The Details: When: July 27-August 4, 2017. Where: Central United Methodist Church, Traverse City, MI Who: Open to students in grades 6-12. What: Collective Composition, Arranging, Lessons and Performances The Essence: During this year’s camp you will work with your friends to compose music and create unique musical arrangements. To…
In a happy turn of events the MCACA and NorthSky NonProfit Network have awarded us grant monies for our 13th Summer Music Camp and Performance Series in Traverse City! This was great news. During the 2016/2017 granting cycle districts in Michigan were consolidated and award pools were proportionally shrunk to…
Dan, Archi co-founder and executive director, is a semi-finalist for Music & Arts’ Educator of the Year award! Vote to help him become a finalist so he can travel to the Midwest Conference in Chicago and speak about our work! Here’s the link! Meet Our 2016 Music Educator of the…
We are excited to host our twelfth version of the Traverse City Music Camp at the Central United Methodist Church. I chose the word version to highlight the changes that result from the yearly deliberations by the Archipelago Project Teaching Artists. We believe in being lifelong learners, therefore we are…
We have a wealth of great shows and workshops coming up in Traverse City. Check out the list to see where you can catch us. Monday, July 27: Creative Composition at Right Brain Brewery @ 6PM www.rightbrainbrewery.com Tuesday, July 28: Munson Youth Enrichment Camp Concert @ 2PM 130 E. Tenth…
Written by Garrett Mendez: One of Archipelago’s main objectives has always been to demonstrate how music is a reflection of cultural identity. We aim to show how music can bring people together from all different social and cultural backgrounds. Through the years of Archipelago, I have seen this take place…
Traverse City, MI (February 26, 2015) – You wouldn’t think two Traverse City natives and a music camp could have such an impact in Baltimore’s inner-city. But they do. Ethan Lucas, a product of Traverse City East Middle School, Central High School and Archipelago Project’s Summer Music Camp recently spent…
After approximately 8 years with the same website design (roughly an eon in Internet years) we have finally upgraded! The new design will make it much easier to share articles, news and posts through email and social media outlets – not to mention it is easier on the eyes! New…
Greetings from Archipelago! I hope everyone’s year is off to a good start. It is around this time of the year when I can’t stop thinking about those warm summer days and how much fun it will be to be back home in Traverse City running the music camp. Needless…
Archipelago is proud to help support Garrett Mendez and his new endeavor, Project Music, an El Sistema inspired after-school program in Stamford, Connecticut. Project Music’s mission is to promote growth and development of Stamford’s youth by using music as a vehicle to provide mentoring, encouragement and vision for a promising…