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Major Music Events During 31 Day Salute by MELODY FOOTE Tickets are $17 at the door. For more information visit www.singwithcos.org. Wilford Brimley joins Fayetteville Symphony May 26 Actor Wilford Brimley, a former Marine and Korean War veteran will All-American Jazz Festival May 11 narrate "Quiet Heroes" as part of the WFSS 91.9 presents the All-American Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra's Jazz Festival in Festival Park on Sunday, Salute to Our Armed Forces on Sunday, May 11. This special concert features May 26th. Composed by Chris Brubeck, nationally and internationally-known "Quiet Heroes" tells the story of five jazz masters The Jazz Crusaders, Marines and one Navy Corpsman pianist Keiko Matsui, vocalist Maysa captured in the iconic photo of raising and keyboardist Marcus Johnson. Gates the American flag at Iwo Jima during open at 3 p.m. Tickets are available at World War II. www.etix.com, by phone 800-514-3849 Following "Quiet Heroes," the Army or at the box office at J.W. Seabrook Ground Forces Band will present a Auditorium and the Fayetteville State short concert followed by a grand finale University (FSU) bookstore on the FSU featuring the Fayetteville Symphony and campus. For more information: the Army Ground Forces Band. Held at www.wfss.org. Festival Park in downtown Fayetteville, Salute to Our Armed Forces is free and Spring Concert Series at Cape Fear open to the public. The concert begins Botanical Garden May 3 and May 24 at 7:30 p.m. The Spring Concert Series at the For more information, contact the Fayetteville Symphony at 433-3690. The Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra is one of several musical organizations performing dur- Cape Fear Botanical Garden continues in May with two special concerts. ing the 31 Days of May Heroes Salute to honor the military. Old Habits performs southern rock Cumberland Oratorio Singers and bluegrass on Friday, May 3, and The Backbeat, a Beatles Tribute band, takes Presents Howard Hanson's "Song of Democracy" May 2 the stage May 24. Admission is free for garden members, $8 general admission Directed by Dr. Michael Martin, the Chorus revisits Walt Whitman's "Leaves and $7 with a military ID. Children 6-12 are $2.50, Under 5: of Grass" text as they did in a previous collaboration, "Celebrations," with the free. For more information, contact the Garden at 486-0221. Fayetteville Symphonic Band. Borrowing from two poems in Whitman's epic work, the piece expresses what he believes are the highest aspirations for the MELODY FOOTE, Contributing young republic of America. Writer, COMMENTS? The concert starts at 7:30 p.m., at Reeves Auditorium at Methodist University. Editor@upandcomingweekly.com © 2013 United Air Lines, Inc. All rights reserved. Now offering daily nonstop service to Washington, D.C. We're making it easier to do business in Washington, D.C. with our daily nonstop service from Fayetteville Regional Airport to Washington, D.C. It's our way of making business a pleasure. For information and reservations, go to united.com. WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM MAY 1-7, 2013 UCW 11