Events

Upcoming Gazebo Gathering: July 22, 2011 *

*  CONCERT MOVED TO INDOOR LOCATION DUE TO EXTREME HEAT (Gallery at 305 East Main Street)

The Rhonda Sager Trio

Classic Country to Classic Pop – Sounds for then Summer

The Rhonda Sager Trio

The Rhonda Sager Trio has been wowing audiences and warming hearts throughout the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia since May, 2007.

Rhonda Sager and Doug Arthur had worked together for a number of years before Doug discovered that Rhonda could sing. Rhonda sang in choirs and plays in high school, and in church for years but had never really pursued singing out in public because she was busy raising three daughters (Renee, Randi and Rachel) with her husband, Ronald.  Doug had taught himself to play guitar by ear when he was just a young boy growing up in Strasburg and had continued to play, mostly bluegrass, here and there as he gained his law degree and established his practice in Strasburg.

Once Doug discovered that Rhonda had such a beautiful, powerful, and versatile voice, the two teamed up to entertain.  Their first performance together was for Strasburg’s annual Mayfest celebration in May, 2006.

The duo quickly rose in popularity and became a trio by the Spring of 2007 when Hank Zimmerman joined Arthur and Sager on keyboard.  Their styles simply fit comfortably together, and soon the trio was performing at venues throughout the Shenandoah Valley; including becoming “house band” for The Old Mill restaurant and a regular at The Civil Cricket, Woodstock  Café, Mimslyn Inn, The Horseshoe Curve, Mayfest, Oktoberfest, Apple Blossom  Festival, and appearances on WINC, The River, and WSVG.

Rob Yeakle took over for Zimmerman in early 2009 just after the original three made their first CD together titled “Twelve by Rhonda”, filled with a combination of Arthur’s original numbers as well as some of the Trio’s favorites.

The Rhonda Sager Trio is one of the most versatile groups you’ll find here in the Valley…performing everything from Great American Songbook, Pop, Blues and more.

That style is a soft, laid-back stroll down memory lane… if you want to talk with your dinner partner at a Rhonda Sager Trio performance, you won’t have to shout.

 

Fee: No Admission Charge

Concert Time: 7pm

* Location: Blue Ridge Arts Council Gallery, 305 East Main Street, Front Royal, Virginia

Concert Weather updates can be found on our Facebook page

Concert series presented by Blue Ridge Arts Council

 

Upcoming Gazebo Gathering: July 15, 2011

Intrepid Jazz Project

Intrepid Jazz Project

Contemporary, yet timeless acoustical jazz

Started in 2000, as Intrepid Jazz Trio, they are a straight ahead acoustic jazz group.  Featuring Ed. St. John on saxophones, Chris Eiland on guitar, Tim Grant on bass, and Burke Daughtery on drums.

Fee: No Admission Charge

Concert Time: 7pm

Location: Town Commons, Main & Chester Streets, Front Royal, Virginia Concert

Weather updates can be found on our Facebook page
Concert series presented by Blue Ridge Arts Council

 

 

WEATHER UPDATE for Gazebo Gatherings: July 8, 2011

Concert Weather Update:  Tonight’s Gazebo Gathering Concert with “The 8 Tracks” has been postponed to a later date due to the current and continuing weather forecast throughout the evening.  We will have a reschedule date for you soon!

Upcoming Gazebo Gathering: July 8

Concert Postponed Weather Issues – Rescheduled to August 26, 2011 @ 7pm

The 8 Tracks

The 8 Tracks

Rewind the music and the sounds of the 60′s, 70′s and 80′s

The 8 Tracks lineup consists of singer/rhythm guitarist Anthony Buono, bassist Mike DeLaFleur, lead guitarist/sound geek Ted Seely and drummer Doug Briggs. Many of you know these guys as Glass Onion, but instead of the songs of the Fab Four, they’ll be playing songs mostly from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. After years of Glass Onion gigs where people asked if they played other material, they relented and put together another “band” in 2007.  In a short time they have developed at 240+ song play list that runs the gamut from 60s pop and psychedelia to 70s rock, funk and disco, to 80s and later alternative, rock and pop.  Like the other band, they are about faithfulness to the original material while letting their individual styles and sound shine through. They prove to be a rock powerhouse or the funkiest dance band around, and delight the audience every time!

Concert Time: 7pm

Fee: No Admission Charge
Location: Town Commons, Main & Chester Streets, Front Royal, Virginia Concert

Weather updates can be found on our Facebook page
Concert series presented by Blue Ridge Arts Council

 

Upcoming Gazebo Gathering: July 1

Magick Kat

Magick Kat

Driving acoustic cosmic American music – equal parts brain and brawn

 

Concert Time: 7pm
Fee: No Admission Charge
Location: Town Commons, Main & Chester Streets, Front Royal, Virginia Concert

Weather updates can be found on our Facebook page
Concert series presented by Blue Ridge Arts Council

 

Upcoming Gazebo Gathering: June 24

Wagfoot

Country music and classic rock, enveloped in wonderful harmonies!


Concert Time: 7pm
Fee: No Admission Charge
Location: Town Commons, Main & Chester Streets, Front Royal, Virginia Concert

Weather updates can be found on our Facebook page
Concert series presented by Blue Ridge Arts Council

 

 

Upcoming Gazebo Gathering: June 10

Rich Follett

Feel good folk

Rich Follett

Rich Follett has entertained audiences throughout the U.S. and abroad for more than twenty-five years. His CD recordings of original contemporary folk music A Place In the Circle and Christmas In My Heart are available worldwide through Amazon.com., and his song Shenandoah Christmas has been a favorite on Valley Radio for more than twenty years now. He has performed as a featured artist at The Kennedy Center, the prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival, and for twelve seasons as The Merrie Minstrel at the Maryland Renaissance Festival. Rich has appeared frequently in productions at Virginia’s Wayside Theatre and has toured extensively with many professional productions. He is an award-winning poet and songwriter with numerous publications to his credit.

Rich is a National Board certified teacher of tenth-grade English, Speech, and Theatre for the Public School System, has been  named six times to the Who’s Who Among America ‘s Teachers and for the past nine years has taught Theatre Arts for Northern Virginia ‘s PAVAN enrichment program for gifted and talented youth. He frequently employs guitar and vocal music as a teaching tool in the classroom (you just haven’t lived until you have corrected the grammar in country songs and have sung the results in class). Rich was the recipient of a 2004 Fulbright Memorial Fund scholarship, through which he visited Japan as an educational ambassador. The Virginia Association of Speech, Debate and Drama coaches named him Theatre Coach of the year for 2010. He is proud and excited to be a part of both the growing and thriving Arts community in the Shenandoah Valley.
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Upcoming Gazebo Gathering: June 3rd

American Legion Community Band

A songbook of an evening—Big Bands to Broadway
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