Shorewood Kiwanis celebrated our 50th Anniversary in 2009. We decided to make a gift to our community to mark the event - a musical gift.
We partnered with the Macomb Chamber Music Society (MCMS) to provide a concert series in the city park that was obviously built for chamber music performance. The City of St. Clair Shores cooperated handsomely and the Tax Incremental Funding Authority (T.I.F.A.) provided a professional sound system. Voila! We have a wonderful, beautiful venue.
Being Kiwanis, our main requirement was the involvement of at least one student musician in (almost) every concert without it becoming a "kiddie show". Studies show that musicians make the best scholars and Kiwanis is all for that!
Thankfully, the business community has financially supported the concert series by purchasing advertising in our program booklet and our concert-goers have supported the business community with their dollars. These relationships will help to maintain this concert series for many years. And... The concerts are great!
The Shorewood Kiwanis is proud and excited to help provide this Summer Concert Series to our community. We are very lucky that the MCMS agreed to partner with us. But, in reality, this series belongs to the community. The Partners have a long-term committment to the Series but realize that the support of our concert-goers is vital to the success of these fine concerts.
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