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Top comic Odyssey Michaels will head the lineup at the February Comedy Night at WTA’s Gateway on Saturday, Feb. 25. Michaels was voted Richmond’s funniest comic in 2011 by Style Weekly Magazine. He has performed nationally, including being a featured performer at the Cincinnati Comedy Festival. He has also been seen on G4TV cable network. …
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Her ties to the first family of entertainment are strong but this Disney focuses on brave women in peacebuilding rather than cartoons and children’s films. Abigail Disney, a philanthropist, scholar and award-winning filmmaker, will give the annual commencement address at Eastern Mennonite University 0n Sunday, April 29. “EMU is a remarkable institution, an island of…
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Three dancers from the Old Dominion Performance Arts Studio in Downtown Waynesboro were honored among the elite at a recent New York City Dance Alliance event in Baltimore. Donovan Mellon and Katlyn Lawhorne both were awarded scholarships, and Kristina Winn was a finalist for another scholarship awarded by the Dance Alliance at the Jan. 13-15…
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Jason Ajemian, a Waynesboro native, will return to his hometown to play a concert at WTA’s Gateway on Saturday, Dec. 17 at 8 p.m. Ajemian has spent the last 15 years performing folk, improvised jazz and new music on the stand-up bass in over 20 different countries. For eight years he was central part of…
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The Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir has been invited to sing at the White House Christmas Tours on Dec. 21, according to Yvette Peake, choir manager. The acclaimed children’s choir, now in its twentieth year, had applied for the honor in April 2011. “We were thrilled to get this invitation in mid-November and had almost given…
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The latest in James Madison University’s Faculty Flashpoint Series, sponsored by the Center for Faculty Innovation, will explore the Occupy Wall Street movement that has been gaining momentum in many U.S. cities and around the world over the past few months. The flashpoint will be held Friday, Dec. 2, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in…
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Music lovers, and especially Bach aficionados, will have a rare opportunity on Sunday, Nov. 13, when noted keyboardist Carsten Schmidt plays the whole of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, sometimes known as WTC 2. It’s a collection of 24 preludes and fugues, each pair in a different key. The concert, at 3 p.m. at Central…
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Oct. 18 was a special day at the Staunton Senior Center. We had a guest speaker, Sandra Powell,who attempted to run across the country in order to raise money for AIDS orphans. Her story first caught the attention of Program Director Lori Pullin as she read about Sandy in the newspaper. Sandy agreed to come…
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Taking the audience by storm at the Gateway Opening Gala, Bryan Elijah Smith and the Wild Hearts brought the audience to its feet for an encore. The demand to bring them back for an evening of their own prompted the Gateway to engage them for a performance on Saturday, October 15 at 8 p.m. Leading…
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Rob Zappulla Quintet will bring their unique tribute to Frank Sinatra to the Gateway in Downtown Waynesboro on Saturday, Oct. 1. “Come Fly with Me” features the music of the great Sinatra from his days with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra to the showrooms of Las Vegas. The five decades of the career of the unique…
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