FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 27, 2005

LOCAL AMATEUR MUSICIANS TO
“PLAY WITH THE PROS"
Wednesday, June 1^st

Cary, NC—Local amateur musicians will help kick off the North Carolina Symphony’s outdoor concert season at Booth Amphitheatre with the 8th Annual “Play with the Pros” concert on June 1 at 7:30 p.m. The concert features a full performance by our state’s professional orchestra, the North Carolina Symphony, which concludes with over 40 local musicians taking the stage to perform the final three selections of the evening side-by-side with the pros.  And to “sweeten” the show even more, Lumpy's ice cream will be creating "North Carolina's Largest Ice Cream Pop," and the audience will be invited to enjoy the ice cream pop at the June 1 concert.

The North Carolina Symphony and Resident Conductor William Henry Curry begin the first half of the concert with Strauss’s Overture to Prince Methusalem, the opening movement of Shumann’s Symphony No. 1, Selections from Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, Building the Community from Terry Mizesko’s Sketches from Pinehurst, and Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on Greensleeves.

The amateur musicians will join the Symphony in Rossini’s William Tell Overture and the March from Coates’s London Suite entitled Knightsbridge, In Town Tonight.

Play with the Pros is free and open to the public. For more information, call (919) 469-4061 or visit www.townofcary.org.

To find out more about this and other great events happening in Cary, check out CaryNow.com, a new Web site that provides updated event information to residents and visitors about events happening in Cary.  CaryNow.com is a result of a partnership between the Greater Raleigh Convention and Visitor's Bureau, the Town of Cary, and the Cary Chamber of Commerce.