Arts Tour Minnesota
ACHF Arts Access
Through economies of collaboration and scale, Minnesota musicians have opportunities to earn and chamber musicians have multiple opportunities to perform newly mastered works. Our audiences are limited by our location? at the east of the Iron Range in a small community. Touring to the west range, Duluth, and Ely, we will have tripled the earned income for our Minnesota freelance-artists; chamber musicians will have more opportunities to perform works prepared over our season. 2: Community members in Chisholm and Ely have requested we become more active in their locations, and we have involved them in the planning and execution of the project. If committees formed to assist this tour are active and facilitate the project with volunteers for front of house management, with efforts at local marketing and with funding, we will have achieved our goals.
More than a dozen concerts were produced away from our home base of Aurora, providing Minnesota opera singers, Minnesota orchestral and solo musicians opportunities to play and to participate in professional operatic performances as well as symphonic concerts. The cities of Chisholm, Virginia and Ely provided venues for the opera La boheme and for chamber music concerts featuring members of the Minnesota Orchestra and Duluth free-lance players. All programs on tour were performed two or three times, providing extra payroll for freelance Minnesota artists. 2: Chisholm High School supports our performances there, and expresses its gratitude that their beautiful auditorium is used for classical music concerts and operatic performances. Our continuing relationship with the Northern Lakes Arts Association in Ely, as well as our relationship with the Board of Directors of the B'nai Abraham Synagogue in Virginia expands our reach into other communities, and their citizens. We were not successful in finding a small historic venue on the West Range for chamber music but will continue to search for another attractive facility that could present our chamber music events. We have identified new board members from the West Range, and have begun to find enthusiasm for our work in the communities of Hibbing and Chisholm, as well as further west in Pengilly and Grand Rapids. We feel there is great potential for growth in terms of the public and in acquiring new board members.
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