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Our monthly Fourth (Estate) Friday meeting, Coterie and Narmada's weekend offerings, acoustic guitarist Laurence Juber's return to the Theatre, Middle Street Gallery opens its "Beauty Around Us" exhibit and RAAC's opening casting call for all area women for "Love, Loss and What I Wore" in this week's Rapp column.
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"Caveboy" takes center stage at RAAC's Friday at the Library series, TRG offers an all-day Mother's Day menu, SVFD plans its next July 4 celebration, RDA hosts a studio stroll, pianist Audrey Andrist returns to the Theatre, Narmada hosts a fundraiser and wine-making class and the NPCF gets accredited in this week's Rapp.
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Musicals at two Rapp schools this weekend, chamber trios at the Theatre, the Studio School's open house, RAAC's "Uncle Vanya," a new Middle Stree exhibits, the Virginia Chutney Co.'s in the running for an impressive award, recycling with RAWL and more in this week's Rapp.
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Just to show that they’re also wearable, artist Janet Brome modeled one of her unique wire-frame works of art at the opening reception for her show at Washington’s R.H. Ballard Gallery, which goes on through May 12.
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Creating an Artisan’s Trail of Virginia in Rappahannock County celebrates and introduces our artists, artisans and agri-artisans to tourists, all supported by our bed and breakfasts, restaurants and businesses in the surrounding arms of the Blue Ridge Mountains, year round. I can’t think of a better way to bring us all together than through...
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St. Marc's father Michaud visits Trinity, Robert Ballard is chosen to judge the Congressional Art Show, the WFVR cooks up another breakfast, flowers are still for sale for Mother's Day and it's still not too late to register a Relay for Life team in this week's Rapp.
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Fourth (Estate) Friday at Country Cafe, Mandalele and Paul Reisler in concert, Wakefield and Hearthstone's auctions offer plenty to bid on, three Rapp artists join forces at a new RDA show, the Smithsonian season wraps up at the Theatre, "Silver Linings Playbook" and more in this week's Rapp.
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Counting down to the 35th annual Fodderstack 10K, welcoming a Chinese pianist to the Theatre, meeting GOP candidate Ken Cuccinelli, remembering the county's Civil War past, becoming a stage hand with RAAC and showing off the improvements to the fire hall at the SVRS open house in this week's Rapp.
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Details on RDA's busy weekend, exploring new Civil War trails with the Historical Society, raising funds to fight cancer with Nikki Brady and the Public House, Janet Brome's new exhibit at R.H. Ballard, breakfast at the Senior Center, a Civil War's Sesquicentennial event and a meeting for this year's Farm Tour in this week's...
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Trinity Episcopal Church wants to share food, crafts, music, art, and books with the Rappahannock community this Fodderstack weekend – Saturday and Sunday, April 20-21 – and its members have been busy adding new events and talent to this year’s Trinity Festival.
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Photo by Molly M. Peterson Artist and author Linda Burgess (middle, right) and her 16-year-old daughter, illustrator Maggie Dunlap, sign copies of their new children’s book, “Mount Vernon’s Magnificent Menagerie and the Very Mysterious Guest” as part of Middle Street Gallery’s well-attended opening reception last Saturday for much-esteemed painter Bill Dunlap (who is also...
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Local residents join the World's Finest Navy, open a new art exhibit at Gallery Plan B, throw a launch party for an inaugural CD, expand the Trinity Festival and expound on the county's Civil War history in this week's Washington column.
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As an artist, living in Rappahannock for the past 30 years, Patti Brennan knows the challenges of marketing her work and making a living. Her approach has been “strength in numbers,” and that's where the new Artisan Trail could come in handy -- if it's approved.
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Just this weekend alone: The Old Dominion Point-to-Point, artist Bill Dunlap's opening in Sperryville, a James Bond movie and a ragtime piano encore in Washington, a RappKids concert in Flint Hill, a library lecture on the meaning of photography, farm tour changes and more.
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Piedmont Virginian magazine is sponsoring a juried art exhibit in Rappahannock this fall to showcase the talent of artists living in the Piedmont. "The Piedmont is a special place for artists to live and gain inspiration," said Walter Nicklin, publisher of Piedmont Virginian.
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All’s well that ends well, Shakespeare’s own words, as the Virginia Shakespeare Festival at the College of William and Mary will become the official Shakespeare Festival of Virginia starting July 1.
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Photo by E. Raymond Boc Artist Margot Neuhaus gave a talk on her work, and how her passion and skills developed over the years (here she’s discussing her first major work) at a Soup & Soul evening sponsored March 16 by the Rappahannock Association for Art in the Community (RAAC) at the home of...
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In this week's Rapp: Fourth (Estate) Friday for us, Friday specials in Sperryville, a Mutt, Mix and Mingle at Gadino Cellars, a landmark Virginia landscape exhibit at Middle Street, Castleton connects art and human rights in a Saturday concert, Hearthstone has karaoke and the Emporium has a post office.
