2022 Sounds of Summer Concert | Vonda Darr, harp

Join us! FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH WILSON, N.C. This is the 4th year of this intimate Sounds of Summer Series. We hope you have found yourself welcomed and nourished SOUNDS OF SUMMER by this time and space for grace. VONDA DARR HARP Wednesday, July 27 | Childers & Price, piano & organ WEDNESDAY Mrs. Childers and Mr. Price will be sharing a program of JULY 13, 2022 works for four-hands on the piano, as well as piano/organ 12:00 NOON duets. If you want a laugh, you shouldn't miss out on this concert. Featured works include Liberty Bell March and an 207 TARBORO ST. N FREE - OPEN TO ALL argumentative duet on the Inspector Gadget theme. WWW.FCCWILSON.ORG Wednesday, August 10 Matthew Joyner, tenor and Dexter Ruffin, pianist Wednesday, August 24 | Robert Morehead, organist Mr. Morehead serves as Organist and Director of Music at First Presbyterian Church in Wilson. The program will consist of works by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, J.S. Bach, Pachelbel, Dvorak, Utterback and Vierne. Friday, August 26 at 7PM | 10th Annual Music for Hope This concert is compromised by some our area's finest musicians who come together to raise awareness for Hope Station. A love offering is taken during the concert. THANK YOU For your support These concerts are supported solely on donations of the community and not an underlying part of First Christian's budget. We are thankful for the support by the community, for the community! These donations are for the 2022 year. Supporter BENEFACTOR DONOR Melanie Mauze Paul & Betsy Brewer Dan Shingleton

Program and the Smithsonian Institution. As an orchestral musician, she has performed with musicians including Art Garfunkel, Great is Thy Faithfulness arr. Hansen LeAnn Rimes, Ronnie Milsap, Amy Grant, Matthew Morrison, How Deep the Father's Love For Us arr. Sanborn and Olivia Newton-John. She has also performed on the What Wondrous Love is This arr. Keveren national tours of Broadway’s The King and I, My Fair Lady, and God Will Take Care of You arr. Keveren Weird Al Yankovic’s Strings Attached tour. The Lord's My Shepherd arr. Keveren Vonda is an active chamber and solo recitalist. She performs Automne Grandjany as Duo Venandi with flutist Wendy Cohen, as the Vega Harp Duo with harpist Carolyn Munford, and is a founding member What a Wonderful World arr. Baker of the Lyra Vivace Chamber Ensemble. The Vega Harp Duo performed the world premiere of Miguel del Aguila’s For the Beauty of the Earth/ This is My Father's World Submerged for Two Harps in 2021. They commissioned the work Echoes from the South by Martin David Jones, with a arr. Keveren/Justice world premiere performance at the American Harp Society national conference in 2022. Vonda performed with LACE Morning Has Broken arr. Muirhead (Living Art Collective Ensemble) at the National Gallery of Art in DC, has performed on the North Carolina Symphony In Christ Alone arr. Sanborn Manning Chamber Series, and has been a frequent guest Blessed Assurance arr. Barnwell artist with Chamber Music Charleston.Vonda has also I Surrender All arr. Muirhead presented concerts for the Piccolo Spoleto Festival and for the American Harp Society National Conference. Vonda also loves Praise to the Lord, the Almighty arr. Nevue performing pop and rock music and experimenting with Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow arr. Keveren effects pedals. Praise the Lord arr. Justice Vonda is the inventor of Pocket Harp Pedals, which is available in both a physical device form and an app. It is an About the performer interactive harp pedal chart, which is a universally used marking for pedal harpists. The product was launched in 2022. Vonda Darr is currently the principal classical harpist for the North Carolina Symphony. She has been the principal harpist for Ms. Darr has recorded two solo harp CD's, Prayers Without the Augusta Symphony Orchestra in Georgia since 1993 and was Words and Hear the Angels: A Christmas Collection. Duo principal harpist for the Augusta Opera for twelve years. She Venandi's debut CD Fantasie has been featured nationally on performs as substitute principal and second harp for the public radio through Classical 24. Nashville Symphony. She is a session harpist and is a part of the Nashville Recording Orchestra. She was the principal harpist for the Brevard Music Center Orchestra in 2021.As part of the NC Symphony, Vonda participated in the inaugural SHIFT Festival for American Orchestras, performing in both the Kennedy Center