ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, September 20, 1996 TAG: 9609200016
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
COLUMN: The Tipoff
SOURCE: ALMENA HUGHES
POWELL POWER: It's been a while since Roanoke native Jane Powell's five-octave mix of jazz, soul and rhythm and blues has been heard around these parts.
But tonight at 8, the Aretha Franklin and Ella Fitzgerald sound-alike is back at Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg. Tickets are $6; $4 for RMWC students. Call Shannon Brennan (804) 947-8142.
HARVEST TIME: Downtown Roanoke Inc. will hold its annual family-oriented festival Saturday featuring music, dancing, pumpkin decorating, crafts, plus demonstrations of fading skills such as bobbin lace making and hand spinning.
Speaking of spinning, the Ferrum College Jacktale Players will spin tales and horse-drawn carriages will take you for a spin, all to raise funds and food for the Southwestern Virginia Second Harvest Food Bank.
The festival will run from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. in Century Square, downtown Roanoke. Admission is free; but carriage rides cost three nonperishable food items (not packaged in glass) or $3.
A follow-up concert at 8 p.m. on the top floor of the downtown Roanoke Market Building will showcase After Six and Joey and the Jaguars to benefit the Roanoke City Mounted Patrol Unit.
Admission is $8 in advance or $10 at the door. Call 342-2028.
COMFORT ZONES: Surround yourself with that warm, fuzzy, safe and secure feeling that only quilts can provide in varieties ranging from hand- to machine-made, novelty to antique, Saturday at the Legacy Quilt Show at the Christiansburg National Guard Armory. Admission is free. Call 382-2349 or 382-8173.
The "Quilt Show" on display through Nov. 10 at the Roanoke Valley History Museum in Center in the Square, Roanoke, is showing beautiful hand-stitched quilts, including some depicting historical Roanoke landmarks. The museum also is selling tickets for a quilt to be raffled on Nov. 10. Call 342-5770.
STARS & SOUNDS: The Young Art Patrons of the Art Museum of Western Virginia will present their annual Skyline Jazz fund-raiser on Saturday from 5:30 p.m. - 11 p.m. on the lawn of the Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center.
The Charlie Perkinson Trio, Chris Henson and the Jazzmen and the Lenny Marcus Trio will perform. Tickets are $10. Call 342-5760.
STARS AND SAD SONGS: The mythological Orpheus' music moved mortals and gods alike. Sunday, three members of Opera Roanoke and a lutenist will perform excerpts from "L'Orfeo" against a backdrop of stars and constellations associated with the sad tale of Orpheus' love-driven challenge to the underworld.
The performance in the Hopkins Planetarium at Center in the Square, begins at 3 p.m. Tickets are $2.60 and go on sale at 1 p.m. the day of the show. Early arrival is recommended, as seating is limited. Call 342-5723.
ROUGH RAFTING: If you like a little thrill in your whitewatering, join the Roanoke Ski Club for a taste of the steep drops, mammoth holes, colossal waves and turbulent chutes of West Virginia's Upper Gauley River that earned it a ranking among the world's top 10 roughest waterways. The trip's price is $100. Call Karen Saunders at 362-5208 or Martin Etzler at 427-5948 for details.
FLAMENCO FANTASTICO: The 11-member Clarita and the Arte Flamenco Dance Theatre will exhibit the songs, stamps, claps and other mesmerizing movements of this emotional Spanish gypsy dance form on Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Virginia Western Community College's Whitman Auditorium. Cost is $7. Tickets are available at the school's bookstore or may be reserved by phone at 857-7334.
DISCO DOWN: And get warmed up for the Sept. 28 Henry Street Heritage celebration at a prefestival fund-raiser.
Folks will be "doin' the dance" Sept. 27, from 9 p.m. - 2 a.m. at Lowell's Restaurant and Supper Club in Northwest Roanoke. Tickets cost $5. Call 345-4831.
DESIGNATE YOUR DRIVER: now for the eighth annual Smith Mountain Lake Wine Festival at Bernard's Landing Resort Sept. 28-29.
Wines from 16 Virginia wineries, plus foods, crafts and entertainment will be featured. Selected works by local artists also will be displayed.
Taster tickets cost $10 per day in advance; $15 at the gate. Designated drivers get a special discount. Call (800) 676-8203.
GOOD GOSPEL: Award-winning musical groups 4-Him and Point of Grace, plus comedian Steve Geyer, will bring their inspirational messages to the Vines Center at Liberty University in Lynchburg on Sept. 28. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. performance range from $14.50 to $20. Call (800) 783-8839.
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