Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, June 22, 1990 TAG: 9006220492
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: E-1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Last year, the Urban Fair was wedged up against the Hunter Viaduct, which is not what it used to be.
Through Sunday, the Roanoke Civic Center parking lot will be home to the James H. Drew Exposition, dubbed in Roanoke Special Events Committee publicity materials as "the BIGGEST, GRANDEST Carnival Midway ever seen in this area!"
The only way to check that out is to go over there tonight between 4 and 11, Saturday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. or Sunday from noon to 6. Sample the foods, the rides, the games, and pencil in a reminder to do the same July 5 and thereafter, when Salem unveils this year's edition of its fair.\
NEO-PRIMITIVE BUG MUSIC: That's what the Horseflies like to call the superheated form of mountain and old-time music they purvey. The Ithaca, N.Y.,-based band will come to Lime Kiln theater near Lexington for a concert Sunday night at 8.
A more accurate description is "the country's most innovative, tradition-based string band." They can flat play, as their MCA recording contract indicates. Tickets are $12.
On Wednesday, on the lawn at Lime Kiln, Robin and Linda Williams will sing and play for the homefolks after another year or so of visits to places like the Grand Ole Opry, Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall.
The staunch citizens of Middlebrook will, as usual, present a haunting blend of voices and a bit of stage humor as they go about their work, which seems only to improve. Tickets are $12.
For information, call 463-7088.\
EVERGREEN: Sam Robert-Good is directing "Arsenic and Old Lace" for the Showtimers of Roanoke through July 1. He did the same thing in 1951, back when the group was getting started.
Show time is 8 tonight and Saturday night and 7:30 on Sunday night, 8 o'clock on Thursday and on June 29 and 30. A matinee will be July 1 at 3 p.m.
Ticket information is available from 774-2660.\
HUNTERS AND JUMPERS: They're the headliners as the Roanoke Valley Horse Show heads for its climax. The excitement begins tonight and Saturday night at 7 and culminates with the $60,000 Grand Prix Cup finals Saturday night.
Other breeds also will be doing their best to take top prizes in their events.\
UP AND COMER: Kelly Willis and Radio Ranch will perform Sunday night at the Golden Horseshoe on Ninth Street in Southeast Roanoke. Doors open at 8. The show starts at 9. Tickets are $5.
If the critics are to be believed, Willis is on her way to country music stardom, propelled by a strong voice and a vocal style surprising in one so young (she's 21.).
Her recording debut is titled, "I Don't Want to Love You (But I Do)."
For information, call 982-0707.\
ACADEMY FESTIVAL: The Virginia Chamber Music Academy will present a concert Sunday afternoon at 2 in Blacksburg Presbyterian Church.
Works by Mendelssohn, Schumann and Brahms will be featured. Performers will include Susan Starr, a winner at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition, Ulrich Boeckheler and Sharon Polifrone, plus academy participants.
Admission is $6. Students and senior citizens pay $3.\
THEATRICAL: The Blue Ridge Dinner Theater at Ferrum College is presenting "The Enchanted Cottage" by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, Saturday night and June 30 at 8 o'clock and Tuesday afternoon at 1:15. The performances are in Sale Theatre at Ferrum.
The play is a mix of comedy, tragedy and fantasy. Meals are served Franklin Hall.
For reservations, call 365-4335.
by CNB