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Community Concert features tenor Fernando Varela in rock and opera
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The Golden Belt Community Concert Association will present pop-crossover tenor Fernando Varela performing both rock and opera at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6 at the Great Bend Municipal Auditorium. - photo by COURTESY PHOTO
The Golden Belt Community Concert Association will present Fernando Varela, whose strong tenor voice has endowed him with the power and raw emotion for singing both rock and opera. The concert is set for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, at the Great Bend Municipal Auditorium, Lakin and Stone.This GBCCA event is available to concert association members. Full-time students will be admitted to the concert for a $5 donation at the door by showing their school I.D. The auditorium will open at 6:30 p.m.Two of Varela’s studio albums, “Prelude” and “Inspiration,” released in September 2012, feature beautifully orchestrated songs from Varela’s signature “Orbison Medley,” John Denver’s “Annie’s Song” and numerous other titles.As a prelude to his musical career, Varela’s melodious antics at age 3 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, imitating Michael Jackson, helped him develop a strong tenor voice and paved the way for his discovery on YouTube by one of Jackson’s producers, hit-maker and 16-time Grammy Award winner David Foster.