The Center for Irish Music

Grant Support

The Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (MRAC)—Community Arts Grant (FY10) and Arts Activities Grant (FY11)

The Center for Irish Music was pleased to be awarded a Community Arts Grant in FY10 to support its Young Irish Musicians Weekend and an Arts Activities Grant in FY11 to support our Visiting Artist Series. These activities are funded, in part, by the arts and cultural heritage fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the Legacy Amendment vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.

The Minnesota State Arts Board—Community Art Schools and Conservatories

The Center for Irish Music is a fiscal year 2011 recipient of an Arts School and Conservatory grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is funded, in part, by the arts and cultural heritage fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the Legacy Amendment vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008. Community Arts Schools and Conservatories is a new, pilot program of the Minnesota State Arts Board that provides operating support to high quality, established community arts schools and conservatories that are nonprofit; provide rigorous, structured arts learning programs offered by professional faculty; whose programs are open to all interested learners.

Legacy Fund of the Irish Fair of Minnesota

The Legacy Fund of the Irish Fair of Minnesota supports the renaissance of Irish cultural activities in Minnesota as well as strengthening the vitality of new immigrant communities in Minnesota.  In June 2010, the Center for Irish Music was awarded a grant from the Irish Fair Legacy Fund to purchase Irish instruments for a low-cost rental option for students.  This is the fourth year the Center for Irish Music has benefited from the generosity of the Legacy Fund.