
Joan Wingfield | ShenanArts News and Notes
Thanks to all who have responded with such generosity and offers of help to assist ShenanArts with our move to Gypsy Hill Place (the old R.E. Lee High School).

Thanks to all who have responded with such generosity and offers of help to assist ShenanArts with our move to Gypsy Hill Place (the old R.E. Lee High School).

Mountain Heart will be in Harrisonburg for an evening of cutting-edge bluegrass/acoustic music at Court Square Theater on Thursday, May 14 at 7:30 p.m. Advance tickets may be purchased for $19, $17 for students and seniors, and will be $3 more at the door.

The Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir will hold auditions for their 2009-2010 season May 14, 15 and 16 at Eastern Mennonite University for children in rising grades 3-8.

Wilson Memorial High School senior Dustin Roadcap is the producer, director, actor, fill-in-the-blank with the upcoming school production of Clue: The Musical. AFP editor Chris Graham puts Roadcap in the spotlight on the debut of “The Chris Graham Show.” Length: 11:35.

You’ve no doubt played the board game and maybe even seen the 1980s campy movie. Now you can play clue with the help of the Wilson Memorial High School Singing Sergeant’s Seniors, who will present Clue: The Musical on Saturday, May 9 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, May 10 at 3 p.m.

Greetings from England, U.K.! I Googled your past article, “Earth Talk | Guitar heroes” (Feb. 27, 2009) in response to the question posed by Chris Wiedemann about “what the guitar industry is doing to ensure that the wood it uses is not destroying forests.”

The Staunton Music Festival presents a mobile musical party at one of Staunton’s most beautiful historic landmarks, Cobble Hill Farm, on Sunday afternoon, May 10, with the Baroque and Bluegrass Bash. The music starts at 3:45 p.m.

Songwriters from both coasts and many points in-between will converge on the Shenandoah Valley May 1 to participate in a creative brainstorming and networking weekend hosted by local singer-songwriter Nathan Moore. The event will feature collaborative sessions between visiting and local musicians in a primitive camp setting on the Middle River. Several attendees will perform…

Quite often, on today’s DVD releases, we find a documentary about the making of a fiction movie as a sort of extra added attraction. This month, on HBO, you will find a fictional movie about the making of a documentary. It’s called “Grey Gardens,” and it’s weird, gripping, and excellent. Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore…

Emily Henline and Blair Wingfield will join the St. Clair Street Band in a spring musical fest at the Friday, April 17, “River City Radio Hour.” Eleven-year-old Emily Henline is a sixth-grader at Beverly Manor Middle School. Former Statler Brother Jimmy Fortune has said of her, “Emily has a great voice. My friend Barbara Fairchild…
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