You want Free concerts in The Dalles? Then vote for it right now

There are two easy ways to cast your vote: online by clicking here or text TDMUSIC to 866-AMP-2023 (866-267-2023).

Nolan Hare is on a mission.

The man behind the Little Music City wants to see more music events in The Dalles. 

He just may get his wish.

But it’s going to take a huge effort from everyone to text and or vote to get The Dalles to the final selection for a grant that could bring three years of live music - for free. Yes! 

Hare said Todd Carpenter with The Dalles Chamber Foundation has applied for a grant that would bring $90,000 worth of funding for music at Lewis & Clark Festival Park on Union Street. 

They are asking the Levitt Foundation for the cash over the next three years. The Levitt Foundation started in Connecticut with the mission to use the power of free, live music to bring people together to create equitable, healthy and thriving communities.

Since 2015, it has dished out grants to 38 communities across America, according to its website, helping to reinvigorate music venues. 

The Dalles could be next.

“The Top 20 finalists will be selected through the online and text-to-vote public voting phase,” according to a recent Chamber press release. “The Levitt Foundation will then review the top proposals and will select up to 10 Levitt AMP grant recipients, which will be announced on November 15, 2022.”

 “The Dalles needs YOUR support to bring free, live music concert series to our community at the Lewis and Clark Festival Park, it states. 

There are two easy ways to cast your vote: online by clicking here or text TDMUSIC to 866-AMP-2023 (866-267-2023).

The number of online and text votes received for The Dalles Chamber Foundation will be one of the key factors when the Levitt Foundation selects the grant recipients this November.

Public voting opened today, Sept. 12, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, and ends September 21, at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time.