To see prizes for the "Weigh to Go" Contest
To see items for the ONLINE Auction (Starts April 28- 8 p.m.- and ends two weeks later)

While the primary burden for this trip must be assumed by the parents of the students involved, we will provide performance-based opportunities for students to raise money to lower their trips costs. 

Fund-raising plans included:

1.  TOUR CD - “Beijing, My Kind Of Town”  
The CDs have arrived and are currently being sold by students for $15 each. For each CD sold, $10 will go toward the individual travelers tour fund, and $5 will be used by the Tour Fund to pay for CD production. The cost is $15 for everyone and no one is allowed to sell the CD for any amount less than $15. One student plans to write friends and family and offer the CD to them as a special gift of appreciation if they donate a minimum of $25 toward the student's trip cost. (A rather clever and allowable idea.) A postcard to order free tickets to the China Tour Preview Concert on May 12, 2000, was attached to each CD. Those concert tickets available through the mail will be honored until 7:15 p.m., after which all seats will be available for free to the public.
GARRET ASH HAS ALREADY SOLD 40 TOUR CDs, lowering his trip cost by $400 and lowering EVERY STUDENT'S trip cost by more than $2. If everyone works this hard, it adds up, and we will fly for FREE!!!

2. WEIGH TO GO CONTEST - By donating a minimum of $2 and using a special entry form that has been provided to our students, people entered this contest to guess the "gross" weight of all musicians with their instruments in cases, and the average weight per person.  There were two chances to win...one winner was the one who guessed the closest to the actual weight without going over, and another winner can guess the average weight per person.  All money turned in by the student travelers using a special envelope for that purpose went into their individual tour account. The total weight was known only by Mr. Warrick and the amount was locked in the school safe. The envelope was opened on stage at the May 12, 2000, concert by the Jazz Ensemble and Chamber Orchestra. Certain instruments/cases will not be considered in the total weight. (String basses, timpani, all drums and sound equipment.)  Student travelers are not eligible to win the contest.

3. ONLINE AUCTION - Beginning at the Spring Jazz Concert on Friday, April 28, and ending two weeks later at 8:00 PM (CDT) on Saturday, May 13, we conducted an ONLINE AUCTION of some very substantial items. The auction was held at http://pricestop.com/auctions/ntjazz.

4. CHICK COREA/ GARY BURTON DUET BENEFIT CONCERT- (April 29, 2000)- Reserved seat tickets were $25. Coupons printed in the Pioneer Press, the cosponsor of this concert were for $20 tickets. All funds received were directed into the Tour account. Since these are major jazz artists, jazz students who are not in Jazz Ensemble I will be sold balcony tickets for $10 each. Since the Jazz Ensemble and Chamber Orchestra will be performing on that concert, those students do not need to purchase tickets.

SPECIAL NOTE TO TOUR FAMILIES REGARDING TICKETS TO COREA/BURTON CONCERT...

Every tour family that sells a ticket to Corea/Burton can buy a ticket for $10 (rather than $20 or $25) to a maximum of two reduced price tickets per family. (Families would have to sell two tickets to get the two reduced price tickets.) It should be noted that the Corea/Burton concert had all profit after expenses directed to the tour fund to reduce everyone's cost. While several of the other fund raisers allow the student to benefit as much as 100% on what they sell, this will not. Since the Corea/Burton concert is cosponsored by the Pioneer Press and they will be printing ticket coupons, it will be much easier to just deposit all the profits into the tour fund. Members of the Chamber Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble will be admitted free to the concert.

5. FORTUNE COOKIES - These will be sold at Jazz and Chamber Orchestra concerts, and at school for .25 cents each. Since individual accounting will be difficult for this project, all funds from the sale will go to the Tour Fund to reduce everyone's cost.

6. While the combined TOUR PREVIEW CONCERT planned for May 12, 2000, by the Jazz Ensemble and Chamber Orchestra was free, we may "pass the hat" for donations. At that concert the total weight for the Weigh To Go Contest was announced.  Postcards to obtain the 800 free tickets to the concert were attached to Tour CDs. Those tickets available through the mail were honored until 7:15 p.m., after which all seats will be available for free to the public.

7. SPRING JAZZ CONCERT (April 14, 2000). General admission tickets were $5 each. Tour participants who sold tickets using a special envelope provided will receive $4 credited toward their personal tour account, and $1 applied to the Tour Fund. Since the ticket cost of this concert is already so cheap, there will be no reduction in price for tour families.

8. SPRING ORCHESTRA CONCERT (April 28, 2000). General admission tickets were $5 each. Tour participants who sold tickets using a special envelope provided received $4 credited toward their personal tour account, and $1 applied to the Tour Fund. Since the ticket cost of this concert was already so cheap, there is no reduction in price for tour families.

A FORMER PROJECT.... STRAUSS WALTZ/BIG BAND DANCE - After careful consideration, we have decided that this fund raiser would not be the best use of our time to plan, and that the available locations were not satisfactory to guarantee a successful event.