Rising Notes Lexicon
Rising Notes refers to the Charlie Rivera Rising Notes Camp, the residential arts camp founded in 2038 by Charlie Rivera and Logan Weston near Woodstock, New York.
Overview¶
Main article: Charlie Rivera Rising Notes Camp
The name "Rising Notes" captured the program's mission in two words: notes that rise, musicians who rise, a generation of disabled and chronically ill young artists given the space and support to discover what their bodies and minds could do when the world stopped telling them what they couldn't. The name was aspirational without being saccharine--"rising" implied motion and effort, not arrival, acknowledging that the work was ongoing.
In casual usage, "Rising Notes" or just "camp" functioned as shorthand among CRATB family members and the broader community. The campers and staff who passed through the program used it as an identity marker: "I'm a Rising Notes kid" carried the same weight as "I'm a Juilliard alum"--not as a credential but as a declaration of where you came from and what shaped you.
Charlie's patients at the Weston Pain Center and Rising Notes campers called him "Mr. Charlie"--a formulation Charlie reportedly hated, preferring the warmth of "Tio Charlie" from the band kids to the institutional distance of "Mr."
Related Entries¶
- Charlie Rivera Rising Notes Camp
- Rising Notes Camp Campus
- Charlie Rivera - Biography
- Logan Weston - Biography