Music, Vocal & Instrumental Arts Organizations

The Central Lakes Learning Center exists to serve as your one-stop-shop for afterschool activities in the Central Lakes area! They offer a huge variety of music, art, and science classes on a daily basis. The team of dedicated instructors offer guitar, piano, percussion, voice, and violin lessons. Check out the regular music recitals which take place throughout the year and showcase student achievement.

Central MN Boys Choir
The mission of the Central Minnesota Boys Choir is to provide an opportunity for young boys to participate in a group that is challenging, enriching, and rewarding, as well as to provide an opportunity to socialize with others who share the same musical values. It is the goal of the Choir to develop musical interest, leadership skills, and talent among boys in Central Minnesota. The group also provides a positive and challenging opportunity of high artistic quality.

Legacy Chorale
The mission of The Legacy Chorale of Greater Minnesota is “To ensure the legacy of excellence in choral music in the greater Minnesota area while enriching, inspiring, and renewing the communities in which we live”.

Staples Area Men's Chorus
The Staples Area Men's Chorus seeks to provide a high-quality and diverse choral experience for singers and audiences of all ages in Central Minnesota.

Her Voice, Her Song | Staples Area
A diverse group of women who enjoy making music together.

Josh Duffee and the Big Band, Northwoods Arts Council

Lakes Area Music Festival
The Lakes Area Music Festival connects the nation’s best performers and audiences through excellent classical music and inspiring education.

The Heartland Symphony Orchestra
Heartland Symphony Orchestra is a 50-piece volunteer, nonprofit, community orchestra located in and serving the central Minnesota area of Brainerd, Little Falls, and the surrounding rural communities. Musicians, from amateurs to professionals, come together once a week from all over the region to rehearse and perform three full-length orchestral music concerts each season in both Little Falls and Brainerd.

Long Prairie Chamber Orchestra
After opening its doors to the Long Prairie community in 1974, the Long Prairie Chamber Orchestra (LPCO) has truly lived up to its mission to provide engaging programming of orchestral music for the enrichment and enjoyment of its performers and audience.

Lakes Area Bluegrass Festival
The Lakes Bluegrass Festival presents nationally known, regional, and local bluegrass bands, that provide over 40 hours of professional main-stage entertainment, hands-on workshops, jam sessions, a dance, and more during a five-day musical event in picturesque Pine River, Minnesota.

Wadena Area Community Band
The Wadena Area Community Band provides a musical outlet for instrumental musicians in and around Wadena, Minnesota. It also provides quality musical performances for audiences in the same area.

St. Francis Music Center
St. Francis Music Center is a Sally Ordway Irvine Award-winning community music school for the performing arts located in central Minnesota.

Sound of Spirit Lake
Summer outdoor concerts are offered by “Sounds of Spirit Lake,” a committee that grew out of the recent University of Minnesota Business Retention & Expansion Study conducted by the City of Menahga.

Kokoro Center for Music and the Performing Arts
Kokoro Center for Music & the Performing Arts is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

Colla Voce Choir Girls Choir
Colla Voce, or “follow the voice” is a girls’ choir for adolescent girls. Colla Voce provides music-making experiences as well as educational opportunities for each girl to learn how to nurture her body, mind, and spirit.