MUSICIANS' CLUB OF ORANGE COUNTY (2)

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i and Los Angeles County overall. Our team has thus far been sponsoring a valuable set of community concerts through the Orange County Legends of Jazz Concort Series and the Music on Main Street Community Concert Series. There have been over ten concerts produced throughout 2022-2025.We would like to continua to offer a concert series free and open to the public, as we did with the Music on Main Street Series. Featuring musicians of multiple musical styles and genres, this Summer Concert Series will reintroduce the downtown Santa Arta community to the beauty, energy, and culture that live music brings. We will offer a place for musicians and appreciators of music of all ages to experience, inquire, and celebrate music and music i education. After finishing renovations in May 2026, the Change County Musicians Union building will be a hub for musicians to come and rehearse, find community, and mentor the youth with interest In the arts. Not only would these young people experience a professional demonstration of their craft, but all would be celebrated. The environment this concert series will nurture will promote youth in the arts, build mentorship opportunities, and provide a space to showcase hard work. Within this environment, musicianship will be seen as a valid and important livelihood that gathers people in a unique and necessary way—community will be built In more ways than one. The revenue made from these concerts through food and beverage sales and voluntary donations to the 601 c3 itself will serve the people who brought it in in the first place. The Musicians' Club of Orange County has had the specific results of awarding thousands in music scholarships for students of music, and even more in relief grants for musicians struggling during and after the COVID pandemic. Our vision is to offer another concert series that will become a community staple and raise donations to continue the work of this nonprofit. These events will be a place for all to experience and become educated on music in a way unlike others, raise funds to aid the musicians we work Hard to celebrate, and properly i compensate said musicians who make such art and development possible within a city brintrning with culture. This concert series will promote music and art while bringing the conwUnity together within the Historic South Main Business District. As the Summer Concert Series moves forward, it will increase the foot traffic In this area of Santa Ana which, in turn, will increase the revenue in the city, It will also continue to create a healthy narrative around live music being something to celebrate together within the Milton Foster Concert Hall—a building that as served thousands of members of the community throughout the years, The Musicians' Club of Orange County has always had a background of solving foundational problems within the live performance occupation. During COVID, it was almost impossible for musicians to perform safely, but because of the Musicians' Club, over twenty concerts were able to be safely performed and streamed online. This solution gave a large population of workers the ability to keep working and earning, while f€lllnq the need for the cultural enrichment that was failing away during a time of great isolation. The Main Street Community Concert Series continued fostering this enrichment, bringing all kinds of music to the people of Santa Ana for free. The Summer Concert Series will also demonstrate this motivation, ensuring musicians the fair wages they deserve, offering students the chance to enjoy professional performances, and bringing to the community an