Instructors and Volunteers for Girls Rock Camp

Instructors & Volunteers

We are always looking for more instructors for Guitar, Bass, Keyboard, Drum, and Vocal. There are both paid and volunteer positions available. Any woman interested in helping girls rock is welcome to apply!

We also welcome volunteers as band leaders, band managers, songwriting teachers, graphic artists, DJs, roadies, and PR associates.

Apply to be an Instructor or Volunteer [pdf]

Watch the YouTube video of Emily Mills and Laura Detert of Little Red Wolf on what it's like to be an instructor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-CR5-UwKpU

More Information:

Girls Rock Camp Madison
PO Box 45587
Madison, WI 53744
info@grcmadison.org

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Alumni Instructors & Volunteers
	Beth Dohrn - President of Board I'm a mom of two budding actors and singers. I've been a teacher and educator for 25+ years. I helped with the first Girls Rock Camp in the summer of 2010 and participated as a camper at Ladies Rock Camp in October of 2010 playing bass guitar. I love music and girls rocking out!

	Beth Kille - Musical Director Beth has been on the Wisconsin music scene since 2000 and is an 11-time Madison Area Music Award winner. She fronted the Madison-based rock band, Clear Blue Betty from 2002-2008 but is currently working as a solo artist. Kille works relentlessly to support the Wisconsin music scene through activities such as leading a songwriting club at Madison West High, co-coordinating the Madison Chapter of the Nashville Songwriters Association and sitting on the Board of Directors of the Madison Area Music Association.

	Halle Pollay - Director Halle grew up in Memphis, TN, doing homework in red velvet theater chairs while her mother rehearsed as a singer and dancer on stage. Halle's first musical job at age 10 was a page turner for the pianist for her mother's shows. She received voice lessons through osmosis there and then had more formal training in her teens. Halle has been writing songs and singing in various bands since the early 90's, and most recently recorded backup vocals for Madison's own Infantry Rockers on the highly successful dub inspired tribute to Joe Strummer, "Shatter the Hotel." Halle also works as a finance accountant and is superbly organized.

	Pam Barrett - Instructor Pam is the songwriter, vocalist and guitarist for Madison-based rock band, the Motor Primitives. Pam's musical roots are in Philippine folk music but, as her tastes mature, she gravitates toward decidedly louder (and louder) rock and roll ... much to her parents' chagrin. www.motorprimitives.com

	Danielle Brittany - Instructor Danielle Brittany is this bubbly, sweet emerging artist on the local Madison music scene. Her vocal stylings are reminiscent of pop balladeers such as Carrie Underwood and Mandy Moore as well as soulstresses Joss Stone and Lauryn Hill. She was the winner of the 2009 MAMA for Female Vocalist of the Year. www.daniellebrittany.com

	Devan Brugger - Instructor Devan Brugger of Monroe, Wisc., may have just finished her freshman year at UW-Madison but she's already compiled an impressive resume of appearances and awards for her singing. She recently performed the national anthem at the state fair and was a finalist in several regional singing competitions. www.myspace.com/countrydevan

	Augusta Brulla - Instructor Augusta has lived in Madison her whole life. She is currently a student at Madison College. Augusta has been playing guitar since she was thirteen and is a member of the all-female rock/metal band Femme Fatal. Augusta considers being in a band one of the best experiences of her life. She can't wait to rock with the girls!

	Colleen Brulla - Volunteer As a consequence of taking her daughter to countless rock shows, Colleen developed a love for punk and metal music. Colleen supports having fun and building self esteem through the Girls Rock Camp!

	Catherine "Cat" Capellaro - Instructor Cat sings and plays trumpet for disco/funk superstars VO5, winners of the MAMA for "cover band performer of the year." She also performs with the Madgadders, a rock band that plays for family audiences, and the Rohnellaros, with her composer husband, Andrew Rohn. Andrew and Catherine are the authors of the hit musical "Walmartopia," which has been produced from coast to coast, including an Off-Broadway run in 2007. She is the proud mother of twin boys, age 11: Leonardo (who plays bass, viola, and piano) and Julian (who plays piano and trumpet).

	Jeri Casper - Instructor Jeri has been writing songs, playing guitar and singing in local bands for 7 years. Currently, she performs with the band The Type. When she's not slinging the ax, she likes to spend time writing, reading, watching Will Ferrell movies and running around like crazy with her toddler.

	Barbara Chusid - Instructor Barbara has been playing in bands for most of her life. She learned classical music as a kid in N.Y. and graduated from Yale in music. She unlearned a fair amount of her training on her own. Barbara teaches music at Emerson Elementary School in Madison. She is a closet gearhead. Her current bands are The Getaway Drivers and the Madgadders.

