- This event has passed.
Brass Attack Concert and Skög Award Presentation
August 29, 2023 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
The 2023 Summer Concerts will take place: Tuesdays at the Town Beach
Scroll down for Skög Award Information. Buy Tickets to 50/50 Raffle!
Venue: North Kingstown Town Beach
Address: 36 Beach Street, North Kingstown, RI 02852
Date: August 29, 2023
Time: 6:30pm
Performer: Brass Attack
Concerts Are Free; Cash Donations Gratefully Accepted!
Bring a lawn chair or blanket to be comfortable. Shuttle starts at 5:30, NK Town Hall, 100 Fairway Dr. There will be NO parking at the beach after 5:30, only drop-offs. Sorry, but no pets allowed unless they can play an instrument!
In the event of rain please call 401-268-1543 for updates after 2:30pm. If concerts cannot be held outside due to weather, they will be held at North Kingstown High School.
Skög Award Presentation During Concert
50-50 raffle to help purchase a bench in Geoff and Sally’s honor.
The Skög Award
Recognizing Excellence In Creative Contributions To The Community of North Kingstown
Thank you for joining the North Kingstown Arts Council in posthumously honoring the accomplishments of Sally Meland with the 2023 Skög Award.
The Skög Award was created in remembrance of Geoff Skög, the longest standing member of the North Kingstown Arts Council, who passed away in 2008. Geoff was an exemplary person, artist, businessman, volunteer, mentor and leader in the community. The Award was created to recognize the value of characteristics which he embodied, and to encourage these qualities from members of our community.
Celebrated Qualities:
- Community service & community building
- Mentoring
- Altruism
- Get it Done attitude
- Duty and adventure
- Sense of humor and fun
- Clarity & simplicity
We are happy to present the Skög Award to Sally Meland’s family for her many contributions to our community and as a wonderful representative of the above mentioned qualities.
Our previous Skög Awards honored: Tim Cranston, Ted Whittaker, and Lou Cahoone. Our 4th award honors Sally Meland, creator of the NK Arts Council Tuesday Night Concerts, and so much more. She was a force behind the NK Arts Council. Read about her many accomplishments below and join us in honoring her at the Brass Attack Concert.
Who was Sally Meland, the 2023 recipient of the Skög Award?
Primarily, she was a terrific person who was determined to get the job done!
- 1985 ~ She created the, now annual, Festival of Lights in Wickford in to raise money for the NKHS Concert Choir trip to a music competition in Montreal.
- 1986-1990 ~ She organized Sunday Musicales at the NK Library. Elizabeth Donovan continued the program.
- 1995 ~ She created the Tuesday Night Concert series. They were originally held behind Earnshaws! She worked hard to have a wide variety of music from a Swedish Acapella group, Irish Jigs, blue grass and oldies. And, she started the tradition of Brass Attack playing every year!
Those were the big things, but Sally was also behind many of the little things that make the arts scene in NK as rich as it is today. Sally moved to Castle Rock, Colorado in 2005. She passed in August, 2022.
The NK Arts Council along with the Blue Bus Foundation, the Meland Family, personal donations, and proceeds from a 50-50 raffle have purchased a bench that will be located near the bandstand at the beach. The plaque will read: “Sally Meland, A Force Behind NK Arts & Rec.”
Please join us in honoring her at the Brass Attack Concert!
Summer Concert Series Presented by:
