Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, July 22, 1994 TAG: 9407260045
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SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
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Other activities will include participatory exercises in the arts and sciences, kite flying, a performance of a scene from ``The Long Way Home'' outdoor drama and live music. The festival will go till 6 p.m.
FAMILY AFFAIR: A tractor pull, choral music, beach bands and a radio all will contribute to the enjoyment at the Rockbridge Regional Fair. It will begin Tuesday and conclude July 30 at the Virginia Horse Center at Lexington.
The headliner July 29 will be country singer Doug Stone. Mountain Thunder also will perform.
A carnival midway and lots of exhibits in the crafts and livestock realm will tie things up nicely.
For information, call 463-6263.
CRAWL ON DOWN: Insect Expo flutters back to the Science Museum of Western Virginia in Roanoke on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. In addition to live creatures, the museum will present live entomologists who will discuss insect colonies, tropical species, insects and the environment and the like.
Visitors are asked to leave their bugs at home and meet some new ones, including a Goliath Bird-Eating Tarantula, cockroaches and millipedes. Call 342-5710.
PURRFECT TIMING: ``Cats,'' the Broadway musical that's added greatly to Andrew Lloyd Webber's fortune, will be presented at the Roanoke Civic Center auditorium Aug. 1 and 2 at 7:30 p.m.. Tickets are on sale at the Civic Center box office and Ticketmaster outlets. Prices are $32.50, $26.50 and $15.50.
MOUNTAIN MUSIC: ``The Sound of Music'' has opened at the Showtimers Studio in Roanoke. The classic stage play with songs like ``Do Re Mi'' and ``Climb Every Mountain'' shows Rodgers and Hammerstein at their best.
Tickets are $9. Show time is 8 p.m Thursdays through Saturdays and 3 p.m on Sundays. The run will conclude Aug. 14, and the number to call is 774-2660.
Jeff Walker directs.
GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME: The Virginia Cantaloupe Festival will blossom again in Turbeville, seven miles west of South Boston, Wednesday from 3:30 to 8:30 p.m. Beach bands like the Embers, the Upper Level Band and the Chairmen of the Board will perform.
The menu will include barbecued beef, baked beans and slaw, ice cream and, of course, canteloupe. The exact location of the event is John Wade's farm on Virginia 658 in Halifax County.
Tickets are $19 apiece. Call (804) 572-3085 for full details.
Main Street Moments, a festival in Tazewell, will take off Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Its focus is the summer reading program at the Tazewell Public Library with an emphasis on the area's literature, art, music and history. Call 988-2501.
``A Celebration of Rural Life'' is the theme of the Orange County Fair today through Sunday. It'll have games, music, animals, dancing and food. Call 672-1653.
Pork barbecue and bluegrass music will be the attractions at the Pig-n-Grass Festival Warm-Up on Saturday from 5 to 10 p.m at the Vinton Farmers Market. Dinners will be $5 per plate for adults and $3.50 for children 12 and under. Call Rhonda Wray at 345-8548.
ADDING VALUE: The annual antique show and sale of the Gen. James Breckinridge Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will be today through Sunday at the Roanoke Civic Center Exhibit Hall.
Hours are 10 a.m. to to 7 p.m. today and Saturday and noon to 5:30 on Sunday. Silver, china, brass, crystal, books, pictures and other things will be included. Forty dealers from 10 states will participate.
EASY LIVING: ``Songs in the Night,'' a free evening of sacred and secular music, will be tonight from 7 to about 9 outside of Virginia Heights Baptist Church at the corner of Grandin Road and Memorial Avenue in Roanoke.
The church choir, assorted soloists, jazz from Joe Corne and the Regents, handbells and other instruments will be featured. Admission is free, and so will be the lemonade, popcorn and watermelon. Who says there's nothing to do around here?
BIG SHOULDERS ``Chicago,'' the Bob Fosse musical, is under way at Live Arts in Charlottesville. Through Aug. 13 it will serve up generous portions of lust, greed, murder and betrayal in 1920s America. Vaudeville is the form of choice.
Dates, prices and times can be obtained by calling (804) 293-7595.
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