Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, April 29, 1994 TAG: 9404290092
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
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The festivities will begin with a pancake breakfast from 7 to 10:30 Saturday morning at the Vinton Senior Center, and will continue with an antique car show, children's activities, arts and crafts, kiddie rides and live music from groups including After Six and Fat Ammon's Band. Goober will sign autographs at the Vinton War Memorial Portico at 1:45.
NOT MUCH, YOU? Michael Feldman, the witty radio host, will bring ``Whad'Ya Know?'' his syndicated public radio show, to the Roanoke Civic Center auditorium Saturday morning for a national broadcast from 11 to 1. You can attend the performance or you can listen to it over WVTF-FM in Roanoke. Feldman's guests will include Laban Johnson and Larry Bly of ``Cookin' Cheap'' and musician and singer Curley Ennis. Tickets are $20 and $15 at the Roanoke Civic Center box office and TicketMaster locations.
LET IT ROCK: The Atlanta Rhythm Section will play a concert Saturday night at 8 at the Salem Civic Center. They're the windup to the Shrimpfest '94, a fund-raiser for Roanoke's Festival in the Park, to be held for the first time Saturday on the civic center grounds. Radar Rose will open the show.
Concert tickets costing $5 will be sold at the gate.
SPECIAL EVENT: Victoria Bond and the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra will join Richard Cummins in performing Rheinberger's Concerto in G Minor, Op. 177, and Saint-Saens' Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 78, tonight at 8 at Greene Memorial United Methodist Church in Roanoke.
The works for organ and orchestra will feature the church's newly renovated pipe organ. General admission tickets priced at $20 are available at the church office or by calling 344-6225 or 343-9127.
SOUTH'S GONNA RISE: The Charlie Daniels Band will play hot and heavy tonight at 7:30 at the Roanoke Civic Center Coliseum. Tickets are $13.50.
PLAY IT AGAIN: ``Applause,'' the hit musical at the Showtimers Studio in Roanoke, has been extended through this weekend. Show times are 8 Saturday night and 3 on Sunday afternoon. Tickets are available from 774-2660.
GETTING AROUND: Carousel, the annual fund-raiser of Roanoke Catholic School, takes place Saturday and Sunday on the hill by St. Andrew's Catholic Church. Games, rides and food are just parts of the appeal and music is another. Headliners Saturday include The Kings and the bluegrass band, Plumb Sideways. On Sunday, Jane Powell will sing at 5. Other bands will be the Vatican Four for bluegrass and Desmond Steele for rock.
WORTH A LOOK: Model Mania, one of the largest displays of model railroads ever under one roof, or so they say, will be part of the Virginia Museum of Transportation's Spring Railfair Model Railroad and Rail Memorabilia Sale. That's Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the museum on Norfolk Avenue in downtown Roanoke.
Admission is $4 for adults and $1 for kids ages 3-12. Those under 3 get in free.
STEP IT UP: The Virginia School of the Arts in Lynchburg will present ``Evening of Elegance '94'' on Saturday night at 7:30 at E.C.Glass auditorium. Professional dancers from the Joffrey Ballet, the Washington Ballet, the Nashville Ballet and Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet will be featured, as will 40 dancers from the school.
Tickets are $15, $35, $50 and $100. Call (804) 847-8688.
FREE ARTS: The Thursday Morning Music Club in Roanoke has organized a day of free entertainment as part of National Music Week. It will be Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Tanglewood Mall in Roanoke.
Groups will range from church choirs to school bands to flutists, pianists, a harpist and singers. The Roanoke Community Band will wrap things up with a performance starting at 8 o'clock.
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