Award-winning musicians and students from around the world will again converge at the First Presbyterian Church of Vero Beach for the Mike Block String Camp, which runs July 7-12, and its related Vero Beach International Music Festival, both founded by the innovative, Grammy-winning cellist Mike Block.
Multicultural camp workshops emphasize creativity, improvisation, collaboration and performance in bowed and picked string instruments, and cater to all ages and abilities, with separate classes ranging from beginners and intermediates to professional musicians.
“We’ve jumped to over 100 participants again, which is right where we like to be. And again, we’ve got a whole host of local Vero students from the schools and the Gifford Youth Orchestra,” says Block…