Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, May 7, 1993 TAG: 9305070175
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
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John Jackson, John Cephas and Phil Wiggins are three of the performers whose live shows will be combined with brief video-documentaries about the Piedmont Guitar tradition and its practitioners.
Admission is $5, information is at 345-4818, the sponsors are the Harrison Museum of African American Culture and the Virginia Folk Life Program.
The academy is at 1122 19th St. in Northwest Roanoke.
The pickers also will play Saturday night at 8 in Curfman Hall of Covington High School, and Sunday afternoon at 3 in the 1908 Courthouse in Independence.
\ DO YOU REMEMBER THESE: Roanoke's annual Class Reunion Party takes place Saturday from noon to 11 p.m. at the Dominion Tower Plaza by the Roanoke City Market. Family-oriented activities will dominate the day, followed by the usual music and dancing Saturday night. Call 981-2889 for details.
\ STEEL WHEELS: The annual Spring Railfair of the Virginia Museum of Transportation will be Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the National Guard Armory on Reserve Avenue in Roanoke.
More than 100 tables of rail collectibles and, as they say, railroadiana will be available. O. Winston Link, the noted railroad photographer, will be signing his books.
Admission - termed a donation - is $3 for adults and $1 for children between ages 3 and 12. For information, call 342-5670.
\ BLUE RIDGE BEAUTY: The Crozet Arts and Crafts Festival's Spring Show will be Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Claudius Crozet Park in Crozet, which is 12 miles west of Charlottesville.
The show will feature 125 exhibitors of arts and crafts, plus food and entertainment. Adults get in for $3.50, children for $1. Call (804) 977-1783.
\ BENEFIT BLAST: No Strings Attached, Radar Rose, Frank Greenley and Friends and Dr. Winston Pound will play music tonight at 7 at Floyd High School to benefit Survivors on the Move, or people who have experienced brain injury. The $8 tickets are available at Books, Strings & Things in Roanoke. For information, call 763-3375.
\ HAVE A FIELD DAY: North Cross School of Roanoke will celebrate its 30th annual Field Day on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the school. Its theme will be "A Caribbean Festival," with children's entertainment and music, a craft gallery, sales of used books, toys and sporting goods, white elephant items and jewelry, rides, games and a food court.
Admission is free. Call 989-6641.\ \ DANCE, MUSIC AND MASKS: The Trillium Dance Collective will present "The Feathered Serpent" on Saturday night at 8 at Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg, W.Va. It's an original tale inspired by the myths of the ancient Mayans and the Cogis, a pre-Columbian tribe in the Sierra Madre Mountains of South America.
The Trillium Collective is a dance and theater group based in Lewisburg. Admission to the performance is $6 for adults and $5 for senior citizens and students. For reservations, call (304) 645-7917.\ \ OPT FOR OPERA: Opera Roanoke will present Franz Lehar's merry operetta "The Merry Widow" on May 20, 22, 24 and 26 at 8 each night in Olin Theater of Roanoke College in Salem.
Victoria Bond will conduct. Ben Krywosz will direct. The production will be sung in English from a translation by Donald Pippin.
Bond will discuss the work at an "OPERAtif" on Wednesday evening at 5:30 at the Radisson Patrick Henry Hotel in Roanoke.
Tickets for the performances are $20 and $18 for the general public, $18 and $16 for senior citizens and half-price for students. Admission to the "OPERAtif" is $8, with reservations required by Monday.
Call 982-2742 to take care of this.
by CNB