Friday, November 13, 2015

Middlesboro Competing with 40 Cities Nationally to Bring Free Music Concerts in 2016




November 13, 2015 --- Discover Downtown Middlesboro is now in the running to bring a 10-week live music series to Middlesboro, Kentucky during the Summer of 2016.

Sponsored by Levitt Pavilions, the national nonprofit behind the largest free concert series in America, Middlesboro hopes to qualify as one of the 15 winning organizations competing in the Levitt AMP [Your City] Grant Awards.

The Levitt AMP [Your City] Grant Awards are an exciting matching grant opportunity created by Levitt Pavilions to serve small to mid-sized towns and cities up to 400,000 people. Fifteen nonprofits, or municipalities partnering with a nonprofit, will receive up to $25,000 each in matching funds to produce their own Levitt AMP Music Series—an outdoor, free concert series featuring a diverse lineup of professional musicians.

Discover Downtown Middlesboro submitted the proposal for Middlesboro. The proposed venue site is the Levitt AMP Middlesboro Pop-up Park just off of Fountain Square at 20th and Cumberland. Middlesboro’s proposal is now posted on the Levitt AMP website for public voting. http://levittamp.org

A successful campaign for Discover Downtown Middlesboro depends on community participation to get as many online votes as possible to bring the concert series to town. Community support, as measured by the number of online votes received, will be one of the key factors when Levitt Pavilions selects the 15 winners.

Supporters are asked to visit https://grant.levittamp.org/voter-registration-page/ to register and vote. Online public voting is now open and ends Nov. 30 at 5 p.m. Pacific Time. The Top 25 finalists will be selected through online public voting. Levitt Pavilions will then review the proposals of these 25 finalists and the 15 Levitt AMP winners will be announced on January 5, 2016.

“We have already seen the power of the Levitt concerts to transform our community for the better. Moving forward we hope to make Middlesboro a live music destination for the 150 million people who live within a days drive,” said DDM Executive Director Isaac Kremer.

Discover Downtown Middlesboro asks supporters to start spreading the word to family, friends, colleagues and neighbors and rally the community to sign up and vote for Middlesboro’s proposal.


Learn more at http://levittamp.org.

How to Vote
8 Simple Steps to Bring the Levitt AMP [Your City] Music Series to your Community!
1. Go to http://levittamp.org and click one of the voting buttons to take you to the sign up to vote page (see image below). To directly visit the sign up to vote page, click the link below: https://grant.levittamp.org/voter-registration-page/
2. Sign up to vote for your favorite Levitt AMP proposal by filling out the online form and creating a user ID and password.
3. After clicking “submit” on the sign up to vote page, a confirmation email is sent to you with a link to activate your Levitt AMP voter account. If this email is not received in your inbox, please check your spam folder for this message (and add amp@levittpavilions.org to your safe senders list), so that your voter registration can be finalized.
4. Click on the activation link in your confirmation email and you are ready to start voting!
5. Visit https://grant.levittamp.org/voter-registration-page to log-in to your account.
6. Once logged in, click “view proposals” to view all posted Levitt AMP proposals.
7. Find your favorite proposal(s) and either click “vote now” to place your vote, or click “learn more” for more information about the proposal(s). You can vote for a total of 5 different proposals, but can only vote for each proposal once.
8. Be sure to spread the word to friends, families, colleagues, and neighbors to bring a Levitt AMP [Your City] Music Series to your community!