Latitude: 37.23818°N.
Longitude: 97.01249°W.
Friday
September 20, 2002
2:18 AM
| | About Carp Camp …
Once known as Gatherin' in the Grass, this camp is one of the best known locations in the West Campground and rightly so. It isn't quite like anything else unless you've been to some remote native village. Especially when heard from afar, the sound is tribal. Of course, most primitive tribes don't have a half dozen hammer dulcimers played by national champions on the instrument, so even that description doesn't do it justice. You just have to hear it (or better yet, visit it) to experience Carp Camp.
Visitors are always welcome to watch and hear the Carp Camp jam as it goes on late into the night, but joining in the jam is something else. If you're good enough, you're welcome, but you must have done your homework. In years past, campmeister Dave Firestine would give wannabes a notebook of sheet music containing the repertoire of the camp and invite them to do their homework and come back the next year. Now the homework is on line, so even newcomers can come prepared.
One of the camp's most interesting traditions is the Carp Camp Parade which is described elsewhere on Audio Winfield.
Visit the Carp Camp web site.
If you are a part of Carp Camp and have more information to include here, send it to don@shorock.com.
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