The Coastal Cohorts are celebrating their 25th anniversary with a statewide concert tour. They will be performing songs and stories from their popular musical King Mackerel & The Blues Are Running and sequel CD Wild Ponies at concerts scheduled for Asheboro, Raleigh, Elizabeth City, Manteo and Wilmington.
Concert proceeds will benefit the NC Coastal Federation, a nonprofit environmental organization, headquartered in Ocean, NC.
The Cohorts’ original music celebrates life on the Carolina Coast with a combination of ballads and upbeat tunes, flavored by humor and the poetry of the natural world. The talented musicians include Jim Wann on guitar, Bland Simpson on piano and Don Dixon on bass and other instruments.
While Wild Ponies celebrates the freedom of ponies on the run on protected islands in North Carolina, there are odes to Low-country cooking, boat-building by hand without any plans, a Southern Belle in a coastal town, and many more. The CD also includes new versions of Catfish and Farmer Tan from the Broadway hit Pump Boys and Dinettes, which was written and composed by Jim Wann.
Concert proceeds will be used for restoration projects conducted by the North Carolina Coastal Federation, the state's only non-profit organization focused exclusively on protecting and restoring the coast of NC through education, advocacy, and habitat preservation and restoration.
