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Arts Council of Big Sky awarded $7,500 for 2013 Classical Music Festival By maria wyllie
big sky weekly editorial assistant
BIG SKY – The Montana Office of Tourism’s Special Events Grant Program has awarded the Arts Council of Big Sky $7,500 to go towards marketing and promotion of the third annual Classical Music Festival, taking place in summer 2013. Arts Council General Manager Brian Hurlbut sees the Classic Fest as an event that will become a staple for Big Sky and help put the community on the map in the future. “Our goal has been to get 1,000 people a night for the festival for three nights,” Hurlbut said.
“One of the reasons we are excited about getting it this year is that we are bringing in [Peter Bay] a very well known conductor who is assembling an orchestra just for the festival,” Hurlbut said. “We want to make sure there’s enough marketing and PR to get that out there.”
2012 marked music director and conductor While the grant money will help promote Big Sky, Peter Bay’s 20th and it will also allow the Arts Council to market visitfinal year with the Britt ing musicians. Festival OrMembers of the Enso String Quartet perform at the 2012 Big Sky Classichestra in Orcal Music Festival. Photo by Darius Larsen. egon, where Communities receiving 2013 SEGP awards tion outside a 100-mile radius of the event. he helped the Big Sky: Big Sky Classical Music Festival - $7,500 Chinook: Sugarbeet Festival- $8,820 orchestra reach new levels of artistic Ekalaka: The Ekalaka Shindig- $8,325 This year a total of $200,000 in SEGP grant funds achievement.He now lives and works in Glasgow: Montana Governor's Cup Walleye Tournament- $10,000 went toward 17 state events in Big Sky, Chinook, Great Falls: The Russell- $30,000 Austin, Texas, directing and conducting Great Falls: Montana State Fair & Big Sky Pro Rodeo Roundup- $10,618 Ekalaka, Glasgow, Great Falls, Hamilton, Hardin, the Austin Symphony. Hamilton: Big Sky Classic - $9,452 Helena, Kalispell, Missoula, Polson and Virginia Hardin: Will James Roundup - $10,000 Helena: Running Amok for Scholarship Bucks - $5,000 City. The SEGP was developed in 2002 to Kalispell: Montana Dragon Boat Festival - $29,300 Kalispell: Pond Hockey Border Showdown - $31,000 Kalispell: Glacier Jazz Stampede - $5,000 Missoula: International Choral Festival - $10,885 Missoula: Celtic Festival - $7,800 Polson: Flathead Cherry Festival - $6,900 Virginia City: Madison Duathlon, Marathon & Triathlon - $6,000 Virginia City: "A Step Back in Time" Grand Ball - $3,400
assist communities with economic development through the creation and/ or enhancement of annual, on-going events. Recipients are required to use funds for event marketing and promo-
The Arts Council has applied for the grant every year since 2011, the festival’s inaugural year, in which it was awarded $6,000.
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