CLASSICAL MUSIC IN OUR COMMUNITY

Grand Concerts Youth Outreach Program

The 2024 Youth Outreach program will bring the Colorado Children’s Chorale and the Texas Guitar Quartet into the schools!

Every year Grand Concerts brings musicians to perform for the children of Grand County at no cost to the students or the schools. For the 2023 season, our team was excited to take the students to the musicians for the first time. Fraser Valley Elementary, Granby Elementary, and West Grand Elementary students traveled to Boettcher Concert Hall in the Denver Performing Arts Complex to experience a live concert hall performance by the Colorado Symphony. 

This year the Colorado Children’s Chorale will visit the students at Grand County Christian Academy and West Grand Elementary. The CCC will present a workshop for young singers and then perform for their whole school. The students who participated in the workshop will have the opportunity to perform with the CCC at their school’s concert.

Many thanks to the generosity of our Grand County community for making these events possible for our kids.

Grand County students can attend any regular concert for FREE. 

Joan & Roger Shaw Memorial Scholarship Fund

Joan and Roger Shaw were amazing musicians and did much to promote classical music in our community. They were founding members of the Grand Concerts board in 2002, started the Annual Mountain Messiah Sing-Along, volunteered their talents in our schools, and played for numerous weddings and events. Joan would entertain guests by playing the piano in the Gasthouse Eichler dining room and give away her tips to pay for young students’ private music lessons.

After she died suddenly, Roger found $700 in tip money. Grand Concerts used that seed money and started a memorial scholarship honoring them in their name. Every year Grand Concerts awards a $1000 scholarship to a Grand County graduating senior who will go on to major in music. In May of 2023, Grand Concerts awarded their fifth annual Joan and Roger Shaw Memorial Music Scholarship to Sarah Lantermans, who is minoring in Music Education at the University of New Haven—many thanks to all of you who donated to our scholarship fund.

Sponsors Supporting Youth Outreach

Check Out the Music Program

In 2006, the Grand County Blues Society (GCBS) partnered with the Grand County Library District (GCLD) to get instruments into the hands of young people displaying an interest or affinity for music. This began the endearing Check Out the Music Program. Through this program, folks throughout Grand County can borrow instruments from their local library using their library card. 


Acoustic guitars, electric and bass guitars with amplifiers, keyboards, youth-size guitars, drumsticks, and drum pads were donated by GCBS to Grand County libraries and were available to the public—for FREE! Today, the library has a wealth of resources for Colorado classical music, including a collection of over 20 musical instruments.

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