Bitterroot Performing Arts Council

In fy2023, our organization presented the 19th season of live performances in the Bitterroot Performing Arts series. Six well-received concerts were presented in our main 700-seat venue. We also expanded our programming to include concerts in other communities, presented a full, free concert to a local school, and organized free community sessions in which our visiting musicians joined in with local musicians. We also partnered with a local high student to help her produce a benefit concert. Our organization will also present its first outdoor summer concert in august 2022. We continued to create content for our "Bitterroot presents" educational video library which spotlight local student artists, professional musical artists, and other professionals involved in Performing Arts production, with the goal of inspiring and educating students of all ages about the Performing Arts. The Bitterroot presents video library is made available to schools at no charge. In fy2023, three new videos were completed, and several new videos are in various phases of production. Our annual "spring for the Arts" fundraising auction in fy2023 featured art pieces created by three local high school students. This gave the students the opportunity to display their art to the community, and proceeds from auctioning their pieces helped fund scholarships awarded annually to local high school students by the Bitterroot Performing Arts Council.