new session.
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I'm going to be interviewing lots of people who are part of Great British Music Camp, including campers and tutors.
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And I hope you enjoy finding out more about Great British Music Camp and hearing about some of these young musicians and the tutors who are helping guide them.
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The music you can hear in the background is uh two of the campers playing banjo and guitar.
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This was Lawrence and Henry.
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And as I'm editing this, I will introduce each camper, our tutor, in turn.
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So the first camper I spoke to was violinist Sonny.
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So Sonny, this is your first year at GBMC.
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How have you got on?
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Uh I've been doing well so far right now.
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Okay, and what have you really enjoyed most musically?
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Uh well I've enjoyed uh playing uh folk group and country.
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Ah, okay.
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Is it the first time you've done folk and country?
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Uh yeah.
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Okay, so what sort of music do you usually play?
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Um classical?
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Yeah, more classical, I think so.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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What year are you in at school?
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Uh current I'm in currently in year nine, which we'll go into year ten soon.
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Ah, so you're gonna start your GCSEs?
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Yep.
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Okay, you're gonna do music GCSE.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Yeah, well you should, because you're obviously a good violinist.
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So yeah.
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So um what else have you enjoyed about music camping apart from the music?
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Camping.
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First time doing it.
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Oh really?
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Yeah.
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And who are you sharing a tent with?
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Waldo.
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Oh, okay.
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And has that been okay?
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Have you enjoyed that?
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You haven't met do you didn't know him before?
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No, I have no.
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Oh, you did know him before.
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Ah, right, okay.
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But it's been okay sharing a tent.
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Oh, cool.
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Oh, that's brilliant.
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And do you think you'll come back next year?
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Yeah, probably.
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So I'm here with three of the girls from GBMC.
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Two have been before, one hasn't.
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So do you want to first of all tell me your names, girls?
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I'm B.
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I'm Amelie.
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And I'm Lily.
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Okay, so Amelie and Lily, you've been before.
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So, B, let's have a thing.
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First of all, what are your first impressions of GBMC?
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Um, I think it's it was really good.
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There's like a good community and everyone's quite like it's like very everyone's looking to look forward to the same things.
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It's quite like everyone's motivated.
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It's just good to be around and stuff.
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Okay, good.
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So Amelie, what have you enjoyed this year that you didn't have done for the first time?
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Um last year we didn't have any rap battles or dance battles, so that's been fun.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, that's kind of just like um spontaneous thing that we didn't really do.
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Right.
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Right.
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You know, it's just camper-led kind of thing.
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Which is nice, isn't it?
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That you can do things like that that you want to do.
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Okay.
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So Lily, what have you done this year that you hadn't done before?
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Um, I've done RB and I've really enjoyed it.
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I've never kind of played that kind of music before.
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So it's really fun to kind of jump into that kind of drumming.
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Okay, brilliant.
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And what has been your favourite non-musical thing that you've done, any of you?
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Coco Knight, that's fun.
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Just like meeting new people through friends.
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Yeah, very good.
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Okay.
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Um I think I'd agree with being making new friends.
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Lovely, fabulous.
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So, play, you were a camper, but then you were a tutor, and now you are joint camp director with Molly.
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So, how has that journey been?
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How have you got so deep into GBMC?
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That's a really good question.
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Yeah, um, I don't know quite how I got so deep into GBMC.
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Um I think so, when I was a camper, I particularly as an older camper, I would um put together items for the concerts and I would try and include as many campers as possible in those.
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I was always trying to create, you know, like a big band style of thing.
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I remember doing a performance of In the Mood where we had like a tuber and an accordion and all the rest of it.
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Um, so it was really just capturing that chaotic energy of GBMC and trying to piece all those things together.
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Um and I remember actually after that performance, Adam um coming up to me and asking whether I'd ever thought of being a teacher and you know, whether that was something that was really in my skill set, um, and that it was really impressive how I'd led all of those campus together.
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So having that support, encouragement, belief in your skills was definitely foundational, definitely helped me develop some confidence.
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Um, and then yeah, being invited back as a tutor was incredible.
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Like all of these people that have been so inspirational, that I've looked up to so much, all of a sudden they become peers and friends, and I'm still learning from absolutely everybody, even now that I'm director.
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In fact, probably more so.
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Um but yeah, just everyone's so supportive, and that that support extends right from the bottom all the way up to the top.
