Shell Point to host final concert of season

COURTESY PHOTO Local artist Carrie Lund Cacioppo, associate producer of Florida Repertory Theatre, will be performing in the upcoming concert at Shell Point Retirement Community. Well-known local actress Carrie Lund Cacioppo will perform with duo pianists Kirk Whipple and Marilyn Morales and the Unconservatory Festival Orchestra at the final concert of the season for Shell Point Retirement Community's sixth annual Fine and Performing Arts Concert Series. The concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and tickets are still available.

Lund, who is well-known for her dramatic work with the Florida Repertory Theatre will be reciting the poetry of Ogden Nash to compliment the performance

of Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the

Animals, which is one of the selections by Whipple and Morales. In addition to this popular work, their program will

also include Bach's Concerto in C Major

for Two Pianos and Strings.

As a professional actress, Lund has performed in more than 60 roles over a period of 20 years, primarily with the Florida Repertory Theatre, which draws more than 60,000 people a year to the Arcade Theater in downtown Fort Myers and is celebrating its 10th season.

Kirk Whipple and Marilyn Morales have performed at venues throughout the United States, Europe, Costa Rica, Spain, and throughout the Caribbean. They have recorded a number of CDs, appeared on television and radio, and published a book of one piano/four hand holiday arrangements for beginning pianists.

Tickets for this concert are $25. To purchase tickets or receive additional information about this concert or payment information, please call (239) 454-2067 or visit www.shellpoint.org.

Shell Point Retirement Community is a continuing care retirement community located in Fort Myers just off Summerlin Road, two miles before the Sanibel causeway. Shell Point is CCAC accredited and a nationally recognized leader in the retirement industry.