DSRP Rocks the Hard Rock! – December 13th
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
STOP PRACTICING... START PERFORMING
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The Ultimate Rock and Roll Birthday Party!!!
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
DSRP rocks the Royal Oak Holiday Magic Parade
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
The Detroit School of Rock and Pop Music rocks the Royal Oak Holiday Magic Parade
Join us as the students of The Detroit School of Rock and Pop Music show us what happens when you “Stop Practicing…” and “Start Performing”. The City of Royal Oak will usher in the holiday season with one of metro Detroit’s most festive holiday celebrations. The Detroit School of Rock and Pop Music will showcase some of the most talented music students in the region as they light up their float in this holiday extravaganza.
Where: Downtown Royal Oak
When: Saturday November 21, 2009 – 10am
AUDITION ALERT! – Cedar Point Auditions for next season… Have an amazing summer gaining music experience and get paid!
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
CEDAR POINT AUDITIONS:
Audition Alert
Cedar Point Auditions
Thursday, November 13, 2009
DETROIT SCHOOL OF ROCK & POP MUSIC HOSTS CEDAR POINT AUDITIONS FOR THE 2010 SEASON ON THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER 13TH IN ROYAL OAK
WHO: The Detroit School of Rock and Pop Music, will host auditions on behalf of Cedar Point.
WHAT: The Detroit School of Rock & Pop Music will host auditions for Cedar Point’s 2010 season. Interested musicians, technicians or administrative personnel are welcome to audition. Please note: Auditions and interviews are closed; only the person auditioning (and an accompanist, if needed) will be permitted in the audition room. Bring resume and music selection of rock, pop or country to comply with Cedar Point music standards.
WHEN: Thursday, November 13th from 3:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Detroit School of Rock and Pop Music
1109 South Washington Avenue
Royal Oak, Michigan 48067
CONTACT: The Detroit School of Rock and Pop Music
(888) 988-ROCK
AUDITION INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION:
Cedar Point 2009 Auditions Information
http://www.cedarpoint.com/public/jobs/applying/auditions/index.cfm
C AND G NEWS – Have a Festive Fall
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
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Photo provided Have a festive fall October activities embrace change in season By Jennifer Sakey It’s official. Fall has arrived — complete with changing colors, cooler temperatures, shorter days, and of course, an array of festivals that celebrate the season. Here’s a sampling of some of the events happening this month in metro Detroit: ROYAL OAK The Detroit Zoo will hold its third annual Fall Festival from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 3-4, with all activities taking place in the zoo’s Main Picnic Grove. The event will feature performances by students and faculty from the Detroit School of Rock and Pop Music; seasonal food and drinks, such as Polish sausage, bratwurst, apple strudel, caramel apples and beer; and a children’s activity area that includes games, arts and crafts, pumpkin painting, a straw maze and an inflatable slide. Admission to the children’s activity area is $5 per child in addition to regular zoo admission. Visitors can also take a hayride for $2 per adult and $1 per child. Zoo admission is $11 for adults 15 to 61, $9 for senior citizens 62 and older, and $7 for children ages 2 to 14. Admission is free for children younger than 2. For more information, call (248) 541-5717, ext. 3750, or visit www.detroitzoo.org.
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Observer and Eccentric – Celebrate Fall at The Zoo
Monday, September 28th, 2009
Celebrate fall at the zoo
SEPTEMBER 27, 2009
The weather may still be summer-like, but the calendar says fall is here. The Detroit Zoo is celebrating the change of seasons with the third annual Fall Festival Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 3-4.
The two-day festival features live entertainment, children’s activities, hayrides and seasonal food. All activities take place in the Main Picnic Grove from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., rain or shine. Entrance to the Fall Festival is free with regular Zoo admission.
Student and faculty bands from The Detroit School of Rock and Pop Music will entertain visitors and a fun-filled children’s activity area will include arts and crafts, fall-themed games, a giant inflatable slide, straw maze, pumpkin painting and face painting. Admission to the children’s activity area is $5 per child in addition to regular Zoo admission.
Visitors can hop aboard a hayride for $2 per adult and $1 per child (ages 2-14) and enjoy the sights at the front of the Zoo. Fall-inspired food such as polish sausage, bratwurst, apple strudel, caramel apples, beer and soft drinks will be available for purchase.
The Detroit Zoo is located at the intersection of Ten Mile and Woodward, just off I-696, in Royal Oak. The Detroit Zoo is open daily 10 a.m.-5 p.m. through October and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. November through March. Admission is $11 for adults 15 to 61, $9 for senior citizens 62 and older, and $7 for children ages 2 to 14; children under 2 are free. For more information, call (248) 541-5717 or visit www.detroitzoo.org
Photos – Fox 2 News – Define Loud – September 2009
Saturday, September 26th, 2009
Observer and Eccentric – Kids Cruise attempts to boost downtown lull during week
Sunday, August 9th, 2009Kids Cruise attempts to boost downtown lull during week
BY STEVE KOWALSKI • ECCENTRIC STAFF WRITER • AUGUST 9, 2009
ROYAL OAK — If Woodward is reserved for the “big kids” to cruise and relive their youth, then the Downtown Development Authority has something planned for the rest of the kids not quite old enough to drive.
