In spring 2022, we even had a teacher let slip that, for many of the younger students at our elementary school visit that day, it would be their first concert - ever! With shrinking budgets for transportation and field trips, bringing music to students is more necessary than ever. Through dollars from the Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund, Class Notes sponsors our school concerts and provides free educational resources to teachers that complement those concerts - supporting artists, students and teachers all at once. It’s a deep - and deeply appreciated - support system that allows us to do what we do best as musicians and teaching artists.Īs a group, the Paper Clips have been fortunate to perform for students throughout Minnesota (80 schools and counting over the past two years) through participation in YourClassical MPR’s Class Notes program. Reilly, singer Josh Groban and the digital experience team at Caribou Coffee, as well as our friends and families. Even within our little four-piece band, our community includes brass musicians all over the world in many musical styles, every Minnesota college, about a zillion K-12 music teachers and Twin Cities musicians, actor John C. Music scenes exist in nested Venn diagrams of connections - a constellation of folks who share a passion for writing, arranging, performing, or just listening to and supporting live music. Class Notes Free music education resources from MPR.Somehow, our community helps carry us through the day, to a sunny and humid outdoor patio at Harold’s, to do our favorite thing - to play and talk about music that we love. It’s one of our bass trombonists, Chris tagging us all to let us know: “I think the stomach bug hit last last night.”Īs both a great musician and the most popular member of the Paper Clips (he’s the one students most ask for autographs), the rest of us - Brooklynne Audette, Lauren Husting and me - all know we suddenly have much to do before our school visit to Hawley today and our show at Harold’s on Main in Moorhead in the evening.Īnd while it doesn’t all go smoothly or exactly to plan, everything happens: Brooklynne comes up with an entirely new segment for our school program, Lauren contacts a friend of ours in the Fargo-Moorhead area to fill in for the evening (the incredible bass trombonist Amber Love, who also finds us a rehearsal space for a quick run-through of our set), and I drive. I awake to the sound of rain on the roof of the La Quinta in Fargo and to a notification on our Discord channel.
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