Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, April 12, 1991 TAG: 9104120062
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Giovanni is a professor at Virginia Tech. Ticket information is available from 343-9127.
\ LAFFS: Rob Haney headlines the Roanoke Comedy Club tonight and Saturday night at 8:30 and 11. He'll share the bill with Chip Chinnery and emcee Barry Morris. The club is upstairs from Charley's on the Market, a restaurant in downtown Roanoke.
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HOT BATH: Call it a carnival, a concert in the park or both, but Bath County will be hopping on Saturday as it celebrate's its own 200th birthday and the 100th anniversary of Ingalls family ownership of The Homestead Resort.
Activities begin with an 11 o'clock concert by the Bath County High School Concert Band at Cottage Row on The Homestead's grounds. The concert will be repeated at 1:30 that afternoon.
Between times and through the afternoon, children's entertainment - clowns, jugglers, face-painters and the like - will be on hand both at the resort and in Hot Springs.
For information call (800) 628-8092.
\ JAZZ: Secrets, a Richmond fusion band, will play Saturday night at 9 at the Ellington Fellowship Playhouse in Lynchburg.
Its repertoire is based in R&B and Latin sounds, and it's said to be highly danceable. Tickets are $10 for the general public. For info call (804) 845-2162.
The Radford University Jazz Ensemble and jazz combos will perform Thursday night at 8 at Preston Auditorium on the campus in Radford. Tickets are $3 for adults, $1 for children.
\ HIT PLAY: A traveling production of the hit play, "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf" will be presented Saturday night at 8 at the Roanoke Civic Center auditorium. It's by Ntoke Sange. Tickets are $17.50 and $18.50. Call 981-1201.
\ HIT PLAY: "The Sound of Music" is the latest offering in Virginia Tech's Broadway Series. It will be presented Tuesday night at 7:30 at Burruss Auditorium in Blacksburg.
\ HITS, PLAYS: The Salem Buccaneers will take on the Winston Salem Spirits at Municipal Field in Salem tonight and Saturday night at 7 and Sunday afternoon at 2. Tickets are $3, $3.50 and $4.
\ VOCALISTS: American composers Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland will be given their due by the Roanoke College Choir on Saturday afternoon at 4 at Smoyer Gallery of Olin Hall at the college in Salem. Selections by Mozart and the Roanoke premiere of Daniel Pinkham's "Festival Jubilate," which celebrates the college's 150th anniversary, also will be featured.
The Alleghany Highlands Chorale will present the Easter portion of Handel's "Messiah," as well as selections from "The Marriage of Figaro" when it performs Saturday night at 7:30 at First Presbyterian Church in Covington. Tickets are $5 at the door.
\ TAKES BRASS: The Budapest Brass Quintet will present light and serious brass music in its concert Wednesday night at 8 in Roanoke College's Olin Theater. The Roanoke Valley Chamber Music Society is the sponsor. Tickets are $10.
\ STRINGED THING: Miyuki Yoshikami will perform in a koto concert tonight at 7 at Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke. The koto is a traditional Japanese stringed instrument. Call 981-2229 for details.
\ LOCAL TALENT: Brad Jones and Rhonda Firebaugh will pick and sing tonight at Boomer's restaurant at Market Square North in Roanoke. They start at 9 o'clock.
Jimmy Thackery and the Assassins hit the Coffee Pot tonight and Saturday night.
James Wise will perform tonight at Lowell's Restaurant and Lounge on Melrose Avenue in Roanoke.
Glory Bound will sing gospel music tonight from 8 to 10 at the Good News Cafe on Garden City Boulevard in Roanoke. On Saturday night, the Redeemers Quartet will sing. For information all 427-2054.
\ Going Somewhere?
BATH COUNTY BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
WHERE: Hot Springs in Bath County, about 80 miles from Roanoke
GETTING THERE: From Roanoke, take I-81 north to exit 44 at Daleville. Head north on U.S. 220 all the way to Hot Springs.
by CNB