Displays of the ethnicity of Norway, the Middle East, Puerto Rico and Africa. Vendors offering jewelry, earthenware, flags and other arts and crafts. The Vance-Granville Community College Cultural Fair will offer all these and more on Thursday, March 2, in the college's Civic Center. The fair will run from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and will reopen at 7 p.m. for a special concert.
Admission is free, and the public is invited.
Polk studied piano in Chicago and Switzerland, won the Johann Sebastian Bach International Competition in Washington, D.C., and the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra Soloist Audition. In addition to the N.C. Symphony, he has performed concerts in Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Morocco and across the United States. Following Polk at 11 a.m. will be Billy Jarrell of Ridgeway playing the dulcimer, a truly American folk instrument. Jimmy Roberson of Oxford will lead his group through a display of Western square dancing at 1 p.m. After an afternoon break, a 7 p.m. concert will feature a group of young steel drum players from Durham, organized and trained by Wilton DuBois, a native of Trinidad, birthplace of the steel drum.