Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, September 10, 1993 TAG: 9309170435
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. the action will continue downtown. More than 400 arts and crafts booths will line the streets. Antique cars will be displayed. A children's fair featuring a 9.5 foot robot will be set up in Longwood Park. And there will be entertainment at several sites.
You can park for free at the Salem Civic Center and ride a free shuttle bus to the action. You can also run by the old Salem Industries site, next to the old Norfolk and Western passenger station, for an open house from the Roanoke Valley Central Railway, a nonprofit historical and educational outfit with its own restored rail equipment. It will be open Saturday from 10 to 5.
\ SHOW TIME: The Roanoke Symphony's 40th annual subscription series begins Monday night at 8 when Victoria Bond raises her baton at the Roanoke Civic Center auditorium.
The program will feature Stravinski's ``Firebird Suite'' (1919 version) and Adolphus Hailstork's Piano Concerto commissioned by the Friends of the Roanoke Symphony. It will be performed by Leon Bates, the internationally acclaimed pianist. Hailstork is composer-in-residence and professor of music at Norfolk State University.
The program will conclude with ``The Pines of Rome'' by Ottorino Respighi.
Tickets are still available from 343-9127. They cost $12, $16, $18 or $20, and they are half-price for students.
\ OUTSIDE: Pig on the James is a pig roast and bluegrass concert set for Saturday from 5 p.m. to midnight near Eagle Rock. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the gate. For that, you get a roast pork dinner with trimmings from 6:30 to 8:30, and music from Homespun, Omega IV, Plum Sideways, New Classic Grass, Stoney Ridge and the Osborne Brothers, starting at 5.
Some of the proceeds will benefit the Eagle Rock emergency services, the Fincastle rescue squad and the Children's Miracle Network.
The gates will open at 3. For tickets and information, call 772-1081.
\ WORTHY: Roanoke Area Ministries has fed, clothed and provided shelter to Roanoke Valley residents for 25 years. Tuesday night at 6:30 it will hold a fund-raising event called the ``Silver Lining Benefit Gala'' at the Roanoke Airport Marriott.
The cocktail buffet will feature a fashion show from Jenny Taubman's Personal Image fashions and entertainment from Stan Kingma's Virginians. Tickets at the door will be $25 apiece or $45 for couples. All proceeds will benefit RAM's programs.
For advance tickets or information, call Julie Hollingsworth at 345-8850 or 344-0308.
\ SOMETHING DIFFERENT: Music from the East will be presented Saturday night at 7:30 during ``A Night in Byzantium'' at Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke's Center in the Square. It's presented by the Friends of Byzantine Music in association with the Smithsonian Institution. Tickets are $10 for adults and $7.50 for students. Call 981-8180 or 342-5740.
\ CENTENNIAL: Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg will celebrate its 100th anniversary Sunday afternoon at 4:30 with music in the Dell from the Lynchburg Symphony, from soprano Carol Gutknecht, who graduated from the school in 1967, and from faculty member and pianist Ray Luck.
Admission is free. Rain will move the performances into Smith Auditorium. Other events also are planned. For details, call (804) 947-8142.
\ PLAYING SCALES: Lowell's restaurant and night club on Melrose Avenue in Roanoke is having its first Fish Fry with the Blues tonight. A $12 ticket will get you a fish dinner from 7 to 9 and then let you stay for Little Jimmy King and the Soul Survivors, out of Memphis, from 10 on. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Call 344-4884.
King, who is in his late 20s, says his music tells how he went from Point A to Point B - ``from getting over on the heartbreaking scene into the get up and move on, life-goes-on scene.''
Well put.
by CNB