song + story

song + story A concert series featuring a curated lineup of local, regional, and touring songwriters. Song + Story

01/25/2025
12/24/2024

On the sixth day of our 12 Days of Donations, we are gifting $350 to Ohms. We are truly fortunate for the impact you make in our local communities.

Please help LIKE and SHARE this organization's post - at the end of our 12 days, the organization with the most likes and shares will receive an additional $1,500.

Thank you again for your generosity and time - your support means a lot. 🎄

11/04/2024

The Illini Valley Association of Realtors through a grant from the National Association of Realtors, announced its $7,500 grant support and local Realtor involvement in Hope for Tomorrow – A Community Response to Homelessness, an event addressing homelessness solutions.

10/20/2024
03/24/2024

Here And Again Inc is looking for a Grant Writer.
Responsibility Include:
Prepare grant proposals on behalf of Here and Again Inc 501c3 nonprofit organization many projects.
Report on progress, manage budgets, and communicate with funders once grants are
awarded, in addition to writing grant proposals.
Mission Statement:
To lift people up and enrich their lives through the arts while providing affordable, educational, and recreational activities in a safe clean and inviting environment for people of all ages and groups through sound business and management practices. Dedicated to the preservation of historic theatres and like properties in downtown locations within the Midwest which have the potential to create an economic anchor for their community. Creating new economic and employment opportunities through education in film, media, theatre production, radio, and the fine arts. Encourage tourism with destination development by utilizing creative art installation.
"Our first mission was to create a community radio station in Ottawa, Illinois, which will cultivate the artistic minds in our community to produce economic opportunities in the arts and entertainment". WRWO 94.5 FM is located in Ottawa IL
Please e mail inquires to: [email protected]

03/09/2024

🎶 Join us for an Evening of Harmony and Hope! 🎶

We're thrilled to invite you to 'Voices United for the Homeless - A Choral Concert with Purpose'! 🌟
📅 Save the Date: Saturday, March 16th
🕖 Time: 7:00 - 8:00 pm

Let your heart soar as the Ottawa Area Community Choir fills the air with beautiful melodies, all in support of Illinois Valley PADS and our mission to shelter the homeless. 🏠💖

See you there! 🎵✨

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813 Lasalle Street
Ottawa, IL
61350

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One Thanksgiving Ottawa, IL resident Katie Troccoli sat in the living room with her family and drew up plans to create a nonprofit, Here and Again, Inc. which would contain provisions for a broad array of community-enriching creative start ups. Community radio station WRWO 94.5 FM is the first project of Here and Again, Inc. Before WRWO was even officially launched, various events were hosted in the building where the station was being built, Wallace Hall. One such meeting was a monthly songwriter night where local songwriters would gather and share songs with each other, giving and receiving input - often on songs that hadn’t been played in a while or were still in their early stages.

Many of these Illinois Valley songwriters regularly frequented many of the open mics hosted by venues in the area at one time or another. They are often good opportunities to meet other local musicians, work out the kinks in songs, and connect with others around music on a weeknight.

On one particular open mic night, a songwriter from Ottawa brought a fellow songwriter from Chicago, got in conversation with a former host of the songwriter night at Wallace Hall and the conception for song + story was born. Their brainchild was a listening room atmosphere and a multi-act bill featuring a mix of local, regional, and nationally touring artists whom Illinois Valley songwriters had come to know and respect in their history of playing gigs.

This would provide an opportunity for Illinois Valley songwriters and their peers from other places to connect, and Illinois Valley residents to hear some fine and fresh original music in their very own community for a price they can afford - by donation.