Art notes. Performances. Culture. The Good Stuff.
By Susan Pugh on Sep. 10, 2008
Little Town Players hold auditions
Little Town Players will hold open auditions for the comedy “The Foreigner” at 7 p.m. Sept. 21 and 22, in the Elks National Home Theatre.
For more information, contact director Karen C. Hopkins at (540) 586-2216 or , or visit http://www.littletownplayers.com.
Old City Cemetery recruiting actors
The Old City Cemetery Museums and Arboretum is looking for professional actors to portray citizens buried in the graveyard for its inaugural Candlelight Tours Oct. 17 and 18.
Scripts will be provided and in monologue format. Prior theater experience is required. For more information or to obtain a script, call (434) 847-1465 or e-mail .
E.C. Glass to host annual art festival
E.C. Glass High School will host the 36th annual Lynchburg Art Festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 20. The show will feature 120 artists from across the state, as well as from Ohio, West Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.
Richmond artist and National Endowment for the Arts fellow Rob Womack will judge the entries and award $6,500 in prizes.
Sweet Briar College professor John Morgan will judge the student show for area high school artists in grades 9 through 12.
Proceeds will benefit the Lynchburg Art Club scholarship program. For more information call (434) 385-8119 or (434) 384-8942.
Bedford club schedules show
Regional songwriters will perform at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 19 at the Whole Note Performance Club in Bedford.
The show will feature award-winning songwriters Greg Trafidlo, Mike Pearrell, David Simpkins and Marc Baskind.
The cover charge is $5. For more information, call (540) 384-7770.
Blues trio comes to The Ellington
Three “guitar’d and feather’d” blues-playing women are bringing their Blues Caravan to the Ellington Saturday.
The BluesCaravan: “Guitar’d & Feather’d” is made up of vocalist Candye Kane, 11-time Blues Music Award/W.C. Handy nominee guitarist Deborah Coleman, and British singer/guitarist Dani Wilde. The three toured the U.S. and Europe in 2007, and are back together this year.
BluesCaravan is scheduled to take the stage at 8:30 p.m., with doors opening at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Go to http://www.theellington.org for ticket outlets or to buy online.
It’s a weekend of back-to-back shows at the 421 Rivermont Ave. venue, with the Blue Newts slated to play from 5 to 8:30 p.m. at Ellington Fridays. Tickets are $8 and available at the door.
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