Camp Batawagama band camp returns to Iron County this June
About 120 Upper Peninsula musicians returned to Camp Batawagama in Iron County, and first-time camper Carson Wall brought his tuba. Scholarship concerts followed in Iron River and Marquette.
About 120 young musicians returned to Camp Batawagama in Iron County for a week-long band camp that drew players from towns across the Upper Peninsula. Carson Wall, a first-time camper, brought his tuba as the summer program continued a run that resumed after the COVID-19 pandemic pause in 2024.
The 2026 band camp was set for June 21-27, and registration opened Jan. 1, 2026, through the camp’s online forms with credit card payment. Camp Batawagama’s youth camp season followed immediately after band camp, with sessions scheduled for June 28-July 4, July 5-11, July 12-18, July 19-25 and July 26-Aug. 1.
Camp Batawagama calls the program the longest-running band camp in the Upper Peninsula, a distinction that has helped keep the Iron County camp in the summer routine for families who return year after year. The camp’s return in 2024 after the pandemic pause brought back a familiar part of the county’s music calendar, with band camp leading directly into five more weeks of youth camp.
That schedule was reinforced in January, when Camp Batawagama held benefit concerts in Iron River and Marquette to raise scholarship money for band camp. The concerts were meant to celebrate music education and help sustain the program, giving families another path into a camp that draws musicians from across the U.P. and keeps a long-running local tradition within reach.
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