All Ages Music Portland

Programming Highlights: *Hosted 21 concerts/events accessible to all ages, where artists were paid for their performances including annual events like Spring Break Fest, Masquerade of Madness, and our Icebreaker winter break concert. *Provided sound services for 125 client events, connecting youth sound engineers and/or youth artists with paid work *Co-Hosted 11 youth open mic events at different venues throughout Portland *Hosted 15 Sound Squad Supreme training days, where youth sound engineers get to explore new gear, ask questions, and meet other team members *Facilitated a tour for our youth sound engineers of Moda Center (a large convention center) to see the inner workings of large scale concerts and sports productions *Helped youth leaders produce 3 benefit shows *Produced Find Your Future Fest, a youth curated career fair including an all ages concert at the end *Released Rose City Rising II; our second intergenerational collaborative recording project featuring 5 youth emcees/bands. *Advocated for youth artists to perform (and be paid) at 3 major festivals in Portland during 2024: Waterfront Blues Fest, Pickathon and PDX Pop Now. This provided exposure to hundreds of audience members. *Hosted 2 teen sound engineering workshops, 1 protect your hearing workshop, and collaborated with other nonprofits on a music video workshop and a rock bank workshop series for middle schoolers *Provided work for a roster of 18 teen sound engineers *48 episodes of Friends of Noise Presents on XRAY.fm, a weekly radio show curated and hosted by youth DJs *Launched our summer residency program which pays 2 youth artists to create original music Organizational Growth: *Hired a new staff member; a venue and production manager *Signed the lease and submitted permitting applications in preparation for opening our all ages community arts venue in 2025 *Began a capital campaign to fund the renovation and new programming for our new all ages venue *Our work and impact was featured in 5 articles through local publications *Were chosen to steward the Elan Eichler Memorial Fund Collaborations with these partner orgs: Arts for Learning NW The Blueprint Foundation Depave Ethos Music Killian Pacific Live Wire My Voice Music Next Up Oregon Northwest Hardcore Fest Oregon Contemporary Arts Center Oregon Museum of Science and Industry PamCut Tomorrow Theatre Patricia Reser Center for the Arts PDX Pop Now! Pickathon Portland Institute of Contemporary Arts Portland State University Portland Trailblazers Portland Winter Ice Rink Pow Girls Media Education TVI Architects Waterfront Blues Fest Number of people served: -Audience: 2400 -Workshop Participants: 40 -Paid Artists: 300 -Paid youth sound engineers: 18 -Paid youth Djs: 6 -Paid Youth Interns: 3 -Paid Youth Graphic Designers: 3 -Youth Leaders Producing fundraiser events (unpaid): 5 1900 unique participants