K-Town Calendar
April 30, 2008 By dps
Saturday
• The Piedmont Prime Time Community Band will present a dinner and concert titled “The Music Within Us” on Saturday at McGill Baptist Church located at the intersection of Poplar Tent Road and George Liles Parkway in Concord.
A dinner buffet will begin at 6 p.m. followed by a concert featuring “First Suite for Band in E-Flat” by Gustav Holst, an Andrew Lloyd Weber medley, “Pirates of the Caribbean,” Big Band music and more.
The dinner and concert tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for children 12 and under. Persons wanting to attend just the concert without the meal can pay a $5 admission at the door.
The band is supported, in part, by a grant from the Grass Roots Arts Program of the N.C. Arts Council, a state agency, and the Cabarrus Arts Council.
May 10
• The Astronomical Society of Rowan County will meet Saturday, May 10, at Carolina Mall in Concord, from 4-9 p.m.
The group will host a solar viewing during the day and a lunar and planetary viewing at night as part of National Astronomy Day 2008. Look through telescopes for free.
Rain date is Saturday, May 17.
For more information, contact Ralph Deal at 704-855-1591 or Alice Deal at 704-857-2788.
• The Historical Society of South Rowan will hold a yard sale at the China Grove Roller Mill lot on Saturday, May 10. The mill is at 308 N Main St., China Grove.
The group needs donations of furniture, appliances, household goods, lamps, pictures, toys, children’s items, etc., but no clothing.
Proceeds will be used for improvements at the Roller Mill site. Items can be picked up. Please call Kay Kluttz, 704-857-9202, to make arrangements for pickup.
Piedmont Farmers’ Market hours
• Saturdays, May through Oct. 25, 8 a.m.-12 p.m., 518 Winecoff School Road, Concord, 28027
• Tuesdays, June 3-Aug. 26, 8 a.m.-12 p.m., 518 Winecoff School Road, Concord, 28027
• Mondays, May 19-Sept. 29, 4-7 p.m., Robinson Church Road, Harrisburg, next to restored post office
• Wednesdays, beginning June 5, 11 a.m-1 p.m. Market Street, (next to Concord police station) Concord
• Thursdays, beginning May 22, 4-7 p.m. at the Campus Market on West Avenue, (parking lot between The Perfect Choice and Transit Damage Furniture), Kannapolis.
For more information, contact the N.C. Cooperative Extention-Cabarrus County Center at 704-920-3310.
May 16
• Cooperative Christian Ministry and A.L. Brown High School will present “Festival of the Arts” beginning at 6 p.m. at the VIllage Park Amphitheatre.
Admission is free and donations will be accepted.
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