Community Arts Support
Community Arts Support
St Cloud Municipal Band. The Band and subgroups (brass quintet and clarinet choir), perform at the Paramount, Calvary Church, skilled nursing facilities, Whitney Senior Center, local parks, and joint concerts with area high schools.
Janice Courtney: Assistant Director of the Saint Cloud State University Program Board, arts advocate, an arts administrator; Linda Brobeck: Visual artist, owner of Crow River North, LLC, served on many of non-profit boards; Al Hams: Founder of Al's Music, author, served on a number of Boards of Directors; Leslie Hanlon: Director of Fundraising and Marketing for the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University Fine Arts Series; Doug Lien: Watercolorist, member of the Central Minnesota Watercolorists, Community Education Art Class instructor; Mark Nelson: Public School Music Teacher, choral director, community theatre director, voice lessons instructor, American Choral Directors Association of Minnesota Board Member.
Janice Courtney: Assistant Director of the Saint Cloud State University Program Board, arts advocate, an arts administrator; Linda Brobeck: Visual artist, owner of Crow River North, LLC, served on many of non-profit boards; Al Hams: Founder of Al's Music, author, served on a number of Boards of Directors; Leslie Hanlon: Director of Fundraising and Marketing for the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University Fine Arts Series; Doug Lien: Watercolorist, member of the Central Minnesota Watercolorists, Community Education Art Class instructor; Mark Nelson: Public School Music Teacher, choral director, community theatre director, voice lessons instructor, American Choral Directors Association of Minnesota Board Member.
ACHF Arts Access
Grant funds help us to buy new music to increase patronage and freewill offerings, rent venues, print programs, and advertise in print and radio. We will have ushers at venues take head counts of attendees where we can. Band members will talk to attendees after the concerts to ask opinions about music, performers, programs, and how they heard about our concerts, and collect freewill offerings.
The funds from the 2017 Community Arts Support Grant along with free-will donations were used in part to rent Frank Ticheli's composition: "Playing with Fire," a piece for wind ensemble and jazz ensemble. The Saint Cloud Municipal Band performed it in Ma
Other, local or private