	Tricia Datema - Volunteer Tricia has been working as an Apprentice Engineer at Paradyme Productions, a recording studio in Madison, Wisc., for over 3 years. She has experience in set-up, tracking and mixing in all genres of music. Her favorite type of music is labeled underground hip-hop but she can be found singing to almost anything. She fully enjoys seeing others realize their potential and find success, and is looking forward to being there to encourage one and all!

	Laura Detert - Instructor Laura has played classical and rock music in Madison since the early 1990s, primarily playing the viola. She currently plays viola, keys and bass guitar with the all-girl indie band Little Red Wolf and plays event music with the Sophisticates of String Quartet. Laura has previously played with the bands Strange Talking Animals and A Catapult Western as well as the symphony orchestras at the University of Minnesota and University of Wisconsin.

	Maggie Delaney-Potthoff - Instructor Maggie is an amazing, award winning vocalist. She performs nationally and internationally with her highly acclaimed band Harmonious Wail. Her unique Vocal-Ease™ training approach (www.maggiesmethod.com) has proven itself with hundreds of students and thousands of performances over decades of singing and coaching around the world.

	Marlo Dobrient - Instructor Marlo has been banging on drum kits since she was a youth. She learned how to read music at the age of 5 and played acoustic guitar. Not until she was 13 did she find her real passion for all things percussion. Marlo spent grade school and high school in concert, symphonic, marching and jazz bands, many times as the only girl drummer. She has been in several Chicago-based rock bands and is excited about the momentum of her current band, Venus In Furs.

	Lyndsay Evans - Instructor Lyndsay has been singing since she could talk and she has been writing lyrics and melodies for almost as long. Fronting her band, Sexy Ester & The Pretty Mama Sisters for just over two years, she has already made an impression on the Madison music scene. Upon review of the band, Rick Tvet of Local Sounds Magazine had this to say of Lyndsay, "This is the most solid, powerhouse voice I have heard come out of this city. Stage presence, charisma, talent, this singer has what it takes." Sexy Ester can be seen performing around Madison and their latest album, Hubba Bubba, can be heard on indie radio stations across the country. www.reverbnation.com/sexyestertheprettymamasisters

	Deb Fields - Band Manager Deb believes nothing equals the contagious energy produced by live music. Since she was ten, she has gone to live music shows, and has attended well over 1,000 performances from Black Sabbath to the Grand Ole Opry. Her parents and now her daughters love live music, too. Deb manages the calendar for Maximum Ink Music Magazine and was previously the Director and a teacher at Lakeview Coop Preschool. She is committed to helping women and girls know that they can do anything they want. Rock n' roll is not just for the boys — it's for all of us.

	Ena Foshay - DJ Instructor Ena Foshay is a DJ (DJ Lady K) and singer in the Madison area. She has been a club, dance, and radio DJ for the past 15 years. She hosts the weekly radio programs "A Musical Offering" and "Musica Antiqua" on WORT 89.9 fm in Madison.

	Cassandra Habel - Sound Engineer Cassandra is freelance sound engineer and private event promoter. In 2005 she completed an internship with the Journey Music venue while attending Madison Media Institute. After the Journey Music closed its doors, she did live sound at local venues, working with local and nationally touring artists in venues ranging from small coffee shops to large concert halls. Cassandra also interned with True Endeavors and worked as a Madison-area promoter for the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee.

	Briana Hardyman - Instructor Briana Hardyman is an internationally touring singer/songwriter currently splitting time between Nashville, TN and Madison, WI. Briana has released 3 albums and will be returning to the UK for a festival tour in July 2010. www.myspace.com/brianalynnhardyman

	Natalie Hinckley - Instructor Natalie plays bass with Venus in Furs and has played with other Madison punk bands in the past. She owns Hinckley Design & Production, directing video for live events including the Madison Area Music Awards, national and local roller derby leagues, SXSW and directed the feature length rockumentary Drown Out The Daylights for Crustacean Records.

	Susan Hofer - Instructor Susan has been exciting audiences for the past 15 years. Her career has taken her to many of Chicago's best live music venues, including The Hot House and the Drake Hotel, with regular appearances at Pops for Champagne and an invitation to perform at their Women in Jazz Festival. Susan has been featured on a statewide broadcast via Wisconsin Public radio, local Madison radio via The Mic 92.1, WORT 89.9, and heard on an internationally-distributed podcast. A longtime activist for women and girls in the arts, she organized and performed at the "Local Lilith Fair" in Champaign Illinois, has created and taught a Girl Power curriculum in the Madison area, and is the Coordinator and Lead Therapist for The Southeast Asian Teen Village Project in Madison, WI.

