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As Fall Nears, Connect2Culture Announces Its 2023 - 2024 performance schedule

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This season C2C will feature five series including its flagship, Curtains Up which features high-quality, national bands, musicians, and groups. While the Ignite series provides performances for school-age children and seeks to engage, educate and inspire.

This week, as we’re in the midst of a heat wave keep in mind that the start of fall is one month away.

So is the first performance of Connect 2 Culture’s 2023 - 2024 performance season which the non-profit unveiled on Tuesday.

KRPS’s Fred Fletcher-Fierro has more.

The upcoming season will be the first complete season in Connect2Culture's Cornell Complex which opened in November of last year.

The non-profit will launch its largest performance schedule ever this upcoming season with 19 performances from tap dance, to musical theater, to family and kids shows, vocal powerhouses, and more.

Executive Director of Connect 2 Culture Emily Frankowski speaking Tuesday says the upcoming season goes beyond the traditional performances held at the Cornell Complex.

“This season truly offers something that will ignite a passion for the performing arts in everyone. In addition, we’ll have over ten school shows or outreach workshops for K - 12 in this next season.”

Tailored for families, the Ignite series includes five performances, the first on Sunday, November 12 with Pete The Cat’s Big Holiday Adventure.

New this year for the Ignite performances only, with every paid adult, children between the ages of 3 and 17 get in for free.

Season tickets are now on sale, tickets for single performances start on Tuesday, September 12.

Since 2017 Fred Fletcher-Fierro has driven up Highway 171 through thunderstorms, downpours, snow, and ice storms to host KRPS’s Morning Edition. He’s also a daily reporter for the station, covering city government, elections, public safety, arts, entertainment, culture, sports and more. Fred has also spearheaded and overseen a sea change in programming for KRPS from a legacy classical station to one that airs a balance of classical, news, jazz, and cultural programming that better reflects the diverse audience of the Four States. For over two months in the fall of 2022 he worked remotely with NPR staff to relaunch krps.org to an NPR style news and information website.

In the fall of 2023 Fred was promoted to Interim General Manager and was appointed GM in Feburary of 2024.