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RALEIGH, N.C. North Carolina Theatre is welcoming back cast members and an audience for the first time since the pandemic shut down its operations.
Songs for a New World premiers July 27 and runs through August 1
Tickets are $35 a person to see the show live, or you can buy an on-demand ticket for $25 to watch the performance from home
The show includes seven New York-based artists who have not been on stage since Broadway closed down in March 2020
The show is being hosted at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium inside the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts.
One of the actresses in the play, Krystina Alabado, was cast as Gretchen Wieners in Broadway s Mean Girls. Alabado s last time performing the show was in March 2020. It was later shut down in January 2021 because of the pandemic.
PineCone is bringing live bluegrass music back to downtown Raleigh's Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts and local NC native, IBMA award winner and banjo virtuoso, Tray Wellington will help kick off the return of the Down Home Concert Series May 7 at 1pm in Moore Square.
Courtesy of PineCone Tray Wellington is a bluegrass banjo player from Ashe County, North Carolina. PineCone s David Brower says he is mesmerizing to watch.
PineCone, the Piedmont Council of Traditional Music based in Raleigh, has been hit hard by the pandemic. The organization sponsors live concerts along with instructional and historical workshops focusing on the roots of music of North Carolina s Piedmont.
It also hosts the International Bluegrass Music Association awards and Wide Open Bluegrass Festival which draws tens of thousands of fans to downtown Raleigh each fall. That was all canceled last year and through the first quarter of this year.
Duke Energy Center and African American Cultural Festival Announce Partnership and Virtual Black History Month Program
The events will focus on bringing the community together while honoring African American culture and heritage.by BWW News Desk
Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts and the African American Cultural Festival of Raleigh and Wake County (AACF) announce their new annual partnership which will feature four co-produced events. The events will focus on bringing the community together while honoring African American culture and heritage. We re proud to continue to partner with the African American Cultural Festival of Raleigh and Wake County to celebrate African American heritage, said Michelle Bradley, Duke Energy Center s Interim Assistant GM.