“You know, I had a lot of basses, which I wasn’t expecting,” she said. And what instruments did the girls gravitate towards in the beginning? The camp size was capped at 30 attendees, who got to choose what instruments they wanted to play, form their own bands, write an original song, and perform on stage. Scott Brocato Maya Linney, drumming instructor with YouRock El Paso We knew it wasn’t going to be perfect, and we knew we had to kind of see it in action to really understand what the community needed and what these kiddos were responding to, and what was gonna work.” We’ve been really malleable in that sense. All of this programming, the way we’ve set it up, we’re ready to throw it out the door or structure it stronger, or kind of build on what’s working.

“So many challenges! But they’ve all been really fun. We were just really hoping to have girls and gender-fluid kiddos come in and just really enjoy the space, put instruments in their hands, and just see them kind of explore and feel comfortable and make a really safe space for them to that.”Īny camp such as this is bound to have challenges in its inaugural year, and You Rock El Paso was no exception. “And you know how 2020 went that was supposed to be our first year, and that got pushed back until now. “We’ve been planning it-Jim’s been planning it-I think late 2018, for sure 2019,” she said. Laura Valdez, Camp Director, YouRock El Paso

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