Help Support Our Summer Concerts!

Concert donations can be mailed to:
PRFAS
PO BOX 89A
Park Ridge, IL 60068

Park Ridge Fine Arts Society

P.O. Box 89A Park Ridge, IL 60068

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***Park Ridge Park District will be selling food for the convenience of our patrons and families.  Spuntino’s pizza and hot dogs from vending truck.  You can buy something in the park, take a break from cooking and just enjoy the evening.  (Except 7/11 Taste of PR and 7/25 Brian Patti Concert).

Our board members and our kids had great fun passing out bookmarks at the 2014 Memorial Day parade. 

Hope you’ve enjoyed our Hodges Park Concerts in the Park.  PRFAS will diligently continue our fundraising efforts to ensure the future of our Summer Concerts.  This continues as a gift to our community and a labor of love for our board members, but we need your help.  Make a donation and let us know of any organizations willing to sponsor and support our concerts.  Email us at prfas@yahoo.com.  See below to see how $81,000 was spent for the 2011 concert season. 

Here is how $81,000 was spent for 2011′s 7 orchestral and 1 Big Band concerts.  It averages about $10,000 per orchestral concert, which represents our average cost for each orchestral concert.  Due to reduced funding, we mitigated 2014 season to 4 orchestral concerts and 2015 is looking the same as of 2014 year-end.   

1. 1.  $57,000, or 70% of the total, for the 50 piece orchestra, which is made up of the finest free-lance professional musicians in the Chicago area.
2. 2.  $14,000, or 17% of the total, for the sound system.
3. 3.  $6,000, or 8% of the total, for music, licenses, printing, insurance and other expenses.
4. 4.  $4,000, or 5% of the total, added to reserves.
5. 5.  Nil for the board members since we are all volunteers.
6. 6.  Resources and facilities provided by PRPD and the City of Park Ridge.

Funding Sources 2011 Donations Pie Chart

$81,000 Concert Expenses 2011 Expense Allocation Chart

Weather Alert Protocol!!!  Join us at 8pm to see if the weather allows the musicians to play and for us to proceed.  We don’t know till then.  Scroll below or see event calendar for 2014 concert schedule.  

We thank the Park Ridge Park District and the City of Park Ridge for use of their resources and facilities.  We are a Park Ridge 501 C (3) not for profit organization whose board members solicit donations and work to make the concerts possible as a labor of love, but funding by sponsors and organizations continue to diminish.  We would appreciate help with sponsorship and donations.  Let us know if there are any organizations willing to sponsor a concert or make a donation and we will contact them.  Our email is prfas@yahoo.com.  Please make a donation below if you’d like to be listed as donor.  We list all donations $50 and over.  Donations June 2013 to June 2014 will be listed in our 2014 booklet. 

You can help support the continuation of our concerts by making a   donation, sponsoring a concert or a page in our 2014 ad booklet or   participating in our November 2014 benefit.  See our advertisers section for contact information.

 If you are a business in Park Ridge and would like to support the concerts and our audience of thousands by advertising in our booklet or weekly flyer, go to Advertisers Page and see our pricing and call one of the board members if any questions.   

 

Providing Free Concerts In Park Ridge

Concerts in the Park Park Ridge Fine Arts Symphony Summer 2014 – Our 54th Year!

Barbara Schubert, Music Director and Conductor

• Four orchestral concerts June 20, 2014 to July 18, 2014 by Park Ridge Fine Arts Symphony, a 50-piece ensemble of the finest free-lance professional musicians in the Chicago area.
• Brian Patti Big Band – July 25th in Hodges Park.
• Bands sponsored by PRPD July 3rd, August 1st and August 8th.  All concerts are at 8 pm in Hodges Park, in front of Park Ridge City Hall, except July 3rd Fireworks at Maine East HS.