Spring Arts Alive! Concerts Scheduled

May 3, 2005

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Big band and jazz music will be featured this spring as part of the Arts Alive! performing arts series at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. All performances are free and open to the public.

Big band and swing musician Gary Lewis performs Thursday, May 12 at 2 p.m. at the Sticht Center on Aging & Rehabilitation auditorium.

Straight-ahead jazz group Solar Impulse performs Thursday, May 19 at 12:15 p.m. in Davis Memorial Chapel.

The Arts Alive! Performing arts series is sponsored by the Medical Center’s Committee on Visual and Performing Arts and the Hawthorne Hill Society. For information, contact Jim Steele, (336) 716-3487.

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Media Contacts: Jim Steele, jsteele@wfubmc.edu, Shannon Koontz, shkoontz@wfubmc.edu, or Karen Richardson, krchrdsn@wfubmc.edu, at (336) 716-4587.

About Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center: Wake Forest Baptist is an academic health system comprised of North Carolina Baptist Hospital and Wake Forest University Health Sciences, which operates the university’s School of Medicine. The system comprises 1,298 acute care, psychiatric, rehabilitation and long-term care beds and is consistently ranked as one of “America’s Best Hospitals” by U.S. News & World Report.


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