A special fund-raising concert featuring some of Port Macquarie’s finest musicians and singers, assembled under the direction of Robyn Ryan OAM and Jim Matsinos, will take place to support the Northern Rivers Flood Relief.

It will be held at MacKillop College, Ocean Drive, in the school’s theatre, on 4th and 5th June with two afternoon performances starting at 2:00pm.

The money raised is to assist the flood victims of the Northern Rivers of NSW.

There will be a special bracket of songs from the blockbuster Opera Les Misérables, in which the two principal singers from the Taree Arts Council 1995 production of Les Misérables, John Thompson and Jim Matsinos, will be joined by Elizabeth Ryrie.

The school bands from MacKillop College, the Senior School Band and the Saxophone Ensemble will perform under the direction of Robert Denham and Cara Stewart.

Pianists: Joris Vaskys, Gemma Lawrence, Nicola Awad.

Clarinettist: Carol Irving, Big Reds group, Glenn Moore and Bob Barnett.

Vocalists: Nicola Awad, Elizabeth Ryrie, Gillian Bennett, Les Femmes (female choir), Peter Murphy, John Thompson, Robert Wickham, Jim Matsinos and Glenn Moore. Songs performed will be from Opera, the Musicals and popular favourite songs from films.

MC: John Cross, an Australian actor, a master swordsman, has appeared in numerous independent and feature films, Home and Away, Moulin Rouge and the blockbuster Hercules: appearing with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.