Community-Engaged Performance Tours

<p><em>Community-Engaged Performance Tours</em> addresses the role of performance touring as a form of classroom and community engagement. Performance tours have long been a part of the collegiate and high school music ensemble experience bringing student bands choirs and orchestras into connection with a wide variety of audiences venues and cultural contexts. This book presents a new approach to the performance tour that integrates touring with community engagement and service-learning. Emphasizing reciprocity cross-cultural exchange and global awareness the author addresses how visiting ensembles can work <i>with</i> host communities instead of performing <i>for</i> them. The book includes student and community perspectives and case studies from the author’s experience leading university wind symphony tours in Haiti and the Dominican Republic and provides a practical and hands-on model for ensemble leaders and educators. </p>