Steel City Strings are grateful to be matched dollar for dollar up to $5,000 thanks to the Australian Cultural Fund who are keen to support arts groups’ fundraising efforts.
Click here to make a donation today.
We have launched a four-week campaign to raise a target of $5,000 of tax-deductible donations from our audience through the Australian Cultural Fund’s website through Creative Partnerships Australia.
In each week of May, we will have a virtual performance from our musicians playing at home (like Kyle Little’s version of Whitacre’s ‘Lux Arumque’) and feature highlights from our archive.
Funds raised will be used to produce Isolation Strings, a professionally recorded concert that we will broadcast in early July via Facebook and YouTube Premiere.
The funds will go directly to paying our musicians, production costs (all local industry professionals) and to help us through this time of no live performances and ticket revenue.
Last year, 50% of Steel City Strings revenue was generated through ticket sales alone.
We need your help to get us through this tough time for the music industry so we can perform for you when the pandemic is over.
In our first online performance, audiences can experience the whole orchestra playing from their homes in a virtual performance of a movement from St Paul’s Suite by Gustav Holst. Conductor Luke Spicer has conducted the work remotely.
The players watched him while recording themselves playing their part and Kyle Little, our Concertmaster, has combined everyone’s digital contributions to form our full string orchestra. This has been challenging for all of us, particularly for some players who are working and teaching their young children from home!
WATCH: Sneak Peek of ‘St. Paul’s Suite’.
Our planned autumn and winter concerts have been cancelled and while we are grateful to those of you who have maintained your subscription or hung on to your tickets, a donation from you will help us reach our target.
If we receive a total of $5,000 in donations from our supporters, we will be given an additional $5,000 from the ACF for our orchestra so we can make it through this crisis.
Click here to make a donation today. Every bit counts.
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Steel City Strings has been granted $60,000 by Create NSW to fund its 2022 Season.
Steel City Strings has been granted $60,000 by Create NSW to fund its 2022 Season.
