SYDNEY, N.S. – A public event is being planned to celebrate the life of Rita MacNeil early next month in Sydney, N.S.
The concert event, titled Home I’ll Be: Remembering Rita, is set to take place May 6 at Centre 200.
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Organizers say lineup and ticket details are still being finalized.
All proceeds from the event will go to a scholarship fund being set up for students in the new traditional music program at Cape Breton University.
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Joella Foulds and Max MacDonald, who are longtime friends of MacNeil’s, are organizing the concert as a way to provide the wider community an opportunity to come together and remember the Cape Breton singer.
A funeral was held Monday for MacNeil in her hometown of Big Pond, but MacDonald says not everyone in the community could attend.
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