The rhythm of summer activity on the St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus was punctuated by the NoiseMakers, a local rock camp that toured St. Petersburg College’s Music Industry Recording Arts (MIRA) program last week.

Dr. Patrick Hernly, Academic Chair of the college’s MIRA program and the staff at NoiseMakers have formed a unique partnership that resulted in St. Petersburg College writing a grant from the Fender Music Foundation to supply instruments for the NoiseMakers’ nonprofit partner – Operation Co-Exist.

Learn more about SPC’s MIRA program.

NoiseMakers and Operation Co-Exist impacting the community

NoiseMakers is no ordinary music school.  Partnering with musicians and offering music lessons to the community, it is located on Central Avenue in St. Petersburg.  It also houses Operation Co-Exist – a nonprofit organization that strives to improve the quality of life through the healing powers of music.  They are specifically engaged in working with at-risk youth, which includes youth in the foster care system.

NoiseMakers tours MIRA and St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus

Four staff and 17 students toured the MIRA facility and St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus.  Students received a mini seminar in the recording studio by faculty member Dave Greenberg who wowed the students with a demonstration of recording software.  After the tour, the students were presented with string instruments provided by the Fender grant.  The tour culminated with a jam session in the recording studio. Students were awed by the campus and the facilities.