2025 Tri-Lakes Music Association Community Christmas Concert

In 1998, Robert W.G. Manning and Bruce Eldridge founded The Tri-Lakes Music Association with a group of musicians in the Tri-Lakes Communities centered around Monument, Colorado. The original charter of this organization was to develop an annual Christmas Concert series performed primarily by residents of the Tri-Lakes region - a true community event. It was the founders' dream that this series of concerts would be a true community happening that would not belong to any one church, school or other organization. It was an attempt to start down the road to Scott Peck's "community."  The concert series has grown in size, talent, and attendance each year. The production itself, including the music, rehearsal and performance space, musical and recording equipment, and advertising, is funded primarily by donations from local churches, individuals, and businesses. A free-will offering is accepted during the performance, the total sum of which currently goes to sponsor a local charity, Tri-Lakes Cares, and to provide two scholarships for high school seniors.  There are typically two sections to each concert.  The first half consists of prepared pieces performed by Tri-Lakes Music Association's small ensembles (both vocal and instrumental)