Pop Wagner
Emphasize the importance of country music in your local community. Enhance the future country music performance experience for participants through education. Increase access to country music, enhancing audience comfort and confidence with unfamiliar music styles. Educate on parts of an older lifestyle in Minnesota and the surrounding region. Encourage further education and attendance at future music and/or arts events. Reinforce the idea that libraries are places to experience cultural or arts programming.
Pop Wagner performed six events. Responses to the favorite part of the program included “little kids enjoying something other than TV,” “inclusion of children in the program,”“The variety of his skills. My 4 year old liked the lasso tricks,” “I liked the trivia about cowboy life and history,” and “Varied instruments, good music, and interaction with the kids.” Adults rated the overall quality of the program as an average 4.9 out of a high of 5; the program being a fun learning experience as 4.9; the program enhancing their knowledge of cowboy life and traditions as 4.8; and the increased likelihood of thinking of the library as a place for arts and cultural programming as 4.9.
SELCO (Southeastern Libraries Cooperating)