Nearly 60 participated in annual Otis Redding music camp

MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Students who enjoy music are getting a chance to let their inner songwriters, musicians, and performers shine this week.

It’s part of the 9th annual Otis Music Camp put on by the Otis Redding Foundation and the Knight Foundation.

Nearly 60 students signed up to learn more about different areas in music and also get to write and perform a piece of their own.

“Kids can choose any area they want to go into whether you want to be a songwriter or you just want to be a musician or whether you want to be part of the production team or whether you want to write, or just record, be an engineer,” Karla Redding-Andrews, the executive director of the Otis Redding Foundation, said.

This is the largest number of participants to ever attend the camp and Redding-Andrews says if her father, the legendary Otis Redding, were alive today, he’d want it to be bigger and better.

“This intense study of music during these two weeks lasts with these kids a lifetime,” she said.

The camp also moved to Mercer University’s Townsend School of Music so students can have more space to create and perform.