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Post Office Box 1189 youtube.com/ 1042 West Hamlet Avenue auditorium1999 Hamlet, NC 28345-1189 2016/2017 www.richmondcc.edu/cole-auditorium 2016/2017 #atCole The The Five Irish Five Irish Tenors “Salute to ” Thursday, January 26, 2017 Martina McBride Saturday, February 25, 2017 “Barefoot in The Park” Thursday, March 9, 2017 Legendary Rock Supergroup The Hit Men Thursday, April 6, 2017

All shows start at 7:30pm Cole Box Office (910) 410-1691 “Salute to Ireland” Don’t forget about the added show Director’s Circle Saturday, February 25 – 7:30p.m. Dr. & Mrs. David & Katherine Arnold Mr. & Mrs. Ron & Sylvia Ballard Mr. & Mrs. Bill & Linda Bayless Mr. & Mrs. Russell & Joan Bennett Mr. & Mrs. Van & Melissa Billingsley Mr. & Mrs. Neal & Joanne Cadieu Dr. & Mrs. Al & Pat Covington Mr. & Mrs. Wade & Beth Dunbar Mr. & Mrs. Joe & Diana Everett Mr. & Mrs. Brian & Danielle Goodman Representative & Dr. Ken & Cindy Goodman Mr. & Mrs. Ken & Jill Hartley Mr. & Mrs. John & Brenda Jackson Mr. & Mrs. G.R. & Mary Ellen Kindley Mr. & Mrs. J.C. & Hilda Lamm Mr. & Mrs. Terry & Cheryl Lewis Dr. & Mrs. Duane & Carol Linker Mr. & Mrs. Wiley & Judy Mabe Mr. Lazelle Marks Mr. & Mrs. Jim & Shirley McCaskill Mr. & Mrs. Lynn & Linda McCaskill Mr. & Mrs. Robert & Joyce McDow Dr. & Mrs. Dale & Thomasa McInnis Senator & Mrs. Tom & Janice McInnis Mr. & Mrs. Gene & Donna McLaurin Mr. & Mrs. Kenny & Leah Melvin Mr. & Mrs. Dean & Candy Nichols Mr. & Mrs. Jerry & Brenda Purcell Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth & Claudia Robinette Thank you Scotland Motors, Inc. Dr. & Mrs. Hal & Bess Shuler Dr. & Mrs. John & Sue Stevenson Director’s Circle Mr. & Mrs. Thad & Mary Jane Ussery Mr. & Mrs. Lee & Tanya Wallace Members! Dr. & Mrs. Larry & Michele Weatherly Important Note for Season Ticket Holders Mr. & Mrs. David & Susan Wood Your tickets for this show were mailed in late December (unless you requested your tickets be e-mailed) Now in it’s seventh year, the Director’s Circle helps If you have not received them or if you have misplaced them, Richmond Community College raise local funds critical to we will gladly reprint them tonight! the success of our students, including supporting the new (Your tickets for Jennifer Nettles concert will NOT be valid for the performance.) RichmondCC Guarantee. Season Ticket holders interested in joining the Director’s Circle should contact Joey Bennett A special thank you to Stein Way Piano Gallery- Charlotte, NC for helping to arrange the use of at (910) 410-1691 or RichmondCC Associate Vice President the second piano featured on stage tonight. of Development Hal Shuler at (910) 410-1807. A COLUMBIA ARTISTS PRODUCTION Direct from , Ireland TRAVEL. The Five Irish Tenors Perform CULTURE. “Salute to Ireland” The Five Irish Tenors present a sensational program of the most famously beloved Irish songs, fusing Irish wit and charm with lyricism, dramatic lair FOOD. and operatic style. This project is the irst tour ever in North America of this popular Irish ensemble

Down by the Sally Garden The Wearing of the Green Star of the County Down Toora – Loora – Looral The Foggy Dew Dublin in the Rare Old Times La Paloma Oft in the Stilly Night Angels Guard Thee Boolabogue Spanish Lady You Raise Me Up Mamma

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The Rose of Tralee She Moved Through The Fair Town I loved So Well If you like North Carolina, My Wild Irish Rose you’ll love Our State. The Green Fields Of Will You Go Lassie Go To subscribe, call (800) 948-1409 Ireland, Mother Ireland or visit ourstate.com When Irish Eyes Are Smiling Isle of Hope God Bless America I Hear You Calling Me

Our State supports the North Carolina Presenters Consortium (NCPC) Danny Boy with a monthly listing in the magazine of exciting professional arts and entertainment events. DAVID MARTIN Lyric Tenor David Martin is described as possessing “a beautiful Italian Bel Canto quality in his voice, with a fantastic vocal range, and performs with incredible stamina, agility, and lexibility.” THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE He studied and performed at the Dundalk Dramatic Society, the Leinster College of Music & Drama in Dublin and at Il Corso Di Canto E Perfezionamento Lirico with Tenor Ugo Benelli in Montalto, Italy. David has performed the lead tenor roles in productions of The Lilly of Killarney, The Gypsy Baron, and Pink Champagne. FREE CONCERT Other performances include tenor roles in operas, such as La Fille du Regiment,La Boheme, Cavalleria Rusticana, Thursday, March 30th I , Lucia Di Lammermoor, La Traviata, Tosca, and more. He has performed in the U.K., in Europe, and in major theatres in Ireland, 7:30pm including the and the National Concert Hall,erforming p in Cole Auditorium such shows as The Story and The John McCormack Story. Richmond Community College David was a member of the Three Tenors Ireland for seven years performing in many venues in Ireland and the U.K. until 2013.

