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Music, particularly blues, has been with musician and Mojo Saturday Night producer Kevin Chisnell since childhood. “I heard a guy playing a harmonica, and I made my sister go to the music store with me, and we bought one. And I drove everybody nuts for quite some time trying to blow and learn on that…
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Uncle Henry’s Favorites Old-Time String Band will bring their unique version of the music that was the hallmark of the mountain culture. The performance will be a homecoming for the band’s fiddler/guitarist Pete Vigour who was raised in Waynesboro. Joining him will be Ellen Vigour on mandolin, Jim Childress on fiddle and guitar and Mark…
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Actress/Storyteller Lynn Ruehlmann will bring her one-person show Almost Grown to WTA’s Gateway on Saturday, March 3rd. The piece is an adult tale of what Ruehlman calls “Mischief and Other Matters.” She looks at what it means to becoming an adult and facing what that means: careers, life, loves, and marriage. Almost Grown will be…
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How does a spider beat an elephant in a bout of tug-of-war?? You’ll find out when the nationally recognized Barefoot Puppets presents Trickster Tales! at WTA’s Gateway at 329 West Main on Friday, January 27 at 4 pm and 6 pm. This 45-minute performance stars Anansi the Spider in two traditional folktales of the Beluba…
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Jack Roy will host the Wayne Theatre Alliance’s Open-Mic Night on Thursday, Dec. 22nd, at the Gateway Theatre. Open Mic Nights feature seasoned and novice performers who want the opportunity to preview their talents for a local audience. Shows are at 7 p.m. at WTA’s Gateway in Downtown Waynesboro. Admission is pay-what-you-will. Jack Roy is…
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Augusta Free Press LLC was at the November installment of the Wayne Theatre Alliance’s River City Radio Hour at the Gateway Theatre in Downtown Waynesboro. If you missed this month’s Radio Hour, you missed Richard Adams and The Boogie Kings, Hank Fitzgerald, comedian Irv Beadles and the River City Players finishing out another installment in the…
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The Wayne Theatre Alliance’s Gateway will host its first comedy night on Friday, Aug. 26. The performances are at 8 pm and 10 pm at 329 West Main in Downtown Waynesboro. The August performances will be followed in September by the Gateway’s Top Comic Competition. The Aug. 26 performances will be presented by the Charlottesville…
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The River City Radio Hour returns to WTA’s Gateway for its first production of the fifth Season on August 19. The 6:30 and 8:00 pm performances will the Boogie Kings, Marsha Howard, Fritz Horst, and Chapter One of the new Night Hawk serial: Night Hawk and Murder Down On the Farm by Bob Crawford. The…
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Augusta Free Press LLC has moved a block down Waynesboro’s Main Street. AFP has opened a new office at 421 W. Main St., Suite D, in The Edmunds Building in Downtown Waynesboro. AFP will be sharing offices with one of its corporate clients, Awesome Wrestling Entertainment, which stages live-event professional wrestling shows at venues across…
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The Wayne Theatre Alliance announced the ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new entertainment center, The Gateway, at 329 West Main in Downtown Waynesboro on Friday, Aug. 5 at 10 a.m. The public is invited for a first look at the new venue. The ribbon-cutting will include the members of the Wayne Theatre Alliance, Waynesboro Downtown Development…
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