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.
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.
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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