The Raleigh-based North Carolina Symphony has announced that it will partner for five upcoming performances with the Triangle Area Chapter of the American Red Cross to raise funds for victims of the state’s April tornados. Between May 31 and June 5, donations to American Red Cross Disaster Relief will be accepted on-site when the orchestra performs outdoor concerts in Tarboro, New Bern, Chapel Hill, Jacksonville, and Cary. Joining the orchestra for the program, entitled “Around the World in Eighty Minutes,” will be Rhiannon Giddens Laffan, lead singer of the 2011 Grammy-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops. The North Carolina Symphony is based at Raleigh’s Meymandi Concert Hall and performs outdoor summer concerts at the Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary; the orchestra also travels frequently throughout the state, with regular concerts in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill-Cary metropolitan area, as well as Fayetteville, New Bern, Southern Pines, and Wilmington.
Posted May 26, 2011
