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Levitt AMP Community Spotlight: Batesville, Arkansas
The small town of Batesville has several local claims to fame: It’s the oldest existing town in Arkansas, the Christmas capital of Arkansas, and home to a respected liberal arts college. This year, it joins the ranks of Levitt AMP grantees, having kicked off its Thursday night concert series in May. “Batesville is a very…
Levitt AMP Community Spotlight: Cumberland, Maryland
Cumberland, Maryland, is a community steeped in history. Located on the banks of the Potomac River across from West Virginia, and sitting along the famed Cumberland Road through the Appalachian Mountains, the city played an important role in the development of Colonial America. Serving as a key gateway for western migration during the early years…
Free Levitt Concerts Return Across the Country
The days are getting longer, the air is getting warmer, and all across the country communities are getting ready to present another exhilarating season of free music under the stars. This year, more than 650+ free Levitt concerts will be presented in 41 towns and cities—strengthening our social fabric, amplifying local pride, injecting joy into…
10 Key Takeaways from the Levitt National Convening
Bringing together over 150 people from the Levitt network of 41 towns and cities, the 2023 Levitt National Convening was a joyful gathering, inspiring exchange of ideas and celebration of collective impact. While Southern California sunshine was in short supply given the historic rainfall, the Levitt network’s spirit of collaboration and community-mindedness shone through brightly,…
Levitt AMP Community Spotlight: Selma, Alabama
For a community of less than 18,000 people contained within 14 square miles, Selma, Alabama, has repeatedly played an outsized role in the history of the United States. Inhabited by Indigenous peoples for centuries before the arrival of Europeans, by 1865 Selma was the site of one of the Civil War’s most climactic events, when…
Levitt AMP Community Spotlight: Flint, Michigan
For decades, Flint, Michigan has loomed large in the American imagination, and not always for the best of reasons. Following a mostly prosperous early history that peaked with its role as a booming General Motors factory town in the 1950s and ‘60s, the mid-sized city about an hour’s drive from Detroit has since experienced a…
Levitt AMP Community Spotlight: Harrisonburg, Virginia
Andrea Dono has always known that residents of Harrisonburg, Virginia, are an enthusiastic bunch. As executive director of Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance, an organization founded to enliven the city’s once declining downtown, she’s witnessed that enthusiasm firsthand during numerous community events. And yet even she was surprised by the embrace of last fall’s Levitt AMP campaign,…
Levitt AMP Community Spotlight: Waco, Texas
For decades, Austin has been virtually synonymous with central Texas’ cutting-edge music and arts scene. Yet there are plenty of other central Texas communities that are making their own powerful contributions to the region’s artistic heritage, and Waco is particularly ready for its close-up. Starting in late spring, the Levitt AMP Waco Music Series will…
Levitt Looks Back on an Extraordinary 2022 Season
From Alaska to Florida to multiple places in between, free Levitt concerts brought joy, connection, and a shared sense of community to more than 750,000 people this past year. The Levitt Foundation was proud to support 25 nonprofits in towns and cities nationwide, which presented more than 500 free concerts across the Levitt network of…
Celebrating Indigenous Artists in Commemoration of Native American Heritage Month
Tribe leader Chief Seattle once said, “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” For centuries, the spiritual beliefs, artistic rituals, and governing practices of Native American culture have paved…