Market Street in Southern Village kicks off its 5th Annual Sunday Music Series on May 13th on the Village Green. Performances are every Sunday evening at 7 p.m. May 13 through August 26. All concerts are open to the public.|
The opening concert, co-sponsored by the ArtsCenter and Southern Village, features Irish vocalist and Grammy nominee, Maura O’Connell. O’Connell, who performed a stellar show last year at the ArtsCenter, shifts styles from tunes of old Ireland to new jazz and pop. Tickets are $16, $14 for ArtsCenter friends and are available at www.artscenterlive.
org.
The schedule for the Southern Village Music Series is:
- 5/20 – The Old Ceremony
Django Haskins leads this “Pop Noir†band ($5)
- 5/27 – The Magnolia Klezmer Band
Eastern European Jewish music blended with jazz and swing
- 6/03 – Bollywood Masti – “Passage to India Nightâ€
Ethnic fusion of hip-hop, funk and bhangra.
- 6/10 – The Long Leaf Opera
One-Act Vocal Competition
- 6/13 – June Southern Village
Talent Show hosted by La Petite Fromage
- 6/17 – Three Great Guitarists
Will McFarlane, Armand Lencchek and Danny Gotham
- 6/24 – Two Dollar Pistols
Country and Honky Tonk ($5)
- 7/01 – The Nomads
Classic Beach Music ($5)
- 7/08 – The Doc Branch Band
Great Bluegrass
- 7/15 – The Will McBride Group
Jazz/Rock Fusion
- 7/18 – July Southern Village
Talent Show hosted by the Water Callers
- 7/22 – The Decatur Street Beat Dixieland Band
New Orleans Jazz
- 7/29 – The Durham Savoyards
Gilbert and Sullivan meet Broadway
- 8/05 – Laura Ridgeway
Pop, blues and standards
- 8/08 – August Southern Village Talent Show hosted by the Bull City Six Shooters
- 8/12 – The Ramblers
Legendary NC String Band ($5)
- 8/19 – Susan Reeves
Jazz with one of the Triangle’s finest vocalists
- 8/26 – The Carolina Harmony Chorus
Women’s A Capella vocal stylings
The music series is sponsored by Harrington Bank, the Market Street Association and the Southern Village Homeowners Association.
— from Staff Reports