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AUI Artist Eric Sundberg Trades World Travel for Close Connections

Eric Sundberg has performed for audiences throughout the Western Hemisphere. Thanks to two tours of duty with an Army band, he was able to travel all over Central and South America. “These were some of the best musicians I’ve ever played with,” he said. Eric’s stint in the Army is even how he met his ...
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Dale Vollenweider: AUI’s Everyday Hero

Dale Vollenweider, longtime AUI performer, is spending his retirement giving back to the community and country that he loves. Not only has Dale been performing hundreds of concerts for AUI audiences since his retirement six years ago; he also devotes a significant amount of time serving on a Red Cross disaster team. Dale’s history with ...
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Meet Anne Lewellen, Administrative Program Coordinator Extraordinaire!

Ever wonder what it takes to schedule 30-plus musical artists for numerous performances at up to 50 senior living facilities each month? It’s obviously no small task, and that’s why we’re always so impressed with Anne Lewellen, our Administrative Program Coordinator, and her ability to connect available artists with our unreached audiences throughout Northeast Indiana. ...
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Five Fun Facts About Nancy Louraine

You know her as Audience Unlimited’s interim executive director, former AUI board member, and co-chair of our 50th anniversary celebration committee. Many also know her as the previous and longtime executive director of Turnstone. But did you also know that Nancy Louraine can drive a tractor, or that she played French horn in middle and ...
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Anna Ross, Thank You for a Job Well Done!

By now, many of you have learned that our longtime executive director, Anna Ross, has announced plans to retire from her lead role at Audiences Unlimited at the end of June. She will continue in an advisory capacity, working alongside interim director Nancy Louraine, through the end of the year. Under Anna’s leadership, AUI has ...
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A Lifetime of Bringing Arts to Unreached Audiences

Long before Anna Ross, outgoing executive director of AUI, ever heard of Audiences Unlimited (or Fort Wayne, Indiana, for that matter!) she was bringing the arts to unreached audiences in her home state of Pennsylvania as a young girl. “When I was 15,” she said, “we lived close enough to school for me to walk ...
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