The first-annual Kids Cruise, along Fifth and Center streets in downtown, will be held 4-10 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11.
The Downtown Development Authority is sponsoring the event to help promote downtown business, which has historically struggled the week of the Woodward Dream Cruise presented by MotorCity Casino Hotel, according to Stephanie McIntyre, downtown manager for the DDA.
“The general feeling in town is, it would be great to get some of those people (on Woodward) over our way,” McIntyre said.
The official day for the 15th annual Dream Cruise is Saturday, Aug. 15, but organizers expect cruisers and spectators to gather all week in anticipation.
The Kids Cruise won’t actually be a cruise, unless some decide to bring a Big Wheel type ride. But it’ll definitely be a place for kids and their parents to gather for fun, according to McIntyre.
“We’re in the stretch drive (of planning),” she said.
Though the Kids Cruise will only cover two city blocks, and a parking lot at Sixth and Center, businesses from throughout the downtown are planning sidewalk sales, McIntyre said. Some restaurants will be offering two for one specials, she added.
Entertainment will included Oldies music and other tunes from the Mydols, The Candy Band and Detroit School of Rock and Pop. The latter is a music school for children aged 12-16, a few years older than the children expected for the Kids Cruise.
Jason Gittinger, who owns Detroit School of Rock and Pop with his wife, Sherry, said the Flawluss Vikteree and Collision Course are scheduled to play for the Kids Cruisers.
“It’ll be exciting and sort of inspirational for the younger kids seeing someone slightly older than them doing something they might enjoy themselves,” Gittinger said.
Gittinger is a professional musician who said he has always been out of town performing during past Dream Cruise events. From all he’s heard, he thinks the Kids Cruise will be a complementary event.
“Anything that gets people together as a community is good in my book,” he said. “It’s kid friendly and helping downtown in challenging times.”
The Oakland Press – Kids hone their music skills at musical summer camp
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009Kids hone their music skills at musical summer camp
By AMY KURAS
Special to The Oakland Press
Published: Saturday, August 1, 2009
Some kids are doing science experiments at camp this summer, or sharpening their math skills, or making lanyards.
But kids at the Detroit School of Rock and Pop Music’s summer camp are honing their abilities to rock out and listening to a guitarist for an all-female metal band tell stories from the road.
Jan Kuehnemund, founding guitarist of all-female metal band Vixen, visited the campers at the school in Royal Oak this week. Led by school founder and director Jason Gittinger, Kuehnemund answered questions about the life of a real rock musician.
“It’s an exciting life with lots of travel and interesting people, but there’s also some less than glamorous moments,” she said.
One was when the band was playing in Guam in extreme heat and humidity. The band was playing four sets and in between “we had to go into this creepy little dressing room,” she said. There were enormous cockroaches which they would spray with hairspray to keep them stuck to the wall. Then the power went out. Their drummer tripped and broke her ankle and had to play their last set with a swollen and painful ankle.
Kuehnemund formed the band in 1980 while still in high school with her best friends from school. Eventually, they gained a large following in the Midwest, which spurred them to move to Los Angeles in the mid-1980s, after several lineup changes.
“Someone had told us to check out the Marriott to look for a day job,” she said. “We told them we’d either be their house band or waitress for them.”
Three of the four got jobs as waitresses on the spot, and paid their rent that way until being signed a few years later. The band ended up touring with the Scorpions, Bad Company, Eddie Money and Ozzy Osbourne, to name a few. They disbanded in the mid-1990s and reformed in 2001, with Kuehnemund as the only original member left. They continue to tour and record.
Campers at the Detroit School of Rock and Pop Music are formed into bands by Gittinger, and learn to perform. The focus is on getting them to perform as a group, not so much practicing on their individual instruments. Most of the kids are teens and have a decent bit of experience on their instruments.
Gittinger arranges opportunities for the band to play publicly during their session, including at the Rock Stars, Cars and Guitars exhibit at the Henry Ford. Kuehnemund has a coat and a guitar from one of the band’s videos on display at the exhibit. One of the bands played for her during her visit.
“We definitely know what to watch out for now, like the drama,” said Alie Miller, a camper from Bloomfield Hills who plays drums with singer and guitarist Destiny Douglas of Novi and bassist Diana Otero of Troy in the all-female band Stuck in Zero.
Most of the Detroit School of Rock and Pop Music’s work is with adults who finally want to take their basement noodling on an instrument to the next level, but the summer camps are about giving young musicians the chance to play with a band and really live their passion for music.
ACCESS TO SUPERSTARS – Vixen’s Jan Kuehnemund stops in
Saturday, August 1st, 2009
The Detroit School of Rock and Pop Music’s students got the opportunity to meet the guitar player from the famous all-female metal band Vixen, Jan Kuehnemund on July 28th. They asked tons of questions about making records and touring in the “big time.” The “Summer Rocks! 2009″ July campers got a special privilege of being able to perform one of Vixen’s songs for her!
Thanks Jan for stopping by!
