Quick Start Grants
Quick Start Grants
To help fund the manufacturing of a new music CD which is due out in late December.
Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist, Cultural Programming Coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor UMD Music, pianist; 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 Schubert: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center.
Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor UMD Music, pianist; Margaret Holmes: visual artists, poet, and former Children's Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kayla Schubert: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
I am currently completing the recording of a new CD. It will consist of entirely new recordings of songs of mine that are now out-of-print dating from 2001 to 2006. I have hired all local musicians for this project. The CD Release shows are the week after Christmas, after which, we will leave for our southern tour. Because I've been in rehearsals at the Encore Theater in Cloquet for their holiday presentation, I have had limited performance income so this boost will help get the project completed. Thanks for considering it. Once this project is completed and the CDs are delivered, I will begin to take on-line orders and begin selling the CDs at live performances. I expect to sell 300-500 in the first year, based on previous releases. This will help me get in the black for the project by the end of 2018.
The CD was manufactured in time for our CD release shows. Sales have begun, and close to 200 people attended the CD release shows.
Other,local or private