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Mixtape Music Series

The Mixtape Music Series is a free, all-ages, live music series that funds 10 musicians presenting original work. Each monthly Mixtape performance consists of one featured artist or musical act that will perform a 45 to 60-minute act within the Blackbox or Main Hall.

Amount: $1,500
Available Awards: 10
Disciplines: Music
Projects will be assigned by Medium staff to one of the following spaces: Blackbox or Main Hall
Timeframe: Rotating Monthly, 1 Artist/Group Per Month

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Eligibility

Applicants must be at least 18 years old
Practicing artists and groups of artists are eligible to apply
Non-profit organizations are not eligible
Applicants do not need to be Arkansas residents
Musicians must perform a 45-60 minute set of original music
The majority of the funds will be awarded to recipients in Benton, Washington, Madison, Crawford, Carroll, and/or Sebastian Counties of Arkansas
Previous Mixtape Music Series recipients may not reapply for this fund

2025 Mixtape Music Info Session

Are you a musician, band, or group interested in applying to the Mixtape Music Series? Click the link below to watch the 2025 Mixtape Music Series info session!

2025 mixtape music series info sessions

Featured Mixtape Music Series Artist

Miroslava Panayotova & Princeaus

Bulgarian pianist Miroslava Panayotova performed a solo piano recital, which includes pieces from various style periods, entitled A Tapestry of Sorrows and Passions.

“Opus” by Princeaus, features an audio-visual performance experience that provides contextual depth to the lyrics behind their music. A story telling evening, where people can hear exactly why they felt each song should be written.

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Mixtape Music Series

PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS

Ciavash Zaifi

Chris Long

Candy Lee Bullette, A.K.A. Candy Songs

Ashtyn Barbaree

Matteo Cassi

Craig Colorusso

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Kevin Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American musical artist, producer, and audio engineer from Salt Lake City, UT. He is a graduate of the Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences in Gilbert, AZ. For the past 2.5 years, Kevin has spent time working on his craft in an intimate studio space located in Bentonville’s famed CACHE Studios, collaborating with the new wave of Hip-Hop and Rap artists in our flourishing and eclectic art and music scene. Having recently served as a barista at a local cafe, known for its excellence in hospitality, he is looking to help facilitate these qualities, at The Medium, for everyone in the creative community.

BACK OF HOUSE & TECHNICAL COORDINATOR

KEVIN NGUYEN

Email: kevin@cachecreate.org

A lover of nature, collector of plants, and avid fan of travel and adventure; Cynthia is a fine art photographer, curator, educator, and multi-disciplinary artist.

With a heart-felt passion for empowering and encouraging authentic self-expression, she is mindful of how personal experiences influence and inspire the vision for future growth and community support to evolve as a result of authentic embodiment. She is mindful of the ever-changing moments of life and thrives to elevate the essence of every place and every person she encounters.

She has been involved in the arts sector for over six years and a practitioner of her own medium for over a decade now, with eight years of professional experience capturing, curating, connecting artists to opportunities, and facilitating events.

EVENT & FRONT OF HOUSE COORDINATOR

CYNTHIA TRAN

Email: cynthia@cachecreate.org

A breath of fresh air
one moody evergreen dusk
the moon’s reflection

Perrodin is a community-focused, visual artist and storyteller based in Springdale, Arkansas; a chronic grassroots organizer inspired by art, community, and creative placemaking.

Perrodin is the founder of The Little Craft Show and Team Springdale; co-founder of The Creative Social Retreat; a 4-year local team member with “Live in America”, a collaborative research project presented by The Momentary, and a 4-year Artist Fellow with “Looking for America” that resulted in “The Ozark Story Project” a 200-page book that chronicles stories, photos, poetry, and recipes from across the Ozarks.

A graduate from the University of Arkansas School of Art, Perrodin received her bachelor of fine arts in printmaking in 2010. She is a certified Arkansas Master Naturalist who enjoys foraging for wild mushrooms, swimming in creeks, kayaking, and collecting tumbled creek glass, animal bones, and river stones that often find their way back to her art studio as inspiration for her paintings that are collected across the United States.

ARTIST AND COMMUNITY MANAGER

AMBER PERRODIN

Email: amber@cachecreate.org

Friend to Everyone
She Whispers with mushrooms and
is guided by heart

John Wayne is a Filipino-American who has spent each half of his life on opposite sides of the world. But no matter where he has been, there has always been an innate desire to make sounds and capture them. He began his musical journey as an avid listener, which then progressed into learning to become a keyboardist, a choir member, then finally a self-taught guitarist. That path proceeded to taking on roles as an audio engineer, videographer, and live sound technician. Later on in life he was introduced to his second passion, construction. With over five years now of experience in various aspects, he is looking to transform the space in Downtown Springdale into a safe and evolving one providing to the needs of local creatives.

GENERAL MANAGER

JOHN WAYNE PHARR

Email: jwp@cachecreate.org

Freak in the spreadsheets
Filipino Musician
King of space and time

Since 2015, Thalia has been a vital liaison between performing arts and the community, following more than a decade of in-home education fueling the minds and passions of her five children. Combining her scientific background — a Cum Laude University of Arkansas graduate with a degree in Environmental, Soil, and Water Science — with the artistic, athletic, and academic world in which she was immersed, Thalia began her career as Production Manager for the Northwest Arkansas Conservatory of Classical Ballet, the region’s premiere dance school.

In 2019, Thalia continued to cultivate a relevant landscape for dance in Northwest Arkansas, working with acclaimed directors, artists, and choreographers as Project Manager on a successful 6 month pilot program called Dance Anywhere/Everywhere. Later, as Executive Director of NWA Ballet Theatre, she managed 22 professional dancers and administratively supported art that began receiving national attention. Thalia orchestrated day-to-day operations of NWABT, and quickly became the hub of information flowing in and out of the organization. She not only solidified the continuation of the company, but found her niche in the curation of relationships among artists, venue operators, arts organizations, and community leaders.

With an analytical mind to keep artistic systems functioning, Thalia now employs her talents on the Medium team as their Operations Manager, cultivating connections between nonprofits, municipalities, cultural institutions, and funders to build a more equitable and inclusive region for artists and creatives.

OPERATIONS MANAGER

THALIA MADEWELL

Email: thalia@cachecreate.org

Capricorn hustle
An Okie from Muskogee
She’s been here before

Mixtape Music Series

Eligibility

Miroslava Panayotova & Princeaus

Watch more

of what goes on at The Medium.

Behind the Scenes

PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS

Ciavash Zaifi

Chris Long

Candy Lee Bullette, A.K.A. Candy Songs

Ashtyn Barbaree

Matteo Cassi

Craig Colorusso

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