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Get Ready for the Levitt Season!
Daylight savings, denim shorts, and summery, feel-good tunes are all back in rotation—and with them, free Levitt concerts across the country. The 2024 Levitt concert season, already underway in a handful of communities, is as exhilarating as it is monumental: As the Levitt Foundation spends down, we are supporting more towns, cities, and neighborhoods throughout…
Levitt AMP free concerts expanding to 33 small to mid-sized towns and cities in 2023
Can’t wait to get back onto a Levitt lawn? We can’t either…the countdown is on! Starting in 2023, you’ll have even more reasons to get up and let the music move you. The Levitt Foundation, a social impact funder supporting nonprofits nationwide at the intersection of music, public space, and community building, is thrilled to…
The Votes are In! Announcing the Levitt AMP Top 20 Finalists
Amplify community pride and a city’s unique character Enrich lives through the power of free, live Music Illustrate the importance of inclusive and vibrant public Places Together, these three goals of the Levitt AMP [Your City] Grant Awards activate underused public spaces and build community through the power of free, live music. Congratulations to the…
Spotlight on Main Streets: Fostering vibrant and welcoming historic downtown districts through the power of free, live music
Vibrant public spaces—places people of all backgrounds love—are essential to strong, connected communities. As a social impact funder, the Levitt Foundation partners with changemakers nationwide to create those destinations, leveraging the power of free, live music to amplify local pride, inject joy into underused public spaces, and foster more equitable, healthy and thriving communities. The…
Applications Now Open for the Levitt AMP [Your City] Grant Awards
Posted OnApril 18, 2022 byBring free music concerts to your community! Applications for the Levitt AMP [Your City] Grant Awards are now open through June 30, 2022! The Levitt AMP [Your City] Grant Awards is an exciting, multi-year matching grant opportunity bringing the joy of free, live music to small to mid-sized towns and cities across the country. Catalytic…
AAPI Heritage Month: How Asian artists enrich the diversity and beauty of Levitt programming
From The Beatles’ use of the sitar in the 1960s to the homage of martial arts woven throughout Wu Tan Clan’s unique style in the 1990s to the hyper sounds of K-Pop dominating hearts and minds today, it’s undeniable the impact of Asian influence on Western music and in popular culture. In celebration of Asian…
Levitt venues and concert sites are jazzing up their free music series this season
Finding its roots in New Orleans in the 1880s, the music genre of jazz improvised its way from a blend of ragtime, marches, blues and other types of music as African American musical traditions mixed with European influences. Today, jazz is a broad style of music distinguished by syncopated rhythms and complex harmonies with regional…
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