News Archives - 2000

One of Minneapolis' longest-lived community arts organizations, the West Bank School of Music, is organizing a 30th anniversary celebration. This event will be held on Saturday, November 18, 2000 at Augsburg College's Foss Center at 22nd Ave. So. and Riverside Ave.

The celebration begins at 7 p.m. with a silent auction of several arts and music related items, and a reunion for former students and faculty members from the past thirty years. The benefit concert, which begins at 8 p.m., is headlined by world-renowned ragtime and classic jazz pianist, Butch Thompson, who was a member of the teaching faculty at WBSM for nearly ten years. Thompson is a regular on Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion Show on National Public Radio.

Other former and current faculty members will also be performing, showcasing a variety of jazz, folk, bluegrass and even classical music. Included on stage will be Eddie Berger, Clint Hoover, Dale Dahlquist, Jim Price, Bill Hinkley, Tom Pletscher and many more..

For ticket information call WBSM at 333-6651; Augsburg College's Fine Arts Office at 330-1279; or Patty Park at Center for Global Education in Murphy Place, 330-1159.