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Feb. 16-18: Home and garden show in Roanoke
The Greater Roanoke Home and Garden Show returns to the Berglund Center in Roanoke this weekend.
The show will feature builders, remodelers, contractors, building supplies, the latest in kitchen and bath, interior design ideas, home security and more.
The show will be open from 2-6 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday.
Admission and parking are free. The first 100 people in the show each day get a free Lowe’s bucket.
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Feb. 16: Tickets for Diamond Rio, Trombone Shorty at the Harvester
Tickets go on sale Friday for two new shows at the Harvester Performance Center in Rocky Mount.
Diamond Rio will take the Harvester stage April 7. Tickets start at $87.
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue will perform May 23. Tickets start at $97.
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. at harvester-music.com.
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Feb. 17: Big Gun at the Lincoln Theatre in Marion
Big Gun, an AC/DC tribute band from Knoxville, Tennessee, will take the stage Saturday at the Lincoln Theatre in Marion.
The show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $55 for premium seats and $38 for orchestra and balcony seats.
For tickets, visit www.thelincoln.org or call 276-783-6092.
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Feb. 17: Unity walk in Lynchburg
Lynchburg Area Youth Sports Initiative will host its third annual Unity Walk and Celebration on Saturday in downtown Lynchburg.
The block party-style celebration and walk will begin and end at Fifth and Federal streets. The event will kick off at 10:45 a.m. with music, registration, activity stations and giveaways, followed by the Unity Walk at 11 a.m.
The event is free and open to the public. To learn more, visit laysi.org.
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Feb. 17: Bluegrass at Wytheville Community College
Wytheville Community College hosts its free monthly Bluegrass and Old-Time Jamboree on Saturday, featuring Gap Civil and Bad Ridge bands.
The jamboree will be held in the William F. Snyder Auditorium on the college campus, 1000 E. Main St.
Gap Civil is an old-time, country, bluegrass, Americana and gospel band that hails from Sparta, North Carolina. Bad Ridge is a Southwest Virginia and Eastern Tennessee hard-driving bluegrass band.
Bad Ridge will perform at 7 p.m., followed by Gap Civil at 8 p.m. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. The event is free and open to the public. Donations will be accepted to help defray the travel expenses of the bands.
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Feb. 18: Black History Month program at New River Community College
In celebration of Black History month, New River Community College and the college’s Black History Committee will sponsor a guest speaker and music program at 3 p.m. Sunday.
Keynote speaker Wayne Scales will present “A black man’s challenges, struggles, rewards and triumphs pursuing a STEM career.” Scales is the J. Byron Maupin Professor of Engineering at Virginia Tech and was founding director of the Center for Space Science and Engineering Research (Space@VT) and founding co-director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Program in Remote Sensing. He also serves as associate vice provost for research and diversity.
Musical performances will be presented by the Jubilee Christian Center Choir and Sharon Edwards, assistant professor of health information management and administrative support technology at New River.
The event will be held in 117 Edwards Hall at NRCC in Dublin. It’s free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served following the program.
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Feb. 17: Five-year celebration at Academy Center of the Arts
The Academy Center of the Arts in Lynchburg will host a five-year celebration commemorating the reopening of the historic theater on Saturday.
The evening will feature the high-energy bomba, plena and salsa music of Kadencia. The event is free, but those who would like to attend are asked to reserve their seats.
Originally opened in 1905, the theater closed in 1958 and the venue remained dormant for nearly 60 years until renovations could begin in 2015. Renovations were completed in late 2018, and the theater officially reopened on Dec. 6, 2018.
Tickets can be reserved by calling the box office at 434-846-8499, or by visiting AcademyCenter.Org.
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Feb. 18: Po’ Ramblin’ Boys at Floyd Country Store
The Floyd Country Store hosts the Po’ Ramblin’ Boys for a Sunday night show.
The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys have brought their music from rural bluegrass festival stages to the rock clubs of Europe, and even the Grammy red carpet. In 2018, the group earned the title of Emerging Artist of the Year at the IBMA Awards.
The show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $36 general admission, $42 reserved seating. Can’t make it to the show? Livestream it on Floyd Country Store TV.
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Feb. 18: Puccini’s ‘Suor Angelica’ in Lynchburg
Opera on the James will present Giacomo Puccini’s classic “Suor Angelica” on Sunday at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in downtown Lynchburg.
The one-act opera features singers from central Virginia, along with guest artists Moroccan
soprano Abla Menzemroun as Angelica, and New York City contralto Allison Gish as the Princess.
“Suor Angelica” is the second opera in a trio of works known as “Il trittico (The Triptych),” written by Puccini in 1918 and set to a libretto by Giovacchino Forzano. Puccini’s only work written solely for women’s voices, the opera is set in 17th-century Italy and tells the story of a young aristocratic woman forced to join a convent after she gives birth to a child out of wedlock.
The performance starts at 3 p.m. Tickets are $50 premium, $35 adult, $15 student and are available at lynchburgtickets.com.
