Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, May 18, 1990 TAG: 9005180439
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: E-1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The midway will be open from 6 to 9 tonight and all day and into the night on Saturday. The opening ceremony will be Saturday morning at 10:45, with the car show, crafts fair and other activities to follow.
Saturday afternoon from 1 to 6, the Kings and Blackwater will provide live music.
To reach the park, take U.S. 460 west out of Salem and look for the festival signs.\ SHAGGIN' FOR A CAUSE: The Roanoke Valley Shag Club will have a dance to benefit the patient aid program of the Leukemia Society's Western Virginia Branch tonight from 9 to 1 at the Valley Sports Arena on Salem Turnpike.
The Catalinas, a beach music band, will perform. Tickets are $7 in advance and $10 at the door.
Thirty-one people in the Roanoke Valley are served by the society's patient aid program. Fourteen of them are under age 14.
For information about the dance, call 343-7567.\ BEACH PARTY: The Voltage Brothers will headline Beach Party '90 at Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park in Spout Spring Saturday from 1:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Proceeds will go toward the cost of this year's Historic Appomattox Railroad Festival.
The Fabulous Cruisers and North Tower also will perform.
Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the gate. For information, call (804) 352-2338.
Spout Spring is on U.S. 460 East.\ POETRY AND MUSIC: "An Incredible Quilt," an evening of poetry and music to benefit the Roanoke AIDS Project, will be held Saturday night at 7:30 at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Roanoke.
Food and drink will be available there, and donations will be greatly appreciated. For information, call 389-1604.\ SPRING TREAT: The Mount Rogers Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad will have its annual Ramp Festival Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on U.S. 58 at Whitetop.
Ramps are a mountain delicacy with a pungent taste and smell. The festival will have its ramp-eating contest Sunday afternoon at 3. Among the prizes for the winner is a much-needed bottle of mouthwash.
Old-time, bluegrass and country music will be featured, as will children's activities and barbecue chicken dinners.
For information, call 388-3294 in the afternoon.\ PIN POINTS: The Harrison Museum of African American Culture in Roanoke will present "1001 Black Inventions," a Pin Points Production, Saturday night at 7:30 in the Business Science Auditorium of Virginia Western Community College.
Founded in 1975, Pin Points uses theatrical formats to entertain and educate in such fields as biology and math.
Tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for students. Information is at 345-4818.\ CROSSING THE BOUNDARIES: P.S. 122 Field Trips is the name of the troupe that will wind up the One Night Stands performance season Tuesday night at 8 at Mill Mountain Theatre's Theatre B in the annex to Roanoke's Center in the Square.
The New York City ensemble features artists who put new twists into the old definitions of dance, theatre, cabaret, stand-up comedy, performance art, video and film.
Tickets are $7 for the general public and $5 for senior citizens and students. For information, call 342-5790.\ COUNTRY-FOLK: John Stewart will return to the Iroquois Club in Roanoke Saturday night for an evening of his story-songs. Brad Jones and Drew Reid will open for him.
The show will start at 9. Tickets are $6 in advance and $8 at the door.
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