Arts Council
Kentucky Arts Council Provides Fee Support for Performing Arts

FRANKFORT, Ky. – The Kentucky Arts Council has awarded fee support through Performing Arts on Tour grants to eight non-profit performing arts presenting organizations. These grants will help make diverse performing arts events available to Kentuckians across the commonwealth. The grants have been awarded for performances in libraries, performing arts centers, festivals and hospitals by individual artists, ensembles, orchestras and ballet companies included in the Kentucky Arts Council's Performing Arts Directory.

"This program helps performing artists and performing arts companies get bookings and helps venues bring quality performing arts events to their communities" says Lori Meadows, executive director of the Kentucky Arts Council. "We are very happy to see so libraries becoming involved. They not only bring entertainment, but also provide context for the various performing arts genres and traditions."

For more information about the Performing Arts on Tour grant program, contact Individual Artist Program Director Tamara Coffey at (502) 564-3757 ext. 479 or tamara.coffey@ky.gov.  The next application deadline is February 1, 2010.

Prior to Kentucky On Stage, the Kentucky Arts Council's annual showcase of performing artists, there will be a special Performing Arts on Tour grant writing workshop for interested presenters from 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. E.S.T., August 19, 2009 at the Falling Springs Recreation Center, 275 Beasley Drive, Versailles, Ky.  The workshop is free however registration is required.  To register, go to www.artscouncil.ky.gov/KOS/KOS09.htm.

The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, creates opportunities for Kentuckians to value, participate in and benefit from the arts. Kentucky Arts Council funding is provided by the Kentucky General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts.

NOTE TO EDITORS: Performing Arts on Tour grant recipients, artists and performance information are listed below by county.

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Bourbon

Presenter: Bourbon County Public Library District

Artist: Octavia Sexton      

Date: July 6, 13, 20, 2009

Location: Paris-Bourbon County Library, Paris

Christian

Presenter: Pennyroyal Arts Council, Inc.

Artist Group: Orchestra Kentucky      

Date: November 8, 2009

Location: Alhambra Theatre, Hopkinsville

Fleming

Presenter: Fleming County Public Library

Artists and Groups: Willie Eames, River City Drum Corps, Carla Gover, Jay Flippin/Gordon Towell Jazz Duo, Mitch Barrett, The Betweeners, Kyle Meadows, Cari Norris

Date: To be determined

Location: Fleming County Festival of the Arts Fleming County Public Library

Hardin

Presenter: Hardin County Schools Performing Arts Center

Artist Group: Orchestra Kentucky

Date: January 31, 2010

Location: Hardin County Schools Performing Arts Center, Elizabethtown

Hopkins

Presenter: Glema Mahr Center for the Arts/Madisonville Community College

Artist Group: Paducah Symphony Orchestra      

Date: March 27, 2010

Location: Glema Mahr Center for the Arts, Madisonville

Jefferson

Presenter: Kentucky Center for the Arts Endowment Fund

Artist Group and Artist: Squallis Puppeteers, Lorinda Jones     

Date: Various times

Locations: Norton Health Care and Gilda's Club of Louisville

Perry

Presenter: Greater Hazard Area Arts Council / Performing Arts Series

Artist Group: Kentucky Ballet Theatre      

Date: October 22, 2009

Location: Hal Rogers Center, Hazard

Pulaski

Presenter: Lake Cumberland Performing Arts Series

Artist Group: The American Spiritual Ensemble      

Date: February 5, 2010

Location: Center for Rural Development, Somerset

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