“While we’ve been successful in producing our work, the key element has always been absent: a live audience, present in the space with the performers. This summer, we’re hoping to make the first significant steps to return to that normal mode.” Patrick Spradlin said of the Central Lakes Community Performing Arts Center.
Four masked students played at socially distanced pianos one evening in February at the Surf Ballroom Music Enrichment Center in Clear Lake.
The students, between 7 and 11 years old, were participating in Karen Millerâs piano lessons that prior to COVID-19 were held in her home.
Karen Miller works with Victor Rasmussen, 7, at piano lessons at the Surf Ballroom Music Enrichment Center in Clear Lake. The center offers musical outreach programming for children and adults. Ashley Stewart
âThis space has been awesome,â she said, noting her living room wouldnât have allowed the students to distance as much as needed.
The Music Enrichment Center at 509 Buddy Holly Place has been a beacon for the North Iowa Cultural Center & Museum, the nonprofit that operates the historic Surf Ballroom & Museum.
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