Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 21, 1993 TAG: 9304210238
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: LON WAGNER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: ROCKY MOUNT LENGTH: Short
Bill Pinkney & the Original Drifters - known for the song "Under the Boardwalk" - along with the Platters, will play at Bernard's Landing May 30.
Promoters of the event hope to draw up to 4,000 people to the outdoor concerts.
They also view the event a first attempt at turning an open lawn next to the lake into a regular venue for outdoor concerts.
"What we see in the future is Bernard's Landing becoming on the whole sort of what Wolf Trap is in the D.C. area," said Joe Baraty, general manager of Bernard's Landing. "I'd like to see it become a series of cultural enrichment-type programs."
Wolf Trap is an outdoor concert venue in Northern Virginia.
Charles Ellis, a county supervisor from the lake area, said there already is a lot of interest in the event.
Ellis wondered whether the county's limit of 4,000 persons for a concert would not be too low.
And the supervisors will be watching the event to see if 4,000 people can be accommodated at the lake without causing traffic problems.
Part of the money taken in from the concert - advance tickets for the show are $10 - will go to the Roanoke/Pskov Sister City Group.
That group hopes to send a shipment of medicine to Russia this summer.
The other aspect of the concert will be purely for entertainment.
"I get calls all the time, `What's there for an adult to do? There's nothing to do,' " said promoter Sherman Helms.
Memo: shorter version ran in the Metro edition.