Famed Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli is slated to play a fundraising concert in Grand Cayman on 25 Feb.
According to flyers being distributed on island, tickets for the event at Pedro St James, which has not been widely advertised, are being sold for up to $2,500. Tickets for $1,500 have already sold out.
The event is to raise money for the LRN Foundation, founded by Lynda and Ronald Nutt.
The flyers, and a poster outside A. L. Thompson’s hardware store directing people where to pick up their tickets, list the organisation as the ‘LNR Foundation’, a typo which Lynda Nutt told the Compass had erroneously been included in the promotional material. She said she had been contacted by Cayman’s Non-Profit Organisations Register about the typo and had clarified that it was indeed the couple’s charity – the LRN Charitable Company Ltd.
“It was our error for not catching this earlier and apologise,” she said. “There is so much to do coordinating this and getting tickets out – we overlooked it.”
She added, “We have been working with Kelly Holding, we have notified the Governor, Premier, Tourism and Culture about this upcoming event. We issue tickets to those who have paid in A. L. Thompson’s twice a week on Wednesday and Saturdays from 11-2 in the kitchen appliance department.”
Bocelli is currently in the middle of a world tour, and is scheduled to play dates throughout the southern United States and Mexico this month. The Cayman concert is not listed on his website, presumably as it’s essentially a private concert.
The night before he is due to play in Cayman, he is due to appear in Guadalajara, Mexico, on 24 Feb. After that, his next public concert will be in Denmark on 26 March.
Flyers with details of the concert state that it is a fundraiser to help develop TPET, a new scanning technology for detecting cancer, for which Lynda and Ronald Nutt hold two patents.
Ronald Nutt, along with David Townsend, developed the PET-CT scan, which is widely used in the medical field to help diagnose cancer. According to the flyer, the TPET, once developed, “will provide the ability for screening more frequently. TPET will obsolete the old, more expensive PET CT imaging and make cancer screening more beneficial worldwide”.
The flyer advises people who wish to buy tickets to email [email protected].
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