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Staff Report News tips: [email protected] Fishersville United Methodist Church will be presenting a musical drama at Easter called “Bow the Knee.” The church, at 1600 Jefferson Highway, will be holding three performances in the week leading up to Palm Sunday – on Friday, March 26, and Saturday, March 27, at 7 p.m., and Sunday,…
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Staff Report News tips: [email protected] “So You Think You Can Dance” and “High School Musical 3” dancer Jaimie Goodwin will be in Waynesboro Saturday, Feb. 6, and Sunday, Feb. 7, to teach a benefit workshop in association with Old Dominion Performance Arts Studio. Goodwin was a finalist on “So You Think You Can Dance”…
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Valley native releases first album Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Amanda Mackintosh set off for Belmont University in 2005 hoping that one day she’d make her name in Music City. Her first album is coming a bit sooner than expected. “It’s pretty exciting that I already have an album coming out,” said Mackintosh, a Clarke…
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Staff Report News tips: [email protected] Do you love singing, candy, and getting wrapped up in a great story? Then Roald Dahl’s “Willy Wonka” musical auditions are for you! The Waynesboro Players in partnership with Imagine That! Theatre is producing this much-loved tale of the world-famous candy man on a quest to find a young…
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Robin & Linda Williams on the bill for Tuesday-night show Staff Report News Tips: [email protected] Court Square Theater presents a Hank Williams Sr. Tribute show at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 29. Tickets are $24 in advance, 22 for students and seniors, and all tickets are $4 more at the door. The tickets are available…
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Barnes CD reflects personal journey in music Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The old saying about the difference between blues and jazz has it down. Blues is three chords for a thousand people, and jazz is a thousand chords for three people. “There’s some truth to that,” said Liz Barnes, who as a blues musician…
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Column by Nan Russell www.nanrussell.com Thirteen percent. That number should make you pause if you manage staff, lead a group, or own a business. It’s a number recently released from an on-line survey reported by Reuters. According to Right Management, a subsidiary of Manpower Inc, only 13 percent of employees surveyed said they “planned…
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Staff Report News Tips: [email protected] A wide range of music was served up with the pizza at Shenandoah Pizza on Tuesday night as musicians and music lovers of all types gathered to support the startup of a new music organization in Staunton. Professional and amateur musicians, business owners and fans mingled and networked as…
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A Dad’s Point of View column by Bruce Sallan www.brucesallan.com What parent hasn’t dreaded report card time, especially when a child is underperforming? How do two kids, born of the same genetic material, turn out so differently when it comes to school performance and their work ethic? When is it wrong if the “problem”…
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Staff Report EMU news: www.emu.edu They are three men on a mission – seeking to serve up an appetizing smorgasbord of eclectic music that may otherwise not hit the local radio airwaves. John L. Horst, Ted Grimsrud and Jim Bishop produce and host weekly programs on public radio station WEMC, 91.7 FM. They do…
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