Blue Ridge Music Center and SECCA present artist Lonnie Holley & cellist Ben Sollee

The Blue Ridge Music Center is thrilled to work with the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art to present Lonnie Holley and Ben Sollee together in a performance for Crossroads @ SECCA #017 at 6 p.m., Sunday, February 5, 2017.

Lonnie Holley has devoted his life to the practice of improvisational creativity. His art and music, born out of struggle, hardship, but perhaps more importantly, out of furious curiosity and biological necessity, has manifested itself in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, performance, and sound. Holley’s sculptures are constructed from found materials in the oldest tradition of African American sculpture. His music and lyrics are improvised on the spot and morph and evolve with every event, concert, and recording.

Kentucky-born cellist and composer Ben Sollee’s music and activism often intertwine. He has toured by bicycle, spoken on sustainability at festivals, and worked on a collaborative album to bring awareness about mountain top removal strip mining in Appalachia. With it all, his musicianship shines through. The New York Times wrote Sollee’s “...meticulous, fluent arrangements continually morphed from one thing to another. Appalachian mountain music gave way to the blues, and one song was appended with a fragment from a Bach cello suite, beautifully played.”

The Crossroads @ SECCA concert series aims to provide attendees with an extraordinary evening of music, art, food and drink featuring world-class musicians in an intimate concert environment. Both artists will play one set with a brief intermission. Food trucks and beer from Foothills Brewing will be available for purchase.

Tickets for the show are on sale now at http://secca.org/programs-crossroads.php. Advance tickets are $18 for general admission and $28 for VIP tickets (reserved seating & custom letterpress poster), and $23 for general admission and $33 for VIP tickets when purchased on the day of the show. SECCA is at 750 Marguerite Drive, Winston-Salem, N.C.

Since 2013, the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation has funded the concert programming at the Blue Ridge Music Center in keeping with the nonprofit’s mission to ensure cultural and historical preservation, along with natural resource protection, educational outreach, and visitor enjoyment now and for future generations.