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I feel supported and encouraged by the campers and inspired by the campers as much as I want to be that role model and that support for them as well.
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I remember Blae as a camper, and it's so nice to have her as joint camp director this year.
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But up now is Scott.
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What I've enjoyed about the camp so far is like you know, there's such lovely people, like lovely staff and everything, and I love everyone to pieces here.
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And you know, being here, like you know, the first day can be scary, and I feel like you know, it's it's how it is, but obviously when you get to like the second or third day, you love it to pieces.
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Like this camp, after me only being here for like three days, it's just fabulous.
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Like, I love the camp to pieces, and like you know, I could do you know a lot of things here, like I wouldn't be able to do at home because you know it's the inspiration, the stuff you have here, and the people you know, it's about giving that confidence of yourself to just you know get out there and embrace who you are.
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Because I feel like the main key thing to being, you know, being able to speak to people at a camp is just to be able to be yourself, don't you start through everything else?
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I can't even begin to explain how inspirational these young people are.
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And up next we have Gracie.
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Well, it's it's nice to play my guitar here, and it is quite nice and it's nice talking to people, and all the people here are very lovely, and it it makes me a lot more confident in my ability.
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Is this your first camp?
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Wow.
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What have you done here that musically that you haven't done, been able to do?
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Um perform with a group of people?
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Right, okay, okay, and and what else, what else that's not musical have you enjoyed about camp?
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Foodie is really good.
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Go on then.
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So, George, tell me about being a camper having been involved in GBMC for so long.
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Being a tutor's child is really interesting because it lets me uh see how GBMC has evolved throughout the years and how it's changed, but also how it's kept so the same.
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Like it's kept the same structure since I was a child, and it's really interesting to see that and how it's changed, yeah.
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And how do you think your role here has changed since you've been here as a camper now?
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And you're one of the older ones.
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So, how do you feel like that's different now?
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Well, when I was younger, I wasn't really involved in any of the sessions, and since I've been older, it's really cool to see how much you can just get involved once you're actually here.
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And it's scary to think about being in a group of loads of people that you might not even know.
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But once you're actually here, it's so natural.
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At GBMC, it's so cool to see how you can just mix different genres together.
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So in the creative concert, there might be a song which is rock and they turn it into something country.
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And how at home I usually listen to electronic, rap, pop, rock.
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But here it's cool because classical music is such a key part of GBMC as well.
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Next up is Ben.
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Is this your first camp?
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No.
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Right, so how many have you done before?
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So this is my second year.
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Okay, and what have you done differently this year to what you did last year?
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Uh so I've been musical theatre and the atomity has changed, so that's just new things to wear on and improve.
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Okay, and um do you think you'll come back next year?
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Yeah, 100%.
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Okay.
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What would you like to do next year that you haven't been able to do this year?
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Uh classical rock.
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Okay.
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Probably the one thing that I really want to do with this camp.
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Next up is Shay.
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At camp I've enjoyed just playing music all day.
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Okay.
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What have you particularly enjoyed about the music?
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Um enjoyed performing it and stuff like that and the sessions.
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And this is your second camp, right?
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Second camp.
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Right, so how do you feel differently about camp now compared to when you first came a year ago?
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Um, I was quite nervous first time, but now I think I'm settled in a lot more.
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I'm getting I get quite excited for it and stuff like that.
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And Oakley, is this your first or your second, or how many?
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Uh this is my first GBMC.
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Excellent.
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And and how have you found it?
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I think it's really fun, and like the food is definitely like a lot better than I thought.
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Like food's top quality.
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Yeah.
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And also everyone's just, I think there are so many like talented musicians that it's quite fun that like people can just get on with stuff, as opposed to having to spend like three hours trying to learn like one chord progression.
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It's just people can just get in a room and make something happen in like an hour and just like complete it, and it's like, yeah, it just makes everything a lot easier and a lot more fun.
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And also the performances, the performances are awesome.
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Aren't they?
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They are like just the motivation that everyone has to do them, and the variety of different things that you people do in them is just really cool.
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And the fact that no one really gives people like hate, like if they're just trying something out and they're yeah, and they're like not like doing the best, or like they mess up or stuff, people still just like give them the support they need to like keep going in that performance.
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I just think it's really it's really cool, it's a really cool atmosphere, and just everyone is really nice.
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How did you hear about GBMC?
