Community Concert Association Announces Revised 2021 Season

FORT MYERS, Fla. - Dec. 8, 2020 - PRLog -- The Fort Myers Community Concert Association has announced its revised concert series for 2021 that includes five performances by world-class musicians playing classical to contemporary music in the organization's 72nd annual concert series.

"We are happy to offer this outstanding roster of performances by musicians from throughout the United States, Canada and beyond," said Community Concert Association President Mary Lee Mann.  "All COVID-19 safety protocols will be followed to keep everyone safe."

Mann said temperatures will be taken of every patron before being admitted to the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall on the Florida SouthWestern State College campus in Fort Myers, where all of the concerts are scheduled.  Masks also will be required of all attendees and staff.  Hand sanitizing stations also will be located throughout the hall.

Season tickets for all five performances are now on sale by contacting Mann at 239-693-4849 or emailing her at MLMannConcerts@aol.com.  All five concerts are included in one ticket price, which ranges from $165 for prime orchestra and mezzanine seats to $155 for other orchestra and mezzanine seats, $85 for lower balcony seating and just $65 for upper balcony.

For membership forms, visit www.fortmyerscommunityconcerts.org. Tickets to individual concerts will be sold by the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall box office beginning January 15.

The five performances all begin at 7:30 p.m.:

●        A Celebration of Song – Classics to Broadway – February 16, 2021.

●        Barber of Seville Opera  – February 24, 2021.

●         Pianist Jeremy Denk – March 3, 2021.

●         The New York Philharmonic String Quartet and Drew Petersen, Piano – March 11, 2021.

●        Violinist Blake Pouliot with Hsin-I Huang, Piano – March 23, 2021.

"The well-being of our patrons is a prime consideration," Mann said.  "We will continue to monitor the local COVID-19 positivity rates, and If our 2021 series should have to be cancelled, all subscribers would receive a complete refund, or if they choose, a credit toward our next season."

The Fort Myers Community Concert Association is an all-volunteer not-for-profit organization founded by the legendary Barbara B. Mann in 1949 to bring world-class entertainment to Southwest Florida at affordable prices.  The association consists of more than 1,700 members, underwriters and sponsors.  Performers brought to Fort Myers in the past by the association include The Israel Ballet, Violinist Itzhak Perlman, The Boston Brass, Minnesota Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Vienna Boys Choir, Pianist Andre Watts, Violinist Joshua Bell with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and many others.