Levitt Loves Kids

A Community Outreach Program Designed For Young Performing Artists

Levitt Loves Kids offers young musicians and singers an opportunity to be selected as the opening entertainment to the nightly professional concerts. Levitt Loves Kids takes place before Wednesday Evening Children's Night concerts and Sunday Evening Jazz concerts.

It is the belief of The Friends of the Levitt Pavilion that restrictions in arts funding, lack of opportunity for music programs and few venues available for young performers demand that performing arts organizations "step up to the plate" and help fill this educational and experiential gap. The Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts is a stage for presentation of live concerts; it is to this end that we can offer an opportunity for talented young students to perform.

Auditions are held in the spring, and judged by professional musicians and the Levitt staff. Following the auditions the young artists are notified and, if chosen, given dates that are available for their performance. The Friends of the Levitt Pavilion encourage the chosen performers to inform their schools, friends and families of the night of their performance to allow a personal audience to join our crowd for the performance night.

Levitt Loves Kids programs celebrate our young performers by allowing them the much important experience of performing before a live audience and offering to our young audience an opportunity to view the young musicians as role models for the performing arts.