MORGAN CROWLEYTenor Free admission for information: www.richmondcc.edu Morgan Crowley has performed in opera, concert, theatre, musicals, TV, FREEcall admission to reserve No reservedtickets: seats 910-410-1691 First-come, first seated ilm, radio and recordings across ive continents. Recipient of awards and distinctions including John McCormack and Luciano Pavarotti Awards, London Critics Choice Award, International Voice of Musical Theatre nomination, he has appeared on a Grammy-winning CD, two-Tony nominated shows, Oscar-winning screenplay, multi- platinum videos and ive solo albums. Following his debut at Covent Garden’s , he played roles in operas including Die Zauberϔlote, Orpheus, Street Scene, Dido & Aeneas, Tosca, www.usafband.af.mil La Belle Helene, Amahl & The Night Visitors, Albert Herring, Candide. He created roles in Simon Callow’s FREE tickets required for admission. acclaimed world premiere Oliver Trilogy at Covent Garden, ’s Each 2016-2017 season ticket holder is entitled to mini-opera Bird and Roger Doyle’s eagerly anticipated 2016Death by Fire of as many as 3 tickets to this performance. Giordano Bruno. He is currently Associate Director of Opera in the Open and Non-season ticket holders can get up to two tickets per person. Guest Lecturer at DIT and RADA. Tickets can be picked up at the box office now! His concert repertoire spans hundreds of composers, medieval to modern – DANNY FORDE Musical Director/Arranger/Pianist notable engagements including Mozart , Faure Requiem, BBC’s Friday Night is Music Night, Vivaldi Gloria, Handel Messiah, Pergolesi Stabat Mater, Danny is a passionate performer, and regularly performs his songs with his Bernstein Chichester Psalms, Luigi Nono’s Prometeo, The Academy Awards, Irish-Scandinavian trio Karmacloud and as a solo artist. Karmacloud have The Grammy Awards and National Entertainment Awards. toured in Denmark, , Belgium, Ireland and the UK. He has also Theatre credits include Chicago, Ragtime, , Sweeney Todd, Spring performed extensively across Ireland and abroad with various music groups Awakening, Hairspray, Spelling Bee, Carousel, West Side Story, Cirque du Soleil, including I Have A Tribe, Slow Skies, Ebo, Jazzberries, Loah, Discovery Gospel Scrooge and the title role inPhantom of the Opera. Choir, Kila, Judith Mok, and Giraffes. His music has been aired and performed Television and ilm credits includeEastenders , The Tudors, Far & Away, Bound, live on Irish TV and radio. Letterman, Yule Be Wiggling, Quest For Camelot, Lovejoy. Danny composes songs and music for the visual media and is regularly His albums of original compositions “As Large As Alone” and “Time” are commissioned for theatre and contemporary dance. Danny’s professional available on iTunes and www.morgancrowley.com theatre work includes composition forUnspoken (Project Arts, Centre, Dublin), MONSTER/CLOCK (Smock Alley Theatre) andThe Aeneid () by Collapsing Horse Theatre, Near Death: A Grim Reaper Musical (Greene Theatre, Boston). Music direction forThe Last 5 Years (Project Arts Centre) by CIARÁN KELLYTenor Trees Rd, Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins(Project Arts Centre) by Rough Magic SEEDS, How To Keep An Alien (Project Arts Centre) andThe Rise And Fall Of The Ciarán Kelly is a graduate of the Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM), Dublin. City Of Mahagonny (Olympia Theatre) by Rough Magic. Danny was a recent He made his opera debut at the RIAM in January 2007, singing “Don Curzio” participant in the highly regarded Rough Magic SEEDS theatre development in a production of Le Nozze Di Figaro, and subsequently program. sang with the Downpatrick Opera Fringe Festival, Opera In 2013, he worked with ilm composer Lucas Vidal in Los Angeles, assisting Theatre Company, and Lyric Opera. on scores for a number of major motion pictures. He now writesfreelance for Touring activities have included the Celtic Woman 2012 Vidal’s Chroma Music commercial and trailer music house. He was assistant U.S. tour and various international tours with Anúna. In music supervisor on Irish featureStitches (2012), which played in cinemas in 2014, Ciarán founded the A Capella Irish group Ardú, who the UK & Ireland. He also worked as a freelance composer for Dublin-based specialize in traditional Irish and popular song. Tailored Films, Ltd. Ciarán is a member of the renowned chamber choir While studying for his Masters’ degree at (TCD), Danny Resurgam. completed research and an accompanying composition for microtonal piano, In 2010, Ciarán sang as a soloist in the historic performance string quartet and voices exploring the area of just intonation. of Handel’s Messiah, a joint performance between St. Patrick’s and Christ Church Cathedrals in Dublin. In 2012, he performed the lead role in Nicolini’sLe Due Gemelle in Piacenza, Italy with singers from Italy, Japan, Korea