Hot and Healthy Yoga presented Yoga in the Pines, a free yoga class at the Village Arboretum in Pinehurst.

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Participants stand in "warrior" pose in the arboretum's meadow.

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Instructor Nikki Sharon demonstrates a pose as participants follow along.

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Dana Danielson (center) holds a pose for a quiet moment.

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Participants raise their legs for a stretch.

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Instructor Courtney Long demonstrates a pose.

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Dana Danielson holds a pose in "downward dog."

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Courtney Long holds a "pigeon crescent" pose.

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Participants hold a pose while stretching their lower backs.

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Double-Wide, a funk and jazz band, played at Poplar Knight Spot in Aberdeen March 25.

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Poplar Knight Spot owner Janet Kenworty's dog keeps an audience member company during the performance.

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Cameron native John Ellis heads the quartet that plays modern jazz via New Orleans and New York, as well as North Carolina.

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Patrons stand outside socializing as the music drifts out into the cool, spring air.

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Ryan Keberle plays the trombone.

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Ellis plays the tenor saxophone.

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Brian Coogan plays the organ.

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Audience members move to the music in their seats.

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Matt Perrine plays the sousaphone.

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Though Ellis is currently based in Brooklyn, N.Y., he was happy to have the chance to bring his music back home for the Palustris Festival.

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Students from Baxter Clement's Sandhills School for the Performing Arts played music and performed for residents at Penick Village March 25.

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Maestro David Michael Wolff led musicians from the Carolina Philharmonic along with some of Moore County's most promising instrumentalists and singers in a concert for "Ode to Joy--Beethoven's 9th Symphony," at R.E. Lee Auditorium at Pinecrest High School March 25.

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Students and faculty from the music program at Sandhills Community College performed "Music Through the Ages" at Owens Auditorium March 25.

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