Jacob Koris of Leeds smiles after Phatt Wazzp finishes recording the Black Sabbath song “War Pigs” during the Great Falls Academy of Modern Music 12th annual Camp of Rock in Auburn on Thursday. Koris is helping to engineer sound for the 23 kids who are taking the two-week rock ‘n’ roll summer camp at the Great Falls Performing Arts Center. The kids voted on their band name, Phatt Wazzp, earlier in the day, director Brian Gagnon said. The band will perform during a free concert from 5 to 7 p.m. on Aug. 11 at the Gendron Franco Center in Lewiston to raise money for the Dempsey Center. They will also perform during the Great Falls Balloon Festival on Aug. 20 and the Dempsey Challenge in October. From left are Teagan Stritch on bass, Koris, Connor Lariviere on drums, Trevor Haller on guitar and Forrest St. Laurent on guitar. 

Kahdiana Knight, 10, on left, Sophia Jones, 14, and Tania Bachelder, 14, of the band Phatt Wazzp play the Black Sabbath song “War Pigs” during the Great Falls Academy of Modern Music 12th annual Camp of Rock in Auburn on Thursday. The girls from Auburn are three of the 23 kids taking the two-week rock ‘n’ roll summer camp at the Great Falls Performing Arts Center. The kids voted on their band name, Phatt Wazzp, earlier in the day, director Brian Gagnon said. The band will perform during a free concert from 5 to 7 p.m. on Aug. 11 at the Gendron Franco Center in Lewiston to raise money for the Dempsey Center. They will also perform during the Great Falls Balloon Festival on Aug. 20 and the Dempsey Challenge in October.

Jack Howaniec, 14, of Auburn plays “War Pigs” by Black Sabbath during the Great Falls Academy of Modern Music 12th annual Camp of Rock in Auburn on Thursday. The freshman at Edward Little High School is one of 23 kids taking the two-week rock ‘n’ roll summer camp at the Great Falls Performing Arts Center. The kids voted on their band name, Phatt Wazzp, earlier in the day, director Brian Gagnon said. Phatt Wazzp will perform during a free concert from 5 to 7 p.m. on Aug. 11 at the Gendron Franco Center in Lewiston to raise money for the Dempsey Center. They will also perform during the Great Falls Balloon Festival on Aug. 20 and the Dempsey Challenge in October. 

Camp of Rock members voted on the name “Phatt Wazzp” for their 23-member band. The name came about because a wasp came in and out of their recording area through a window all day during the first day of camp. 

Dylan Thibeault, left, 16, of Turner and Jackson Castronova, 16, of Lewiston play guitar during Camp of Rock in Auburn on Thursday. This is the seventh summer that Thibeault has taken the two-week rock ‘n’ roll summer camp with director Brian Gagnon. This is the sixth year for Castronova. 

Brian Gagnon, the music teacher at Fairview Elementary School in Auburn, started Camp of Rock in 2007. 

Leavitt Area High School graduate Angela Daigle, center, came to Camp of Rock on Thursday to record songs for the album that Phatt Wazzp will make during their two weeks of summer camp. Daigle is a past Camp of Rock participant and is now a student at the New England School of Communications at Husson University in Bangor. 

Dominick Toscano, 11, of Auburn, left, and Hunter Richards, 10, of Durham play the guitar during Camp of Rock on Thursday. 

Phatt Wazzp’s playlist from Thursday’s Camp of Rock session. 

Director Brian Gagnon and Angela Daigle count down during the recording of the Black Sabbath tune “War Pigs.”