Spotlight #11 THE SUNSHINE STATE ACOUSTIC MUSIC CAMP is a Florida institution, an annual teaching/learning camp held at Boyd Hill Environmental Studies Area in St. Petersburg. The camp will be on NOVEMBER 14-15-16 this year. NOW is the time to register. The SSAMC is kept small compared to other larger camps, because we want everyone to have a chance to have a maximum of good experiences in small classes and with plenty of one-on-one time with instructors outside of the class times. The camp provides an opportunity for students of all ages and levels of skill to spend an entire weekend with highly qualified teachers of acoustic music. The teachers at SSAMC are not “celebrities”, but real experts, focused on acoustic music and interested in passing it on to you. The Sunshine State camp offers a wide array of classes (over 100 sessions in the weekend) in just about every subject imaginable pertaining to making acoustic music. There are student shows, a big instructor concert on Saturday night, mentored jamming around the fire circle at all times. Picnic areas, lots of room for kids to play, free camping, free RV parking, and bunks in bunkhouses are available--all in a beautiful natural setting. Tuition prices are reasonable and some scholarships are available. Full information, pictures, and registration forms, are available on the internet through camp director Charley Groth's web site at http://www.cgmusicman.com . On the introductory page, click on the lower of two buttons to access the music camp section of the web site. If you have any questions or need any information not provided on the web site, please feel free to e-mail camp director Charley Groth at charleygroth@yahoo.com The Sunshine State Music Camp operates as economically as possible, so we can keep the registration price low and offer the camp to as many people as possible. That means we don't have the kind of advertising and promotion budgets many of the larger, more "for-profit" camps have. Of course it is vitally important to get the word out! Every year people come to us **after** the camp and tell us they'd have been there if they'd only known about it in time. You can help us get the word out by forwarding this e-mail to your e-mail list and/or to anyone you think might be interested in coming to the camp or helping to let others know about the camp. Thanks very much... Hope to see you at this year's Sunshine State Acoustic Music Camp. It looks like it will be one of the best ever. We'll learn a lot, teach a lot, share a lot, and have a MAJOR amount of fun!! ON THE WEB