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Uh, from my friend Jasper, who I go to school with.
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Oh right.
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I basically like I met him before summer last year.
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Right.
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And so he was like, uh, because we I only joined my we all joined our school last year because it's starts in year 10.
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Oh right.
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And so I met him, and basically in like the first few weeks of knowing him, he was just like, oh, I go to this music camp, you should totally come.
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And he like he basically tried to recruit as many people as possible to get this.
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Uh that's how me and my and the uh some of our other band members uh Joe and Chloe through Jasper.
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Right, that makes sense.
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And and you don't just play one thing, do you?
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No.
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So tell me what you what you play and sing and uh well so I play drums, I've been playing the drums for since year seven, but I reckon I've probably been like actually like locked in for about since at the middle of year eight.
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Right.
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Uh I've been singing the same amount of time, I reckon.
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I might have locked in a little bit later in like year nine.
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Right.
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And you're now going into year 11, is that right?
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Yes.
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So are you doing music GCSE?
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Uh so it's it's interesting, it's a different qualification.
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Ah.
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So instead of doing a GCC music, I'm doing a diploma a UAL level three, uh level two diploma.
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Right.
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So it counts as four GCSEs.
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Yeah, right.
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Uh which means we get like a lot more in-depth, yeah, in-depth stuff.
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Like we I've got like a music law class, like composition, uh, the prop practical is just really good because the fact that everyone is like like here, everyone is just good at what they do, so it's just easy to get on with stuff.
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Brilliant.
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And you've got two more years you can do before you have to stop.
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I'd love to come back here for the next, like for the next two years.
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It'd be really, it's really cool.
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And everyone here's just like I've definitely like it.
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Usually takes like about a week a week, like at least a week to actually get to know people.
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But I felt like I'd been here for a week in the first day, and everyone was just like really chill.
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And I felt I thought it felt like oh, I'm gonna go back home tomorrow, and I've realized, oh wait, it's the first day.
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Yeah, okay, Charlie, how many years have you been to camp?
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Including this one, um, I think around four or five years.
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Okay, why why do you come back?
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I come back because I love how close everyone is.
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I think this is one of like those rare places that you come to and that just everyone gets you.
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I love I just love how close everyone is as a community here, and I just feel like it's one of those places that's like just sort of tucked away in the world that you're just lucky to be part of.
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Okay, and what do you do while you're here?
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I mostly do um vocals.
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Um I I always join in with the musical theatre section.
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Um yeah, and you've got a lovely voice, haven't you?
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Thank you.
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What do you particularly so so you sing some of your own stuff, you sing some um classical stuff?
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What do you what do you particularly like?
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What is your favourite thing to sing?
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I really love jazz music.
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Very good.
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That's the music that I like.
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Okay, so um what what jazz singers have inspired you?
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Probably people like uh Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, all those people.
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All the good artists.
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Excellent, very good, very good.
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And unfortunately, this is your last year, is that right?
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Yeah, it is.
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I'm good.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So what are you uh what are you hoping the fut the musical future will hold for you?
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I'm I'm not really sure.
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Personally, I think I'd love to come back as a like a tutor here at some point because I really don't want to leave something this amazing behind in the past.
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Yeah.
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So, Ezra, talk to me about your experience of GBMC.
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I started as a camper in 2018 and I came for one uh two years, 2018-2019.
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Um, and I just every year describe it as the best week of my life.
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Genuinely such a wonderful experience to see so many people and just get to it's like it's literally just making music for a week and not thinking about anything else.
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It's lovely.
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Yeah, and um what do you think particularly makes GBMC special?
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I think the community is really, really, really nice here.
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The variety of like the diverse diversity of people and the uh there's just no judgment.
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I really felt like when I was a camper I was able to come and be me in a way that I hadn't really been before.
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Um I feel like it's a really encouraging environment for everyone.
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That's brilliant.
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And um other things that you think we could improve on at GBMC, other things that you think you'd like to introduce as you get more sort of experience as a tutor here?
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Yeah, I mean I this is my second year as a tutor.
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Um I am more on the tech side of things.
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Um I think it would be nice to it would be cool to be able to teach some of the kids um some of the tech side of things as well.
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I know there are a couple of uh campus who have been interested in the past.
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Um and just some like general like mic technique and and um a basic rundown of how some of the sound works, I think it would be pretty cool.
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Yeah, I agree.
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I agree.
