Traditions Senior Communities serves residents throughout the Midwest
A new sponsorship agreement with Traditions Senior Communities includes naming rights for the Great American Songbook Foundation’s exhibit gallery.
The Traditions Senior Communities Songbook Gallery presents exhibits exploring the past, present, and future of popular music, drawing from the Songbook Foundation’s extensive Songbook Library & Archives.
The 500-square-foot space is adjacent to the organization’s offices in the Payne & Mencias Palladium at Allied Solutions Center for the Performing Arts. Visitors are welcome from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays and one hour in advance of select concerts at the Payne & Mencias Palladium.
The current exhibit, From the Jazz Age to Streaming: The Soundtrack of the 20s-20s, is on view through Nov. 7, followed by a seasonal display of artifacts opening in December.
Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Carmel, Traditions Senior Communities offers independent living, assisted living, memory care, cottages, garden homes, and villas at 20 locations in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Michigan, including communities in Fishers, Westfield, Indianapolis, McCordsville, and Avon.
In addition to sponsoring the gallery, Traditions also sponsored this year’s Songbook Academy®, the Songbook Foundation’s flagship education program. The summer music intensive brings 40 of the nation’s most talented high school singers to Carmel each year for a rigorous week of workshops, masterclasses and performances under the guidance of Songbook Foundation Founder Michael Feinstein, Broadway performers, university educators and other professionals from the world of arts and entertainment. Feinstein recently appeared on CBS News Sunday Morning to discuss the Songbook Foundation’s mission of education and historic preservation.
“We’re proud and fortunate to partner with this great local organization as it gains more of the national attention it deserves,” said Andy Wade, President and Principal of Traditions. “The music championed by the Songbook Foundation is close to the hearts of our residents, and they also are proud that we’re helping to inspire and develop new generations of performers.”
Songbook Foundation Executive Director Christopher Lewis said the financial support is welcome as the organization ramps up its efforts to establish a freestanding museum and research center to house the Library & Archives. The historical collections preserve more than 500,000 documents, images, recordings and other artifacts representing composers, lyricists, performers, arrangers and other figures from the 20th century foundational era of American popular music.
“We are grateful to Traditions Senior Communities for recognizing the value of our work,” Lewis said. “This partnership is a natural fit that we all feel good about.”