Music program for libraries

Would your small town library like to host a feature on popular music? The National Endowment for the Humanities has a program that might be a good match for an outstanding small town library. Small towns and rural communities are listed specifically as a target.

Music program at the Newcastle Library.
Photo (cc) by Pioneer Library System.

America’s Music: A Film History of Our Popular Music from Blues to Bluegrass to Broadway is a six-week public program featuring documentary film screenings and scholar-led discussions of twentieth-century American popular music. ... The project will provide DVDs of compelling documentary films, discussion guidelines, original essays by eminent scholars, extensive resource guides, and Web support. The project will offer participating organizations training in how to organize, promote, and run the series successfully. All libraries and nonprofit organizations selected to implement the public program will receive grants of $2,500 for project expenses. Fifty organizations (libraries and other eligible nonprofits) will be selected to receive a grant to present this series of community programs on the history of American popular music. The grantee institutions are expected to offer the programs between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2013. 

Local governmental agencies are eligible. Small towns and rural communities are specifically mentioned as targeted underserved audiences. Application deadline is March 14, 2012.

Find out more at Blues to Bluegrass to Broadway.