Dan Dalpra, CEO Chautauqua Lake Pops
Karen Surkala, President Westfield Memorial Hospital
Allegheny Health Network, Westfield Memorial Hospital and Saint Vincent Hospital announced sponsorship of the Allegheny Health Network Floating Stage in 2019.
The original Bemus Bay Pops brought twenty years of World-Class entertainment to a small lakeside community in Chautauqua County, New York. Twenty three years after it all started, a new page to the history of “Bringing the Arts to the People” has turned!
Officials of Allegheny Health Network, Westfield Memorial Hospital and AHN Saint Vincent Hospital gathered at the last concert of the 2019 Chautauqua Lake Pops Concert Series on August 31 to announce that Allegheny Health Network is the naming rights sponsor for the Chautauqua Pops floating stage for a three-year period.
The stage was developed by Bemus Point businessman, Dan Dalpra and his family who relocated the stage to the north end and gateway to Chautauqua Lake at 16 Water Street in Mayville, New York. During it’s time in Bemus Point, independent studies showed that the Pops performances were responsible for generating between twelve to fourteen million dollars annually to the Chautauqua County Region. The program is responsible for bringing visitors from around the globe to the shores of Chautauqua Lake.
Dalpra reintroduced the newly named Chautauqua Lake Pops concert series in 2019. The series featured performances by the best headliner tribute acts throughout the summer along with the forty-four member Chautauqua Lake Pops Symphony Orchrestra on Labor Day weekend.
With the absence of the 2020 season, beginning in 2021 the stage will be known as the Allegheny Health Network Floating Stage.
AHN will present an official ribbon cutting, celebration and inaugural concert to kick off the 2021 season at the AHN Floating Stage next summer.
Dalpra explained how valuable having AHN as the Chautauqua Lake Pops new major community sponsor would be for the entire Region. “Their hands-on partnership brings an enormous support group and resources to assist our efforts to grow this program along with Westfield and Mayville as an exciting destination for the entire region. We are excited to have AHN join the Pops family and share this great opportunity with the community.”
“Residents of this region treasure every day of summer and value every opportunity to enjoy life outdoors during the season, which is why we are so pleased to put the Allegheny Health Network name on this stage and help unite music and the beauty of nature for the people of this region. This stage carries a great tradition that the newly named Chautauqua Lake Pops concert series has brought to Mayville and we at AHN are really excited to help ensure that it continues. At Allegheny Health Network, we know that having a healthy community goes beyond providing top-quality advanced care to people when they are sick or injured and we are committed to helping make the communities we serve a better place to live, work and play. We believe the Allegheny Health Network Floating Stage delivers on that commitment.”
Karen Surkala, President Westfield Memorial Hospital
Labor Day Finale Concert 2019
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Pat Locke
Maestro Muse
