Ethan Uslan

We’ve got an action-packed weekend ahead in Davidson – all the music and events originally planned, plus a few bonus features rescheduled from snowy weekends over the past month. The Davidson Farmers Market is back with another tailgate market Saturday morning. Saturday also brings the rescheduled Davidson Cares worship service and community service project to help earthquake victims in Haiti. And ragtime pianist Ethan Uslan has rescheduled his appearance to Saturday at St. Alban’s, where he’ll be accompanying the silent film classic “The General.” On Sunday, a Lunar New Year festival and fireworks show is planned at Davidson College.

Read more below and check the community calendar at right for a clickable day-by-day listing of events.

On Thursday, Davidson College Symphony Orchestra performs the next in its series of “Concerts for a Cause,” a program titled “VH1 Save the Music.” The program, at 7:30 p.m. in the Duke Family Performance Hall, will feature Artist Associate in Voice Jacque Culpepper and will include works by Barber, Copland, Glass, and the “girl Gershwin.” Free, but donations accepted for VH1 Save the Music Foundation, which works to preserve instrumental music instruction in public schools.

And don’t forget the live music at Summit Coffee and the Brickhouse Thursday to Saturday nights. Rusty Knox Band is at Summit Friday. Saturday features Davidson Local, a group that plays original songs about local life by guitarist and Davidson College Prof. John Wertheimer. That’s a rescheduled fund-raising concert for the family of Jorge Fiscal Cruz, the Mexican-born restaurant worker and Davidson resident who died after a November bicycle accident. The show is from 8-11 p.m. at Summit, 128 S. Main St.

"Nine Parts of Desire" Feb. 17-21 at Davidson College.

Davidson College theater department’s production of “Nine Parts of Desire” continues through Sunday. Written by Heather Raffo and directed by Sharon Green, the play explores the struggles, passions, and triumphs of Iraqi women. For reservations and information call 704-894-2135 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays, or purchase tickets online at www.davidson.edu/tickets.

Also Saturday, the Davidson College men’s basketball team hosts Furman at 2 p.m. The women play College of Charleston at 7 p.m. It will be Pink Zone night at Belk Arena, with pink T-shirts for sale to benefit breast cancer research.

Davidson College’s Gamut Dance Company presents its annual show in the Duke Family Performance Hall Friday, Feb. 19 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 20 at 4 p.m. Tickets cost $5 for students and $9 for general admission.

The Davidson Farmers Market holds another winter tailgate market Saturday, Feb 20, at 9:00 a.m. downtown next to Town Hall. Tailgate market bring local farmers and vendors selling meats, produce, dairy products, baked goods, and other items every other Saturday this winter. For more information: www.davidsonfarmersmarket.org

Also Saturday, the snowed out “Davidson Cares” project will bring community volunteers together for worship and community service. The day begins with a community worship service at 10 a.m. at Davidson College Presbyterian Church. Then from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., volunteers will help package 30,000 bags of food in cooperation with Stop Hunger Now. That’s on the first floor of Davidson College’s Alvarez College Union.

Lunar New Year celebration Sunday.

The 10th annual Bosom Buddies fund-raiser for breast cancer advocacy will take place at 6:30 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 20, in the Lilly Family Gallery of Davidson College Chambers Building. Events include a talk by breast-cancer survivor and Bosom Buddies founder Lauren Perny Pragoff, Davidson class of 2003. Also, dinner, raffle, musical performances and silent and live auctions. Bosom Buddies supports Friends for an Earlier Breast Cancer Test, a Greensboro-based organization whose sole purpose is to find a new method for earlier pre-tumor detection of breast cancer. Tickets cost $40 for students and $45 for the general public.

Davidson’s Asian Cultural Awareness Association sponsors the annual Lunar New Year celebration Sunday, Feb. 21 at 6 p.m. in the Alvarez Union, marking the arrival of the Year of the Tiger. Food, music and dance performances, including a Lion Dance, will run until around 9 p.m., when the party will adjourn to Chambers lawn for the annual fireworks display. See our preview, “Welcome the Year of the Tiger on campus Feb. 21.”

MARK YOUR CALENDARS

Mark your calendar for the beginning of next week for a special event. On Monday, Feb. 22 at 7 pm., survivor of the Haiti earthquake, Pam Carter of Charlotte, will speak in the sanctuary of Davidson United Methodist Church. Participants will hear her first-hand account of the quake, learn about the situation in Port-au-Prince now (she is returning to Haiti Feb. 14-18); and get suggestions for helping and being in mission in Haiti. Refreshments follow. For more info, contact Rev. Jeff Hassel, 704-892-8277.

MORE INFO

More information about these and other events is available on the right hand side of this page, in our day-by-day calendar. Just click on a date for a list of that day’s events.

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