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New Music + Technology Festival expands to Roanoke

Musical creativity and innovation will be showcased over four days as the School of Performing Arts and the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology welcome guest and faculty artists for the 2025 New...

Party in Elmwood Returns for Summer 2025

ROANOKE, VA - Downtown Roanoke, Inc. (DRI) is once again bringing the beach party back...

2025’s Best Maryland Sports Betting Sites – Top 10 MD Online Sportsbooks, Rated By Experts

In Maryland, sports might not be the first thing that comes to mind — but...

Drook Wins 2025 Newlin Music Prize for Best Album from Richmond, Virginia

RICHMOND, VA (Mar. 25, 2024) – Drook has won the 2025 Newlin Music Prize for their album The...

Bestselling Author Beth Macy to Speak at Hollins University Commencement

Beth Macy M.A. ’93, a Roanoke-based journalist and the author of three New York Times-bestselling books,...

Storytelling Festival Returns to Fincastle

Alan Hoal spent plenty of time at Camp Bethel in Fincastle as a child, when his father managed summer camps there. Hoal currently...

Kendig Award Recipients To Be Honored June 9

The Arts Council of the Blue Ridge will honor several individuals, businesses and organizations for their contributions to the arts at the “Perry...

Virginia Western Art Gallery Gives Fishburn Students a Chance to Shine

Earth Week is coming up later this month (April 17 - 25) and some students at Fishburn Elementary School in Roanoke are getting...

Katherine Devine Opens Art Center

A stroller marked the doorway to the studio above Reid’s Fine Furnishings, while a large white bunny holding an orange carrot enticed visitors...

Roanoke College Choirs Flourish Under Direction of Dr. Jeffrey Sandborg

Longtime Roanoke College Choir Director Dr. Jeffrey Sandborg has had plenty of time—he has been the Director since 1985-- to refine and grow...

The Very Best of “No Shame” Theatre

It’s “No Shame” Theater night at Studio Roanoke, and Dwayne Yancey has just wrapped up a poem about, among other things, space traveling...