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River District Arts is expanding, RappKids are throwing another family-fun concert, the Rappahannock Historical Society is having an antique appraisal, the Smithsonian Chamber Society is coming to the Theatre and Youth Conservation Corps is accepting applications in this week's Rapp.
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At 8 p.m. tomorrow (Friday, March 8), the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community (RAAC) welcomes photographer Jackie Bailey Labovitz, who is presenting “Understory: A Perspective on Painting with Light,” as part of RAAC’s Second Friday at the Library series. During the month of March, a collection of Labovitz’s plant portraits are...
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For Gov. Bob McDonnell, the proposition for the Virginia Shakespeare Festival at the College of William and Mary is simple: To be or not to be the commonwealth’s official Shakespeare festival.
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The steeple chases begin this weekend, RAAC screens the Oscar winner "Argo," Rappahannock Cellars wins a gold Governor's Cup, the Theatre honors Charlie Bird, "Ag in the Classroom" gets two new grants and plans are underway for the next Artists of Rappahannock tour in this week's Rapp.
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Photo by E. Raymond Boc Local artist Barbara Heile gave a presentation on her paintings and described the evolution of her vision and personal development earlier this month at Soup & Soul, a potluck hosted by Phillip and Penny Kardis, of Flint Hill. The Rappahannock Association for Art in the Community (RAAC) organizes and...
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RAAC Community Theatre has just the thing (or two) for beating the winter blues. In March, the theatre is offering two exciting workshops: one in improvisational acting, the other in mask making.
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A "real foods" rap video, a lecture and demonstration on using local dyes, living with black bears, a "Doggitiude" book signing, bringing out the artist in you with three Flint Hill workshops, American jazz classics return to the Theatre and more in this week's Rapp.
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We're flying a new flag, the Lions are hosting their annual Bland Music Contest talent show, Shenandoah National Park is getting a new superintendent and burn laws are almost ready to go into effect in this week's Rapp.
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Saying goodbye to our hard-working Sperryville columnist, spending a week at Nature and 4-H Camps, watching the newest RAAC movie, exploring the "Art of Aging in Rappahannock," celebrating Mardi Gras at the Theatre and more in this week's Rapp.
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Fourth Friday festivities return, Mountainside offers a therapeutic movement class and Little Washington Winery hosts an art, wine and oysters festival in this week's Sperryville column.
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Volunteers needed for a benefit chili cook-off, plus CCLC's recent open house, the Benevolent Fund Celebrity Waiters dinner, jumping into the Atlantic for charity, bluegrass at the Theatre, replacing the bridge of Jericho Road, Envirothon teachers needed and the opening of 'Rappahannock Creates' in this week's Rapp.
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Middle Street Gallery's new "Artists and Friends" exhibit, Wakefield's new partnership with the Public House and RCHS wrestler Dylan Hitt's 100th victory in this week's Rapp.
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Rappahannock County is a community filled with quite a few talented artists. But for those who might believe they lack that natural artistic flair that seems so common in the region, there is still hope -- the Monart system.
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Photos by Matt Wingfield Patrons, sponsors and potential bidders gathered at Wakefield Country Day School Dec. 1 for the school’s 11th annual Art from the Heart showing. Items for sale included works by many local artists, collaborative paintings made up of work from entire grade levels and even some jewelry. All proceeds benefitted the...
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Fourth Friday festivities, Mandalele's new album debuts, the Jingle Bell 5K wins big, the "Art of Expansion," Capt. Gary Settle earns a master's degree and the Visitors Center has new winter hours in this week's Rapp.
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A bunch of pictures from this year's annual Christmas in Little Washington Parade and Festival.
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Sperryville's Eric Kvarnes has always loved fire, and for the past 38 years he’s been playing with it. Kvarnes, 60, is a master glassblower and the owner of Oldway Art Center.
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Artist Linda Tarry's open house, Angel Tree at Union First Market Bank, Cause for Paws raffle winners and counting your Thanksgiving blessings in this week's Washington column.
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Details on the holiday deals throughout the Sperryville shops and the Piedmont Holiday Fair inside this week's Sperryville column.
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Fourth Friday notes (our public meeting and Sperryville's shop op), lots of alumni expected to hit the court for the PTO's first-ever Alumni Basketball Tournament, a lot of Christmas in Little Washington, Kid Pan's free concert Nov. 30 and the Theatre's jazz guitar virtuosos Dec. 1.
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Artistic directors Lorin Maazel and Dietlinde Turban-Maazel this week announced the 2013 season of the Castleton Festival, featuring Puccini’s “The Girl of the Golden West” and a new, unique “La Voix Humaine.”
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The RCHS Veterans Day ceremony, the Bland Music Festival, jazz, Shakespeare and the return of the Castleton Trio, R.H. Ballard's newest exhibit, holiday greens, Farm to Table (and Tour) and boosting local business inside this week's Rapp.
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