ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, November 1, 1996 TAG: 9611010007
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
COLUMN: Out & About
SOURCE: DONNA ALVIS-BANKS
To do this week:
1. Vote.
2. Rake leaves.
3. Pay taxes.
4. Put away Halloween costume.
Scratch that!
You don't want to park those bat wings yet. Don & the Deltones - the New River Valley's own "golden oldies" band - has been waiting for you.
The group will play favorite dance tunes at the Halloween Masquerade Ball Saturday. It's a benefit for the newly formed Kids on Track, a local nonprofit organization helping young people from single-parent homes.
"We've been working on this project for the past four years," said Alvin Humes, organizer of Kids on Track. "Our purpose is to help kids financially by providing clothing, school books, athletic equipment - whatever they need."
Humes said he hopes Kids on Track will make a difference in the lives of youths who may feel neglected by their communities.
"When I was coming up, I had a lot of people who gave me their time," he noted. "That's what kids need today."
"We just want to help kids in any way they need help."
Saturday's dance kicks off a fund-raising effort to get Kids on Track on the right track. Tickets are $10 per person and proceeds support the organization.
Don & the Deltones will play from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Best Western Red Lion Inn in Blacksburg. Humes says everyone's welcome to dress up in Halloween mode or come as you are.
And about that "To Do" list those first three items are non-negotiable!
TEEN SCENE: Country music has LeAnn Rimes, the phenomenal 14-year-old who can belt out a rendition of "Crazy" with the same throaty gusto as Patsy Cline.
Concert music has Jeanne Schumann, the phenomenal 14-year-old whose fingers can fly across a keyboard with the fiery intensity of a Liberace or a Cliburn or maybe even a Rachmaninoff!
Schumann, who started playing piano when she was only 41/2, is a sophomore at Blacksburg High School. She began her studies with Teresa Ehrlich, founder of the Renaissance Music Academy of Virginia, and made her orchestra debut last fall at the Roanoke Symphony's Pops Concert.
Tonight, Schumann will join the New River Valley Symphony in her first solo performance of Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto. This is one of the composer's most beautiful and demanding works.
James Glazebrook, symphony conductor, has confidence that Schumann is quite up to the challenge.
"She's really quite a remarkable girl," he noted. "I'm astonished at her poise and her ability. It's been very inspiring to have her perform with the orchestra."
In addition to the concerto, tonight's program features an original work, RSO Fanfare No. 1, by Virginia Tech music professor James Sochinski, as well as Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4.
The concert starts at 8 in Burruss Hall. Admission is $5 for adults or $3 for students and senior citizens.
TOP THIS: Reach into the trunk and see what's inside: a Mark Fuhrman belt with a bloody glove attached, a briefcase with a credit-card machine attached for O.J.'s lawyers, slippers with bumpers for those late-evening excursions
How can you top this?
Only the one-and-only Carrot Top would be so blithely brazen!
Top, the comedian who hosts the No. 1-rated show on the Cartoon Network, "Carrot Top's A.M. Mayhem," will bring his live show to Radford University's Dedmon Center tonight. It starts at 8.
You may have seen the skinny dude with the great mass of orangy curls on some of your favorite TV comedy programs: "The Tonight Show," "Politically Incorrect," "Regis & Kathie Lee," and so on. He's become a popular guest because of his wild humor and crazy inventions.
If you're a net nut, be sure to check out Top's web page at http://www.carrottop.com. It's received awards from the Internet Professional Publishers Association for "Design Excellence" and Infinet's "Cool Site of the Day" award.
Tickets for tonight's live show at the Dedmon Center are $10 for everyone. Call 831-5420 for information.
TGIF: So you're ready to kick back and let the tensions of the week just float up, up and away.
Well, Cloud Nine's in the Wesley Foundation tonight.
No Strings Attached, the local quartet with an international following, will help you achieve peace of mind with an instrumental blend of hammer dulcimers, guitar, bass, harmonica, bouzouki, pennywhistle, flute, kalimba, synthesizers, clarinets, saxophones, percussion and yes, even Slinkys!
The concert is a celebration of the group's eighth release, "Bellinzona." Six past albums have received INDIE Awards, the Independent Record Label's version of the Grammy.
Musicians in No Strings Attached are Randy Marchany, Pete Hastings, Bob Thomas and Wes Chappell. All are from the Blacksburg and Roanoke areas.
Tonight's concert starts at 8. Tickets are $5 per person or $15 for the whole family.
The Wesley Foundation is at the corner of Otey and Roanoke streets in Blacksburg.
YUMMY, YUMMY, YUMMY: The Wilderness Road Regional Museum in Pulaski County's Newbern is where you'll find the delightful cooking aromas Saturday. The table will be set for the annual harvest dinner.
Baked turkey with all the trimmings, scalloped oysters, an apple casserole and glazed sweet potatoes are part of the spread. Sweet caramel cake and pumpkin pie completes it.
Cost for the buffet is $12.50 for adults and $6.25 for children. Reservations are required for seatings at 5, 6:30 or 8 p.m. Call one of these folks: Ann Bailey, 639-0351; Geraldine Mathews, 980-7499; or museum volunteers, 674-4835.
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