Percussionist Ami Molinelli, guitarist Brian Moran and vocalist Alexa Morales lead Oakland Feather River Camp 2016 music week
OFRC MUSIC WEEK boasts three professional musician guest artists, July 10-17, 2016 All ages are welcome to explore ensemble playing on a variety of instruments (bring what you have!). A few guitars and ukeleles, a piano and some percussion instruments will be available. We will also offer accompaniment for singers. There will be karaoke for over-the-top fun...
Help send Oakland kids to Summer Camp!
Help send Oakland kids to Summer Camp! Every kid deserves a chance to go to camp. At Oakland Feather River Camp (est. 1924 in Quincy, CA, once a beautiful California Zephyr rail ride away from Jack London Square), girls and boys, ages 7-14, revel and grow in the fresh, open air and natural beauty of...
Yosemite
A tunnel with wrinkled rock walls. As you pull out of it, the view hits you. It’s a boomer, as my parents used to say on family road trips. A “boomer” is a view that goes “boom!” Half dome is sculpted in blues and grays, framed between two epic mountains. It looks like a movie...
Three great musician/teachers in 2015! COME TO Oakland Feather River Camp MUSIC WEEK!
COME TO OFRC MUSIC WEEK! July 5-12, 2015 All ages are welcome to explore ensemble playing on a variety of instruments (bring what you have!). A few guitars and ukeleles, a piano and some percussion instruments will be available. We will also offer accompaniment for singers. There will be karaoke for over-the-top fun as well as...
Death Valley Trail Marathon: The body is not mechanical. The body is biomechanical.
“The body is not mechanical. The body is biomechanical. You don’t wear out like a machine, you break down muscle based on load and then build it back bigger than before. The body adapts,” said the man sitting next to me on the bus. He told me his name was Rob. We were chatting excitedly...
The unforgettable experience of climbing Mt. Shasta when you have no idea what you’re in for
“As lone as God and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up suddenly from the heart of the great black forests of California. You would hardly call Mount Shasta a part of the Sierras; you would say rather that it is the great white tower of some ancient and eternal wall, with...
