Project Grant
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education
Through this performance, Minnesota Center Chorale hopes to gain new audience members by exposing choral lovers to the bluegrass style and instrumentation and introducing bluegrass traditionalists to a beautiful blend of choral and folk music. Not only will the audience benefit from this cultural experience, the choral singers will learn to sing in a different style and period of choral writing (as opposed to Baroque or Classical). Minnesota Center Chorale’s Operations Coordinator keeps track of attendance figures through ticket sales and reports findings to the Grant Writer. Minnesota Center Chorale members will discuss verbal feedback at the May 2014 Board Meeting. Project Director Jody Martinson obtains feedback from members of the Monroe Crossing bluegrass band through face-to-face interactions post-concert and from audience members at a reception. The Minnesota Center Chorale board will assess the amount of knowledge gained through a paper patron survey.
Minnesota Center Chorale exceeded its projected audience attendance amount by 100 people, and surpassed its audience attendance from its last Paramount concert in 2012 from 450 to 599 in 2015. We received over 90 surveys back from audience members that were largely positive in nature. Monroe Crossing band members expressed that they were happy to play in St. Cloud again.
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