and Armenia. Ciarán performed the lead role in the specially-commissioned short opera TOUR STAFF Number Seven, composed by Seán Doherty, in Derry for the arrival of the Olympic Torch, . MARYA GLUR, Company Tour Manager Most recently, Ciarán undertook the narrator role in Monteverdi’sIl Combattimenti Di Tancredi e Clorinda and in 2013 completed a national tour LAUREN HARTON, Production Manager with Opera Theatre Company’s production ofCarmen, performing the role of NICHOLAS RYAN, Audio Engineer Remendado. Future roles includeEndymione in a joint performance of Rossi’s Orfeo with ‘Resurgam’ and ‘Atalante’ directed by award-winningearly music specialist Erin Headley. GEORGE HUTTONTenor Irish Tenor George Hutton, well known for his performances ofousing r He has worked as a vocal consultant for the Association of Irish Choirs on Irish traditional melodies, has toured Canada, Belgium and Holland with the their annual Conductors Summer School. Since 2007, the AOIC have invited renowned Choral ensemble Anúna, and is scheduled to him to work as tenor coach with the Irish Youth Choir, and recently as a vocal tour with them on an upcoming tour of Japan. coach with the exciting new Irish Youth Chamber Choir. In 2012, Alan was In addition to the “Irish” vocal repertoire, George has invited to join the teaching staff of the Ulster Youth Choir. performed at the , London as part of the Combining singing, pedagogy and conducting skills has led to many invitations BBC Proms with the BBC Youth Chorus, and in Mozart’s to work with a varying range of choirs and ensembles nationwide: the Mass at the National Concert Hall, Dublin. His variety of performances exempliies an emerging style connecting Mornington Singers (Dublin), Culwick Choral Society, Limerick Choral Union classical and Irish traditional vocal music. (Limerick), Anima Chamber Choir (Dublin), Tribal Chamber Choir (), It is through Irish traditional vocal music that George Cois Cladaigh (Galway), Aspiro (Carlow), Cork Chamber Choir, Pizerphonics shines, having absorbed the melodies of , The (Cork) and Tredagh Singers (in his native Drogheda). Dubliner’s, and The Irish Tenors from which he inds inspiration. The raw emotion and passion he has for Irish traditional music can be found in FEARGAL MURRAYPianist pieces such as ‘Raglan Road’ and ‘The Auld Triangle.’ Born in Derry, Ireland, Feargal studied music at Edinburgh University followed by a Masters at Goldsmiths College London. His versatile piano skills range from classical through Irish to pop. He has played/recorded with many ALAN LEECH Tenor Irish artists such as , Finbar Wright, Anthony Kearns, The Celtic Tenors, Celtic Woman, Camille O’Sullivan, Julie Feeney, , Cathy A graduate of University College Cork, Alan was appointed as tenor to the Irish Jordan, Liam O Flynn, Rebecca Storm, Peter Corry, Brian Kennedy, Eimear National Chamber Choir in 2002. With them Alan has toured extensively both Quinn, Tommy Fleming and Donal Lunny. He has toured the worldnd a played nationally and internationally and worked with some at Red Rocks, Radio City, , Greek Theatre, Royal Festival Hall, of the world’s leading choral conductors such as Paul The Roundhouse, and The Royal Albert Hall. He was choir director for Celtic Hillier, Celso Antunes, Stephen Layton and Stephen Woman’s : Live From Dublinand producer for several Cleobury. Camille O’Sullivan albums. Additionally, he has co-written songs with Brendan Career highlights to date in this role include performing Graham and Jimmy Mac Carthy (top 10 US Billboard Charts for The Celtic for U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House, Tenors “Still By Your Side”), and has arranged for the Irish Film Orchestra. He David Lang’s “Little Match Girl Passion”, and Gerald has composed and performed an award-winning musical adaptation for the Barry’s “Long Time” and “Schott & Sons, Mainz”. Royal Shakespeare Company -The Rape Of Lucrece with Camille O’Sullivan. He International touring has included Russia, Brazil, and has also composed and performed for London’s Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre China, the Lebanon, as well as several European tours. alongside actor Aidan Gillen (/) - a reading of James As well as chamber music choirs, Alan has also Joyce’s The Dead, directed by Conor Mc Pherson. performed with most of Ireland’s leading orchestras He is currently co-writing with the iconic Australian Paul Kelly and and choruses in oratorio and concert performances. He has also performed Camille O’Sullivan creating a new show celebrating the Irish 1916 Centenary, with Opera Cork, Opera South, Anna Livia Opera, and Opera Ireland, including supported by Culture Ireland. www.feargalmurray.com many roles such as Acis inHandel’s Acis & Galatea, Tamino in Mozart’sThe Magic Flute, Goro in Puccini’sMadame Butterϔly, and El Remondado in Bizet’s Carmen.