Rural and Community Art Project Grant
Rural and Community Art Project Grant
2017 Minnesota State Old Time Fiddle Championships. We plan to hold the 36th annual Minnesota State Old Time Fiddle Championships on Saturday, August 5, 2017.
Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Kate Fitzgerald: Program Director North Shore Music Association, writer; 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; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor of Music at University of Minnesota-Duluth, pianist; Candace LaCosse: North House Folk School instructor, leatherwork designer and crafter; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, former Children's Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Quentin Stille: student liaison, College Music Director at KUMD.
Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Kate Fitzgerald: Program Director North Shore Music Association, writer; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor of Music at University of Minnesota-Duluth, pianist; Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Duane Barnhart: watercolor painter, cartoonist; Mary McReynolds: arts administrator at Lyric Center for the Arts; Chris Marcotte: retired social worker, historian, writer; Maria Brown: art instructor and program coordinator at CHOICE, unlimited!; Mason Wilson: artist, illustrator.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
Our goals are to: 1. Help our participants expand their artistic skills by listening to and playing with fellow old time musicians. 2. Provide constructive feedback for our contestants via the comments and scores on the judges score sheets. 3. Provide a high quality, live performance experience for the contestants, with the opportunity to qualify for the National Old Time Fiddle Championships in Weiser, Idaho. 4. Bring high quality Old Time music to the underserved residents of the Iron Range communities. We will measure our success by 1. Having an audience of 300 between the preliminary and final rounds. 2. Holding expenses to $9,000. 3. Having at least 30 contestants with 5 of them in the non-fiddle category. 4. Providing an enjoyable, high quality performance for the audience. 5. Providing a rewarding performance experience for contestants that will inspire them to continue pursuing excellence in their playing. 6. Providing an opportunity for participants to sharpen their musical techniques and expand their Old Time repertoire. Audience count will be based on ticket sales. Contestants will be recorded by categories (Junior-Junior, Junior, Intermediate, Senior, Senior-Senior, Non-Fiddle and Twin Fiddle), but will not be counted twice if they enter more than one category. We will keep records of income and expenses to assure the budget is met. Audience enjoyment will be a subjective judgment based on observing the audience during the performances and by gathering feedback informally as we talk to people during the event. We will ask contestants and judges to complete a post-contest survey rating their experience and identifying areas for improvement. We will have a follow up meeting of all contest volunteers to get their feedback on what went well and what needs improvement.
We met our goals of: 1.helping our participants expand their artistic skills by participating in learning new tunes and dance steps at the Dance Workshop, by listening to the performances of the judges and fellow contestants, and by receiving feedback from the judges about their individual performances via the judges score sheets with comments. 2. providing a high quality live performance opportunity for each contestant, with the opportunity to qualify for the National Old Time Fiddle Championships in Weiser, Idaho next June. 3. Bringing high quality old time music to the underserved residents of the Iron Range 4. Having 23 adult participants, 15 children participants and 168 adults in the audience we did not meet our goal of: 1. keeping our expenses at $9,000 or less.
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