On behalf of the Dr. P. Phillips Orlando Performing Arts Center, Hines, the project’s the development manager, collaborated with Lane & Company - a community-based ensemble group of voices specializing in sacred music and Negro spirituals - to present a Summer Cultural Concert Series. Under the direction of Conductor Terrence Lane, the ensemble performed in the Orlando City Hall rotunda on Sunday, July 19 for more than 200 guests.

The concert was free to the public with the donation of a school supply. More than 500 items were collected and will be donated to the Holden Heights Community Center. City of Orlando Commissioner Daisy Lynum, and Orange County Commissioner Bill Segal attended the performance with school supplies in hand.

The next concert in the series will take place later this summer and will be announced soon.

About the Dr. P. Phillips Orlando Performing Arts Center
The Dr. P. Phillips Orlando Performing Arts Center is an independent non-profit 501(c) 3 corporation dedicated to developing, building and operating the new performing arts center in downtown Orlando. The performing arts center plans to develop a mixed-use urban arts center with three main halls, educational facilities and a public theater plaza. The performing arts center will be Central Florida’s destination of choice for arts, cultural and entertainment programming. It will serve our diverse community by educating and nurturing artists, arts organizations, audiences and students throughout the region and the state of Florida. DPAC is committed to the City of Orlando’s Code for minority/women business enterprise contract and employment participation. For more information, visit www.orlandopac.org.

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Eight-year old Mya, in addition to over 200 other attendees, enjoyed the first performance in the Summer Cultural Concert Series, where more than 500 school supplies were collected for the Holden Heights Community Center. Lane and Company, a Sacred Music and Negro Spiritual Ensemble, was the featured performer.