Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, March 8, 1991 TAG: 9103080040
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: E-1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The action continues at the Roanoke Civic Center tonight with semifinal games at 7 and 9:30. The championship contest is Saturday night at 7. May the best team do its best to be the best it can be.\ >
MORE DRIBBLING: The Highland County Maple Festival starts Saturday and continues Sunday and next weekend in and around spectacularly scenic Monterey.
It features a Maple Sugar Tour, the Maple Museum, galleries, boutiques, plenty of pancakes, trout and barbecued chicken to eat, plus entertainment - such as storytelling, clogging, rural music and craft demonstrations.
It's sponsored by the Highland County Chamber of Commerce, which has information at 468-2550.\
DANCE, PARDNER: The Roanoke Invitational Dance Festival will be Saturday night at 7:30 at Dickinson Auditorium of William Fleming High School in Roanoke.
Seven companies will perform - the Roanoke Ballet Theatre, the Lynchburg Regional Ballet Theatre, the Radford University and Virginia Intermont dance companies, the Southwest Virginia Ballet, the Concert Ballet of Virginia and dancers from Roanoke City's Magnet School for the Performing Arts.
Tickets are $5 for the general public, $3 for students and senior citizens. For information, call 981-2605.\
RAW MATERIAL: The Iroquois Club in Roanoke will welcome Material Issue, a Chicago power-pop trio with a song on the charts, for a show tonight.
The action usually starts about 9. Cover charge is $5. For information, call 982-8979.\
BRANCHING OUT: Roanoke's Showtimers Studio is presenting "Song and Dance," starring Karen Crush Branch in a Tony Award-winning fable about an English immigrant's new life in America. A troupe of energetic dancers completes the show, which runs through Sunday, then Thursday through March 17 and March-24.
Ticket prices and show times are available at 774-2660.\
WIRED: No Strings Attached, the hammer dulcimer band of growing fame, performs tonight at 9 at Third Street Coffeehouse in Roanoke. They record on the Turquoise label and travel to distant spots to perform their mix of traditional and progressive music.
The coffeehouse is on the lower level of Trinity Methodist Church at Third Street and Mountain Avenue in Old Southwest Roanoke.
\ EARTH STORIES: Susan Strauss, a storyteller known for her Native American "Coyote Tales," appears in Saturday morning's Rainbow Splash presentation at 10 o'clock in Mill Mountain Theatre at Center in the Square.
Tickets are $5 for young and old. For information, call the Arts Council of Roanoke Valley at 342-5790.\
NEWSBREAK: Jazzman Wynton Marsalis, an eight-time Grammy Award winner, will perform at Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg, W.Va., on Wednesday, March 20, at 8 p.m.
To put it simply, trumpeter Marsalis is a mega-star. Tickets are $12, and the number to call is (304) 645-7917.
Singer-songwriter Tom Chapin is at Carnegie Hall tonight. Show time is 8 o'clock.\ > SHORTS: Oboist William Parrish Jr. will perform Sunday afternoon at 3 with the Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra in E.C. Glass auditorium in Lynchburg. Tickets are $9.50 and $5.25, and information is at (804) 845-6604.
Mozart's Mass in C minor, K. 427, will be performed Sunday afternoon at 4 at Greene Memorial United Methodist Church in Roanoke. Admission is free. Richard Cummins will conduct the orchestra, soloists and chorus.
by CNB