Adult-friendly music camps?

I don't know if Jack Casady means anything to you, but this would be my first choice. It's on my bucket list,
actually. Even if you don't know most of these people involved, you would be surrounded by players with an immense depth of musical knowledge; you'd pick up things just by osmosis...
http://furpeaceranch.com/index.html

 

I don't know if this is the type of music camp you are looking for; but, there is a series of Rock & Roll Fantasy Camps.

http://rockcamp.com/

P.S. I heard the Fur Peach Ranch is cool.

 

check out the Gerald Veasley Bass Boot Camp in Philadelphia in March.
an intensive 2.5-day weekend event with lots of great teachers.
I went in 2014 and will be attending again in 2015.
Other than the tapping and slapping sessions (which were not in the core tracks - they were extras for those interested) I didn't see anything that was BG-exclusive. It was all focused on the role of bass (any bass...) in music.

This is Philadelphia - there is no lack of jazz and funk talent here! For sure you'll have an opportunity to talk to Gerald who I found to be quite approachable and very generous with his time.

 

I don't know if this music camp caters to adults; but, they do have jazz classes.

http://internationalmusiccamp.com/

 

Camp MMW -- if they do it again. After doing it five years in a row (each in the month of August), they cancelled last year's, but gave every indication that they plan to resurrect it. Here's a link with some info:

http://www.mmw.net/index.php/campmmw

I attended two of those years and it was an amazing experience both times. I don't know how much they plan to change in the future, but I can tell you more about the previous years if you're interested.

 

My friend wen to Vic's camp twice and loved it. Not only did he learn a lot, he said he came away feeling like part of the bass player community.

 

Something that makes Camp MMW different from many of the others is that it isn't bass-specific. There are a few instrument-specific workshops, so you get plenty of opportunity to learn some bass-specific concepts and tricks from Chris Wood, but the camp is designed for and attended by players of all instruments. As a whole, it is much more about making music than about playing instruments, so it's an entirely different kind of experience than a bass-specific workshop or camp.

 

http://centrum.org/, out here on the Washington Coast has a variety of different programs. They are geared to all ages, and some people make it a habit of taking their yearly vacation by attending one of the week long sessions. They have week long camps focused on blues and jazz. They may have others. Our son attended those as a jazz player when he was a kid, and he ended up playing with people who were anywhere from 20 to 60. It was a great experience for him, and the older (old?) people in his groups really got a kick out of him, too. The location is spectacular. It's held on the grounds of a navy base that was originally intended to protect the Puget Sound from British invaders, then presumably Japanese invaders. After the Second World War, it was pretty clear that ships sailing through the Strait of Juan de Fuca wasn't a problem that needed to be addressed, so the grounds became a beautiful state park.

 

Also, while it may be a little too folk/country/roots/Americana for you, this is going on in my hometown, started
by one of the original organizers of SXSW. It's a series of workshops, lessons, talks, and performances(plus a lot of networking)....
http://www.folkalliance.org/music-fair/