Jerry Kahle
Arts Consortium of Carver CountyCologne – Pillars of the Arts – Music
Jerry Kahle and Ivan Kahle
Born in the 40’s on an 80 acre farm in Hancock Township, near Norwood, MN, Jerry started playing in his father’s band during his sophomore year in high school. Late gigs for school nights! The dances would typically start at 9:00 and end at 1:00 am.
Jerry still loves and plays music! He is also proud to talk about his father’s musical career. From 1946 to 2002, the Ivan Kahle Band played in ballrooms throughout the southern half of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and parts of Nebraska. During this era Carver County had two ballrooms. One was the Paradise Nite Club. Later it was enlarged and named the Paradise Ballroom. After burning down in the 70’s it was rebuilt and named Lakeside Ballroom, now the Lake Waconia Event Center. For a time the Carver Pavilion was winterized and named the Carver Ballroom. It also burned down but was never replaced. The Valley Ballroom in Chaska was the second major ballroom. It sat just south and east of the Minnesota River on Rt. 41. During the 60’s it was removed because of reoccurring flood waters. Other gigs included wedding dances in several city halls – Hamburg and New German, firemen, policemen and political benefits, and numerous business and private parties.
Ivan has been inducted into the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame in New Ulm. Other inductees include Judy Garland and the Andrew Sisters. Ivan was also honored by representing Minnesota in a 50-state musical group playing on the Washington Mall for the Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration in January, 1993. His music is still requested at various websites. Jerry has produced five CD’s of his father’s music!
Jerry is currently a freelance musician. He plays saxophone, clarinet, trumpet, tenor banjo, wind synthesizer and flugel horn. He has played with more than 40 different groups, all sizes, and books out 6 to 12 months in advance. We honor Jerry and Iven Kahle for their contribution to Carver County arts!
Photo – Barb Hone
Barbara MacKinnon
Arts Consortium of Carver CountyWaconia – Pillar of the Arts – Literature
Barbara MacKinnon
Author Barbara MacKinnon’s German/Swedish background includes a bit of Scots-Irish. Her husband’s grandfather came from the Isle of Bute in the Hebrides. All in all, a good reason to take a trip to Scotland, which inspired her enough to write her first novel, Where Rivers Meet.
The setting for the romantic suspense story is the actual small town of Dunkeld, in the Perthshire area, often referred to as “The Gateway to the Highlands”. While visiting the Cathedral there, MacKinnon chatted briefly with a woman who told her about the town and its distinctive feature in an intriguing manner. The woman explained that Dunkeld is the place where the Tay and the Braan Rivers join. Then she said, “Special things happen in places where rivers meet.” Those were the words that gave birth to the novel, which has won two awards, one for being the winner in the romance catagory at the New York Book Festival. The cover design was created by Chanhassen artist Ron Ytzen.
The novel tells the story of Andrew MacLean, a brilliant and talented professor at the University of Edinburgh, who struggles with the after effects of a tragic event in his life. He unexpectedly meets Mary Sinclair, an American woman from Minnesota who is trying to recover from a loss while shaping a new life for herself. Together they find healing and eventually, love. But someone close to Andrew carries a hateful grudge, and soon danger escalates to a threatening level.
You can find a copy of this fast paced page turner, Where Rivers Meet, on the shelves of the Carver County Library System. Better yet, you may purchase your own copy from the author who will be happy to autograph it for you. You might also want to catch Barbara and her husband Jack at their MacKinnon Clan tent at the Scottish Festival and Highland Games in Farmington, MN on May 14.
Barbara is currently working on completing a sequel, Ring of Trees.
Photo – Barb Hone
Watertown Area
Fine Arts Council
Arts Consortium of Carver CountyWatertown – Pillars of the Arts – Music
Watertown Area Fine Arts Council
Watertown community music started with a bluegrass band on a hay rack in Hyland Park! Barb Carlson was the “spark” that led to the Watertown Area Arts Council. In a conversation with Mary Lou Jirik she commented about the desire to bring cultural events to the Watertown area. In 1997, having attended a senior variety show in Bloomington, Mary Lou Jirik and Jean Vincent decided they could do that! They formed WAFAC to promote the arts and expand access to the arts for Watertown area residence.
