Eudaimonia, A Purposeful Period Band
Music of the past serving needs of the present
Eudaimonia, A Purposeful Period Band
Support Eudaimonia’s next purposeful concert in Spring 2025, journeying with our exceptional ensemble into social action partnerships and toward another 10 years of musical and humanitarian ventures!
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- Eudaimonia, A Purposeful Period Band invites you to step forward as a supporter of our uniquely open-hearted programming. For this fundraiser, we’re seeking support for Eudaimonia’s spring activities, which center around 17th & 18th-century Jewish music of Italy, including a collaborative Sunday service on March 30 with the First Parish in Cambridge music program and a concert, entitled “Harmonizing Two Worlds,” on April 27. The projected cost for this concert is $8,500, and we expect auxiliary expenditure of $5500 over the coming 5 months to compensate our wonderful managing associates and to upgrade our web presence.
- What do we need from you? We’re asking you to contribute to our costs for the culmination of this season, but this campaign will also solidify our foundation for the next season, when we can go even deeper into a range of musical genres and tap into the full scope of our Social Action Partnerships,
- A celebratory shindig! Please make a contribution and join us on the afternoon of March 1, with many musical offerings from Eudaimonia’s members, along with things to drink and nibble. All contributors will receive an invitation to this special event. As part of this happening, we'll be highlighting the meals program of our artist residency home First Parish in Cambridge. For decades, they’ve been providing weekly hot meals of really good food to those in need, no questions asked, and they stock the community refrigerator outside of the church. We look forward to having the coordinator of this program speaking during our shindig.
- What have we done? As Eudaimonia approaches its tenth year, we’re proud of having performed 20 distinct programs, partnered with 25 local humanitarian and service organizations, and included more than 100 musicians from the Boston area. We’ve embraced the full spectrum of musical styles and genres, from medieval through jazz and newly commissioned works, on period and modern instruments. More importantly, our programs and partnerships have addressed themes of safety, shelter, hunger, the environment, bodily autonomy, prejudice, and the power of music to heal and help.
- How's Eudaimonia doing? Over the past year, we’ve grown and gained new direction, with larger audiences, bolder messages, and stronger connections to organizations that make a profound difference in our world. While our most important support will always come from our individual audience members and followers, we’ve been honored to receive funding from Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy, The Boston Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Kavod, Early Music America, Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center, the Longy School of Music, and the New England Foundation for the Arts,
- What's new? Grounding ourselves with an Artist Residency at First Parish in Cambridge and launching our offshoot choral project, Eudaimonia Voices, we’ve continued to pursue excellence and innovation in music while reinforcing inclusion, joy, and human connection as our bedrock.
- For more information on all we do, go to eudaimonia-music.org, and THANK YOU for being with us on Eudaimonia’s journey toward mending the world through music!
Rewards
An Invitation to our March 1 musical celebration
Donate $10.00 or more
Amount is fully tax-deductible.
All who show their support through this campaign are also warmly invited to attend an uplifting musical celebration on Saturday, March 1, 2:00-4:00pm at the beautiful Harvard Square home of one of our Eudaimonia Voices members. Make a contribution of any size to receive the official invitation.
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Be Named a Major Donor with $100 or more!
Donate $100.00 or more
Amount is fully tax-deductible.
Those who give $100 or more will be listed on our website and in our April concert program as major contributors, if you wish to be named.
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