Arts and Cultural Heritage Community Arts Learning Grant
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
North Shore Music Association's long-range goal and desired outcome is to continue our tradition of providing a top-notch learning environment in which participants who return each year to build their skills and connections, as well as new participants, feel that they have grown in skill and knowledge by the end of three days. Our short-term desired outcome for this year's event is to provide resophonic guitarists a truly exceptional learning experience from a Dobro master who is as skilled a teacher as he is a performer. North Shore Music Association will measure and evaluate the outcomes of this project by assessing surveys we've handed out to workshop students, jamming participants, audience members, and instructors. We will also keep a keen ear to verbal feedback both during and after the weekend. We will listen to what participants wanted and got from their instructor, and what the instructor expected and got from his students, as we find these two forms of feedback equally valuable.
Our workshop participant surveys measured our short-term outcome. 17 resophonic guitar workshop students signed up to learn from Mike Witcher. This was a good turnout, and student feedback was positive and enthusiastic across the board. Verbal feedback from instructor Mike Witcher told us that he also really enjoyed the experience -- that he appreciated that this group of students came ready and eager to learn, were focused on his instruction (both group and individual), and worked well together as a group. Survey and verbal feedback from weekend jammers confirms that our long-range measurable outcome of participants making and building on connections at the event was highly successful. The fact that by the end of the weekend Lutsen Resort was already booked for Masters 2016 confirms that participants want to return in the future.
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