Yolanda Rabun was featured with the North Carolina Symphony in last year's streaming concert Holiday Pops with Jingles the Elf.

   A proud graduate of Northside High School of the Performing Arts in Atlanta, Yolanda Rabun is a recording artist, actor, and storyteller. She has headlined national jazz festivals, toured jazz clubs, and opened for Stephanie Mills at the Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC) and Sheila E at the Red Hat Amphitheater.
    Rabun has won accolades for Best Lead Actress (Archy and Mehitabel, The Member of the Wedding, Nina) and Best Ensemble (Twelfth Night, Crowns, the world premiere of Chaunesti Webb’s I Love My Hair When It’s Good: & Then Again When It Looks Defiant and Impressive). Recent appearances with North Carolina Theatre, Theatre Raleigh, and Playmakers Repertory Company include Beehive: The 60s Musical, Newsies, Smokey Joe’s Café, Mary Poppins, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, The Drowsy Chaperone, and Howard L. Craft’s one-woman play, No Fear and Blues Long Gone: Nina Simone.
    As a wife, mother, corporate executive, lawyer, singer-songwriter and publisher, motivational speaker, political scientist, community activist for youth, touring performance artist, and music entrepreneur, Yolanda Rabun lives at the speed of passion and challenges everyone to hold on to your dreams!