Community Arts
ACHF Arts Access
The Edina Singing Seniors Project looks to continue to reach new audiences at least 2-3 new venues in the senior community with a musical experiences that involves audience participation and personal interaction with artists. 100% of venues ask for repeat performances and this project looks to continue bring a high quality performance to all venues that sustains this result. Evaluations are done by written and vocal responses from audience members and staff at venues, in addition to artists complete a written evolution of programs yearly. The director and accompanist continually review performance outcomes and ask artists for impressions on a regular basis.
Edina Singing Seniors has improved artistically. The director has worked to improve harmony, diction and breathing all of which bring about a better sound. New warm up techniques help. Audiences have been very happy with the sound and a have responded well. Some members have had health problems and missed rehearsals but have been helped to catch up quickly. Thirty one concerts may be too many and the leadership committee is looking at scheduling few performances in 2018. As planned the majority of our audiences continue to be senior citizens, however we have had more children also. Membership has decreased by 7 due to some of our more elderly members having health problems or not feeling able to keep up the schedule. New members are open to join at any time and we are contacting senior centers in the Southwest Metro and working to get more publicity to encourage more members. 100% of audience surveys were positive about the type of music provided and enjoyed the sing a long format. At most performances 25-65% of the audiences responded by clapping or moving to the music as they were not able to sing along for some reason. At 1/4 of the performances there were individuals who were physically or mentally unable to respond to the music but seemed to listen carefully.
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