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I think this is such an important part of our world, isn't it?
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Yeah, and there are so many people that we miss.
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There are so many voices that I feel like we miss because they just don't know quite how to use a microphone, and it's a it's a real shame.
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Yeah.
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Prim.
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Talk to me about Music Cap.
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What do you like about it?
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I like that it's a social place.
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I like how long it lasts.
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How it's a week because even though you love it so much, even after a week you feel like you want to go home a bit.
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Because like if it was only half a week, you'd be really depressed and not and you wouldn't be fulfilled.
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But a week is a really good amount of time.
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Okay, good.
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And um, what have you particularly enjoyed doing this year?
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Um, I I really liked um the choir and vocals.
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Okay.
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What have you learned this year that you didn't know before you came?
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I learned that in singing there's four levels and not three.
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I learned that there's I know there's I knew that there was alto soprano and bass, but I didn't know that there was a tennis.
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Okay.
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Okay, very good.
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Okay, and what are you gonna what are you gonna particularly look forward to for next year?
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Um being more of an experienced camper, maybe, being a bit better at singing because oh maybe because that we believe do we like music more at high school?
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Uh hello, my name's Bella.
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Right, okay, so it's your second camp.
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What have you enjoyed particularly about this year?
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Um and like the friends I made along the way.
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Brilliant.
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And what about musically?
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What have you enjoyed doing?
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Um the the pieces were very nice and yeah, some were very calming.
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Okay.
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And um, do you think you'll come back next year?
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Yeah.
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Okay, and what would you what would you like to do next year that you haven't been able to do this year?
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Probably given another instrument apart from instruments I already do.
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Okay, what instruments do you play already?
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Um, guitar and violin.
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Okay, Chloe.
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Um, is it your first camp?
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It is my first camp.
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And have you what have you particularly enjoyed doing?
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Um, I particularly enjoyed the R and B sessions and the Neo Soft, because that is my favourite kind of genre.
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I specifically the Fujies and Lauren Hill, because like in like my previous like at my school, we did protest gig once and I did a do-up and I learned the whole rap.
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So when I found out that we were doing do-up again, it genuinely I was so happy.
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Brilliant.
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And what instruments do you do you play any instruments?
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Yeah, I'm vocalist, I played piano, saxophone, and a little bit accordion and in it once.
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Okay, and do you think you might like to do some more accordion?
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Um, not particularly.
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I'd like to learn bass.
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I feel like that could be really cool.
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Fantastic.
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And so, do you think you might do that in between so that you brought your new bass to camp next year, or do you think you might try next year?
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I feel like I'm gonna learn over the course of the year.
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The thing is, I don't want to buy like a 700-pound base to then proceed to not play it because I got bored.
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Yes, no, absolutely.
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Um, right, so uh you're gonna are you gonna come back next year?
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Oh, 100%.
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Okay, and what would you particularly like to do next year that you haven't been able to do this year?
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Funk and hip hop.
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My name's Joe.
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How long have you been involved with GBMC?
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Um, I first came as a camper in 2014, which was the first year.
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So I came as a camper 2014, 15, and 16, and then I've come as a staff member most years since 2019.
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Right, yes, because we didn't have it for two years, did we, anyway?
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And then there was one year where you couldn't come because you were somewhere else for doing something.
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That's right, yeah.
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Yeah, brilliant.
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And um so you've experienced life as a camper and as a tutor.
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What have you found the most interesting thing about those two different experiences?
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The most interesting thing was probably how how informal it actually can be to be a staff member.
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I sort of had the impression that there was a lot of responsibility and it could be quite stressful and scary, but maybe a bit more like being a teacher.
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But it's it's it's actually a very different environment to a school, isn't it?
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Oh yeah.
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Having been a camper, do you think that makes you a particularly useful member of the teachings of the staff?
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Yeah, I would like to think so.
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I suppose uh I I I feel like I know what the campers are looking to get out of it.
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But the the thing that the thing that I feel uh the most aware of having having come as a camper is it's just so much fun.
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I I had such an amazing time when I came here.
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And i if you're a if you're a young person who likes music.
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There is nothing better than hanging out with your friends and playing music.
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I think it's it's even more valuable than than having lessons throughout a year.
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Because there's so much freedom and I suppose knowing that as a staff member, I don't feel like I I have to get them to do anything or there's like a certain level that they have to reach.
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Right.
