The Louisville Orchestra is bringing its “In Harmony” tour, featuring a bluegrass theme, to Bowling Green.

The orchestra will perform with bluegrass fiddler Michael Cleveland at 7:30 p.m. March 5 at the Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center.

The two-year tour, which began in May 2023, brings orchestra musicians to dozens of communities across the commonwealth, allowing the musicians and staff to meet people and collaborate with local musicians, artists, schools and community organizations.

“We are excited to be a stop on the Louisville Orchestra’s ‘In Harmony Tour,’ ” said Makenzie Belcher, marketing assistant for Arts of Southern Kentucky. “We appreciate their efforts in bringing the beauty of orchestral music across the commonwealth of Kentucky.”

Belcher said that many of the SKyPAC’s Orchestra Kentucky members are also members of the Louisville Orchestra, “so it will be enjoyable to show our support for them in another capacity and watch them in action.”

Cleveland will perform with his band, Flamekeeper, on this leg of the tour. The band was formed by Cleveland in 2006 and received the International Bluegrass Association’s Instrumental Group of the Year award seven times.

Cleveland is a 2024 Grammy nominee, a 2019 Grammy award winner and 12-time IBMA Fiddle Player of the Year.

“We did a show with the Louisville Orchestra back in 2017 and have been looking for an opportunity to perform with them again,” Cleveland said. “We were thrilled when they reached out to us again.”

Cleveland, who began playing the fiddle when he was 4, has continued playing for the past 40 years.

“I started playing classical music at the Kentucky School for the Blind,” he said. “But I always knew I wanted to play bluegrass.”

It was when his grandparents started taking him to bluegrass shows that his love of the fiddle began.

“When I was a kid in school, my classical teacher had once heard a bad example of bluegrass and didn’t want me to play it,” Cleveland said. “I always liked both types of music, but I was a bluegrass musician at heart. To hear the orchestra play the kind of music we play is kind of like a full-circle moment for me.”

Cleveland said he commends the Louisville Orchestra’s conductor, Teddy Abrams, for being open-minded enough to perform music the orchestra doesn’t typically play.

“It’s always good to do something different and push the envelope,” he said.

Tickets for the free concert can be reserved at louisvilleorchestra.org or at the skypac.com.