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FloydFest 2027 Reveals Initial 14 Acts Including Ziggy Marley, Marcus King Band & Jesse Welles
FloydFest will celebrate its 25th anniversary with four days of music at FestivalPark in Check, Virginia, July 22 – 25. Organizers announced the first wave of artists for the edition dubbed “Echoes,” led by Ziggy Marley, The Marcus King Band and Jesse Welles. Marley previously played FloydFest...
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Chili, crafts and live music on tap at Smith Mountain Lake Chili and Craft Festival Saturday
The Smith Mountain Lake Chili and Craft Festival returns to Bridgewater Plaza in Moneta on Saturday, Nov. 7, bringing a day of chili tasting, live music, shopping and family fun to the lake. Hosted by the Smith Mountain Lake Regional Chamber of Commerce, the annual event will feature nine chili-cooking...
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Jim Messina: A Career Retrospective Live Show
Jim Messina of the enormously successful soft rock duo Loggins & Messina brings his sixty plus years of experience in the music business as a songwriter, performer, producer and engineer on the road with his band The Roadrunners. Having previously been a part of The Buffalo Springfield, the country rock band Poco, and a successful solo artist Jim and the Roadrunners present a career spanning evening of music and story telling - Thursday, Nov. 5th at The Jefferson Center in Roanoke. Tickets and info at www.jeffcenter.org.
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Palmyra homecoming concert to benefit music education
Virginia's own Palmyra return from the road with an intimate benefit performance at Fitzpatrick Hall in Roanoke's Jefferson Center Friday November 6th at 6:30pm. The band sets its sights on the future with a unique 'pay what you can' ticketing model and will perform in the midst of the audience as they play old, new, and even unheard songs. 75% of the proceeds go to benefit The Downtown Music Lab, an organization that was instrumental, pun intended, to Sasha Leonard. She spoke with Luke Currie about this exciting new chapter for the band as they take a break from the road. For more information visit www.jeffcenter.org.
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VA Eastern Shore field trip yields magical discovery of ancient spear
Brooklyn Rolph, Mary Baldwin University Class of ’28, had a few minutes to explore the Eastern Shore of Virginia island. She spent them looking for shark teeth. What she found instead was a stone spear point about 6 inches long and 3,000 to 4,500 years old. According to Rolph, the archaeologist who examined it said he had never seen one in such good condition. Rolph, a biology major from Hampton, Virginia, found the point on Sept. 21. It was the last full day of a four-day field trip for her ecology course, BIOL 245, to the University of Virginia’s Anheuser-Busch Coastal Research Center on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Four of Mary Baldwin’s biology faculty led the trip: Dr. Paul Callo, Dr. Adam Seroka, Dr. Rebecca Haberman and Kadrin Anderson. How the discovery happened A narrow window. The find almost didn’t happen. Until the wind settled down, the class wasn’t sure it could take the boats out at all. After a morning in wetsuits, wading through a seagrass bed and collecting specimens, the tides and currents allowed only 35 to 40 minutes on a nearby barrier island. Students had just a few minutes after lunch to explore. “The set of circumstances that