President, Mary Lou’s background in the arts includes piano lessons, playing piano for her church, participating in her high school band and its plays. Now retired from 27 years with Carver County Public Health, she is a teacher – 43 piano students!! Treausuer, Jean Vincent also took piano lessons but her musical memories center around singing – family events in her Irish family were filled with song! Vice President Cindy Sparks plays the flute and Secretary, Bev Schuette, sings in her church choir.
These officers and eight or so other area art advocates meet on an as needed basis to bring artists to town. They started out assisting with the middle school “Fine Arts Day.” Now, with Metropolitan Regional Art Council grants, WAFAC provides the community with 4-5 programs annually. The programs have included Land-O-Lakes Boys’ Choir, New Ulm’s Concord Singers and Narren. The Watertown-Mayer High School Performing Arts Center provides the community with an amazing state-of-the-art venue!
The next new venture for WAFAC is hosting a major jazz festival in 2012. New members are welcome! Contact Mary Lou Jirik at 952-955-2445. Greater Carver County, watch the Arts Consortium website for upcoming events in Watertown and news of next year’s jazz fest!
Photo: Barb Hone
Standing – Beverly Schuette, secretary; Jean Vincent, Treasurer; seated- Mary Lou Jirik, President
Carl Melichar
Arts Consortium of Carver CountyMayer – Pillar of the Arts – Visual Arts
Carl Melichar
Waterfowl painter, sporting dog artist, photographer and videographer, Carl Melichar makes his home in rural Mayer, along with his wife, Maria and four children. His home is located on an old historical farm, homesteaded in the middle 1800’s. Carl’s studio, Countryside Art Gallery, is on this farm – in actually a 1914 “old granary”, refurbished and decorated! This gallery holds over 100 taxidermy ducks – most sea ducks and all four of the North American Eiders.
Carl was born in Hutchinson on a dairy farm. He loved the outdoors and it was obvious from his earliest years that Carl was born with natural artistic talent. By age 12 he was fascinated with sketching, drawing, and painting. At fourteen he enrolled in a correspondence course with the well-known Art Instruction School, which was the beginning of his education in the fundamentals of art. Other famous graduates from this school include Charles Schultz and two renowned wildlife artist: David Maass and Les Kouba who also happens to be Carl’s second cousin and a great mentor! Later, Carl also attended classes at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
By the 70’s he had developed a special interest in Alaskan Sea ducks. Carl travelled to Alaska on at least 20 occasions hunting, photographing and videotaping Sea ducks from Kachemak Bay to Kodiak Island with stops at various St. Lawrence and Aleutian Islands. Carl’s writings and photographs from these trips have been the subject of several national magazine feature articles. Part of his Alaskan adventures included getting a study skin of a Spectacular Eider for a Federal Duck Stamp entry!
Since the 70’s he has done home shows, sports shows, MN State Fair, Minnesota Renaissance Festival, National Pheasant Fest, Ducks Unlimited and many others. Along the way Carl found he had a special talent for painting dogs. He studied them extensively and in just a few years he did over fifty dog portraits! In each case he would make prints and sell them all around the Midwest. For a small additional charge he would “remarque” the print. A “remarque” is a small original hand painted duck or pheasant usually on the corner of the print and signed by the artist. Carl has perfected this ability. This artistic style also coincides with his attitude about making his work easily available to his customers.
As a wildlife artist, Carl Melichar specializes in paintings and prints of hunting dogs. Carl has travelled far and wide; he is nationally known; he is at home in Carver County!
Photo – Barb Hone
Ria & Ione Roland
Arts Consortium of Carver CountyNew Germany/Mayer – Pillars of the Arts – Visual Arts
Ria & Ione Roland
Daughter and Mother share artistic passions and talents! For 35 years, Ione and her husband Noel, owned Ceramic Art Supplies, Inc. – a Minneapolis wholesale & retail business. She was too busy to dedicate much time to her own art, but, self-taught, she became comfortable working in all media. China painted dolls was big business then; she taught many classes. As a child, Ria was surrounded with art and joined in the creativity!
For the past dozen years, Ione & Ria are partners in RiCreations – Ria & Ione Creations! They are masters with clay – earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. They shape and cut clay. Some pieces are finished with smoke in garbage cans! They carve, fire, glaze and paint vases of all sizes and decorate with intricate ornamentations and rich colors. Ione paints on glass and silk as well. Did you know there are different kinds of silk? Both carve and paint tiles. They have exquisite paintings in watercolor and oil. Blanc de Blanc in Wayzeta sells their white clay pieces. They have commissioned work and Ione has a number of private students.
