More than 100 guests joined the Golden Prairie Arts Council at the Carman United Church on Dec. 5 to enjoy a holiday performance from Red Moon Road. GPAC executive director Nigel Bart said he couldn’t have asked for a better evening.
“The performance was absolutely amazing. This concert was an extremely energetic and uplifting performance from a very professional and experienced musical band,” he said. “It was a nice way to close out the GPAC season on a high note.”
Red Moon Road is an acoustic folk trio with Winnipeg roots that has performed at more than 1,000 concerts since 2012. During the height of the pandemic, they released Simple Kind of Christmas, a tri-lingual holiday album featuring traditional favourites as well as two original songs.
Bart said Red Moon Road’s Carman performance was important because it helped boost community enthusiasm for GPAC.
“People may not realize that GPAC is a non-profit charitable organization. We rely on donations and public support to continue our mission of advocating for and supporting the arts in our community,” he explained. “In order to do this, it takes a lot of time, energy, creativity and sometimes risk-taking to understand how this community of Carman and region best utilizes the arts and creativity in their day-to-day lives. We do what the community wants, and it was a request from the (Carman) Chamber and other community members that we bring in this band.”
He added that arts and culture programming are vital for community growth and GPAC strives to create a healthy and connected environment for all.
“We hope to continue to inspire our community and encourage the complex and arduous work of facilitating healthy relationships in the broadest sense of the term,” he said. “For me, healthy, peaceful and safe communities are fundamentally supported by arts and culture.”
