Mickey Finn opens annual music series

The fall/winter concert series may never have been created if it wasn’t for a summer concert six years ago.


“Ed Kaizer from Bradley called and said he had a Dixieland show from Denmark trying to perform and he was looking for some venues for it,” Morton Fine Arts Association President Phil Kuhl said.


After renting the Bertha Frank Fine Arts Center at Morton High School to host it, the association walked away with about $15,000 in profit that they used to make the Fine Arts Endowment through the Morton Community Foundation.


“What we did was, by September, we put together four shows and made what would become the Fine Arts Fall/Winter series,” he said.


They sold season tickets for $50 that year to help pay for the performances.


Kuhl said the season went over so well that it helped start the Arts in the Park series in the summer at Idlewood Park.