Rappahannock friends and neighbors enjoyed an old-fashioned Community Square Dance at the Sperryville Fire Hall on Saturday evening. 

The 15th Artists of Rappahannock Tour takes place this Saturday and Sunday. Each year it has grown in both quality and quantity, but also in community and business involvement. This year is certainly no different.

Sue Gabbay is an observer. This is clear from her just published book of poetry, A Sudden Brightness — Poems from Rappahannock County. 

Rappahannock County’s pastoral beauty and heart-lifting Blue Ridge vistas have long attracted artists who draw their inspiration from nature and find their muse in the mountains. 

This Saturday’s 10th annual Halloween ‘Spectacle’ unlike a Coincident with nature’s spectacle of autumn foliage is the man-made “Spectacle” at John Henry’s Stone Hill Theater in Flint Hill.

Whether you are a committed regular or coming for the first time, you won’t want to miss the 15th Annual Rappahannock Artists Art Tour on November 2 and 3 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

For founder Paul Reisler, reaching the 20th anniversary of Kid Pan Alley isn’t so much a milestone as it is a window into the future. And if the coming years mirror what’s transpired just in 2019, Kid Pan Alley and the many children it benefits have much to look forward to.

Community Square Dance returning: ‘It’s hard to doe-si-doe and not smile.’

Photos by Ray Boc

It began with two firm, resounding hand claps. When Wendy Weinberg purchased the Theatre at Washington her dream was to bring high quality classical music to rural Rappahannock. She contacted the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society to see about setting up a concert series. 

Seventy years ago, John Jackson left Rappahannock County. This Saturday he’ll return in spirit.

Founded under the patronage of Dame Judi Dench nearly 20 years ago, the Cambridge American Stage Tour (CAST) has delighted audiences with witty adaptations of William Shakespeare’s plays every September all along the East Coast. 

In mid-September, the RAAC Community Theater will open its 2019/2020 season with a production of “Waiting for Godot.”

The Second Friday series will kick off the 2019-2020 season of talks on Sept. 13 (8 p.m. at the library) with Rappahannock’s own Colonel John Bourgeois. For many years Bourgeois was director of “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band. He calls his talk, which looks back at his long a…

The newly renamed Valley Chorale of Front Royal — formerly The Front Royal Oratorio Society, the area’s longest-standing choral group that includes singers from Sperryville, Washington, Amissville and Flint Hill — is raising the curtain on not only a new name but on new artistic leadership, too. 

‘I heard all this astounding music and I thought, well, that’s what I want to do, is to be a musician’

Renowned musicians to celebrate legendary Woodville blues guitarist

Amissville’s Jeremiah Foscato heads to nationals in Ohio

Ben Venue Farm hosts 12th Annual Rapp fireworks festival

Mayor: ‘For once everybody is happy’

Rappahannock’s 5th beer (and food and costume) festival

What’s not to like about Fourth of July week?

It’s Yeaster!

‘Daily Bread’ baked locally

It’s beginning to look a lot like . . .

Due to muddy fields, 1000 Faces Mask Theatre is moving its Saturday show (Oct. 1) to the yard of Howard and Julie Coon (67 Coon Holler Lane, Castleton 22716). Google map link. “The Half Hour News Hour from Planet Earth” starts at 6 p.m. (the same time it was to go on at Stone Hill), with gat…

Ms. Smith brings her heretofore secret sister act to town this Saturday

The Trinity House Tour, Oct. 15-16

Rapp’s own Wonder Woman

Above: Though the day’s weather wasn’t great — rain, some of it of steady enough to make poncho wearers feel superior — the weather took a turn for the better Monday night after the skies were dark enough for spectacular fireworks at the Sperryville Volunteer Fire Department’s annual 4th of …

Amissville’s carnival and parade attract both funseekers and spiffed-up fire and rescue apparatus — and the volunteers who run them — from all over. Top: Jack Jones, as one of the newest members of Amissville Volunteer Fire and Rescue (sponsors of the annual event), got to take the much-cove…

Racers in the annual Piedmont Area Soap Box Derby are ready to roll.

Get ready for your Fourth

Good guys vs. bad guys

DARE Day, the annual chance for youngsters and others at Rappahannock Elementary to see firsthand what emergency responders do, went off without a hitch last Friday — with visits and demonstrations by Sperryville Volunteer Fire Co.’s 75-foot tower ladder (above) and Virginia Airborne Search …

‘Arguing With God’ postponed due to rainDue to rain, the premiere of “Arguing with God” is now rescheduled to Sunday, June 5. The grounds open at 5 pm and the show begins at 5:30 pm. Tickets already purchased can be used or, if requested, refunded. In the unlikely event of more bad weather, …