Ione knows and loves art is all forms. She has started a new venture partnering with Nancy Frosetch.
The new medium is metal – silver and gold. They are designing and making jewelry. Though new and exciting, she continues with all projects. She recently completed a new blond glazed handmade wine bottle holder to feature wine made from cold hardy grapes.” On a three- foot vase she is currently carving Kabuki figures.
Their homes are both gallery and workshop! Carver County needs to meet Ria and Ione!
Photo – Barb Hone
Paula Atkins
Arts Consortium of Carver CountyChanhassen – Pillar of the Arts – Theater
Paula Atkins
Since the mid 1970’s Paula’s name has been synonymous with Community Theater. Her dad, Ron Roeser, was one of the founders of Chanhassen Civic Theater. From 1964-1975 this community theater performed musicals in the gymnasium at the old St. Hubert’s School in downtown Chanhassen. Paula’s acting debut came in 1966 in a production of Oklahoma! directed by her father, and featuring many of her relatives!
In 1994 Paula, with a group of friends from the 70’s musicals, put together a medley of their old shows for a Chaska High School All-School Reunion. Teacher Jan Baker encouraged them to create a theater so their kids could experience the joy they had known. Chaska Valley Family Theater was born! Paula was one of original founders along with Joyce Windschitl, Jan Baker, Jane Tadsen, Mary Jo Williams, Tom Kocka and Jack Yanisch. With Randy Herget, Paula developed Dragon Fly Theater Camp in 2002. This is a 2-week summer camp for 8-13 year-olds. Theater is Paula’s passion. Through this passion Paula is committed not only to the stage but to the training of the next generation.
Last summer Chaska Valley Family Theater officially changed its name to CVFT meaning Community.Ventures.Family.Teaching. In line with CVFT’s philosophy, several members of CVFT have recently started Writers’ Playground. It is a workshop held monthly at the Chanhassen Library and is open to writers of all ages.
CVFT grew quickly. The first venue for CVFT was the Carver-Scott Education Co-operative building (the original Chaska High School). Annie was CVFT’s first offering, funded in part by a loan from the Chaska Arts Council. Moving into the newly built theater at the Chaska Community Center in 1995, by 2002 they were quickly outgrowing that site. Since 2002 CVFT has held performances at Chaska and Chanhassen High Schools, as well as the Chaska Community Center. Currently, major productions alternate between the Chaska and Chanhassen high school venues. Forever a theater advocate, Paula ended our interview with a plug for Cinderella, opening March 18th!
Paula retired last December after 15 years with CVFT. That is not, however, her final curtain call! She is now the President of the Board of Directors for the Chanhassen Historical Society.
For more information on CVFT visit the website at www.cvft.org
Photo – Barb Hone
Sells Family: Rachel Thiesfeld, Kathy Baker, Audree Sells, Suzanne Thiesfeld
Arts Consortium of Carver CountyCarver – Pillars of the Arts – Visual Arts
The Sells Family
Audree Sells earned recognition as a quilt artist by entering several national quilt contests. She started as a painter in acrylics and watercolor, exhibiting in metro art shows.
In a home filled with continuous artistic projects and plenty of art supplies the four children caught the fever and followed their own creative paths – including stained glass, pottery, metal work, sculpture, and needle art to name a few.
Although they consider Mom a “tough act to follow” their persistence, curiosity and natural talent has prompted them to pursue a variety of arts. At 19 Suzanne found oil points and never looked back. A student of studio arts she now has her own studio in the restored barn. She is participant in various art shows throughout the state. Recently she’s begun creating “prop pieces” – oversized objects as conversation pieces and commercial displays.
Kathy, also a student of studio arts is a “natural” at painting and drawing and became very an accomplished stained glass artist. Recently she has become interested in quilt art. Jane, the oldest of the 4 also worked in stained glass and showed her precise skills and patience in needlework known as Norwegian hardanger. Her latest interest in quilting prompted her to buy a thimble! Son, Chares, is a fabricator currently working in metal and wood. He has built furniture, guitars, sculptures and building adornments and props including the ship at the MN Renaissance.
