Community
volunteer Service
Offering Many Engaging Opportunities
The Delta Symphony Orchestra offers many opportunities to engage volunteers from the surrounding communities. If you would like partner with the arts through volunteer service, please review the opportunities available, then fill outhe Application. You determine your level of commitment.
Office Support
Development
The Development department of the Symphony generates numerous large mailings annually, and volunteers are needed to collate, stuff, seal, and stamp mailing pieces. Volunteers also assist with cutting and/or laminating special paper items as well as shredding sensitive documents.
Field Aid
Education
Our non-profit organization requires on-location needs while working in the community, assisting leaders in our organization to facilitate business for the organization and the concerts.
Concert Greeter
House Management
The greeter welcomes patrons as they arrive for performances, answering general questions and providing directions. A greeter may also assist a wheelchair patron to his or her seat, or even provide safety cautions on stairways and ramps.
Concert Usher
House Management
Volunteers assist paid ushers for Symphony events by distributing programs and seating patrons.
Location Crew
House Management
This volunteer assists at events in set-up, break-down, and clean-up.
Ticket Host
House Management
Volunteers assist ticket sellers at the concert desk on rehearsal day and at the concert.
Photographer
Human Resources
Amateur photographers are used to photograph Symphony activities and personalities.
Event Aid
Marketing/Ticketing
Events occur at the DSO which require the assistance of volunteers who are willing to assist in various roles, from lobby errands to backstage assistance.
Symphony Street Team
Marketing/Ticketing
The Symphony Street Team assists the Marketing Department in promoting upcoming performances by distributing posters to local businesses.
Employ Musicians
Happy to Provide a Free Referral Service
As a courtesy to support education and community service, the DSO is happy to provide a free referral service to our talented orchestra musicians. Whether you need one musician or more, music lessons for your child, an adult or if you need musicians for events, we can help! DSO musicians are eager to be employed in their communities. All referrals are to musicians which are current or former members of the Delta Symphony Orchestra. For inquiries and or referrals, please contact 870-761-8254 or our Contact Us page above. DSO is not liable for any reommendations given.
Bookings and fees arranged through the musician/representative, not through the DSO.
Delta Symphony Brass Quintet
BRASS
Ronal Foster
Phone: 870-275-6885
Email: ronalfos@gmail.com
String Ensemble*
STRINGS
Elaine Bartee
Phone: 870-243-0343
Email: enbartee@suddenlink.net
*Provide various ensembles for competitive rates.
Jazz Extrordinare
Jazz
Tom Mason
Phone: 870-761-7534
Email: tmason@rittermail.com
The Over the Hill Gang
Ragtime to Rock
Tom Mason
Phone: 870-761-7534
Email: tmason@rittermail.com
Request a Speaker
Speakers
Invite us to speak to your club, organization, or group event about the importance of the arts in our Jonesboro community! A speaker and a musician(s) from the Delta Symphony Orchestra will voluntarily come and present a brief music program! Call: 870-761-8254
Jonesboro
Serving the Northeast Arkansas Delta Region
The Delta Symphony Orchestra serves the Northeast Arkansas Delta Region, and its headquarters are located in Jonesboro, a city of distinction in Northeast Arkansas. We are the 5th largest city in Arkansas, with a population of over 71,000. Our Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is over 125,000. Jonesboro is centrally located with easy access to other major markets, including America's Distribution Center, Memphis, Tennessee.
Jonesboro provides a positive business environment with a diversified economic foundation. A well qualified workforce, low cost utilities, the training capabilities of Arkansas State University and an overall low cost of doing business are just a few reasons why many companies are proud to call Jonesboro home. In addition, the quality of life is exceptional, with a high-quality educational system, excellent healthcare facilities, abundant retail opportunities and numerous recreational and cultural activities available. Jonesboro is a proven leader in a number of categories attractive to business, including geography, favorable climate, viable economy, advantageous tax structure, affordable housing, low crime rate, growing medical community, opportunity for education, expanding retail and industrial community, recreational opportunities, cultural, sports and civic organizations, plus low utility costs.
The Jonesboro MSA was recently recognized as 7th strongest in the nation for manufacturing. There are more than 100 industrial plants or facilities in the Jonesboro area. The city includes not only attractive plant sites in four industrial parks, but also a high-quality transportation infrastructure. Jonesboro is served by two railroads; 42 trucking companies, and a regional airport which offers airline service to Dallas/Fort Worth. Memphis International Airport is only 1 hour away.Jonesboro’s industrial community includes plants of major U.S. firms such as Nestlé, Butterball, L.L.C., Frito-Lay, Hytrol, Post Cereals, Riceland Foods, International Paper, Thomas & Betts, Great Dane Trailers, Quebecor World, Alberto - Culver, Nice-Pak, and Nordex.
Memphis, TN: 1 hour
Little Rock, AR: 2 hours
St. Louis, MO: 4 hours
Nashville, TN: 4 hours
Jonesboro
About Arkansas State University
Established in 1909, Arkansas State University (A-State) is a public research university and is the flagship campus of the Arkansas State University System, the state's second largest college system and second largest university by enrollment. It is located atop 1,376 acres (5.6 km2) on Crowley's Ridge in Jonesboro.
The ASU system includes campuses in Jonesboro (Craighead County), which offers degree programs through the doctoral level; Beebe (White County), Mountain Home (Baxter County), and Newport (Jackson County), where associate degree programs are offered; and at Heber Springs, Marked Tree, and Searcy. Arkansas State University-Beebe became part of the ASU System in 1955. It associated with White River Vo-Tech at Newport in 1992; that campus attained stand-alone status and is now Arkansas State University-Newport. The Mountain Home campus officially became ASU-Mountain Home on July 1, 1995. Delta Technical Institute at Marked Tree merged with ASU and became Arkansas State University Technical Center on July 1, 2001. A new campus was built for ASU-Heber Springs, which operates as a sister campus of ASU-Beebe. Foothills Technical Institute at Searcy was merged with ASU-Beebe on July 1, 2003, and is now ASU-Searcy, a technical institute of ASU-Beebe.
ASU offers bachelor's degree programs, master's degree programs and upper level courses through ASU degree centers at ASU-Beebe, ASU-Mountain Home, and three other cities -- Blytheville, Forrest City, and West Memphis—where partnership agreements have been established in cooperation with the local community colleges. ASU also operates an instructional site at nearby Paragould in Greene County.
A-State has grown rapidly over the past 20 years. Current enrollment for the Jonesboro campus stands close to 14,000, and the system has an enrollment of greater than 21,000.
