Freight & Salvage
For Audience Development
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Amount$50,000
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Program
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Date Awarded4/25/2016
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
Berkeley Society for the Preservation of Traditional Music, operating as the Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, provides concerts, music instruction, and participatory programs for 90,000 people each year. Specializing in folk, traditional, and world music, it offers classes and concerts nearly every day of the year at its 440-seat facility in Berkeley. An Organizational Effectiveness grant will enable the organization to develop a plan to grow and diversify its audiences.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.thefreight.org/about.html
Address
2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, 94702, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
Freight & Salvage is a presenter of traditional music, which it defines as “music that is rooted in and expressive of the great variety of regional, ethnic, and social cultures of peoples throughout the world.†Freight & Salvage provides concerts, music instruction, and participatory programs for more than 80,000 people each year at its 440-seat facility in Berkeley, California. It also provides programs at local schools and at community events. Support for Freight & Salvage aligns with the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
