If interested: https://downtowncarypark.com/things-to-do/calendar/w_carylive-suitcase-junket

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Elevate your evenings with the vibrant rhythm of CaryLive! Join us at Downtown Cary Park for a captivating concert series, where the stage is set for memorable musical moments. Free and open to the public, this enchanting experience welcomes all to come together, enjoy the rhythms, and bask in the beauty of community and music under the stars.

Matt Lorenz’s vision, manifest in The Suitcase Junket, developed in the tension between the grand and the solitary. Grand in its imagery, sound, and staging. Solitary in its thrift and self-reliance. What instruments he requires, Lorenz builds from scratch and salvage. What parts five players would perform, he performs alone. The spectacle of his one-man set bears constant comparison to legends of showmanship, brilliance, madness, and invention.

While audiences are captivated by his solitary form and the show itself, Lorenz, who homesteads in rural Western Massachusetts, is most serious about the songs. He has been building a catalog, writing a world into existence. Solitary on stage and on the road, his mind is crowded with characters, narratives, voices, imagery, sounds as wide and varied as mountain throat singers and roadhouse juke boxes, plus newsreels of the planet’s destruction and salvage. With this 2020 release, The End is New, Lorenz’s grand vision for the song overrides the how of it.

Growing up in Cavendish, Vermont, Matt Lorenz began playing piano at age five, and later took up violin, saxophone, and guitar. During his years at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, he studied music and adaptive instrument design, a pursuit that included building a prototype for a drummer who couldn’t use their legs, where they’d be able to play the bass drum and hi-hat through a system of pulleys. After college, he headed to Europe on a $150 plane ticket, ran out of money in Barcelona, and spent a year playing music in the streets. “That’s where I learned how to sing loud, which got me figuring out what my voice could do,” Lorenz notes. Once he’d returned to Amherst, he formed the band Rusty Belle with his sister Kate and, several years later, started The Suitcase Junket with the aid of a guitar he’d found in a dumpster. ‘The Suitcase Junket’ is a nod to Lorenz’s longtime love of collecting old suitcases, including an antique that he’s refurbished into a bass drum, and to a secondary definition of junket, i.e. “a pleasure excursion.”

The Raleigh International Folk Dancers are a group of people who are dedicated to learning and promoting dances from different cultures around the world. They meet every Friday, 6:30 to 10pm, at Glen Eden Pilot Park, 1500 Glen Eden Drive.

Attend the regular Cary Town Council meeting! Agenda

available here.

Catch the action at Transfer Co. Food Hall, where select

men's soccer matches with Raleigh Sister City partners will

be streaming live in the Food Hall with drink specials and

watch-party energy. Join fellow fans for the World Cup

Final in a lively, social setting. Presented in partnership

with Raleigh Sister Cities, this series brings global soccer

spirit to downtown Raleigh. Register here.

Irish music jam at Moon Dog Meadery, 3 to 5pm.

If interested: https://www.carync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/26623/199

This special series of events will feature Master Kalamkari Artist A. Thilak Reddy, a globally recognized artist whose work bridges tradition and contemporary expression. During his visit, Leela Foundation will host a series of free public talks, artist meet-and-greet, and immersive workshops, providing a rare opportunity for our community to learn directly from a master practitioner. Master Strokes offers a rare opportunity to experience this rich textile-based art form up close.

For more information: https://www.leela-foundation.org/post/master-strokes-kalamkari-artist

If interested: https://ncsymphony.org/events/26sf10-sidecar-social-club/

Sidecar Social Club soars through numerous genres effortlessly as their energetic set takes you from speakeasy jazz to cabarets. Move to the sounds of Latin American dance halls, the big band era, and soulful R&B.

The orchestra will not be performing at this concert.

Join Cary Sister Cities at Crosstown Pub & Grill for an afternoon of cheer as we share our mission and answer your questions!

154 E Chatham St, Cary, NC 27511