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Midwest Highland Arts Fund and the Winter Storm Weekend Events-Midwest Highland Arts Fund (MHAF) incorporated in 2001 and promotes the Scottish Highland performing arts through workshops, concerts, and competitions. A volunteer Board of Directors governs the Fund, and organizes the MHAF events. The Internal Revenue Service recognizes MHAF as a tax-exempt organization under IRC § 501 (c)(3), EIN 48-1241277. The MHAF capstone event is the Winter Storm Weekend, held each January in Kansas City, Missouri.
Winter Storm 2011, January 14 -16, will be the tenth in the annual series.
Winter Storm attracts hundreds of students and competitors, as well as hundreds of contest and concert spectators from around the globe, the Midwest U.S., and Kansas City. Nearly one hundred volunteers take part in helping run the Winter Storm weekend.
Winter Storm is widely considered to be one of the premier events in the world of Highland piping and drumming. The success of Winter Storm is due in great part to the high quality of the Winter Storm adjudicators, performers, and faculty who are all gold medalists and/or world champions; widely recognized as an “all star” line-up. The piping and drumming contests offer some of the richest prizes in the piping and drumming world and consequently attract many of the best competitors and numerous spectators. The concert is generally regarded as one of the best in terms of quality and variety and is attended by the workshop students as a facet of the tuition, and hundreds of the general public. The foundation of the weekend is the piping and drumming workshop, which offers Master Classes for all skill levels of pipers and drummers. It is, by far, the largest and highest quality weekend workshop of its kind in the world.
MHAF also offer scholarships to deserving Midwest U.S. pipers and drummers for study abroad. Past MHAF scholarship winners have attended week-long piping schools in Glasgow, Scotland at the National Piping Centre, and in Isernia, Italy at the Italian Spring School produced by the Italian Piper’s Association and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. The Italians have sent three Italian piping students to Winter Storm as part of an exchange with MHAF.
You can visit their site at http://www.winterstorm.net
Alastair
Winter Storm 2011, January 14 -16, will be the tenth in the annual series.
Winter Storm attracts hundreds of students and competitors, as well as hundreds of contest and concert spectators from around the globe, the Midwest U.S., and Kansas City. Nearly one hundred volunteers take part in helping run the Winter Storm weekend.
Winter Storm is widely considered to be one of the premier events in the world of Highland piping and drumming. The success of Winter Storm is due in great part to the high quality of the Winter Storm adjudicators, performers, and faculty who are all gold medalists and/or world champions; widely recognized as an “all star” line-up. The piping and drumming contests offer some of the richest prizes in the piping and drumming world and consequently attract many of the best competitors and numerous spectators. The concert is generally regarded as one of the best in terms of quality and variety and is attended by the workshop students as a facet of the tuition, and hundreds of the general public. The foundation of the weekend is the piping and drumming workshop, which offers Master Classes for all skill levels of pipers and drummers. It is, by far, the largest and highest quality weekend workshop of its kind in the world.
MHAF also offer scholarships to deserving Midwest U.S. pipers and drummers for study abroad. Past MHAF scholarship winners have attended week-long piping schools in Glasgow, Scotland at the National Piping Centre, and in Isernia, Italy at the Italian Spring School produced by the Italian Piper’s Association and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. The Italians have sent three Italian piping students to Winter Storm as part of an exchange with MHAF.
You can visit their site at http://www.winterstorm.net
Alastair
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