Individual Artist Project Grant FY21
Individual Artist Project Grant FY21
2021 new Fever Dream album. I will tell the story in song of my Great Grandmother Kate who came to NYC from Russia as a child and was one of the few survivors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911.
Tara Makinen: former-Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Tammy Mattonen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; 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; Kris Nelson: artist, teacher; Roxann Berglund: musician; Bill Payne: Professor of Theater at the University of Minnesota-Duluth
Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner; Jake Larson: musician, producer; Kendra Carlson: writing and theater instructor, University of Minnesota Duluth
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The lyrical content of this album will deal with the life of a young Jewish girl who immigrated from Eastern Europe to New York City. It is a personal tale but the major themes of the story still hold relevance to us all. Immigrant life, social justice and workplace safety are issues still current today. This new musical narrative will be an opportunity for those that hear it to learn about a forgotten tragedy through a personal story. I desire to create a new Fever Dream album that tells the real life story of my Great Grandmother as a young Jewish immigrant in America. This will be an accomplishment for me for I have never written and released an entire set of songs about a historical event that affected my family directly. I will know this project is a success once I have recorded the new music with Steve and Brian and digitally released these songs to the public. I have been recording and releasing albums of original music for 20 years. Most recently side A of the ARAC funded 2020 Glitteratti LP ?Among the Wild' was produced and engineered by Steve and Brian. This gives me the confidence that I can achieve this new project with the highest standards.I will consider this plan a success if I am able to work with Steve and Brian to record and digitally release an album of Fever Dream music that tells the story of the early life of Kate Rabinowitz, my Great Grandmother.
I was able to record an album about my great grandmother with producer Steve Garrington and Engineer Brian Joseph. I released this music Summer 2020 with two live release shows.
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