Community Arts
ACHF Arts Access
An average of 211 people will attend each of five concerts at Sundin Music Hall, 5-8 Minnesota guitarists are showcased at our final concert of the season, at least two of whom are women; audience surveys will show that 90% of respondents would recommend our concert series to a friend and at least 15% of survey respondents will be coming to their first guitar society concert. We will count ticket sales, number and gender of Minnesota performers, and use audience surveys.
We achieved all of our artistic goals. We presented artists ranging in age from 10-75. We presented artists who have won international awards and artists who are just starting their performing careers. We presented male and female artists from Minnesota, New Orleans, Hawaii, Brazil, and Thailand. One of the most enthusiastic and well received local performances was offered by a student classical guitar quartet from MacPhail - we will continue to include student groups in the future. One of the concerts had to be rescheduled because of snow - the artist came on a Tuesday and as a result had a smaller audience. We reached our community of people who love the guitar - we also reached more people who enjoy classical music as a result of targeted publicity via Facebook ads to people who "like" Minnesota public radio and classical music. The student group that played in June brought in more children to come hear their friends. The students from McNally Smith College of music and from the University of Minnesota came to more of our events this year - the guitar faculty are making an effort to encourage their students to come to our concerts and that is having a noticeable effect. We are continuing to use microphones when performers are speaking so that all audience members can hear what they are saying. The venue is physically accessible as well as on a bus line. Program notes continue to be used to offer some insight into the music being played. We offered a survey this year at two concerts and online - more than 125 surveys were completed - we are still compiling the data - it looks like everyone who completed the survey thinks we are offering a valuable service to the community - it also looks like there is interest in offering more non-classical guitar concerts in the future. We noticed that we had more new audience members attending every concert this year - people outside our 200 member list - who heard about our concerts through our publicity, Facebook or friends. Our classical guitarathon, our Brazil duo and our New Orleans concert in June brought in new and younger audience members - approximately 25% of the people for each of those concerts had not been to a guitar society concert before. Several people joined the society on those evenings as new members and we averaged 215 people per concert.
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