	Connie Jordan - Instructor After several years of touring and performing around the country in D.I.Y. bands, Connie moved to Madison from Pennsylvania with nothing but five string instruments, a bike, and a sewing machine. Since relocating, Connie has co-founded In The Kitchen Collective and has started a Riot Grrrl band. She also plays bass drum for Madison's new radical street marching band FORWARD! And she continues her solo work, Coney Island: http://cllct.com/art/coneyisland.

	Kia Karlen - Instructor Kia Karlen has been playing the horn since age 11 and the accordion since age 36, dabbling occasionally in bass and percussion along the way. Kia currently performs with Yid Vicious, Reptile Palace Orchestra, Optometri, Chick Singer Band, the Theramones, and the Capital City Band, and will soon be launching a Shaggs tribute band, Foot-Foot. Kia has scored experimental music for silent film screenings, staged sock puppet tributes to the great philosophers, and organized armies of artists for temporary public performance art projects around Madison.

	Anna Laube - Instructor Anna Laube (pronounced \lau\ as in "how," and \be\ as in "to be or not to be") began studying the piano at the age of three and later took up saxophone, oboe, violin, guitar, and harmonica. She was a leading member in a number of orchestras during high school in Madison, WI, and the year after she graduated, studied oboe at the Académie de Musique Grétry in Liège, Belgium. Anna attended years of Music Clinic at the UW and released her debut album in 2006. She has since been described as "An artist to whom you would hand over the keys to your heart" by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, composing "Intimate, heartfelt songs rooted in traditional Americana" (NPR) — and her music is receiving airplay worldwide. Visit www.annalaube.com for more information.

	Shawndell Marks - Instructor After studying music at the University of Wisconsin, Marks went on to perform with the cover band Thunder Road for several years, opening for acts such as George Jones, Blackhawk and The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Now she's on her own, honing her songwriting skill and further developing her vocal chops. In 2005 she released her debut album, Remnants of Crazy, a personal endeavor to help process the traumatic death of her father. She currently has two full-length albums in the works, a simple piano/vocal venture, Little Things and Love Songs and a more produced collaboration with her bandmates, working title Food for the Beast. Marks lives in Reedsburg, Wisconsin with her husband and children.

	Susan Masino - Instructor Susan, a rock journalist for over thirty years, has written three books, created and hosted the 94.1 JJO Local Stage radio show from 1997-2004, and has produced eight local compilation CDs. She also appears in the Van Halen DVD, The Early Years. You can check out the details at www.susanmasino.com. Let There Be Rock: The Story of AC/DC is now printed in ten languages and available at www.amazon.com. Her new book, Family Tradition-Three Generations of Hank Williams will be published by Hal Leonard/Backbeat Books later this year.

	Julia McConahay - Instructor Julia McConahay has been playing music since she could count to four. She focused her attention to violin at age 5 and broadened her horizons over the years to include voice, guitar, and keys as well. She now functions as a session musician, performing artist, and musical coach. She can't wait to get all you girls up and rockin'!

	Emily Mills - Instructor Emily Mills is a Madison-based musician, writer and actor who has been in various kinds of bands since age 12. Emily has been learning and playing percussion for the past 18 years and vocals for around 10 years. Currently, she plays in the all-girl indie rock/alt. country group Little Red Wolf, and moonlights with the garage-surf-pop band The Shabelles. Emily also works as a freelance writer (with some work appearing in Isthmus, the Capital Times, Our Lives Magazine, etc.) and actor (both stage and film).

	Deb Nies - Instructor Deb is a freelance writer, but her most rewarding and challenging career is being a mom to her tween daughter, Hannah. They love exploring the roads less traveled in the Madison area, and sharing their finds at Hidden Adventure Examiner and Parenting Tweens.

	Candice Nokes - Instructor Candice comes from the Greater Milwaukee area and is a songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist. She studied guitar and voice as a young girl, and continued studying voice through college. Since the age of 22, she has been playing solo in many Milwaukee venues. She was also a vocalist and guitarist for the 7-piece Milwaukee-based band, Mark Truesdell and the Lost Pioneers. Her song, A Whole Long While, recorded with the Lost Pioneers, was a 2010 Indian Summer Music Awards Nominee in the Blues Category. Currently, Candice invests much of her musical time as a duo in The Spirals.

