Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, April 5, 1991 TAG: 9104050519
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SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
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The week-long celebration also will include luncheons, movies, displays of artifacts, plus seminars and speakers.
Tech's Chinese Music Ensemble will perform Sunday night at 8 in the Donaldson Brown Center.
For information call 231-6527.\
BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL: The Blue Ridge Wildflower Society will comb the Buffalo Creek area near the Bedford-Campbell County line Sunday afternoon at 2. Bluebells are among the prey. The walk is rated moderate. It's open to the public, free and scheduled to conclude at 4:30.
The starting point will be the Westvaco parking lot off Virginia 24. To reach it, take 24 east from Roanoke for 30 or 35 miles. For more information call 981-9453.\
HAVE A BULB: More than 50,000 tulips in three historic gardens are the basis of Richmond's Tulipomania Flower Festival. It continues through April 14 at three locations: Agecroft Hall, an Elizabethan mansion with 17th-century gardens; Virginia House, a reconstructed English manor house owned by the Virginia Historical Society; and at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden.
Events include daily tours of the homes and gardens as well as family activities. For complete information, call the historical society at (804) 358-4901, Virginia House or Agecroft Hall at (804) 353-4231, or the botanical garden at (804) 262-9887.\
FAMILY MATTERS: The Acting Company of Roanoke Valley is presenting "All My Sons," the Arthur Miller play, tonight and Saturday night at 8 and Sunday afternoon at 2 at Highland Park United Methodist Church on Ferdinand Avenue in Old Southwest Roanoke.
The play continues Thursday through Saturday, April 13, at 8 o'clock.
Reservations and information are at 344-9575.\
MEN AND BOYS: They make up the York Minster Choir from England, which will perform Sunday afternoon at 4 at Greene Memorial United Methodist Church in Roanoke.
The cathedral choir is reputedly fabulous. It performs frequently on the BBC, tours widely and has several recordings to its credit.
Admission Sunday is free. The church doors will open at 3 p.m. Child care for small children is provided, and free parking abounds.\
DEMON DRUMMERS: Ondekoza, a renowned group of Japanese percussionists on a three-year U.S. tour, will perform Monday night at 7:30 at Preston Auditorium of Radford University.
The performance will include drum routines, dance, mime and musical interludes on instruments ranging from the bamboo vertical flute to drums weighing 700 pounds.
The drummers attempt to echo the sounds of nature - the pounding of ocean waves and the crack of thunder.
Tickets are $5 for the general public. For information call 831-5420.\
UNPARALLELED: Trapezoid, the progressive musical group that plays folk, New Age and more, will appear Saturday night at 8 at Pulaski County High School.
The concert is part of Appalachian Awareness Week at New River Community College. Appalachian Trail, a bluegrass band, will open the show.
For information call 674-3607.\ STORYTELLING, SATIRE AND MUSIC: Charlie King, the folksinger, will visit
Ferrum College Wednesday for a concert at 8:30 that night and a workshop on songwriting at 2 in the afternoon.
Both events are free.
King has traveled the world with his humor and songs.
For information call 365-4358 or 365-4370.\ NOTABLE: Flutist Laura Baefsky, harpist Elisa Dickon and pianist-guitarist
Greg Raver Lampman will play light classical and folk music Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at Meadows of Dan Baptist Church.
The free program is sponsored by the Reynolds Homestead. A reception will follow it.
\ Theatre IV of Richmond will present "The Ugly Duckling," a musical for children, Sunday afternoon at 2 and 4 o'clock at the Lynchburg Fine Arts Center. Call (804) 846-8451 for details.
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