Art Notes. Performances. Culture. The Good Stuff.
By Casey Gillis on Apr. 24, 2008
From staff reports
Auditions upcoming for music fraternity
A number of local piano students have registered as candidates for membership in the national Fraternity of Student Musicians. The pianists will perform in the National Auditions May 12 through May 15 in the Helen Wood Recital Hall at Lynchburg College. Piano teachers, who wish to enter their students, may contact Dee Booth at (434) 239-1158.
Randolph College holds symposium
Randolph College is hosting its first Symposium of Artists and Scholars this weekend.
The symposium begins at 1:30 p.m. Friday with a keynote address, called “Nothing Is Irrelevant: The Value of a Liberal Arts Education,” from Francine Leoff Trull, founder and president of the Foundation of Biomedical Research.
Modeled after a typical academic conference, the symposium features exhibitions of student artwork, musical and dance performances, readings of creative work and oral presentations of student research —with topics ranging from the environmental impact of electricity deregulation to the evaluation of horse
personalities.
It concludes with a poster session and reception in Smith Banquet Hall Saturday evening.
For more information, call (434) 947-8142 or visit http://www.randolphcollege.edu/x14435.xml.
Celtic Festival names headliners
Hunting McLeod and Greenwich Meantime will headline at this year’s Celtic Festival at the Sedalia Center.
Hunting McLeod blends the fiddles and bagpipes traditional to Celtic music with electric guitar, bass and drums for a fusion Celtic rock sound. Greenwich Meantime offers the fusion Celtic rock with some hints of jazz and world music thrown in.
And WARPIPE Pipe Band will parade and pipe throughout the day Saturday at the festival, the 10th annual, which is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the center just off Virginia 122. Other activities include a knobby knees contest, sheep dog demos, genealogy instruction, not to mention Celtic food and beer.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children ages 6 to 18. For information, call (434) 299-5080 or visit http://www.sedaliacenter.org.
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