	Laura V. Page - Instructor Laura V. Page is a highly experienced independent management consultant focusing on leadership development, conflict resolution, customer service, team building and strategic planning. She is a frequent public speaker, meeting facilitator and an instructor for continuing education divisions of UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee in addition to serving her clients, both profit and non-profit.

	Beth Porter - Yoga Instructor Beth Porter took up yoga to find grounding amidst the craziness of motherhood. She wears many hats including physical therapist, girl scout leader, and mom to two busy kids. Beth is a 200-hour certified yoga instructor and likes to dabble in different venues, teaching yoga to UW grad students, at the FIT on Monroe Street, and to children/young adults with autism.

	Queenie - Instructor Queenie (a.k.a. Susan McCarter-Wade) holds a degree in Music and Recording Technology and is a seasoned performer and recording artist. She has studied, recorded and shared the stage with a host of regional and national performers. Queenie currently enjoys singing and writing music with her own band Queenie and the Blue Cats and looks forward to working with you.

	Krista Rasmussen - Instructor

	Carla Raushenbush - Instructor Carla, creator and director of A Perfect Knot Yoga Center, on Madison's near east side, has been a Massage Therapist since 1990 and graduated from Bikram's formal 500 hr. teacher training in 1995. Since opening her own studio in 1996, she has taught 7-11 classes per week and loves it now more than ever. Recognizing her own cultural conditioning that binds and crushes vitality, originality and contentedness, and steadfastly casting it away is Carla's main practice toward the yogic goals of true self-knowledge and non-harming. She is so happy to be attending camp as a band novice and to help us release mental and physical tension during the yoga session.

	Meghan Rose - Instructor Meghan Rose is a member of the all-female, Madison band Little Red Wolf and is currently writing a musical about zombies. Past roles in music include music director and rehearsal pianist for stage musicals, writing and recording backing tracks for YouTube shorts, and piano for improv theater. Instruments include piano, guitar, vocals, mandolin, dulcimer, and the accordion.

	Laura Stephenson - Instructor Laura grew up in Madison and was always involved in music as a young girl. She knew she was destined to sing for the rest of her life when her first grade music teacher pointed out that Laura knew how to breathe right! In fact, she majored in vocal performance, getting her "opera on" here at the UW. Laura moved from the world of German liede and Italian opera to alt-rock in 2002 with Spolight Buddha. She is currently a lead singer for Bonobo Secret Handshake, a politically charged and highly energetic blues, rock, funk band. Laura specializes in writing lyrics and is extremely psyched to rock with the girls at camp.

	Nicky Sund - Instructor Nicky Sund has been performing professionally with bands for 15 years. She has played in steampunk, reggae, jazz, afro-pop, rock, ska and blues groups. Currently she performs with Eli August, Ladies Must Swing, the Barb Cheron Group, Atimevu Drum and Dance Ensemble and Swingin' not Stirred.

	Vanessa Tortolano - Instructor Vanessa is a woman of many hats. She is a devoted mother of two wonderful boys, is co-owner and Operator of NessAlla Kombucha, and does music as much as she can when time allows. Vanessa has been singing since she could speak and on the stage since 3rd grade. She has been in many bands over the years including Madison's Subvocal. Currently, Vanessa is working on solo stuff as well as co-hosting the Alchemy's Open Mic Variety Show and Tell with Julia McConahay every second Wednesday of the month. She feels very excited to have the opportunity to help build girls' confidence and self-esteem. Go for it girls!

	Ali Trevino-Murphy - Instructor

	Anna Vogelzang - Instructor "Few craft a better folk song" — The Huffington Post. Award-winning songwriter Anna Vogelzang is a newly-transplanted Midwesterner who spends most of her time on the road. After 11 nation-wide tours since 2008, Anna is preparing to record her fifth studio album, "Canary in a Coal Mine," in the spring of 2011. Throughout the 2011 she will be performing at many local favorites such as the Union Terrace and the Project Lodge, as well as an appearance at the National Women's Music Festival here in Madison. Of course, when she's not in town, Anna will be playing music somewhere out there. www.theanna.com

	Dar Ward - Instructor Dar has played cello and guitar for almost 30 years. But her musical passion really took hold when she started playing bass and drums in the mid 2000s. Since then she's spent as much time as possible playing in any local band that would have her. Currently she drums with 70s punk cover band Seven Stone Weaklings and original rockers The Drain, while playing bass and doing her best Kim Deal impersonation with Pixies tribute band Crackity Jones. She's tired of women in rock being the exception rather than the rule. Lady rockers rule!