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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kathy McCormack

Adults relive the musical camaraderie of their youth at band camps reprised for grown-ups

Be Well Adult Music Camps - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

As a high school student in the 1970s, Lori Guess looked forward to packing up her oboe for a summer music camp in Sidney, Maine. The lakeside location and loon calls appealed to her, and it was a chance to connect with kindred spirits.

Decades later, she’s still going to camp there. A separate band program was created for adults in 2013, where she felt encouraged to take up another instrument: trumpet.

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