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<br />Organizational Financial Statements
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<br />Title of Grant Request Annual Gospel Music Festival presented by Free Spirit Freedom
<br />Grant Amount Requested $2,100
<br />Is the person in charge of No
<br />this program or project
<br />different from the
<br />Authorizing Official?
<br />What are you requesting A specific program or project
<br />funding for?
<br />Project/Program Summary Free Spirit Freedom [FSF] proposes to coordinate and host a music festival featuring the spirituals
<br />and gospel songs that evolved in the historic and on -going struggle for freedom, civil rights and
<br />justice. We are requesting $2,100 from the NC Grassroots Arts Program to help compensate
<br />musicians and backup singers, and help promote and produce the 2019 Annual Gospel Music
<br />Festival, to be held on the third Sunday afternoon in May. Our preferred location is the David E. Price
<br />Farmers Market Pavilion in Hillsborough, or the Old Courthouse Lawn, depending on availability.
<br />Our first such program occurred in May 2018, in conjunction with the Central /Orange High Reunion,
<br />and 50th Anniversary of the end of segregation in Orange County schools.
<br />To execute the project, FSF will invite local singing groups and individual vocalists to showcase their
<br />Music is a universal language, and the proposed gospel music festival will perpetuate the purpose of
<br />FSF. Music is a creative expression of who we are, what we see, where we have been, how we got
<br />here, and why we proceed onward. The project will provide a forum to share traditions, relate
<br />experiences, connect people to one another and continue to build community.
<br />Following the tradition brought from Africa, many Negro spirituals and gospels were composed and
<br />sung based on the call- and - response patterns. We hope that the various segments of the audience
<br />will join together with the performers to share in the singing experience and the experience of one
<br />another. The ultimate goal is to build more bridges among members of our multi- faceted and multi-
<br />cultural community, and to have a good time doing so.
<br />Audience Description Free Spirit Freedom anticipates an audience that is reflective of our community -- diverse in age and
<br />gender, and inclusive in ethnicity and culture. Ethnically, we estimate that perhaps 50% of the
<br />audience will be African - American, 30% European- American, 10% American Indian, 5% Latinx, 2%
<br />Asian and 3% Other.
<br />We hope to have attendance of 500 to 700 people over the course of the afternoon. The event will be
<br />publicized as at least 3 hours in length, and we expect that people will come and go as their
<br />schedules permit -- similar to Last Fridays. This will be a leisurely event for the entire family.
<br />All of our past events have had multicultural participation and audience, and we believe we will
<br />maintain that track record. The genre, gospel, has a uniqueness within the African - American
<br />community as well as within other cultures, and the festival therefore is intended to attract a broad
<br />spectrum of people.
<br />FSF expects our audience to be comprised of Orange County residents as well as visitors and
<br />tourists from other parts of the Triangle, state and country.
<br />creative talents while illuminating the music of our struggles and hopes. We will invite six singing
<br />groups and individual vocalists, and we will compensate these performers and their accompanying
<br />musicians and /or backup singers.
<br />African - Americans have a heritage of musical traditions rooted in the cultures of their ancestors. Our
<br />ancestors came to a new world with songs and rhythms, and relied on these art forms to withstand
<br />the suffering, and to hope and survive. Old Negro Spirituals and gospel songs were integral to the
<br />freedom struggle and civil rights movement. Today, music continues to be at the core of social
<br />justice movements; the proposed festival will acknowledge and perpetuate this wonderful legacy.
<br />Project Start Date (no
<br />May 2019
<br />earlier than July 1, 2018)
<br />Project End Date (no later
<br />May 2019
<br />than June 30, 2019)
<br />Project Goals
<br />The ultimate goal or vision of Free Spirit Freedom is to continue building bridges of cross - cultural
<br />understanding. FSF seeks to: honor the legacy of people of color, celebrate our diverse heritage,
<br />and advance the cultures of all people. We do so through photography, storytelling and community
<br />events.
<br />Music is a universal language, and the proposed gospel music festival will perpetuate the purpose of
<br />FSF. Music is a creative expression of who we are, what we see, where we have been, how we got
<br />here, and why we proceed onward. The project will provide a forum to share traditions, relate
<br />experiences, connect people to one another and continue to build community.
<br />Following the tradition brought from Africa, many Negro spirituals and gospels were composed and
<br />sung based on the call- and - response patterns. We hope that the various segments of the audience
<br />will join together with the performers to share in the singing experience and the experience of one
<br />another. The ultimate goal is to build more bridges among members of our multi- faceted and multi-
<br />cultural community, and to have a good time doing so.
<br />Audience Description Free Spirit Freedom anticipates an audience that is reflective of our community -- diverse in age and
<br />gender, and inclusive in ethnicity and culture. Ethnically, we estimate that perhaps 50% of the
<br />audience will be African - American, 30% European- American, 10% American Indian, 5% Latinx, 2%
<br />Asian and 3% Other.
<br />We hope to have attendance of 500 to 700 people over the course of the afternoon. The event will be
<br />publicized as at least 3 hours in length, and we expect that people will come and go as their
<br />schedules permit -- similar to Last Fridays. This will be a leisurely event for the entire family.
<br />All of our past events have had multicultural participation and audience, and we believe we will
<br />maintain that track record. The genre, gospel, has a uniqueness within the African - American
<br />community as well as within other cultures, and the festival therefore is intended to attract a broad
<br />spectrum of people.
<br />FSF expects our audience to be comprised of Orange County residents as well as visitors and
<br />tourists from other parts of the Triangle, state and country.
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