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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The River City Radio Hour returns to Downtown Waynesboro Friday night with music and mystery. Blues artist Kevin Chisnell will be making his first appearance at the Radio Hour, a production of the Waynesboro Cultural Commission, Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc. and the Wayne Theatre Alliance. Chisnell will be joined on…
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Item by Jim Bishop The 16th annual Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival will offer another musical feast for the senses, June 8-15 at Eastern Mennonite University. “This year’s theme, ‘Bach and String Things,’ will feature music that displays the incredible range of sounds possible with string instruments,” noted Mary Kay Adams, the festival’s executive director.
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Gary Ruley and Mule Train will kick off the Bands in the Bowl concert series at Theater at Lime Kiln in Lexington on Saturday. Ruley, a Lexington native, and his band combine bluegrass, jazz and “newgrass” into their musical stylings. Tickets are available by calling the Lime Kiln box office…
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Item by Crystal Graham [email protected] It’s not your everyday banjo. With musical instruments being cranked out of big factories every day, Geoff Stelling’s handmade banjos are a true rarity. The Afton-based business produces just 200 or so banjos annually. Geoff’s son, Jimmy, who works with his dad in the business, is a banjo player who…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] I was supposed to interview a bestselling author in person here at the Augusta Free Press headquarters on Friday, but Ellis Nassour never showed. I chalked it up to his busy schedule. Nassour was in the Valley over the weekend for auditions for the upcoming…
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Item by Jim Bishop A 2008 Eastern Mennonite University honors graduate has received a major fellowship award for graduate study. Donovan E. Tann, an English major with minor in church music from East Petersburg, Pa., was one of 15 students nationwide accepted into the Lilly Graduate Fellows Program operated by Valparaiso (Ind.) University. He was…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The author of a biography and musical on the life of country-music legend Patsy Cline will be in Lexington this weekend for a reception and for callbacks for an upcoming Theater at Lime Kiln production. Honky Tonk Angel: The Intimate Story of Patsy Cline author Ellis Nassour will be on…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A musical produced and starring “American Idol” contestant Colton Berry is coming to the stage at Kate Collins Middle School in Waynesboro Friday, May 23, through Monday, May 26. Company opens Friday night. Showtime for each night of the production is 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased…
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Item by Jim Bishop It’s been 20 years of making youthful melodies, with no end in sight. The Preparatory Music Program at Eastern Mennonite University will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a group concert 4 p.m. Sunday in EMU’s Lehman Auditorium. More than 100 string students, ages 3-18, will perform music from the Suzuki repertoire….
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen As a big fan of TV’s whacky “30 Rock,” I expected great things from Tina Fey in her leading lady debut, “Baby Mama,” now playing at the Staunton Mall Cinemas. I wasn’t disappointed. What last year’s over-ballyhooed “Knocked Up” could have been, “Baby Mama” is. And although…
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