Who Is the McCall Music Society

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We are a group of music lovers who work to bring local, regional and international music to the community.  We welcome everyone to join  McCall Music Society.

Since 1984, the McCall Music Society has been bringing quality music to Idaho’s Heartland. While classical music is our main focus, we also provide a venue for other musical forms such as jazz, fusion and cross-over.

Bringing National and Regional Talent to McCall
Concerts in recent years have included the St. Petersburg Trio, the Modern Mandolin Quartet, the Cassatt Quartet, the San Francisco Saxophone Quartet, the Aulos Ensemble and the Audubon Quartet. The Society also initiated and produced the popular SummerFest series of concerts, featuring a fifty piece orchestra and jazz under the stars with Gene Harris and his trio.

Providing a Performance Venue for Local Talent 
The McCall Chamber Orchestra, the McCall Chorale and various chamber music ensembles have for over twenty years provided musical entertainment to McCall and in outreach concerts in Cascade, Riggins, Grangeville and Council. This serves our community in two ways: local musicians get many hours of musical pleasure from rehearsing and performing together, and the community audiences get to enjoy. and often be amazed by, the quality concerts that are offered in early May and other times of the year.  

Scholarships
Local young musicians can apply for musical scholarships from the Scholarship Endowment Fund. MMS board members review the applications and annually present awards to qualifying young musicians allowing them attend summer music camps, to purchase or repair instruments, or take music lessons. 

Continental Harmony Millennium Project
In 2000, the McCall Music Society was the lead organization in the consortium of local arts organizations in winning the honor to be Idaho’s site for the national music initiative, Continental Harmony. Over the Fourth of July holiday in celebration of the millennium, McCall joined 57 other venues across our nation in presenting a new work of music composed especially for each site. An interactive web site (www.pbs.org/harmony) on the project is currently maintained by PBS, and a documentary is available.