We are excited to announce that GLAMA, along with the Library staff at Portage Northern High School, has received a generous grant from The Wisner Family Foundation to fund a collection of guitars, mandolins, and banjos to be housed at PNHS for students to check out for their own use! We hope that this helps reduce the financial barrier for students who want to learn to play an acoustic instrument. In addition, board members of GLAMA have been hosting monthly after-school slow jam sessions to help students build the same skills we are working on at our monthly public slow jams!
We couldn’t make all this happen without your continued support and inspiration! Thank you to the entire GLAMA Family, and to the amazing librarians around our community that help bring music to us all!

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GLAMA is also the grateful recipient of a grant from the Irving S. Gilmore Foundation! This grant will help us build future master classes, concerts, and community events to continue our mission of performing and preserving acoustic music in Southwest Michigan! A special thanks to all those who helped support this endeavor.

GLAMA would like to publicly thank the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs for awarding a grant to our organization for the purpose of funding anti-racism training. We are also grateful to our state elected officials including Governor Whitmer, Senator McCann, and Representative Morse for their support of the arts.