Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, October 29, 1993 TAG: 9310300262
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
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Vendors will sell and barter products ranging from hay and lumber to canned goods and arts and crafts. Traditional activities - cider pressing, storytelling, minstrel singing and juggling - will be practiced, and an array of foods will be available.
Proceeds will benefit Floyd's Blue Mountain School and the CERC Museletter, a monthly journal of local thought, networking and events.
Information? Call 745-2708.
FLYING: Freyda and Acoustic Attatude, an innovative trio featuring vocals, fiddle, guitar, viola and other instruments, will play tonight at 8 in Whitman Auditorium of Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke.
Freyda Epstein and Ralph Gordon are two former members of Trapezoid, and Bob Vasile used to be with the Pratie Heads of North Carolina.
Their debut CD, ``Midnight at Cabell Hall,'' features songs by Nancy Griffith and Bill Danoff, among others. Tickets to tonight's concert are $8. Call 586- 5000 for more information.
SONGBIRD: Roberta Flack will forever be synonymous with her hit, ``Killing Me Softly With His Song.'' She will visit the Salem Civic Center Saturday night at 6:30 for a pops concert with the Roanoke Symphony. Grandstand seating remains available - the tables have long been sold - at $16 for adults, $14 for senior citizens and $8 for students. Call or visit the civic center box office, not the symphony office, for your tickets.
``Killing Me Softly'' began as a poem written by Lori Lieberman after she heard Don McLean (``American Pie'') sing at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. Lieberman got some help in making a song of it, recorded it and saw it chosen for music played on airline headsets. Flack, flying from L.A. to New York, happened upon it and decided she had to record it, too. She reworked it and had herself a hit that brought her three Grammys. This, according to the book, ``Behind the Hits.''
IRREVERENT: ``Nunsense,'' the rollicking play by Dan Goggin, opens Wednesday and continues through Sunday at Showtimers Studio in Roanoke. It will continue Nov. 10-14 and 17-21. Tickets range from $6 to $9 and shows are at 8 p.m., except Sundays, when they are at 3 in the afternoon.
Scott Armstrong directs. Sharon Capps, Jane Le Vesque Vest, Tamara Stinson and Karen Crush Branch have the lead roles. Call 774-2660 for reservations.
COUPLES: The married musical teams of Teresa Ehrlich, piano, David Ehrlich, violin, Margo Easter, oboe, and Wallace Easter, horn, will play a program of duos and trios Sunday night at 8 in Squires Recital Salon on the Virginia Tech campus. Tickets will be sold for $3 at the door. Info is at 231-5200.
PLUCKERS: The Masters of the Banjo will appear in concert Tuesday night at 7 at the Rex Theatre in Galax. Tickets are $8.
Pickers include Ralph Stanley, Will Keys, Carroll Best, Tony Eller, Jimmy Trivette and Laurie Lewis and the Ain't Bad Backup Band. This is part of a national tour for those who use traditional banjo styles, produced by the National Council for the Traditional Arts.
Call 236-0668 or 236-2411 for more information.
OUTDOORS: Hollins College will present its Oktoberfest this evening at 5 in the Forest of Arden behind the school gym. Admission is $8 in advance and $10 at the door.
Hot air balloon rides will run from 4 to 6 p.m. The Bill Nye Jazz Quartet will begin to play at 5, followed by Animus, followed by a video dance party and alternative music from The Unknowns, of Charlotte, N.C. The evening will conclude with Southern rock and blues from Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit.
For information, call 362-6410.
by CNB