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Avatar: The Last Airbender In Concert Coming to Roanoke

Nickelodeon, GEA Live, and Senbla today announced Avatar: The Last Airbender In Concert – The 20th Anniversary Tour (www.avatarinconcert.com) will land in Roanoke at Berglund Center on September 24th...

2025 Tavern Stage Summer Music Series Returns to Explore Park

For the third year, Roanoke County Parks, Recreation and Tourism, Explore Park, and Twin Creeks...

PBS Appalachia Premieres Season 3 of “The Life of a Musician” May 3rd

PBS Appalachia proudly announces the premiere of Season 3 of its Emmy Award-Winning music series,...

Food Truck Thursday at Roanoke County Administration Center Thursday, May 8

Roanoke County is hosting Food Truck Thursday at the Roanoke County Administration Center on Thursday,...

Civil War Roundtable Explores 1864 Beefsteak Raid at Pamplin Park

Pamplin Historical Park & The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier welcomes Mr. J....

Railway Historical Society Plans Trips to Abingdon and “Eastern Continental Divide”

The Roanoke Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society has announced two unique round trip train excursions that will take place the first...

Blue Ridge PBS Wins EMPixx Award For “Virginia State Parks”

The Blue Ridge PBS production “Virginia State Parks: 75 Years and Still Growing,” first broadcast in June 2011, has been honored with a...

FDR Library Photographic Exhibit Recalls Depression Era America

by Melvin E. Matthews, Jr. Between 1935 and 1943, photographers from the Farm Security Administration (FSA), a New Deal agency, fanned out across America,...

Roanoke Children’s Choir Sings in Centuries Old Canterbury Cathedral

Fifty-two singers from the Concert Choir of the Roanoke College Children’s Choir participated in the highly acclaimed International Children’s Choir Festival at Canterbury...

“Fall into the Arts” Series Debuts

by Cheryl Hodges Roanokers are in for a musical treat this fall, with Community School’s “Fall into the Arts Series” which will feature some...

Featured Artist At 2nd Helpings Likes Big Sky, Bright Colors

by Gene Marrano Dramatic skies, all types of flowers, birds—“nature and beauty from God’s creations,” that’s what inspires Roanoke artist Carrie McNutt, whose work...