Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, July 6, 1990 TAG: 9007060067
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: E1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Highlights will include a parade of all the athletes, the conclusion of the statewide torch run and lighting of the flame, music from an all-star marching band and, about 9:30, a concert by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap.
The games will run through Sunday at more than 30 spots across the valley. Turn to the sports section of the Roanoke Times and World-News for listings of events and times.\ SALEM SHINES: Performing frogs, racing pigs, a carnival midway and amusement rides are among the attractions at the Salem Fair and Exposition under way through July 15 on the grounds of the Salem Civic Center.
Well known musicians from around the area and elsewhere also will be featured, as will the exhibits and atmosphere that make a fair a fair.\ CAJUN MUSIC AND A HOT GUITARIST: The Mamou Playboys from Louisana and Tim Stambaugh and Country Rain will play Sunday night at 8 at Lime Kiln Arts near Lexington. The Playboys do the Cajun stuff while Country Rain specializes in bluegrass.
Hot picker David Bromberg will come to the Kiln on Wednesday for a show at 8. He provides a mix of ragtime, blues, a little rock and country and some offbeat humor.
Theatrically, the Kiln is presenting "Stonewall Country" tonight and Munci Meg on Saturday night. Information about all these things is available from 463-3074.\ GOLDEN OLDIES: Sad but true. The rock group KISS has been around for a long time and now they're back. They'll appear in concert at the Roanoke Civic Center on Wednesday night at 7:30. Special guests: Slaughter and Danger/Danger. Tickets are $16.50 in advance, $17.50 on the day of the show. \ ARTS AND CRAFTS: The gardens of James Monroe's Ash Lawn-Highland in Albemarle County will become something like a working, 18th century farm during this, Colonial Crafts weekend. Crafters in period costume will demonstrate quilting, cabinet making, flax-processing and other skills of yesteryear.
By the way, Ash Lawn's summer festival of the arts continues Saturday and Sunday with performances of Mozart's opera, "The Magic Flute," at 7 p.m.
The box office number is (804) 293-8000\ WORDSMITH: Tennessee Williams' "27 Wagons Full of Cotton" is Sunday's offering from the Acting Company of Roanoke Valley. It's a reading, outdoors in Highland Park, set for Sunday evening at 6.\ MELODRAMA: Blue Ridge Dinner Theatre at Ferrum College will present "Framed in Franklin County" this afternoon and Saturday night. Call 365-4337 or 365-4335 for the times and other information.
Written by Janice Scudder, the dinner theater's assistant director, the play focuses on the county's moviemaking past and features such characters as Blackie Baylor, whose dream is to own a speedway and a county politician named Goodie Virgil.
Sounds pretty droll so far.
by CNB