Annual Balsam Range Benefit Concert Fundraiser
The award winning Balsam Range band returns for another great evening of entertainment at Glad Tidings Church March 6, 2026.
Balsam Range on-stage at Glad Tidings Church March 7, 2025
The Rotary Club of Morehead City thanks all attendees and sponsors for the 2025 Wells Family Dentistry Century of Service Balsam Range Concert that made the following two $9,200 check presentations possible. Another $2,395.00 check was presented to the band to deliver to the Haywood Advance Foundation to assist struggling businesses. Balsam Range is associated with Haywood County and the damage toll in Haywood County from Hurricane Helene continues to grow; consequently, as a part of this 2025 concert, two items were in a raffle with all proceeds to be given to Haywood Advancement Foundation, 370 N Main Street Suite 305, Waynesville, NC 28786.
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Proceeds from this annual event (through our March 7, 2025, event) have raised $86,500 in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease and $44,095 for local charities.
Balsam Range is one of the genre’s most award-winning artists in recent years. Since forming in 2007, the group has garnered 13 IBMA awards on the heels of 8 critically acclaimed albums. Balsam Range has left audiences spellbound while headlining major festivals from coast-to-coast, selling out venues across the nation and in multiple appearances at the Grand Ole Opry. In addition to winning Entertainer of the Year, Balsam Range vocalist Buddy Melton won IBMA’s Male Vocalist of the Year and bass player Tim Surrett won IBMA’s Bass Player of the Year in 2018.
"Grit and Grace" Official Video
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The following photos are our check presentations at the March 8, 2024, event. Left photo: Allen Quigley District 7730, District Governor 2023-2024, Home Club Wilmington West, receives a $9,000 check from Rotarian Jayna McDonald. Right photo: Club President Marie Kight presents $9,000 check to Rotarian Win Chalk, representative for C G Foundation.
Following pictures from March 31, 2023, performance at GTC with proceeds being given to cutting-edge Alzheimer's Research ($11,000) and Loaves and Fishes of Beaufort ($10,000).
Rotarian Norm Rogers, left, CART repreentative, and Rotarian Dean McDonald
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Pastor David Bruce, left, Loaves and Fishes of Beaufort and Rotarian Jim Gregson
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Following pictures from April 29, 2022, performance at GTC with proceeds being given to cutting-edge Alzheimer's Research and these local non-profit organizations providing humanitarian services: Friends of Aging, Broad Street Clinic, and Crystal Coast Hospice House.
Balsam Range on-stage April 29, 2022.
Barbara Johnson, 2021-2022 Club President, Presents Check
The two pictures below show Barbara Johnson (President Morehead City Rotary Club) handing Norm Rogers (CART Executive Board) a $4500 check for CART. They are standing in front of the WORLD’S LARGEST ROTARY WHEEL. It’s 240 feet across and is the world's largest Rotary symbol. It was built in Greenfield Park, in Wilmington, NC, in honor of this club's 50th anniversary. The project had its origins in 1924 when the Rotary Club adopted the cause of developing Greenfield Lake as a public park.
Then in 1945 the Wilmington Rotary Club obtained discarded seating from The Lost Colony outdoor drama in Manteo, and brought the seats to Wilmington. Rotarians scraped, sanded, painted, and installed the seats in the Wilmington amphitheater. The story gets better and better and can be read at the club’s website. Rotary Club of Wilmington (wilmingtonrotaryclub.org)
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Following pictures from April 9, 2021, performance at GTC with proceeds being given to cutting-edge Alzheimer's Research.
Balsam Range on-stage at Glad Tidings Church
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Jim Gregson presents check to Dawn Rochelle, District Governor
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