Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, September 24, 1993 TAG: 9309280327
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
\ BY THE SEA: The Le Jeune Jones Cajun Country Band and the Antique Brass Quintet will be among those entertaining Saturday and Sunday at Bernard's Landing during the Smith Mountain Lake Wine Festival. Look also for lots of food, crafts on sale and some hi-jinks, too. The festival will be from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day, rain or shine.
Advance tickets are $8 at the lake's visitor center at Bridgewater Plaza or $12 at the gate.
\ UP ON THE ROOF: It's time again for Skyline Jazz, the annual membership drive and party of the Young Art Patrons of the Art Museum of Western Virginia. It will be Saturday night at 8 on the roof of the Center in the Square parking garage in Roanoke. The Regents will provide the jazz and several well-known restaurants will provide the eats.
Admission is $2. Dress will be casual. For more facts, call Jeff Roberts at 342-5760.
\ AT ROANOKE IN SALEM: The National Theatre of the Deaf will present ``Under Milk Wood,'' a slice of small-town life adapted from the poetry of Dylan Thomas, tonight at 8 in Olin Theater of Roanoke College. The ensemble includes deaf and hearing actors. The play is designed for all audiences, hearing and deaf. Tickets are $12 for general admission and $10 for senior citizens and students.The play also will be presented Sunday evening at 7 at George Washington High School in Danville. Call (804) 793-8255.
\ ALIVE AND WELL: Cool Joe, Joyce and Jacque and Daniel Womack will sing and actor Carl Jackson will tell stories Saturday during the Henry Street Heritage Festival on First Street Northwest in Roanoke. It runs from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and it features a large slate of African American entertainers, ethnic and traditional foods, children's activities, visual art and other excitement.
For more information, call 345-4818.
\ GOING FAST: Tickets are on sale for ``Sweeney Todd,'' the upcoming production from Opera Roanoke. Performances will be Wednesday through Oct. 2 at 8 p.m. at Mill Mountain Theatre. The music and lyrics are by Stephen Sondheim, and the production is known as a musical thriller that blends horror and comedy as it tells about the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Jonathan Alan Arak is guest director. Craig Fields, the Virginia Tech voice professor, stars as the title character.
Tickets are $25 and $22 for adults, $23 and $20 for senior citizens and $16 and $12 for students. Call 982-2742 for reservations and info.
\ REAL QUICK: Ellen Gilchrist will be the featured writer at the Blue Ridge Writers Conference on Oct. 2 at Roanoke College. She won the National Book Award for ``Victory Over Japan.'' She'll do a short story reading and lead a discussion and a workshop. Donald McCaig, the Highland County author of ``An American Homeplace'' and other books, will conduct a workshop, as will William Patrick, a writer of plays for stage, screen and television. The conference costs $50, and you can pay at the door. Call 345-6671 for details.
``A Mother's Love,'' a gospel music production, will come to the Roanoke Civic Center auditorium Saturday at 3 and 8 p.m. and Sunday night at 6. Tickets are $13.50 for the matinee and $16.50 for the evening shows. Call 981-1201 or (800) 927-9266.
The 25th annual Fincastle Festival will be Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 12:30 to 6 p.m. in Fincastle. Arts, crafts, food and music.
Poet Nikki Giovanni will speak and Val Gray-Ward will give dramatic readings of African American poetry Sunday evening at 7 at Theatre B of Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke. Admission is free, but you need resrvations. Call 342-5740.
by CNB