- Bring quality events in music, dance, theater, and other genres to Ridgway and Ouray.
- Offer a varied program of afternoon Salons.
- Provide the services of our Yamaha Concert Grand Pianos.
- Cover sutitable liability insurance for all events.
- Collaborate with other organizations.
- Provide at least three free concerts in the park (for Ouray and Ridgway).
- Offer scholarships for aspiring students.
- Attract world-class performers to come to Ouray County.
- Price tickets at greatly reduced rates so that children can attend and no one is excluded for financial reasons.
- Put on at least one special event as recognition for our supporting donors.
- Help uplift our communities with the type of culture that matches our people and mountains.
- Work with other entities to build upon the entire range of performing arts available.

Contact Phone Numbers:
Sue Hillhouse 970-626-2970
Kelvin Kent 970-325-4598

We are a Not-for-Profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to providing a broad range of Performing Arts Events to our Community.Our ability to do this is entirely dependent on your interest and desire to make this undertaking a reality.

To become a member of the Ouray County Performing Arts Guild,
please fill out the application, check the appropriate boxes, print the form using your browser's print function, and mail it to:

Ouray County Performing Arts Guild
P.O. Box 14
Ouray, CO 81427

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Dear Friends of the Performing Arts,

Another season of concerts, theater, salons, and poetry readings is drawing to a close. The board of the Ouray County Performing Arts Guild is pleased that our lineup has attracted so much interest, and we were delighted when on occasion we had to add more chairs to accommodate all the patrons. Your generous support, underwriting of many events by local enterprises, as well as various grants have made it possible to bring the following performances to our area:

In addition to bringing quality events to the county, OCPAG is also committed to providing educational opportunities to the youth of our area. We have supported six scholarships this year with a total contribution of $2600 and organized “Masters Classes” with Max Levinson, Allison Eldredge, and Irina Muresanu for ten students during the San Juan Chamber MusicFest. To strengthen cooperation among local organizations supporting performing arts, we formalized our association with the Ouray County Chorus and expect to derive mutual benefits in the coming years.

With deep appreciation for their generous support we acknowledge the contributions by the Woman’s Club of Ouray, the Massard Trust, and the Zanett Foundation, as well as the underwriting of the major events by the Tisdel Lawfirm, Citizens State Bank, Alpine Bank, Bridger Construction, Cornerstone, Lindal Cedar Homes, San Miguel Power Association, and H. Scott Middleton, CPA. We also received a grant from the Colorado Council on the Arts and a federal grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. OCPAG also was the beneficiary of a very generous bequest by Carol T. Rieger, for which we are deeply grateful. We have invested the full amount as a donor-advised endowment with the Western Colorado Community Foundation and intend to fund special events and scholarships with the proceeds.

We are looking forward to our season finale, the Christmas concert with “Heartbeat,” and to a series of first-rate events in 2008. With your support, we plan to bring back the highly acclaimed Trio Solisti in June and the San Juan Chamber MusicFest in August. As always, we will sponsor free Concerts in the Park, which promise to be fun for the entire family.

To help us do all of this, we again ask for your support. Please fill out the enclosed membership card and mail it back to us along with your membership donation for 2008. Our all-volunteer Board of Directors works hard to make the best use of your membership donations.

When you support Ouray County Performing Arts Guild, you are saying that performing arts are important to our quality of life here in Ouray County. To show our appreciation for your continued support, we will continue to provide admission to some events at reduced cost for our members as well as an annual donor appreciation reception. We will also continue to encourage youth to attend our concerts by offering them free admission.

With gratitude and kind regards,

Sue Hillhouse, President

Kelvin Kent, Vice President

PS - Please note that we ask for your suggestions for event ideas and for new membership on our Board of Directors. We also request your correct email address so that we may send reminders about a week before each event.