Suzanne’s daughter Rachel has always preferred 3-deminsional art. As a child she liked building toys, working with Fimo clay and writing stories. Now a senior in high school she excels in ceramics and will pursue pottery making. Kathy’s daughters are also visual artists. Katelyn is a painter and Carly is a graphic artist and enjoys designing fashion and home décor. With two partners, Carly has a gallery – Tarnish & Gold – for local artists to display their work and for live music and film screening.
Talent is in the genes! Carver County is proud to be home for the Sells family!
Photo – Barb Hone
Candace Sather
Arts Consortium of Carver CountyVictoria – Pillar of the Arts – Music
Candace Sather
Candace started taking piano lessons at the age of six and by the 2nd grade she knew she wanted to be a piano teacher! She never wavered! Her childhood home was in the New Brighton area. Her teachers was Merrily Stone and Hazelle Quist. At age 16, Candace began teaching! She earned her BS in Music Education from the University of Minnesota. Since other paths led to instrumental studies, she majored in vocal music to ensure staying close to the piano!
After college, Candace taught music in the Mounds View District for four years. At Crown College she was an accompanist and teacher. While raising her family, she taught private lessons from her home. She had 30-40 students at that time. Meggie and Sam started lessons early – at age 2 they were studying violin! Throughout their school years, Candace was their piano teacher. Today, both are professionals in the field of music: focusing on voice, Sam teaches music at Jonathan Elementary and Meggie teaches piano pedagogy at the Ohio State University.
Candace loves teaching private lessons! Currently she has 70 students! Her teaching day begins at 6:30 A.M. She can get three lessons in prior to the school day beginning! In the afternoons students arrive again at 2:45, continuing until 9:30 P.M. Candace is a member of the Minnesota Music Teachers’ Association (MMTA). Through this excellent organization, she has graded exams, judged contest participants; she enters her students in Theory, Piano Exams, Contests and Ensembles. She accredits MMTA’s programs with adding inspiration and motivation for her students. Candace also recognizes the importance of parental support and involvement in each student’s development. Advancing in piano study “is a group effort!”
Candace loves kids! She thoroughly enjoys watching the learning process in each student. Believe it or not, she gets a special thrill from teaching middle school kids. Candice’s sense of humor melds perfectly with the early teen mind!
Candace has a lovely grand in her living room. In her studio she has another grand, a studio piano and a keyboard in the waiting room for students to practice sight-reading prior to each lesson. In her spare time, Candace is a church organist and daycare for two young grandchildren! In her free time she plays the piano for herself. “Playing always lifts my spirits!”
A glimpse into the life of renowned Carver County piano teacher – Candace Sather!
Photo – Candace Sather
Joe and Georgia Kandiko
Arts Consortium of Carver CountyChanhassen – Pillars of the Arts – Visual Arts
Joe and Georgia Kandiko
Georgia Kandiko said, “When I grow up, I’m going to be an artist and write books.” Science and math sidetracked her until her children were in middle school. She took art classes and joined a painters’ group. “It felt so natural to have a brush in my hand.” Her job with Scholastic Inc. reviewing and presenting books at MN schools supported and further developed her interest in children’s book writing.
Last year the MN Landscape Arboretum featured Georgia’s Magical Mystery Treasure Hunt installation. It included a story affixed to signs and mosaic tables complimenting the action. The book version of the exhibit is available at the Arboretum Gift Shop and the Edina Art Center. The City of St. Louis Park has acquired the installation and will display it at the St. Louis Park Rec Center this summer. Georgia will be teaching cartooning classes in conjunction with the exhibit.
Currently Georgia teaches watercolor classes at the Edina Art Center and MN Landscape Arboretum. She teaches acrylic painting at Michaels Craft Stores and gives private instruction in various art mediums. She accepts commission work.
Georgia has attained Signature Status with the MN Watercolor Society and is an award-winning member of Artists of MN. Two of Georgia’s paintings will be on display at the MN Watercolor Society’s juried Spring Show at the Minnetonka Art Center from April 7 through May 6.
In college Joe Kandiko snapped photos of friends and milestones with a Kodak point and shoot camera. Georgia gave him his first 35 mm camera as a wedding gift. As a busy medical resident he had little time to devote to photography but what he shot intrigued him. Reading was his first level of instruction and loving the outdoors, he gravitated towards nature photography.
Minnesota Nature Photography Club acted as a launching pad for Joe’s photography achievements. Multiple awards and three times winning ‘slide of the year’ established Joe as a serious photographer. He has served as president and is active in judging photo salons for the club.
