The 2025 BOA Summer Camp Concert Series
Many things set BOA Summer Camp apart, and one of those is the nightly concert series, one of our student campers’ favorite parts of the experience!
Yamaha Young Performing Artists
Monday, June 23, 2025 • 8 p.m. • Emens Auditorium
Music for All is proud to open its BOA Camp Concert Series with the Yamaha Young Performing Artists (YYPA) in concert! The YYPA program recognizes outstanding young musicians from the world of classical, jazz, and contemporary music. Winners of the competition perform in concert at BOA Camp, with guest Yamaha Performing Artists.
Boston Brass
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 • 8 p.m. • Emens Auditorium
Yamaha Performing Artists
Since 1986 Boston Brass has set out to establish a one-of-a-kind musical experience featuring colorful classical arrangements, burning jazz standards, and the best of original brass repertoire. Boston Brass treats audiences to a unique brand of musical entertainment that bridges the ocean of classical formality to delight regular concertgoers and newcomers alike with great music and boisterous fun in performances across all 50 U.S. states and over 30 countries to date.
Learn more at bostonbrass.com
U.S. Army Jazz Ambassadors
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 • 8 p.m. • Emens Auditorium
Known as America’s Big Band, the Jazz Ambassadors are the premier touring jazz orchestra of the United States Army. Formed in 1969, this 19-piece ensemble has received critical acclaim throughout the United States and abroad, performing America’s original art form, jazz.
Fred Armisen
Thursday, June 26, 2025 • 8 p.m. • Emens Auditorium
Fred Armisen is a comedian, writer, producer, and musician. He is the co-writer and co-star of IFC’s Emmy-nominated series Portlandia, which he created alongside Carrie Brownstein. He can be seen in the hit Netflix series Wednesday as Uncle Fester. He stars as “Tico” in HBO’s Los Espookys, which he co-wrote and executive produced. He can also be heard in the hit animated Super Mario Bros movie. Armisen stars in, writes, and produces IFC’s hit show Documentary Now, for which he has received two Emmy nominations. He has also appeared in HBO’s Our Flag Means Death, Judd Apatow’s The Bubble, and Amazon’s series Forever (which he was also an executive producer on). He has appeared as a voice actor in Big Mouth and The Mitchells vs. The Machines. Fred co-stars in the upcoming second season of the Netflix show Unstable.
Armisen’s career began as a musician in the Chicago-based post-punk band Trenchmouth as well as the Blue Man Group. His transition to comedy came with the 1998 underground short film, Fred Armisen’s Guide to Music and South by Southwest. An 11-season veteran of Saturday Night Live, Armisen has engaged audiences with memorable impressions and characters. In 2014, Armisen was named band leader of the 8G Band on Late Night With Seth Meyers. The band, curated by Armisen, includes members of indie rock bands Les Savy Fav and Girls Against Boys.
DCI Tour Preview
Friday, June 27, 2025 • 8:00 PM • Scheumann Stadium
Featuring Carolina Crown, Phantom Regiment, and the Cavaliers
This event, produced in partnership with Drum Corps International, is non-adjudicated and features special extended performances and interviews with staff and designers from each corps at the end of each performance. The event will conclude with a special encore performance by Carolina Crown joined by the students in the Bands of America Summer Camp Marching Band Division.