Alacartoona and People’s Liberation Big Band Receive Inspiration Grants
Alacartoona has some money to toast. Photo by Matt Mayfield courtesy Alacartoona.com.
Apparently, the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City Board of Directors finds Alacartoona and People’s Liberation Big Band especially inspirational. Both of the local music groups will benefit from more than $9,000 in ArtsKC Fund Inspiration Awards that the council handed out recently.
Cabaret act Alacartoona gets $2,000, a sum earmarked as “support to create a DVD recording to capture the excitement and vitality of one of their live performances in order to reach a broader geographical market and booking more touring dates.”
People’s Liberation Big Band, by way of sax-man, bassoonist and percussionist Patrick Alonzo Conway gets $1,000 to create an original score to go with the silent film The Battleship Potemkin. The band will play the score at the Pistol in May.
A complete list of the grant recipients is posted at ArtsKC.org.
