Elisa Korenne – singer, songwriter, storyteller
Lake Agassiz Regional Library and members sponsored nine “Minnesota’s Ordinarily Unsung” concerts over five days, venues are the Shelly Senior Center, Fertile- Beltrami High School, Mahnomen Library, Climax High School, Crookston Library, Bagley High School, Gonvick Community Center (across from the LINK Site), and the Hawley Library.
Event Dates and Locations:
04/05/2010 – Shelly Senior Center
04/06/2010 – Fertile Beltrami High School, Mahnomen Library
04/07/2010 – Climax High School, Crookston Library
04/08/2010 – Bagley High School, Gonvick LINK Site
04/09/2010 – Hawley Library
Total attendance 896 people.
Attendance by location was:
Bagley High School (498),
Climax School (75),
Crookston Library (47),
Fertile Beltrami High School (210),
Hawley Library (9),
Mahnomen Library (9),
Gonvick LINK Site (18),
and Shelly LINK Site (30)
Measurable Outcomes may be collected by survey, anecdotal responses, post-test; End user change in Behavior, Attitude, Skills, Knowledge, Condition and/or Status
A Summary of surveys from the program is:Using 1-5 scale, with 5 being the highest, most or best.1. How much were you inspired to think about your own history and how you fit into a community context? 1~ (3), 2 ~ (3), 3 ~ (10), 4 ~ (16), 5 ~ (9), Average (3.60)2. How much was your awareness raised to stories of Minnesota’s past?Not rated (1), 1 ~ (1), 2 ~ (3), 3 ~ (8), 4 ~ (4), 5 ~ (24), Average (4.17)3. How meaningful was this concert to you and your community?1 ~ (5), 2 ~ (1), 3 ~ (15), 4 ~ (13), 5 ~ (7), Average (3.39)4. Do you feel you were exposed to professional performing arts?1 ~ (5), 2 ~ (4), 3 ~ (3), 4 ~ (10), 5 ~ (19), Average (3.82)5. Were you entertained?1 ~ (3), 2 ~ (3), 3 ~ (8), 4 ~ (9), 5 ~ (18), Average (3.87)# of evaluations: 41Comments:Climax:
- Exciting way of learning history
- It was very interesting & fun to watch
- Very Nice!
- Excellent voice – fun interaction
Mahnomen:
- Loved it. She was very friendly & comfortable to watch
- Great!
Hawley:
- The presentation style was a perfect blend of advance instruction, entertainment & education.
- I loved the stories and the music.
- Elisa is an amazing performer.
- I thoroughly enjoyed this very intimate & professional performance. I left a richer human having been exposed to an art form that was real, honest & live!!
- Wonderfully entertaining!
Shelly LINK Site:
- Elisa is very talented – she plays the guitar well – she has done a lot of research – I liked her stories, but should talk slower and more clearly – she has a nice singing voice – her style of singing made it hard for me to understand the words. Elisa seemed very comfortable in front of an audience.
- Needs to slow down when speaking and singing!
- Excellent presentation however I would have liked a familiar song or two mixed in.
- I enjoyed it, but would not to another. Why not get Mr. Button, the fastest guitar picker? (From Lake Park or Wadena)
- I really liked it and I hope that she can come again soon, I also loved the music and I really liked the way she talked about our culture.
- Good concert singing was a little fast from some to understand.
- I did not like it.
- Add one person in Minnesota history that people may know something about.
- She talked too fast.
- Topics not interesting to our area.
- I thought the performance and type of music was interesting. I haven’t heard anything quite like that before. And hearing about those different people was interesting.
Crookston:
- Due to hearing loss I missed a lot.
- I like the song dedicated to Chaska and the Root Beer Song.
- I loved the Fink song.
- So interesting, fun, light-hearted entertainment. Crookston needs much more of these special events!
- Delightful, enriching experience. Thank you!
- Beautiful voice. Really good memory to remember all those words and stories!