Event Date

August 7, 2022 5:30 pm

Location

Ashe Civic Center

Admission

$16pp

The popular Summer Concert Series at historic St. John’s Church in Valle Crucis continues in early August with a performance by the Raleigh Flute Choir. The highly- acclaimed chamber music ensemble, based in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina, will be marking their debut performance on the concert series. The eight member ensemble graces the chancel at St. John’s at 5 p.m. on Sunday, August 7,2022. It will be their farewell concert immediately prior to the group’s departure for Chicago where they will be performing at the National Flute Association’s Annual Convention. Founded in 1986, the Raleigh Flute Choir is a chamber ensemble of professional flutists from central North Carolina. They have distinguished themselves as one of the nation's leading flute choirs. Utilizing all members of the flute family, they perform an exciting repertoire spanning the centuries from the Renaissance to the present, including transcriptions and original compositions. Their current “Folklore Concert Tour” features folk tunes of the Appalachians as well as music inspired by tango and Greek mythology. Artists of the Raleigh Flute Choir include Irene Burke, Kim Bridgers, Amy Holt, Andrea McKerlie Luke, Thomas Mease, Emma Morris, Lauren Robbins-Pollack, and Rosene Rohrer. A summer mission of Holy Cross Episcopal Church, the picturesque St. John’s chapel,consecrated in 1862, is located in the Watauga County countryside and provides marvelous acoustics for music with its wooden walls and floors forming a natural sounding board for live performances.

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