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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,…
The Levitt Foundation Salutes the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I am convinced that men hate each other because they fear each other. They fear each other because they don’t know each other. They don’t know each other because they don’t communicate with each other. And they don’t communicate with each other because they are separated from each other.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,…
Best of 2022: A Playlist of Levitt Staff Favorites
Here’s a little secret about the staff of the Levitt Foundation: we tend to be music fans. Like, big music fans. That’s part of the reason why we spend all our time helping nonprofits in cities and towns across the country bring free, live music to their communities—and that’s just at our day jobs. If…
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…
Advancing Equity to Create Thriving Downtowns: Key Takeaways From Levitt Leaders at IDA Conference
Over the past 15+ years, the Levitt Foundation has partnered with communities of all sizes to help bring thousands of free concerts to towns and cities across the nation, harnessing the power of live music to reinvigorate public spaces and strengthen the social fabric of communities by bringing people together of all ages and backgrounds….
Levitt Artists Rack Up Nominations for the 2023 GRAMMY Awards
On Tuesday morning, the Recording Academy unveiled nominations for the 65th annual GRAMMY Awards. And as usual, artists who have performed on Levitt stages made a strong showing among the 91 categories, with a total of 28 artists spanning a wide range of music genres contending for statuettes on Music’s Biggest Night, a testament to…
Why Free Concerts Matter
Why do free concerts matter? Because music belongs to the public. And without public spaces, music cannot exist for long. That idea might seem counterintuitive, considering the number of multimillion dollar corporations and glitzy private organizations whose very existence depends on monetizing and commoditizing live music. The business of live music is a lucrative one,…