Summer 2025 // What’s Happening Only At FTC
Welcome to the heartbeat of creativity on Long Island! Here, many opportunities are only available to Five Towns College students. Use this educational experience as your creative launchpad and differentiate yourself in the workplace. At Five Towns College, your classroom goes beyond four walls—it’s a stage, a studio, a festival, and a professional playground. Discover the unique events and career-connected opportunities that are only for FTC students. Stand out in your educational journey and let us help you launch your future!
🎶 Great South Bay Music Festival
Where Sound Meets Stagecraft
Only At FTC, this summer, students are on the front lines of one of Long Island’s biggest live music events—the Great South Bay Music Festival. Whether working audio backstage, managing stage production, or capturing content for social media, students across Music, Audio Recording Technology, Business, Film/Television and Mass Communication programs gain real-world experience with real artists.
Celebrating its 17th Anniversary, The Great South Bay Music Festival is Long Island’s longest running, and largest four day music, art & cultural event. Situated at the Shorefront Park in Patchogue on the magnificent Great South Bay, it features over 55 performers on 4 stages, presenting legends, as well as local emerging artists in classic rock, jazz, jam-band, country, folk, zydeco, hip hop and funk.
Five Towns College students manage the Five Towns College Stage and the roster of artists performing on it during the four-day event. Read below and try to get tickets to observe first-hand what happens in the real world and how FTC students get the experience they need to prepare for the future.
FTC Reporter Brandon Laxton goes behind the scenes at the 2022 Great South Bay Music Festival, where Five Towns College Audio students plan, set-up, and run the live Clamshell Bandshell stage.
🎤 Alive after Five Summer Concert Series – Production Crew Access
From the Classroom to the Control Booth
Only At FTC, the curriculum that stresses hands-on learning comes alive at Alive After Five, a premier concert series where our students run the show—literally. FTC students take over and manage the Stage outside The Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts all summer long. Audio Recording, Music Business, and Media students coordinate sound, lighting, and stage management in a fully professional setting.
Stop by and visit with our Admissions team and observe our students at work-doing what they love . . . audio, music, live entertainment, production and more!
FTC is at Alive After Five on June26, July 10, July 31 and August 14. See you there! For questions, contact Admissions at 631-656-2110
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Alive After Five 2025
ALIVE AFTER FIVE® returns for its 23rd annual celebration this summer, lighting up downtown Patchogue on June 26, July 10, July 31, and August 14 (rain date: August 21). Drawing 20,000–30,000 visitors per night, this vibrant festival offers something for everyone—outdoor dining, live music, 120+ vendors, a children’s area with face painting and crafts, and a showcase for local artists and musicians. With nearly 100,000 attendees each summer, ALIVE AFTER FIVE® is a true celebration of community, bringing people together for unforgettable nights of music, food, and fun.
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2025 Photo Gallery
🎸 TeachRock at FTC
Only At FTC, is this interesting and educational program by the TeachRock organization that promotes music education and performance. It was organized by many well-known musicians. Intended as a way to ‘give-back’, the TeachRock team hosts regular educational seminars, workshops and opportunities for those in the field and in the classroom who can benefit from their expertise. TeachRock improves students’ lives by bringing the sound, stories, and science of music to all classrooms.
Launched by Stevie Van Zandt with the Founders Board of Bono, Jackson Browne, Martin Scorsese, and Bruce Springsteen, Teachrock.org has provided free, standards-aligned resources to help teachers, students, and families succeed for more than a decade.
FTC is pleased to continue its collaboration with TeachRock.org.
TeachRock is partnering with FTC in Summer 2025 to offer its stimulating and creative curriculum on campus at FTC. The course runs from July 8-18 from 1-5pm daily.
Graduate students can opt in to earn either 3 graduate credits or 37.5 CTLE hours.
Lodging is available for out-of-towners and cost information is available by contacting [email protected] or [email protected]
S0- opt in to a fun, enjoyable & musical summer at Long Island’s Creative College! TeachRock 2025 is almost here!!
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
🎓 Summer High School Scholars
Your First Step Towards a Creative Future
Tuesday, July 8 – August 7, 2025.
Only At FTC, high school students entering grades 10, 11 or 12 get an insider’s view into the college experience as FTC Scholars and learn valuable skills and insights in such fields as Audio, Music, Digital Arts, Multi-Media, and the Performing Arts. Students in 11th and 12th grade earn college credits. The classes offered are college level courses that can be used when they apply to the College. A culminating event is scheduled for the end of the program. At that time, family and friends are invited to view student projects and performances. This event is known as The Sights and Sounds of Summer!
Stay Tuned…
We’re just getting started. More events, guest speakers, showcases, and live performances happen year-round. Make FTC your stage, your studio, your launchpad.
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