
Staunton Senior Center Kicks Off Busy Holiday Season
Staunton Senior Center has officially kicked off its holiday season!

Staunton Senior Center has officially kicked off its holiday season!

WTA’s Gateway ushers in the Christmas season with a dessert cabaret featuring two of the areas favorite performers. Diane Heavner and Brian Holsopple accompanied by Don Roe will take the audience on a musical tour of the Great White Way. The performance will run for two evenings, once on Friday, November 30 and once on Saturday, December 1 at 8 pm on the Gateway stage at 329 West Main in Downtown Waynesboro.

Paul Sanders comes across as soft-spoken in his understated approach to providing entertainment in the form of his Music Trivia Nights at the Gateway Theatre in Downtown Waynesboro. Don’t let the soothing voice fool you into thinking that Sanders is just a run-of-the-mill disc jockey. The guy knows his stuff when it comes to music.

Start your Christmas season off right by supporting the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank at this 16th annual benefit concert with three musical groups with guest performers, candlelight and luminaries at historic Augusta Stone Presbyterian Church on Rt. 11 in Fort Defiance, midway between Harrisonburg and Staunton. Through donations, the Food Bank serves 120,000 people each month (16% more than last year) through 250 partner agencies. All proceeds from the concert go to the Food Bank.

A voice that good, they always want more! Even after their incredible opening set at the Waynesboro Chili, Blues and Brews Festival in September was completed, the crowd did not want her to stop… Erin Lunsford and the Smokey Bandits will bring that energy to their debut on Mojo Saturday Night on Saturday, November 17 at WTA’s Gateway in downtown Waynesboro. Joining them will be Emma Leigh and Buddy Thomas. The performance begins at 8 pm with the doors opening at 7:30 pm.

When master keyboard artist Carsten Schmidt plays his second program of Toccatas and French Suites by J.S. Bach, he will introduce a new member of the Staunton musical community, a handmade harpsichord that replicates one in the Bach Haus in Eisenach, Thuringia, where Bach was raised in a large family of professional musicians.

I guess we could call November the Radio Hour’s month of the woman. Chrystal McKee brings Angel Love to life in the third chapter of A. Love Diary along with Boomie Pedersen. And both are joined by Marsha Howard. And headlining the musical talent is Lorie Strother. What a list of female talent!

Host Richard Adams promises the November 9th Variety Show will not be a turkey. He has pulled together a saucey line up of talent for his night. Joining Adams will be The Judy Chops, songwriter/musician Buddy Thomas, and the Shenandoah Valley’s Premiere Hula Hooper, Arrow.

Life has slowed down for Ellen Schwartz and Roger Bruno, by design. “We don’t have to worry anymore about things like, How will this sound if Barbra Streisand were singing it?” said Schwartz, who with Bruno, her husband, performs in the band Too Human, which will play at the Gateway Theatre in Downtown Waynesboro on Friday, Oct. 26.

Justin Turk, age 7, was hearing it from his dad. “He was egging me on,” said Turk, who will be performing songs from his new CD, “Right Here, Right Now,” at the WTA’s Gateway on Saturday night.
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