Our Partners
tRp partners help us explore cultural heritage across the Pacific Northwest.
The Rhapsody Project partners help us explore cultural heritage at festivals, schools, and community centers across the Pacific Northwest. As annual hosts for our program’s Songster students, each partner creates more opportunities to study with culture bearers and perform live.
The Centrum Foundation
Since 2017, The Centrum Foundation has partnered with The Rhapsody Project to bring young people from South King County to the Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival & Workshop each summer. Scholarships are provided that allow young people to study for a week in daily workshops and jam sessions with internationally renowned blues musicians.
Cultural Space Agency
The Rhapsody Project has partnered with The Office of Arts & Culture's (OAC) program to establish Cultural Space, and is currently working with five other anchor partners to collaboratively develop an arts hub on the second floor of King Street Station! The design process is ongoing, and the goal is to establish educational, performance, and studio space for artists and apprentices
Northwest Folklife
Northwest Folklife has supported our mission to facilitate cross-cultural, cross-generational interactions through roots music since our inception. Our students and instructors have been featured for a two hour-long showcase at the NW Folklife Festival each year since 2014, and our concert series has been supported through their promotional support. Folklife also helps support the tRp Internship Program.
Red Eagle Soaring
Since 1991, Red Eagle Soaring has mentored hundreds of Native youth, staged over 180 productions, and supported youth access to the healing power of Native cultural traditions which promote social, physical, and intellectual engagement. In bringing together Native youth to learn about the technical aspects and process of theatre, they also build a community of people interested in learning about, sharing, promoting, and supporting Native arts and cultural life ways.
Totem Star
What was intended to be a one-off project slowly grew into a nonprofit organization through partnerships with organizations like the Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration, the Office of Arts & Culture, and the Jubilation Foundation. Totem Star is now a diverse community of young recording artists building life skills in communication, collaboration, and critical thinking through their creative pursuits in music production and performance.
Community Arts Create
The Rhapsody Project began as a program of Community Arts Create, a non-profit founded by Benjamin Hunter in 2010 to build community through self-discovery and shared experiences. CAC is temporarily closes, but is iconic in Seattle's Hillman City—it's contributors still engage to enhance a richer way of life by creating harmony through creative expression within south Seattle’s diverse culture.
Community Arts Create
Puget Sound Community School
PSCS is committed to centering intentionally excluded perspectives in curriculum and programming.
Some of the most important work we can do together at PSCS is to appreciate and educate ourselves about the history that surrounds us and the land we thrive on.
Black & Tan Hall
Black & Tan Hall is a values-driven cultural hub sustaining a thriving and equitable economy through arts and cultural programming in Hillman City, Seattle.
A hyper-local economy that respects and elevates diverse cultures, is built by and for people rooted in community, feeds the arts, and sustains good jobs.
Jazz Night School
Jazz Night School is a community-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting the appreciation and celebration of Black American music. Our passion lies in advocating for the universal right of individuals to participate in and learn music according to their unique identities and to foster cross-cultural connections and community.
Frontier Home
Frontier Home hosts concerts, workshops, and other community events in a quaint log cabin.
Frontier Home is a place to come together and experience great music. It’s a place to connect with neighbors and friends. 100% of the revenue from events at Frontier Home goes to the artists.
Champlin Guitars
Champlin Guitars, a locally owned music shop in downtown Bellingham.
We are an inclusive, community-minded shop in the heart of downtown. We'd love for you to stop by, play some instruments, nerd out on a drum machine, hang a flyer for your show, learn something new, teach us something, stuff like that.
Dusty Strings
A music store and store specializing in acoustic stringed instruments including guitars, harps, banjos, amplifiers, pedals and more!
Plus we offer music classes and lessons, concerts, events, expert repair services and local rentals.
Elderly Instruments
Family-owned since '72, we're a music store with a global reputation for quality instruments and service.
Elderly Instruments is a musical instrument retailer in Lansing, Michigan, United States, with a reputation as a "megastore", a repair shop and a locus for folk music including bluegrass and "twang".
Seattle Opera
Founded in 1963, Seattle Opera aims to thrill, inspire and educate through the shared experience of opera. They work towards the evolution of opera across the world.
A partnership with The Rhapsody Project in 2024 is bringing Face The Music to a broader public audience as well as to the Seattle Opera's staff, in addition to developing in-school programming for teens to learn about the Fisk Jubilee Singers in advance of a viewing of the upcoming new opera, Jubilee.
Seattle Opera
seattleopera.org
Our Model
We’re a multi-generational community that celebrates music and heritage through an anti-racist lens.
Our Space
Centering Seattle’s BIPOC youth, visit The Rhapsody Workshop at King Street Station.
