The powerful voice of acclaimed gospel singer Mary D. Williams will ring out at the State Capitol in honor of Black History Month Saturday, Feb. 27 at 4 p.m. Williams will bring the audience on a journey with the "Song and Narrative of the Black South" program and trace the progression from the sung slave narrative to 20th century gospel and Civil Rights protest music.
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The North Carolina Symphony, led by conductor Grant Llewellyn, will perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto, featuring pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, on Friday, Jan. 29, and Saturday, Jan. 30, at 8 p.m. in Raleigh’s Meymandi Concert Hall.
The North Carolina Symphony, led by conductor Marcelo Lehninger, will perform Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto Thursday, Jan. 14, at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 15-16, at 8 p.m., in Meymandi Concert Hall in the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Raleigh.
The North Carolina Symphony is coming to town! The Symphony will bring beloved holiday music back to Jacksonville with Holiday Pops, a tradition that has become a favorite across the state. Led by Symphony Associate Conductor David Glover, the concert takes place in the Robert B. Gaskins Auditorium on the campus of Jacksonville High School on Thursday, Dec. 10 at 7 p.m.
Masters of traditional music, including Sheila Kay Adams, Bobby Hicks and John Dee Holeman will perform at the North Carolina stage during the National Folk Festival next month in Greensboro, officials announced Tuesday.
Acclaimed singer and songwriter John Ondrasik, best known by his stage name Five for Fighting, joins the North Carolina Symphony onstage for the first time ever on Saturday, April 2, 2016, at 8 p.m., in Meymandi Concert Hall in downtown Raleigh. Tickets for the one-concert only performance go on sale Monday, Aug. 3, at 10 a.m. at www.ncsymphony.org.
Special guests ranging from Earl Owensby, a Tar Heel film legend, to Tyrone Jefferson, who served several stints as music director for entertainer James Brown, will present August programs at the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh. Owensby opened North Carolina’s first modern independent production studio in 1973. During an Aug. 7 program, he and Noel T. Manning, a professor at Gardner-Webb University, will highlight and show clips from Owensby’s movies, such as “Wolfman” and “Living Legend: The King of Rock and Roll.”
Cary's Booth Amphitheatre will come alive with the hot sounds of the New York City-based band the Hot Sardines on Thursday, July 9, at 7:30 p.m., in the season finale of the 2015 Rex Healthcare Summerfest Series. Gates open for the concert series at 5:30 p.m. Children 12 and under are free on the lawn. The North Carolina Symphony is presenting, but will not perform at the concert.
The North Carolina Symphony will celebrate America’s 239th birthday with a concert of patriotic favorites and high-spirited classics in its traditional free Independence Day concert, with fireworks, at Cary’s Koka Booth Amphitheatre on Saturday, July 4 at 7:30 p.m.