UPDATE: Parkston won the online vote!
The Levitt in Sioux Falls has been a great success (though this year’s series was a real sleeper). My SD hometown of Parkston is in the running for a 3-year grant from the Foundation which will help them bring in bigger entertainment. Parkston already has a amphitheater in which they do a Thursday night summer concert series in which the entire town shows up for including folks from regional towns. If they get the grant, it will be likely they will work with the SF location to bring some of those folks from our series to theirs.
Here are more deets and how to vote;
EXCITING TIMES for our community! The Parkston Commercial Club has teamed up with the Avera St. Benedict Health Center to apply for a National Levitt AMP GRANT.
We will need ALL of our local community, as well as all of the other concert goers from other communities in our broader area to help us out. We will need to receive enough votes to finish in the TOP 50 out of 100 communities to help secure our grant. The voting will run through September 15th. Please share this post with all or your family and friends to help us out!
You will only be able to vote one time per person.
If we are successful, our community will receive $28,000 a year for three years to enhance our Parkston Amphitheater concert series.
Vote Now! Text “Parkston” to 1-877-409-5525 to help us win funding for even more AmphiThursday fun!
Thank you to the Levitt Foundation for your support of live Music, public spaces and communities!
This would be big for Parkston, especially that they might be able to share talent bookings with Sioux Falls.
“Your vote has been received! (Remember, only your first five votes will be counted.)”
The Levitt Foundation counts votes like they do in Cook County Illinois.
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This is so big a deal that Parkston started with 1,500 people to Keloland reporting it now has 15,000. Keloland must be in charge of the counting? Is Captain 11 using the machine?