The National Arts Centre Orchestra is on its way to Charlottetown this evening, but some of the larger instruments won't be making the trip.
On Wednesday, a truck carrying the timpani, the double-basses, the scores, the wardrobe cases and much of the Orchestra's equipment was stopped at the ferry terminal in Port-aux-Basques, Newfoundland and Labrador because the ferry was experiencing mechanical difficulties.
So tonight members of Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra will perform in their street clothes, some playing borrowed instruments, in a concert that many say they'll never forget.
Conductor, Julien Kuerti said from St. John's, "we're not going to have time to rehearse so the sound check will be when we play O Canada at the start of the concert."
The Prince Edward Island Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Nova Scotia offered to find the instruments needed by the NAC musicians and to bring them to Charlottetown's Confederation Centre for the Arts before the concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Atlantic Time on Thursday evening.
The National Arts Centre wishes to thank everyone who will make tonight's concert possible.