Inaugurated in 2011, the Julian Music Camp (JMC) is a five-day acoustic music camp for people of all ages and musical abilities. JMC is held annually at a full-service, rural family retreat center near the historic mining town of Julian, CA. Registration for camp includes all meals, instruction, and evening concerts.
The JMC experience is a celebration of community, music, and shared experiences. Lifelong friendships often begin here, with these connections nourishing us throughout the year until we can meet again at camp.
Your Support makes a difference!
With your help, the CBA continues to improve and develop our camps & education programs, plus we enable more to attend. Thank you!
Your Support makes a difference!
With your help, the CBA continues to improve and develop our camps & education programs, plus we enable more to attend. Thank you!
Location
This year JMC will be held held at Camp Stevens from May 19th – 23rd 2027. Camp Stevens is situated on 256 acres of pine-oak woodland, offering scenic overlooks and miles of hiking trails. The main campus is easily walkable, and features a large lawn, pool, and volleyball court. Within a short walk of the central campus, you’ll find hiking trails, an outdoor chapel, labyrinth, tree house, woodburning cob oven, chicken coop, orchard, and two gardens. The accommodations at Camp Stevens are also modern and comfortable, with WIFI, cozy meeting spaces, and fully stocked coffee and tea bars.
Meals are made from scratch on-site from sustainably sourced and local ingredients, including, as often as possible, eggs from their own on-site chickens, fruits, vegetables, and herbs from the three acres of gardens and farmland.
Additionally, Camp Stevens is about a 5 min drive from Historic Downtown Julian, making trips to town, or the choice to stay off-site during camp, much more convenient.
Something for everyone
As long as you can play a couple of simple tunes on fiddle, mandolin, guitar or banjo, and/or know how to pluck a bass and keep decent time, we have a class and instructor for you! Our past classes have included Appalachian old-time and bluegrass style fiddle; flat-pick and rhythm guitar; bluegrass mandolin; bluegrass and old-time banjo; upright bass; band dynamics; harmony vocals, and many other specialized workshops.
Julian Music Camp honors acoustic music traditions as well as musical innovation. People from 8 to 88 come to the Camp for many reasons. While everyone seeks fun and instruction, we are particularly sensitive to:
- Classical musicians seeking more comfort playing “off the page”
- Young musicians hoping to broaden their skills, interests, and repertoires
- Adult instrumentalists who wish to rejuvenate their skills and expand their network of musical friends
- Musical hobbyists looking to connect with other like-minded folks.
Registration - opens November 1
All meals, instruction and evening concerts are included with your registration.
Campers have the option of staying in on-site accommodations which are included with full registration, or the “Commuter” option and either commute from home, find accommodations off-site, or camp on-site.
Additionally, campers can choose the “Sleep-In” option, which does not include daily classes, but does include meals, accommodations, and the evening concerts.
Adam Roszkiewicz
Julian Music Camp Director
Adam Roszkiewicz is a Grammy nominated multi-instrumentalist and composer from the west coast of the United States. Specializing in Folk, Americana, and Classical Crossover genres he has played with the Modern Mandolin Quartet, Front Country, Small Town Therapy, the Ger Mandolin Orchestra, and many others. Adam has performed at music festivals around the world including: Merle Fest, Grey Fox, Bristol Rhythm and Roots, Rockygrass, Telluride, the La Roche bluegrass festival in France, the Didmartin bluegrass festival in England, the Blue Highways festival in Utrecht, Holland, the Singer Festival in Warsaw, Poland and the Hardly-Strictly-Bluegrass festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. In 2013 Adam received a Grammy nomination for his work with the Modern Mandolin Quartet.