THANK YOU

Your passion to see live music survive and thrive has helped us achieve a truly STRONG close to our 18-month COVID Catch-up Challenge!

As of this morning, the DMS received 312 donations towards our goal of 300 donations to this specific December campaign, and Ed Gruber of Edward Jones Financial, currently a Gold Music Maker sponsor of the DMS, has confirmed an additional gift of $10,000 (we’ve upgraded him to the Platinum level!) Please consider some of the services Edward Jones provides here.

More details to come in our next newsletter, but…

Thank you for giving, and thank you for sharing about the DMS.

Now we can focus more on connecting local communities with live music for a while, instead of fundraising 🙂

Have a wonderful New Year celebration…

P.S. There’s still time to make a 2021 donation of any size, if you wish! It will apply to our COVID Catch-up Challenge that finishes on December 31 🙂 Donate here.

Our final COVID Catch-up Challenge campaign is live – let’s close it out with final gift!

https://fervent.us/DunedinMS

In case you didn’t get our previous messages, here is an amazing opportunity:

A generous sponsor has pledged $10,000 to support the Dunedin Music Society, and this is your chance to help release those funds. Just 300 donations must be secured to release that massive gift.

Will you help?

Two simple steps will get us closer to the required 300 donations:

1. Use the link above to give a gift of any amount!

2. Upload & share one of your favorite photos in our customized frame to your social media feeds (or via text to as many people as you can), so that more people will give.

This process is super simple, but if you need help our team is ready to assist.

All of us behind the scenes, the performers, audiences and communities the DMS serves are TRULY GRATEFUL for your support as we close our incredible COVID Catch-Up Challenge with this final boost.

+ Your gift is appreciated.

+ Sharing awareness of the DMS and this campaign is even better.

+ Encouraging your circles of influence to participate is best!

THANK YOU

Here’s the link to start the 2-step process:

https://fervent.us/DunedinMS

Not every established community group is old-fashioned. The Dunedin Music Society’s flagship ensemble, the Dunedin Concert Band founded in 1981, won this year’s Global Music Award Bronze Medal for “creativity and originality.”

Competitions are not the primary focus of the performers in the Dunedin Concert Band, as that distracts from their ability to share live music with their circles of influence. However, it is comforting that our programming and adaptability to shift events online during the COVID-19 pandemic’s isolation period is rewarded.

Creativity and originality of the music we perform and the way we share it with the world, are two important factors that Maestro Stephen P Brown, Conductor of the Dunedin Concert Band, takes into consideration when making plans up to two years in advance.

To demonstrate diversity and inclusion, the DCB’s next performance on Sunday, October 17 includes music that Brown planned for immediately before isolations began, and reflects Spanish deserts, an Appalachian celebration of life, and a fast car ride with James Bond. After talking with Robert W. Smith, renowned composer of the “Don Quixote” symphony the band will perform, Brown said “the cultural influences of the African Moors, the Romans and the shift of Castilian territory from Leon in Northwest Spain to La Mancha in the Southeast, contribute to an exciting musical and emotional journey that is centered around a fascinating 400-year old fictional character, who we can actually still see parts of in all of us today.”

Brown’s wife, Melissa, will give a special pre-concert talk as an expert in the writings of Miguel de Cervantes, author of “The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha” and a contemporary of William Shakespeare. The insights she gleaned from composer Smith will further bridge the relationship between literary creativity and musical originality.

With performances all over Pinellas County since isolations began, the Dunedin Concert Band is happy to finally return to its home at the Dunedin Community Center on Sunday, October 17th at 3pm (pre-concert talk is at 2pm with limited seating). For more information, details, and to ensure your admittance, register now at dunedinmusicsociety.org