Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, June 3, 1994 TAG: 9406040006
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Joe kennedy
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Take-off is Saturday morning between 7 and 9. Support vehicles will travel the course, and the $12 registration fee ($30 for families) will bring you a map with historical notes, a souvenir and all the information you will need. Tonight, from 7 to 9, you may register at the Blacksburg Holiday Inn, where live music, eats and drinks will be featured.
For information, call 745-3572.
POSSIBLE SELLOUT: The Seldom Scene bluegrass band comes to Lime Kiln at Lexington for a concert Sunday night at 8, and if the weather is nice and you're quick on the trigger, you might get a chance to see them.
Here's the scoop: Four hundred tickets have been sold. If the weather is bad, the group will perform in the Kiln's tent, which has just 400 seats. But if the skies are clear, or at least dry, then the show will be in the Bowl, which seats 600. The 200 additional seats would become available at noon Sunday. Call 463-3074 to get yours. But not before Sunday noon.
TAKE YOUR PICK: The Roanoke Fiddle and Banjo Club will celebrate its 25th anniversary Saturday night at the Roanoke Civic Center auditorium. The 5,000-member club, which claims to be the largest of its type in the world, will present all 22 of its bands. They'll play gospel, bluegrass and old time music between 7 and 11 p.m., and the Old Dominion Cloggers and High Mountain Steppers also will entertain. At 9 o'clock, the whole bunch will take the stage. That should be something to see and hear. Admission is free. Donations will be accepted.
WOOF. WOOF. WOOF: Three Dog Night, one of the hottest rock acts from the '70s, will perform tonight at Victory Stadium as part of Roanoke's Festival in the Park. The gates will open at 6:30, and the music will start at 6:45 with Radar Rose followed by Spellbound. The headliners will go on at 9:45. Admission is by festival button, available around town or at the gate.
The annual Sidewalk Art Show, sponsored by the Docent Guild of the Art Museum of Western Virginia, will be in Elmwood Park Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5. It's joined by children's activities, children's theater and musical shows and other performances. Saturday night, music runs from 5:30 to 9:45 at the park, followed by the laser show. Sunday's grand finale will be Eight to the Bar from 5:30 to 7 at the Elmwood Amphitheatre.
OH SO SMOOTH: Buddy Morrow will lead the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in a big band dance Saturday from 8 to midnight at Natural Bridge of Virginia. Tickets are $15 per person. Reserve one by calling 291-2121.
PARK AND RIDE: The Great James H. Drew Exposition continues its stay in the parking lot of the Roanoke Civic Center through Sunday. The Typhoon is the big new ride. Pay one price and ride all day. Parking and admission to the grounds are free.
AHOY: Pirates of the Mississippi, a Liberty recording group, will present music Saturday night at 7 at the Uncle Billy's Day Festival in Altavista. The festival will run through Sunday.
HO-HO-HO: ``Hamlet Cha-Cha-Cha'' is the title of the opening production from the Blue Ridge Dinner Theatre at Ferrum College.
Monk Ferris wrote the musical, which includes ``To be or not to be'' performed with a doo-wop chorus and appearances by a couple of Hamlet's chums from college, Rosie Krantz and Gilda Stern.
Evening shows will be Saturday and June 11, with matinees on Tuesday and Wednesday. Call 365-4335 for full details.
LAST CALL: A romantic interlude titled ``Visiting Day'' will close out this year's Centerpiece series at Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke. The one-act staged reading will be Wednesday at 12:15 p.m. Admission is free.
by CNB