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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...

by Tom Samuel -  The Middlesex County Public Library (MCPL) system is now offering Beanstack. Beanstack is an innovative web platform/mobile “app”-based program designed to engage people of all ages in reading by making it fun and easy for them to record and track their own independent reading. Beanstack participants...

To learn more about winter waterfowl populations through citizen science, the Northern Neck Chapter of the Audubon Society (NNAS) is seeking volunteers to assist in a census count of these fascinating birds February 5-6. This Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula Winter Waterfowl Count, focusing on the Lower Rappahannock-Potomac rivers, tributaries...

Each February, St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Kilmarnock invites readers on a Blind Date with a Book. This is an opportunity to choose a book "not by its cover," said St. Andrews session member Susan May. Stop by any St. Andrews Little Free Library and choose a wrapped book by the...

After a 15-month shutdown for the COVID pandemic, The Westmoreland Players recently reopened with a production of "A Sanders Family Christmas." The Westmoreland Players, a Northern Neck-based community theater group, received a $15,000 grant from the Mason and Lula Cole Charitable Trust and a $2,500 grant from the Virginia Commission for...