Career Development Grant
Career Development Grant
Dance Attic album production and release. We are requesting funds to mix, master, produce and release our upcoming album.
Tara Makinen: executive director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist, cultural programming coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, and former Children’s Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artists, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kayla Aubid: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota Duluth; Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner; Emily Swanson: arts administrator at Oldenburg Arts and Cultural Community; Christina Nohre: writer and arts advocate.
Karen Savage-Blue: visual artist; Karen McManus: musician, administrator at Mesabi Symphony Orchestra; Sarah Waddle: program manager for the North House Folk School, arts educator; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Kathy Neff: musician, director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; Christina Nohre: writer and arts advocate.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
Dance Attic plans to record and produce our second album, which will include production of 1,000 CDs, and a public album release party at Beaner's Coffee House in late 2019. The album will be professionally mixed and mastered by Sacred Heart Music Studio and will include original artwork by Brian Barber, a local artist, for the CD production. We will engage in a marketing campaign, including reaching out to area newspapers, radio stations and social media, including the Duluth News Tribune, the Northland Reader, KUMD, the Current, and Facebook. Our goal is to see attendance of 70 or more people of all ages and sell a minimum of 30 CDs at our album release party and continue to broaden our audience and sell additional CDs at future live shows. Project goal of CD production will be successful when a) album songs are recorded; b) production is professionally mixed and mastered; c) original album artwork is created by Brian Barber; and d) 1,000 CDs are produced of our original music. The success of the public album release party will be measured by attendance and CD sales. We define success as having at 70 or more people attending the event and selling at least 30 CDs at the album release party. The marketing campaign will be measured by communicating our new CD and album release party to the Duluth News Tribune, the Northland Reader, KUMD, the Current, and Facebook. We will know if we succeeded in broadening our audience by interest shown in future bookings and additional CD sales following the public album release event.
The project was successful with all thirteen original songs recorded, 1,000 CDs produced, and a public event held to launch the CD release. The event was well advertised in the Duluth News Tribune, Facebook, KUMD, PerfectDuluthDay, WTIP, Virtual Duluth, the Duluth Reader, and posters around the Duluth area. The public event was attended by a diverse crowd, from children to senior citizens. The event was delayed and reconfigured in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The public event was ultimately held outdoors with socially-distanced tables by reservation only, over a two-night period. Both nights were sold out, with 50 people attending each night. The response from attendees was overwhelmingly positive, with many people expressing gratitude for the opportunity to listen to joyful, live music after months of being quarantined due to the pandemic.
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