Valley 4th seeking volunteers and parade entries for 10th anniversary celebration
Valley 4th, Harrisonburg’s annual Independence Day celebration, is in need of additional hands and spirit. Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, the Valley 4th festivities are expected to draw more than 5,000 people downtown.
Festival goers will experience all of the patriotic sights and sounds that they look forward to each year, including an appearance by Uncle Sam in the parade, kettle corn, a dunking booth, concerts on the main stage, and fireworks over Court Square.
Play at EMU explores peace, justice themes
Ted & Company TheaterWorks and the Summer Peacebuilding Institute at Eastern Mennonite University will present “I’d Like to Buy an Enemy” 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 3, in the MainStage Theater of the University Commons at EMU.
The play, starring Ted Swartz and Tim Ruebke, allows audiences to laugh at themselves while raising important questions about the place of the U.S. in the world, confronting the fear that is such a large part of contemporary culture and exploring ways to honestly work for peace and justice in this country … and just maybe in the larger world!
The Great Race will make its way to Harrisonburg on June 13
Eighty antique and vintage cars, trucks, and hot rods from 1969 and earlier will arrive in Downtown Harrisonburg on Monday, June 13 around noon. The cars are part of the national Hemmings Motor News Great Race, presented by Coker Tire.
After coming down South Main Street and circling Court Square, the Great Race entrants will make their way to the Municipal Parking Lot next to the Turner Pavilion. The first car is expected to arrive at 12:20 p.m. and another car will arrive each minute after that for the following hour and a half. The cars will be parked to allow spectators to get a closer look at the vehicles, ask questions, and visit with the participants.
Bach and Mozart intersect at EMU festival
Featured composer and versatile performer, John McCutcheon, performs a fiddle work of his own with the Festival Orchestra violin section during last year's Bach Festival Concert I, June 13, 2010. Photos by Lindsey Kolb.
It’s a match made in musical heaven. Two classical giants will meet on the Lehman Auditorium stage at Eastern Mennonite University, not to compete against but to complement each other at the 19th annual Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival, June 12-19, 2011.
The glorious works of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) and Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)) will fill the air throughout the week under the baton of Dr. Kenneth Nafziger, artistic director and conductor.
The festival will open 3 p.m. Sunday, June 12 with four concertos – Bach’s “Concerto for Oboe, Violin and Strings in C Minor,” “Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in C Major” by Haydn, “Sinfonia Concertante, K. 297″ by Mozart, and Concerto No. 4 for Piano and Orchestra in G Major, Op. 58″ by Beethoven. All featured soloists are principal players from the festival orchestra except for the Beethoven concerto with Nicolás Pellón, currently on the faculty of the International School of Music in Bethesda, Md.
Special Bedford performances of Tuesday Mourning
The Waynesboro Players present Tuesday Mourning, a fundraising event for the D-Day Memorial in Bedford.
The story was written by Duane Hahn, with music and lyrics by Richard Adams, and is being performed in dedication of the Waynesboro Player’s friend and colleague, Duane Hahn (July 8, 1946 – February 3, 2011).
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