Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, July 8, 1994 TAG: 9407280003
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: KEVIN KITTREDGE
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
IRISH LIME: Tim & Mollie O'Brien and the O'Boys come to the Theater at Lime Kiln in Lexington on Sunday. Tom O'Brien is a nationally recognized songwriter who has written for Kathy Mattea. Mary-Chapin Carpenter has described him as ``one of the sharpest lyricists I've ever heard.'' O'Brien usually performs with his sister, Mollie, or with his band, the O'Boys. Sunday he teams up with both to offer his style of ``new country electro-acoustic folk-beat walking-the-line-between-several genres acoustic music that rocks a bit, but you understand the words.'' All that for $12 - or $14 if you want a chair. In the Bowl. For information call 463-3074.
AND SPEAKING OF LIME KILN: ``Stonewall Country,'' the Kiln's popular musical based on the life of Lexington eccentric and Confederate war hero (and eccentric) Thomas Jonathan ``Stonewall'' Jackson runs through next week, Tuesday through Saturday. Show time is 8 p.m. ``Stonewall Country,'' which celebrates its tenth season this year, includes music by Robin and Linda William and new choreography by Fay Simpson, of the Fay SImpson Dance Theatre in New York City.
More than 45,000 people have seen ``Stonewall'' since its debut in 1985. Ticket prices range from $6 to $15.
AND AS LONG AS YOU'RE THERE ANYWAY: Lexington's Virginia Horse Center's All -Arabian Horse Show and Championships are this weekend. The center outside Lexington will feature more than 750 Arabian horses from across the United States, here to compete in the Region 15 show. The Arabian is considered to be the oldest of horse breeds and has long been a favorite with spectators, with its majestic form and high set tail. For more information, call the Horse Center at 463-2194.
DOWN THE ROAD SHOW: At Abingdon's Barter Theater is ``Three to Get Ready,'' which the theater's artistic director and producer, Richard Rose, calls ``among the best and brightest American comedies I've read.'' David DeBoy's play deals with three brothers who reunite at the beach house of their childhood to ask, ``What are we going to do about Mom?'' For performance information and reservations, call the Barter Theater Box Office at 628-3991 or (800) 368-3240.
MOUNTAIN CLASSICS: A chamber orchestra and harp soloist Stacey Shames will perform at the Garth Newel Music Center in Warm Springs on Saturday at 4 p.m. On the program are works by Debussy, Handel, Vivaldi, Unico Wilhelm Van Wassenaer and the contemporary Polish composer Henryk-Mikolaj Gorecki.
On Sunday at 3 p.m., the Garth Newel Chamber Players will join up with the Canticum Novum Chorale of Staunton to perform the music of Benjamin Britten, William Croft and Handel. The center's Herter Hall is air-conditioned. For more information, call 839-5018.
AND IN CASE IT'S JUST TOO HOT THIS WEEKEND: The 2nd Monacan Indian Tribal Pow-wow is scheduled for next weekend, July 16 and 17, at the Sedalia Center near Big Island. Twenty tribes will be represented at this gathering of hundreds of Indians in full dance regalia, who will compete for $5,000 in prize money. One dancer will use 14 hoops while telling a story. Visitors may walk through a Sioux Tipi Village, hear the sound of drums echoing through the mountains and talk to knife makers, silversmiths, pottery makers, basket makers, bone carvers and others. Crafts will be sold - as will buffalo burgers, Indian tacos and berry stew. Adults pay $5, children $3. Children 5 and under will be admitted free of charge. The pow-wow will be held from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. July 16, and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on July 17. Proceeds will be used to buy property on Bear Mountain in Amherst County, a traditionally spiritual place for the Monacans.
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