Claire McKenna filled in for Anita Thomas for the 2005
adult camp and we all owe her a big thank you! Claire
put in the long hours and hard work it took to help make
the camp a success.
Claire
currently lives in Bellingham, Washington where she
is pursuing a degree in English Literature with
a minor in music at Western Washington University. She
is a twenty-two year old who plays the
clarinet, alto saxophone and sings in jazz groups in
the Pacific Northwest. Claire is the Co-Leader
of the new and exciting group called Mighty Aphrodite. It
is a seven-piece all female jazz band made up of members
up and down the West Coast in the United States and
Canada. Besides Mighty
Aphrodite, Claire also plays in bands in
Bellingham and works as a sub for groups on the jazz
festival circuit.
Claire
went to the STJS Youth Jazz Camp in 2000 and the Adult
Jazz Camp 2001-2002 thanks to scholarships
from the Puget Sound Traditional Jazz Society, Greater
Olympia Dixieland Jazz Society and The Bellingham
Dixieland Jazz Club. In the summer of 2004 and
2005 Claire worked as a Counselor and Teaching Assistant
at the Heebie
Jeebies Jazz Camp in Seeley Lake, Montana and at
the STJS Youth Jazz Camp. She has performed as
a Guest Artist at festivals in Pismo Beach, Arizona,
Hayling Island, England and recently in La Roquebrou,
France.
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