Carolina Performing Arts announces 2014-15 season, Merle Haggard, Robert Cray, Audra McDonald & more

The Carolina Performing Arts at UNC has just announced their tenth season and it includes an eclectic mix of music, dance and theater.

We're focused on the music which includes country Legend Merle Haggard, The Robert Cray Band, The Steep Canyon Rangers and Mipso, Broadway singer and actress Audra McDonad, jazz singer Dianne Reeves and many more. Check out the full 2014-15 Carolina Performing Arts schedule below.

Ticket packages for the general public will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, June 3. UNC student, faculty and staff packages will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 29.

2014-15 Carolina Performing Arts schedule
August 22 - Rebirth Brass Band & Dumpstaphunk
August 23 - Merle Haggard
September 4 - An Evening of Yakshagana
September 13-14 - Liz Magic Laser
September 16 - Youssou N’Dour
September 25-26 - Dorrance Dance: The Blues Project
September 28-29 - Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
October 1-2 - Taylor Mac
October 8 - Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra w/ Wynton Marsalis
October 10 - The Robert Cray Band
October 11 - Shabana Azmi
October 22 - Gabriel Kahane: The Ambassador
November 6-7 - Curlew River
November 14 - Mipso & Steep Canyon Rangers
November 16 - Dianne Reeves
November 21 - Batsheva Dance Company
November 22 - Milton Nascimento
December 6-7 - Carolina Ballet: The Nutcracker
December 8 - Jazz For The Holidays w/ North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra & René Marie
January 29-30 - Dunsinane
January 31-February 1 - The Mariinsky Orchestra
February 6 - Audra McDonald
February 12 - Kronos Quartet
February 15 - Irvin Mayfield & The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra
February 18 - Shantala Shivalingappa
February 20 - Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band
February 24-25 - Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
February 26 - A lecture with Yo-Yo Ma and members of the Silk Road Ensemble
February 27 - The Silk Road Ensemble w/ Yo-Yo Ma
March 5 - Britten's War Requiem, Op. 66
March 18 - Pierre-laurent Aimard & Tamara Stefanovich, Pianos
March 20 - Sanam Marvi
March 25-26 - John Luther Adams: Veils and Vesper
March 28 - Brooklyn Rider
April 1 - Celebrating Congo: A Public Forum feat. Petna Ndaliko Katondolo, Ray Lema & Faustin Linyekula
April 11-12 - Hotel Modern
April 14-15 - Martha Graham Dance Company
April 17 - Dorothea Röschmann, Soprano & Mitsuko Uchida, Piano
April 19 - Monteverdi, Vespers of 1610
April 21 - Wendy Whelan-Restless Creature