September 16, 2004

Rock and a Hard Place

By Michael Anft

An innovative music camp for girls wins applause but has trouble raising money
Portland, Ore.

As she stumbles out of bed at 6 on a Friday morning, Misty McElroy slips on a camp T-shirt and fires up her CD player, filling it with what she calls "her morning cup of coffee": a bracing blast of Nirvana and the equally clamorous strains of Sleater-Kinney, an all-female rock group from nearby Olympia, Wash.

Fortified by heavy noise and

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