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MATHEWS – The Bay School Community Arts Center is hosting its first Family Art Festival with BBQ, Blues and Brews, from 3-7 p.m. on Saturday, June 11 at Sunrise Farm, the East River home of Mel and Sonia Schursky. There will be art and craft activities along with guided...

MATHEWS––“Where all roads lead to water” and “Pearl of the Chesapeake” are but two of the descriptors for tiny rural Mathews County, hidden away at the tip of Virginia’s Middle Peninsula. It is Virginia’s second smallest county of only 94 square miles, proud to boast of having no traffic...

Middlesex – The Town of Urbanna is launching a new series of street festival celebrations called Second Saturdays. They will run 4-8 p.m. every second Saturday of the month from May through September. This includes May 14, June 11, July 9, Aug. 13 and Sept. 10. The location is...

LANCASTER—Kilmarnock Town Centre Park recently announced the Music on the Half Shell Stage series for 2022, presented by Chesapeake Bank and the Town of Kilmarnock. “We are super excited to welcome some amazing local performers as well as performers from the region,” said Mayor Mae Umphlett. “We all know...

LANCASTER—The Northern Neck Orchestra will conclude its 30th season with Felix Mendelssohn’s legendary Violin Concerto, featuring Moises Cunha, the orchestra’s concertmaster and principal violinist, and William Grant Still’s landmark Symphony No. 1. The concert will be performed on May 13 at the Lancaster Middle School Theater, 191 School Street, Kilmarnock;...

Lead guitarist-vocalist Tom Euler of Hartfield, foreground, performs with his trio, including drummer Max Parker of Deltaville, during the September 2021 Groovin’ in Park season finale concert at Deltaville Maritime Museum (DMM). The trio is set to perform again at DMM 4-7 p.m. April 23 as part of a...

Advance tickets sales began March 1 for “Something About Mary,” a music festival on the beach at Willaby’s, 327 Old Ferry Road, White Stone. The festival will be held from noon-5 p.m. May 1. Tickets will not be sold at the door. The fee for this rain-or-shine, 21-and-over event is...

by Don Richeson -  Scores packed the grounds of Evolution Sails Chesapeake in Deltaville March 26 for the annual Deltaville sock-burning celebration. The seventh edition of the event marked a return after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic and featured live music and roasted oysters and Shacklefords-based Jeeps and...

Brett Cahoon, band leader of Good Shot Judy, channels early 1960s Frank Sinatra as he strolls through a packed audience at Deltaville Maritime Museum’s waterfront park during a July 24, 2021 concert. He stops to sing “Happy Birthday” to Chelsea Graver of Gloucester, who turned 30 that day. He...

The Lancaster Players will present "The 39 Steps: A Live Radio Play" at The Lancaster Playhouse, 361 Chesapeake Drive, White Stone. Shows are slated at 8 p.m. March 11, 12, 18, 19, 25 and 26, as well as 3 p.m. March 13 and 20. The theater will open an...