Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, January 8, 1993 TAG: 9301080134
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SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
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THE TIPOFF
JAZZ TIME: Composer David Baker will join Victoria Bond, violinist Joe Kennedy Jr. and the Audubon Quartet for Artsounds concerts in Blacksburg and Roanoke.The group will perform Thursday night at 8 in the Squires Recital Salon of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. Tickets are $10 for the general public, $5 for Tech students. Call 231-5615 or (800) 843-0332.
On Wednesday, a master class with Baker and the Roanoke City Magnet School Jazz Band will be held from 4-6 p.m. at the Harrison Museum of African American Culture in Roanoke, followed by an 8 p.m. concert. Both events are free.
The 15th, the troupe will present the same program at Olin Hall of Roanoke College in Salem. A reception will take place at 6:30, art exhibit at 7:15 and the performance at 8. Tickets are $20, or $10 for students. Call 343-9127.\ \ SPECIAL SHOW: The Roadside Theater will present its popular musical, "South of the Mountain," Thursday night at 7:30 at J.J. Kelly High School auditorium in Wise.
Tickets are $5, with proceeds going to the Miners Family Relief Trust to benefit the families of victims of the recent Southmountain No. 3 mine explosion.
Eight miners were killed and one seriously injured in the Dec. 8 accident.
The concert is sponsored by Camp Bethel of Wise with help from Roadside Theater, based in Norton and in Whitesburg, Ky. Contributions to the fund may be sent to Jeff Rollen, youth minister at First Baptist Church of Pound. His address is P.O. Box 390, Wise, Va. 24293.\ \ WAR IN PICTURES: Photographs by the late E. Howard Hammersley are on display at the Roanoke Valley History Museum in an exhibit titled "A Photojournalist's War: Life in a World War II Combat Zone."
Hammersley's compelling shots of World War II are but one of his distinctions. He was for many years the photo chief at the Roanoke Times and the World-News. The museum is in Center in the Square in Roanoke.\ \ TAKE A CHANCE: Sandy McAdams, bookstore owner and generally enthusiastic personage from Charlottesville, is directing a program of his own works called "3 1/2 Plays" at the Old Michie Building in Charlottesville.
The plays are "The Prologue," "The Bed," "Late Night at the SPCA" and "Bartleby." Described as "Theater dictatorship at its best," the performances will be tonight through Sunday and Thursday through Jan. 17. Matinees will be Sunday and Jan. 17 at 2. Other shows are at 8.
Call (804) 293-7595 for details.\ \ BLOWIN': The Wind Trio of New York will play Sunday afternoon at 3 at Olin Theater of Roanoke College in Salem. A reception will follow the concert. The performance is sponsored by the Roanoke Valley Chamber Music Society.
The trio - of oboe, bassoon and clarinet - has been described as "adventuresome and playful."
Available at the door, tickets are $11 for adults, $7 for students age 18 and under.\ \ LOOK: Mike Seeger and the Banjo will entertain Saturday night at the Prism Coffeehouse in Charlottesville. Seeger is a famed exponent of traditional mountain music.
And Jan. 16, a couple of other Shenandoah Valley names, Robin and Linda Williams, will perform at the Prism. Call (804) 97-PRISM for times.