Ray Pittman to cap off Groovin’ in the Park series (9/16/2020) - The Deltaville Maritime Museum will cap off its 2020 Groovin’ in the Park outdoor concert series with back-to-back concerts by Ray Pittman, beginning at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 26.… …Flat Iron Crossroads plans to go out with a bang (9/16/2020) - Flat Iron Crossroads, the entertainment venue that opened with such hope and promise last year at Flat Iron in Gloucester, is closing its doors, but it’s not going quietly. Instead,… …
Arts on Main to celebrate theme of ‘metamorphosis’ (9/16/2020) - Arts on Main will host its ninth annual Gala virtually from 6-8 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 17, from the gallery on Main Street in Gloucester. The event will celebrate the… …
13th annual Bluegrass by the Bay Festival underway (9/16/2020) - The 13th annual Bluegrass by the Bay Festival got underway on Wednesday and continues through Saturday at the Thousand Trails Chesapeake campground off Route 198 in northern Gloucester County. This… …
Concert series at Bethany UMC canceled (9/16/2020) - The George Nelson Memorial Concert Series, hosted by Bethany United Methodist Church at Gloucester Point, has canceled both its fall 2020 and spring 2021 series due to COVID-19, a release… …
Tappahannock studio opens to visitors Saturday (9/16/2020) - The Tappahannock Art Gallery at 200 Prince Street will again welcome COVID-19-protected visitors from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Tappahannock’s Market Day. This will be one of the few… …
Williamsburg photographer Bay School’s artist of the month (9/9/2020) - Photographer Sue Maida of Williamsburg is the Bay School Community Arts Center’s artist of the month. An exhibit of nine photographs in her Sea Glass collection is on display at… …
Bay School to provide Saturday shopping opportunities (9/9/2020) - With Market Days canceled this year, the Bay School Community Arts Center in Mathews and the Mathews Farmers’ Market decided to provide shopping opportunities on Saturday in its stead. Vendors… …
Virtual program on how Virginia’s enslaved cooks invented American cuisine (9/9/2020) - The Middle Peninsula African-American Genealogical and Historical Society will meet at 11 a.m. Saturday via a virtual platform. Dr. Kelley Fanto Deetz will discuss her book, “Bound to the Fire:… …Folk Festival at Watermen’s Museum Sept. 26-27 (9/9/2020) - Fall activities at the Watermen’s Museum, Yorktown, will include a Folk Festival on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 26 and 27, starting at 10 a.m. on Saturday and noon on Sunday.… …
Mathews documentarian takes on story of ‘The Judge’ (9/2/2020) - Documentary filmmaker Robert Griffith of Moon is excited about his latest project. With a subject that has broad resonance and a major film star as the narrator, “The Judge: Character,… …
Cook Foundation gives $15,000 to Arts on Main for securing matching donations (9/2/2020) - Arts on Main in Gloucester recently received a $15,000 check from the Cook Foundation of Gloucester, for securing matching contributions from “never-before” friends and donors during the past fiscal year.… …
Jazz artist performs at Groovin’ in the Park (9/2/2020) - Jazz songstress Sharon Rae North will perform with the Josh Walker Trio from 6-8 p.m. Saturday in a Groovin’ in the Park bonus concert at Deltaville Maritime Museum, 287 Jackson… …
‘Pearl and its People’ exhibit opens tomorrow (8/26/2020) - “The Pearl and its People,” an exhibit at the Bay School Community Arts Center, opens Friday with a meet-and-greet with artists at the gallery on Main Street in Mathews. Live… … Jazz artist performs at Groovin’ in the Park (8/26/2020) - Jazz songstress Sharon Rae North will perform with the Josh Walker Trio from 6-8 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 5, in a Groovin’ in the Park bonus concert at Deltaville Maritime… …
Wiatt completes 3rd book of local history, ‘Alleged Pirate’ (8/26/2020) - Thomas T. Wiatt of Newport News,has just completed his third book of local history, “Alleged Pirate: The Legend of Captain John Sinclair of Smithfield and Gloucester, Virginia.” It tells the… …
Nurtury co-owners publish young adult fantasy book (8/19/2020) - Alexis and Sean Powell II, co-owners of The Nurtury which is located on Gloucester Main Street, published their book “The Tales of the Hedge Twins” in May. The siblings got… …
Santiago is Bay School’s featured artist (8/19/2020) - Nicole M. Santiago is August’s featured artist at the Bay School Community Arts Center in Mathews. The judge and juror of the Art Speaks 2020 Juried Show, now on virtual… …
‘Continuum’ exhibit opens Sept. 4 (8/19/2020) - “Continuum,” an exhibition of works by Gloucester artist Theresa Wells Stifel, will open at Arts on Main’s First Friday on Sept. 4 at the Gloucester Court House studio. Live music… …Brad Parks to have virtual launch of new book (8/19/2020) - The Friends of Essex Public Library will celebrate a book launch virtually via Zoom with bestselling author Brad Parks at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept.1. Parks is marking the publication… …
Artist seeks to express connection between physical, digital worlds (8/12/2020) - Artist Mensah Bey of Norfolk seeks through his paintings to express the connection between the physical world and the digital world. He views the virtual world as “an evolutionary subconscious… …
Natalie Clark opens La Voce Studio (8/12/2020) - Local music educator and Mathews native Natalie Clark has opened La Voce Studio in Deltaville. She said her goal is to help her students “become the singers they have always… …
Bayside Ballet scholarship (8/12/2020) - Bayside Youth Ballet awarded Mathews High School 2020 graduate Jessie Mills a college scholarship in the amount of $1,500 in memory of Jerry and Jahn Ramsey and Heidi Jo South.… …TAG gallery open Saturday (8/12/2020) - The Tappahannock Art Gallery at 200 Prince Street will again welcome COVID-19-protected visitors from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Tappahannock’s Market Day. This will be one of the… …
Comments sought on SWCD strategic plan (8/12/2020) - The Tidewater Soil and Water Conservation District is requesting community input in preparing its 2021-2024 Strategic Plan. The district’s current mission statement is to promote the conservation of natural resources… …