Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, February 5, 1993 TAG: 9302050084
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
THE TIPOFF
HEADLINER: Ice-T, the controversial rap singer and actor, will speak Thursday night at 8 in Preston Auditorium of Radford University.His topics will include censorship, freedom of speech and the problems of the inner cities. Tickets are $6 and are available at the Heth Student Center on the Radford campus. Call 831-5420.\ \ TALL TALES: Storyteller "Gran'daddy Junebug" will bring his array of entertaining tales to Virginia Highlands Community College in Abingdon on Tuesday night at 8.
Junebug, whose real name is Mitch Capel, has been called a national treasure for his performances, in which he becomes an oral historian of the late 1800s with a penchant for black history and oral tradition.
His recitations are from the works of many black American poets and historians, especially those of Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Tickets are $4. For information, call 628-6094, 466-3444 or 783-6645.\ \ CHARLOTTESVILLE SING: Works by Puccini and Mendelssohn will be featured in Sunday night's concert by the Oratorio Society of Charlottesville.
It will take place at 7 o'clock in Old Cabell Hall at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Paul Hill will direct, and the Richmond Symphony will play.
General admission tickets are $15. Preferred seating is $40. For ticket information call (804) 295-5545 after 5 p.m.\ \ WINTER PAWS: The 35th annual Shrine Circus comes to the Roanoke Civic Center coliseum tonight at 7:30. It will continue Saturday with shows at 10 a.m., 2 and 7:30 p.m. and Sunday afternoon at 1 and 6.\ \ LIGHT TOUCH: Shuko Watanabe and Byron Petty will present a lecture/recital Saturday night at 7 at Olin Recital Hall of Roanoke College in Salem. The title is "Tradition and Synthesis: Contemporary Japanese Solo Piano Works." Call 375-2333 for information.\ \ LIFTED VOICES: The Virginia Union University Concert Choir will sing Wednesday night at 7:30 in Snidow Chapel of Lynchburg College. The program will include spirituals, Broadway and classical tunes.\ \ MUSIC GETAWAY: Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys will be among the bluegrass and country performers playing Feb. 12-14 at the Mountain Music Getaway Weekend at the Howard Johnson and Ramada Inn in Lexington.
Others include Larry Sigmon and Barbara Poole, Just Us, Phoenix, Inheritance and the Hunter Family and Friends. Stanley will play Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. Tickets to his show are $12.50 for adults and $5 for children.
On Feb. 13, entertainment and activities will run from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., with crafts, music workshops, the Kickback Cloggers and more. That night, Phoenix will play a country music dance from 7:30 to 10:30.
And from 8 to 9 on Feb. 14, the Hunter Family will present a song service.
Weekend packages are available, or you can pay by the event. For reservations, call (800) 442-9188. For information, call Bill Hunter at 772-1038.\ \ NIGHT LIFE: Delbert McClinton will play Wednesday night at Caesars II in Roanoke. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Call 345-3279
No Strings Attached will play tonight at 8 at Words and Music in Wytheville. Admission is $4.
The Balding Quartet, a jazz band, will play at Billy's Ritz in Roanoke tonight at 10. There's no cover charge and, yes, each of the four musicians - Chris Henson, Bill Nye, John Husser and Ronnie Law - is, to some degree, short of hair.
Radar Rose, Random Acts of Sax and D.S.F. Earth Corps will play tonight at 9:30 at the Iroquois Club in Roanoke. It's an album release party for Radar Rose, with the cover set at $4.