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Because it's it's just about having fun, and I I feel like that's that's the most valuable part of your development as a musician.
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And you as a professional musician the rest of the year, do you find this is rejuvenating for you?
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Because I I mean I certainly do, but yeah, definitely.
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How do you think that works?
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Why do you think it does that?
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Well the there's no well, not no pressure, but there's a lot of the pressure is is removed here.
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It's it's it's sort of a funny thing, but the fact that we don't do this for any money, you know, you just you come into this with with no expectation, and I you know, I I almost don't I'm not stressing about how well this goes because I'm giving up my time and and it will be what it will be.
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But it also that also means you enjoy it so much more, isn't it?
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I think it's funny how money affects what you get out of something, isn't it?
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Yeah, and I think the the fact that we are we are all doing it for nothing, we are all volunteers, means that we are quite close, you know, there's no there's no element of like, oh well she's my boss because she's being paid more than me or whatever it is, and I think there's a real collaboration between the tutors which then moves toward to helping the campers then collaborate, especially music.
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Yeah, yeah, we were talking about that yesterday, weren't we?
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With like if if money was involved, I think I would feel like there are things that I'm here to do and things that I'm not here to do.
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But because it's it's such a collective thing, and in theory, no one is more important in terms of staff members, no one is more important than anyone else.
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It makes me so much happier to cover, you know, cover ground that someone else hasn't covered.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Because I suppose we're all we're all just working towards we we all just do it so that the campers can can have a great week.
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Yeah, and I think for me, one of the things is that we're working with campers, some of whom have uh not played an an instrument before either for for a long time or not at all, and they're picking something up or they're they're very, very new to it.
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So so you know, so for instance, in orchestra, I'm sitting behind two trumpeters who you know I don't in fact I don't know if they've had any lessons at all, but they want to play it.
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And that's really special because the other side, then there are people who are you know in the higher, you know, they're doing exams and they're doing grades and they're studying it for GCSE and you know, exams and all sorts of things.
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Um, and we're all we're all together, just experiencing that music together, and that's a really special thing.
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I think yeah.
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I I had in the concert yesterday, I had my first first moment of the seeing the campus playing the music bringing me to tears.
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It was the one, it was the indie session where they put the chaperone uh what was it, red wine supernova and oasis champagne supernova together.
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Yeah, and they they they were all just having so much fun.
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Yeah, yeah, and there's a freedom, isn't there?
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Yeah, and then and although we have a session called freedom, actually there's freedom to all of the sessions, yeah, because we work to whatever level people are at and then try and bring them up a little bit.
00:25:55.440 --> 00:25:56.400
Yeah, exactly.
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You know, and sometimes it's I mean it's extraordinary the the the standard of musicianship that comes out.
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It really is, isn't it?
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Yeah, I I think it's been it's been especially good this year.
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There's the in the my jazz session, there's some really really impressive stuff.
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That that's another thing, get getting getting kids to improvise for the first time.
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Yeah, that's such a special thing to to be part of.
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We've talked quite often, you know, informally between uh the members of staff about this being an absolutely a safe space, and that's in so many different ways.
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But I think it especially in terms of jazz and improvising, it absolutely is because no one's gonna laugh at you because we're all kind of in that state of kind of we've all done improvising where we've gone, oh no, that was really a bit boring or whatever, but you know, it's really nice that, and then you and I, you know, particularly, and then you know, there are others who are really experienced in improvising, can kind of we're we're then saying, Well, you could try this and try this, you know.
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If you played this note, you know, it's be really specific and drill right down, and it's it's just such a pleasure, isn't it?
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Yeah, yeah.
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We're I think we're really honoured to be able to do this, you know, for nothing.
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Yeah, it's just it's very, very special place.
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Yeah, you have to enjoy it, don't you?
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Yeah, yeah, otherwise, why would you keep coming back year after year?
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Fantastic.
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Well, thank you, Joe.
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That's a real pleasure to talk to you.
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It was a real pleasure to chat with all of those campers and especially Jo at the end, who I've known since he was a camper.
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I hope that's given you a little bit of an insight into the great British music camp.
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All the links are in the show notes, so do check out what they're doing there.
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And the music making is just extraordinary.
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What you're listening to now is a piece specially composed for me by Gracie and Lily, two of the campers who are extraordinarily talented.
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So thank you for joining me once more for Harmonious World.