Numerous adventure photography workshops have inspired Joe’s art. Most influential, pro-photographer Layne Kennedy has guided and challenged Joe to ‘take it to the next level.’ Joe’s current fascination is painting with light using his camera. Joe’s photos have appeared in multiple MN WeatherGuide calendars, MN Monthly Magazine, pharmaceutical calendars, public and private collections, and the MN State Fair.
Although Georgia and Joe have different mediums for their art they share and enhance each other’s works. She has painted from Joe’s photo-references and he tries to achieve a painterly quality in his images. As “Kandiko and Kandiko” their joint exhibitions have included the Chaska Community Center, Chanhassen Library, Chanhassen Rec Center, and the Waconia library. Recently they have been asked to display 100 pieces of their art on gallery walls in the Government Center in Elk River. Georgia and Joe frequently say, “I love being married to an artist!”
Barry and Jane Fox
Arts Consortium of Carver CountyChaska – Pillars of the Arts – Music
Barry and Jane Fox
In the early days of the 20th Century, Friday night in Chaska meant music and shopping. It was the hub back then and people came from miles away to spend their hard earned dollars on groceries at Coopers, suits at Al’s, Beer at Butch’s Saloon and cars sold a Chevy, Dodge and Ford dealerships right downtown.
Yes, the business scene thrived back in those days and so did the sense of community.
All of this bustle of activity brought about a desire to gather and celebrate and music became a big part of the excitement. People frequented the gazebo to hear musical events sponsored by the City Council. Members of the Minneapolis Symphony even “filled out” local music ensembles while people sat in their cars listening to the beautiful sounds that filled the air. Lawrence Welk and other top bands appeared at the Valley Ballroom just south of the Hwy 41 Bridge and there was even an Opera House right where the Best Western Hotel calls home.
Some people were passionate about the arts. Music teachers like Barry and Jane Fox, Ron Nelson and Ross Gabriel had a vision of bringing more culture to the citizens of Chaska and Carver County. For several years in the late ‘60’s and ‘70’s, this group organized the Chaska High School Arts Week. Each April, big name artists like Paul Granlund, a sculptor from Gustavus, would come to Chaska to be “artists in residence”. Even Garrision Keilor brought his “Prairie Home Companion” radio show from St. Paul to broadcast in the “small gym” at CHS.
From about 1976-1986, the Foxes and other enthusiasts also introduced “The Encore Music Series”. Memberships were sold where people could attend 3-4 concerts annually. Associated with Allied Concert Serivces, world-renowned artists performed in Chaska at the old high school auditorium, now known as the Co-op!
The bookings were phenomenal and included Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller “ghost bands”, The Bohemian Folk Ballet from Prague, and a soprano soloist from the New York City Opera! Plays were also performed at the Worm Barn in Jonathan by the Chaska Theater. Imagine. All of this entertainment within walking distance!
and much has vanished over the years, the passion and vision for the arts is still there. Barry Fox dreams of a “steamboat stage” along the river (the dry side of the levy, of course), a replacement Worm Barn Theater in Jonathan and of Carver County becoming home to an “Uptown Art Fair – West”! With desire, it certainly is possible and after all…..everything began and begins with a dream.
Dick Tirk
Arts Consortium of Carver CountyChaska – Pillar of the Arts – Advocate
Dick Tirk
Dick Tirk was a Major in the Marines during the Vietnam War. Resigning his commission in the Corps and arriving in San Francisco he had a telegram offering a job in the Twin Cities. Currently, he is serving his eleventh year on the school board for Eastern Carver County School, known always as an arts advocate. He has acted in musicals for the Chaska Civic Theater, Chaska Valley Family Theater, and Theater 110 in Waconia. He has had a 30-year run as “Sir Rotten” at the Renaissance Fair. He’s been Santa Claus!
Dick has been generous with service to the community in many ways. He was on the Carver-Scott Co-op Board for eleven years. He is a Friend of the Library, champion of their book sales. He has been Chairman of the CAP Agency Board, soliciting hundreds of thousands of dollar in grant money for their human services organizations.
We pay special tribute to Dick for his enormous contribution to the arts in Carver County. He spent eight years on the Board for Minnesota Citizens’ for the Arts. He was on the Chaska Arts Council welcoming teacher Barry Fox’s marching band into the City Hall Chambers when the Council voted to allot gallery space and a theater in the Community Center!
