Join our 2023 Fundraising Campaign!

We thank you for your support!

Dear NaBSCO Friend,

Please join the Narragansett Bay Symphony Community Orchestra by giving us your continued support through a tax-deductible contribution. Help from community members like you has enabled the Orchestra, since its founding in 2006, to continuously expand its reach and strengthen its reputation as an all-volunteer group performing challenging repertoire in professional-caliber concerts, accessible to and affordable for everyone.

This year we are celebrating the Orchestra’s 10th Anniversary Season since being re-named NaBSCO in 2013, and in honor of that anniversary, all donations of $50 or more will be matched, up to a total of $4000, by an anonymous contributor. This is a unique opportunity to double the impact of your contribution, and to magnify its benefit for the Orchestra and our community.

NaBSCO has recently been rehearsing and performing exciting repertoire, partnering with a diverse collection of other musical groups, premiering captivating new works by local and regional composers, and making its great concerts more affordable for music lovers across Rhode Island. Some highlights include:

• Performing with internationally acclaimed artists at the University of Rhode Island Guitar Festival, presenting the US premiere of a concerto for guitar, mandolin, and orchestra

• Choral collaborations with RI Latino Arts, Community College of RI, and Coro Amante, presenting Handel’s Messiah in Spanish, Mozart’s Requiem, and Stephanie Ann Boyd’s Sheltering Voices

• Presenting concerts in East Providence, Providence, Woonsocket, and Narragansett that showcase the artistry of women in music and underrepresented composers, with a pay-what-you-can ticket price so everyone can afford to attend

The 2023 - 2024 NaBSCO Concert Season offers a wonderful mix of favorite works from Mendelssohn, Brahms, Beethoven, Elgar, and Mozart, complemented by less familiar music by Amy Beach, Scott Joplin, and Xavier Montsalvatge. With your support, the Orchestra is planning even more ambitious and innovative programming in the years to come:

• Commissioning exciting new works by renowned local and regional composers, to showcase their talent and support both our area’s network of artists and the greater New England arts community

• Working with additional top-tier solo artists, performing in a wider variety of great venues around the region, and taking on challenging repertoire the Orchestra has long aspired to program

• Expanding NaBSCO’s collaborations and partnerships with arts organizations, exploring ways to make NaBSCO programs more visible and accessible to our communities, and enhancing NaBSCO’s operational capabilities so it can better serve both its musicians and its audiences

Please take a moment to donate as soon as possible. NaBSCO and its dedicated musicians are proud of what we have accomplished together, and we are incredibly grateful for the unwavering support of our audience, community, and contributors.

Sincerely,
Amanda Chang
President, Board of Directors