CAMMAC Music Centre (Lake MacDonald)

CAMMAC Music Centre is a purpose-built adult camp in the music camps lane, based in Quebec, Canada. This is not a retreat center with a camp theme bolted on; the format is a longer, multi-night immersion with programmed activities, communal meals, and the deliberate structure of a real summer camp, aimed squarely at grown-ups.

Canada's classic amateur-musician camp, run since 1953 on Lake MacDonald in the Laurentians. Adults join choirs, orchestras, and combos by day and campfire singalongs and cabaret nights after dark, with yoga and lake swims between rehearsals. Intergenerational, but the core clientele is adult amateurs, many returning for decades.

The experience

Practical picture: the format is week-long sleepaway music retreats, 8 themed weeks. This is a longer immersion, and the extra nights compound: the awkwardness burns off early and the remaining days are pure camp. Note that this one is not strictly adults-only; some sessions admit younger participants, though the core clientele is adult.

Cost

Published pricing: $1,200-2,000 CAD per adult including lodging, meals, and program. That sits above the typical $400 to $1,000 weekend band, usually justified by longer sessions, specialist instruction, or headline talent. Check exactly what the ticket bundles before comparing prices; here, lodging and meals are wrapped in, which makes the sticker price more honest than it first looks.

Where and when

The venue is in Harrington (Laurentians), Quebec, Canada. Season and dates, as best we can verify: summer 2026, Week 1 starts June 28; themes include classical, jazz, Broadway, blues, Motown.