Perhaps his greatest impact came through the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. He was dogged about winning a place on their Board in order to gain recognition and support for Carver and other southern counties previously ignored by MRAC. He applied for matching grant funds to give to Community Education Departments throughout the area. Ever since, Carver County schools and arts organizations had benefitted greatly from Dick’s aggressive advocacy for the arts.
Centre Stage Theatre
Arts Consortium of Carver CountyNYA – Pillars of the Arts – Theater & Art:
Centre Stage Theatre
The story of CSTA started back in 1999 with Cathy Bahls and a few friends sharing a passion for the arts and desiring to bring theater and the arts to their community. After discovering there was a genuine interest within the community as well, they decided to pursue their dream of forming a community theater. Needing financial backing to get off the ground, they presented their plan to the District 108 Community Education Director, Julie Knuenzel, who applied for a grant on their behalf. With the grant from the Metro Regional Art Council (MRAC), the needed funds were available. They found more interested and experienced individuals – a Board of Directors was formed and Centre Stage Theatre & Arts was born!
CSTA’s first production – You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown – took place during the summer of 2001 at Central High School. Other past productions include: Rumors, Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Dearly Departed, Cinderella, You Can’t take It with You, Oklahoma, Harvey, The Wizard of Oz and The Music Man. In the spring of 2005, CSTA began to add dinner-show productions to its repertoire, which have featured everything from old-time radio shows, modern-day comedies to original murder mysteries!
All of this has been possible with MRAC grants, the generous support provided by local businesses and the energy, time and talent of CSTA members. A special thanks to Hydro Engineering, Norwood Dental, Dairy Queen and Chameleon Salon for their commitment to community theater! A special thanks, also, to Janis Butterfield, one of CSTA’s most dedicated members. Janis loves theater; she loves the process! Besides her acting roles, Janis has been involved in all aspects of theater, including volunteering for this interview!
CSTA currently serves the communities of Norwood Young America, Hamburg, and Cologne. However, individuals from other areas such as Glencoe, Waconia, Watertown, Mayer, Arlington, St. Boni, St. Peter and as far as Minneapolis have participated in past productions.
CSTA is on hiatus for 2011 due to construction at the local high school – the venue for its summer production every year. CSTA is looking for ways to broaden its pool of talent, expand its resources and encourage more people of all ages to become involved in theater and the arts.
So . . . “a shout-out” to Carver County and beyond: CSTA welcomes music directors, stage directors, individuals skilled in set construction – amateurs, professionals and students, possibly looking for opportunities to earn credits! Join us! Bring all areas and levels of interest and expertise!
Music by the Lake
Arts Consortium of Carver CountyWaconia – Pillar of the Arts – Music
Music by the Lake
A piano concert at Faith Lutheran Church in Waconia in January, 2005 was the inspiration for the concert series Music by the Lake. Following that concert, music lover Charley Streiff expressed to fellow church choir members the idea that he would enjoy hearing performances like that here on a regular basis. The choir agreed and a number of them volunteered to form an advisory board. They wanted to bring in both choral and instrumental groups from a variety of musical styles but only the finest, the very elite ensembles. Charley, being an avid concertgoer, became the main talent scout and booking agent.
In the fall of 2005, Music by the Lake began its first concert series. Annually, three performances are scheduled: Fall, winter and spring. The venue is the sanctuary of Faith Lutheran Church, which seats 400, is acoustically very alive and, yes, is near a lake – Lake Waconia. The setting has proven to be very well suited to musical events. Performers typically declare it to be their favorite place to perform and concertgoers frequently express their joy and gratitude “for bringing these marvelous ensembles to this exceptional space right here in Waconia!”
Though Music by the Lake is community outreach project of Faith Lutheran Church, it is supported entirely by ticket sales and private sponsorship and is financially independent from the church. The final concert in this, the sixth season, features well-known bluegrass group Monroe Crossing at 7:30 pm on Saturday, April16, 2011. Tickets are $22 for adults and $8 for students and are available at the door, at www.brownpapertickets.com or by calling 800-838-3006. A series subscription to all three concerts in the upcoming seventh season will be offered in the fall for $60 and $20.
A Pillar of the Arts, Music by the Lake invites you to take advantage of these opportunities to hear some of the finest musical ensembles to be heard anywhere right here in the middle of Carver County.
