{"id":273726,"date":"2025-10-21T17:26:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/?p=273726"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:44:17","slug":"2024-pradeau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/2024-pradeau\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s So Special to Be Together\u201d \u2014 Meet Stella, Festival Volunteer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stella Pradeau moved to Boulder years ago to study at the University of Colorado, where she would eventually earn her Master\u2019s degree in piano performance. She found herself swept up first as a student and then as a first-time mother to daughter Chloe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It wasn\u2019t until Stella and her husband Fran\u00e7ois welcomed a second daughter, Clara, that the Pradeaus felt that something was missing: music. \u201cAll of a sudden, this idea of having music in my children\u2019s life started to feel really important to me,\u201d she says. She found the Colorado Music Festival and the annual Family Concert, created especially for families with young children. \u201cWithin two weeks of Clara\u2019s life, we were at [the Festival\u2019s] Family Concert.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That was years ago. Now every summer you can find Stella at Chautauqua Auditorium as frequently as three times a week as she volunteers as an usher for the Colorado Music Festival. <\/span><b>\u201cIt feeds my soul,\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> she says. \u201cI love the idea of all these people coming in from different places, settling in, and making music together.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-387872 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CMA-Website-Event-Images-4-300x214.png\" alt=\"volunteers for the classical music festival - the Colorado Music Festival\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" \/>To Stella\u2019s joy, the Pradeau children \u2014 youngest daughter Lily makes three \u2014 have kept the Colorado Music Festival in their lives as well. \u201cThey love going to concerts as young adults, which makes me so happy,\u201d beams Stella.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Volunteering as an usher means more to Stella than simply something to fill her summer nights; she feels that music \u2014 and live performances in particular \u2014 are important to share as a family. \u201cI think about how much we\u2019re in front of our screens,\u201d she sighs. \u201c<\/span><b>It\u2019s so special to have a concert experience and to be all together, united. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s something we need to hold onto in society. We can\u2019t let it slip away.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Your Part in the Story<\/strong><br \/>\nThese life-changing moments are made possible by the generosity of people like you. When you give, you ensure that children in Boulder County and beyond have access to music performances, music lessons, caring teachers, and a community that supports and uplifts them. Together in harmony, we can continue to nurture confidence and connection\u2014one note at a time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comusic.org\/\">Give today to keep the music playing \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteering as an usher means more to Stella than simply something to fill her summer nights; she feels that music \u2014 and live performances in particular \u2014 are important to share as a family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":387871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[382],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}