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A musical collection of treats will be on display as the Shenandoah Valley Youth Orchestra hosts a “Musical Treats and More” performance 3:30 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 23, in Lehman Auditorium on the campus of Eastern Mennonite University. Families and children of all ages are invited to a concert that will feature excerpts from one of…
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The weekend of Aug. 12-14 will be the premiere of what should become an annual feature of the heritage music scene. Dulcimer players will be joined by guitar boom chuckers, standup bass slappers, old-time fiddlers and open-back banjo pluckers to create a festival of mountain music. A performance of Ivy Rowe, by Barbara Bates Smith,…
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Local celebrities Bobby Capri and Andrew Hypes are moving up into the big boys league. The duo has had shows here in the Valley as well as up and down the East Coast, including, Washington, D.C., Brooklyn and Manhattan. The pair have made their way from independent artists to collaborating and joining the independent label,…
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It was a memorable trek down musical memory lane, with certain melodies still lingering gentle on my mind long after the encore numbers were sung. The occasion: a Saturday evening (Oct. 10) gathering in Harrisonburg of a diverse group of musicians who came together for the first time 20 years ago. For two-and-a-half hours, the…
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Story by Chris Graham Chris Woodson likes to “tell stories.” Which is why he’s a fan of, of all things, country music. “I like country music because you can tell stories. Every song is a story. Some guy, a regular Joe like you or I, wrote the song in his hometown, and then some big…
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Stage4 Theatre and ShenanArts are holding auditions this weekend for Children’s Letters to God, a musical directed by Jeff McDaniel that will be staged in February 2009.
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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] Auditions for a world-premiere production of a musical about country-music legend Patsy Cline are on the schedule for Lime Kiln Arts in Lexington next weekend. The auditions are set for Saturday, May 3, at 1 p.m. at the Troubadour Theatre at the corner of South Main Street and Henry Street…
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The Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech will host legendary bandleader Juan de Marcos and the Afro-Cuban All Stars on Wednesday, Oct. 28.
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When the Wayne Theatre opened its doors in Downtown Waynesboro for the first time, on Jan. 18, 1926, there still wasn’t such a thing as talking movies.
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