Article: State Budget Cuts Send Concert Series Begging

The Bluemont Concert Series, informed last month that it has lost $34,000 in state grants, has appealed to local governments to make up the shortfall.

The Leesburg-based concert series, which administers hundreds of programs ranging from country dances to art education in schools, was promised the money in June. The concert series planned to use the grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts to help pay expenses from its summer courthouse concerts, which take place for 10 weeks from June to August.

The money, given under a program called the Local Government Challenge Grant, would have matched up to $5,000 in donations from each local government served by the concert series.

But it ...

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