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August 11: Performance at Urbana Free Library Brown Bag lunch series.  

August 13: Summer camp performance at Grace United Methodist Church in
Urbana.  

August 20: Performance at Prairie Ensemble benefit event in Champaign.

September 10: Busking at the Farmers' Market at Lincoln Square in Urbana.  
We raised $100 and donated it to the American Red Cross hurricane relief fund.

October 1: Sitting in with Dan Zanes and Friends for the second year in a row at
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in Urbana.

October 21: Performance for Urbana Country Dancers' family dance at Phillips
Recreation Center in Urbana.   Click here to see pictures from the dance

November 5: Presentation for Illinois chapter of the American String Teachers'
Association in Aurora.

November 13: Co-sponsored youth fiddle competition held at the Springer
Cultural Center in Champaign.  Collaborators were the University of Illinois Sousa
Archives and Center for American Music and the Champaign Park District.

November 13: Performance at Virginia Theatre as part of the "Granny's Porch"
concert. Click here to see photos from the concert

December 14: Performance for Urbana Free Library "Prairie Breezes" family
series.  Sponsored by Ameren IP.  Photos coming soon!

January 24: Performance at Whirlwind Project organizational meeting at
Douglas Branch Library in Champaign.  

February 4: Performance at Pages for All Ages in Savoy.

February 12: Two shows at Parkland College Staerkel Planetarium.  These
shows were part of a winter music festival sponsored by the Champaign-Urbana
Symphony.  We got to have cool planetarium effects and a light show during our
performance!

March 6: Performance before a presentation on arts in the schools, sponsored
by the Illinois Arts Alliance, at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign.  

April 2: Concert of jazz, music that inspired jazz, and music that jazz inspired at
Lincoln Square in Urbana. This was a joint performance with the East Central
Illinois Youth Orchestra and special guest artists, the Boneyard Jazz Quintet.   
Oh yeah--we can't forget that fabulous solo by the tornado warning siren that
forced us to take a 30 minute break during the show!

April 15: Live on-the-air performance at Champaign's WEFT FM community
radio for their pledge drive.

April 22: Performance during Whirlwind Project's "Music of World Neighbors"
concert held at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in Urbana.

June 6: 2nd annual performance at Center for Women in Transition annual
Garden of Hope dinner, held at the Champaign Country Club.

June 10: performance at Andersonville Sommerfest, a Chicago-land delight in
the street!  We collaborated with the Andersonville Suzuki Academy.  Photos
coming soon!

July 20: performance at Urbana Free Library Brown-Bag series.

July 22: Summer camp performance at Lincoln Square in Urbana.





Our third season

August, 2005 to July, 2006