New Years Eve at the Rock & Roll Hotel

Saturday night at R&R

It’s a Wonderful Life

“It’s A Wonderful Life”, the beloved Christmas film by Frank Capra (1946), will be brought to life on the stage this holiday season. Great event for the whole family! An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would had been like if he never existed.

The Gainesville Youth Players will perform the full-length play on the following dates:
Thursday, 12/13, 7pm
Friday, 12/14, 7pm
Saturday, 12/15, 3pm (Matinee)

TICKETS (buy at the door): $5/adults, $3/children under 12 (special family discount of $15 for two adults and all children under 12 in the family)

Gainesville Presbyterian Church
(junction of Routes 29 and 15N)
16127 Lee Highway
Gainesville, Virginia 20155

For directions or more information, call 540-347-2442

FCT Community theatre

Ok, as promised we will get this one going again. If you have not had a chance to sample the talent at some of the areas local community theaters now is a good chance. Something for everyone as Fauquier Community Theater in Vint Hill recreate the annual family favorite, “a Christmas Story”. I am told all the elements that made this show a family favorite since the eighties are in place. You can still “shoot your eye out”, you still cant turn down a triple dog dare, and it’s still not a good idea to stick your tongue on the school flagpole in the middle of winter. Kevin Sowers Directs, and Bryan Marsh produces this memorable adaptation. Curtain goes up at eight o’clock on Friday night November 30th. Tickets are 14.00 for adults, and 12.00 for kids and seniors. So get out there and support your local community theater with this guaranteed family favorite. More of what’s going on soon.

Peace and Love

L

You guys just dont give up.

You folks are awesome, still checking this blog almost two months after I stopped posting. Here is the new blog, it will give you the information you are looking for. Promise!!

Peace and Love L

Karaoke and DJ’s in the Metro Area 

However, I may start this one up again, for the other stuff. Events and Bars and stuff like that.  So keep checking back here as well.

Thats it for this one

I have officially moved this blog to my new website, please click this link and change your bookmarks. Thanks.

L

The New Blog.

Ok, freaking out here.

You know? When I started this blog I did not realize qt the time just how much stuff there was to do around here.So I gotta come up with a system. So since this is Monday and the work week has just begun again, I …will….uh…hmmm…don’t know. Lets take a look today at Something other then the usual concerts and club gigs going on around here. There is always a lot of goods exhibitions going on around the area. Could probably write an overly long blog on just stuff going on at the Smithsonian…well…while I have mentioned them lets finds out.

Friday – September 14
In Concert: Chéjere and Sonex. Hispanic Heritage Month opens with a splash as Chéjere and Sonex combine the Son Jarocho and the Son Huasteco—two of Mexico’s most distinctive regional styles of music—with contemporary Afro-Latin, hip-hop, funk and electronic sounds. The results are vibrant arrangements that resonate as much with Mexicans as they do with people all over the world! Both traditional regional rhythms derive from a mix of indigenous and imported—Spanish, Arabic, African, and Caribbean—musical legacies that reflect Mexico’s rich cultural and ethnic diversity. Co-sponsored by the Mexican Cultural Institute and the Smithsonian Latino Center. Baird Auditorium, 6:00–7:30 pm.

Shear Madness can still be saeen at the Kennedy Center. The adaptation of the Roger Waters movie should not be missed. Tickets range between 40.00 and 50.00, lots of seats available throughout the month.

Monday, August 20, 2007 Sean Keane

Hailing from Ireland, guitarist and singer Sean Keane has released six solo albums with material ranging from traditional songs to folk, original tunes, country songs, and blues.

Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Speedy Tolliver and The New Old-Time String Band
Born in 1918 in Green Cove, Virginia, Speedy Tolliver started as a banjo player, later took up the fiddle, and now riles up audiences with The New Old-Time String Band, performing its rich repertoire of traditional American roots music.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Afro Bop Alliance
Afro Bop Alliance, a seven-piece Latin jazz ensemble, fuses all of the varied “Latin” styles and cultures with its own jazz experience to create a unique sound.

Thursday, August 23, 2007
Junko Ueno Garrett
Pianist Junko Ueno Garrett, born in Japan and trained at the prestigious Toho Conservatory, has won several competitions and is a doctoral candidate at Rice University.

Friday, August 24, 2007
Vandaveer
Rose
Singer-songwriter Rose, originally from Roxbury, Massachusetts, honed her skills in Madrid singing blues, jazz, and folk standards with local acts and in the underground. She then moved to D.C. in 1997 with the raw power of her extraordinary voice. Vandaveer, the town-folk, city-pop solo song-and-dance routine of Mark Charles Heidinger, can be heard on his debut record, Grace & Speed.

Saturday, August 25, 2007
Charles Covington Jr.
Pianist/keyboardist Charles Covington Jr., a professor at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, has performed with Sammy Davis Jr., Eartha Kitt, Clark Terry, Milt Jackson, Hank Jones, and more.

Sunday, August 26, 2007
Chris Kasper
LEA
Singer-songwriter Chris Kasper, whose compositions for both himself and the bluegrass band Lowlands have received numerous accolades, follows neither genre nor format as heard on his latest CD, Flying Boy. LEA, nominated for five WAMMY Awards for contemporary folk music, recently completed the Artist in Residency program at Strathmore.

Also check out all the different IMAX Theatres in the area all kinds of cool stuff on the screens, and everything is for the family, however, due to the subject matter of some films, take a look and use your best judgement for your own little guys and dolls. well, I think that will do it for today. I am trying to figure out how to make a subscription thing work. Still nothing new on the website, but I hope to get at least a little more done this week. have the restaurant site almost finished. Still would like to get some ideas from some of you on where you enjoy going in the area….later kids,

L

Lots of stuff today

Good afternoon cats, and kittens, and welcome to another little cyberside chat.

First of all we got a liton event at Chics N wings in Tysons, check it out. Would really like some pictures of this one, as wel as the bikini contest on Sunday. Here is their postcard.

Also tonight, Four show in a row at the Rock and roll hotel. tonight for an eight dollar cover you can see the phantom family halo…and I quote. Check this out and let me know how it was.

The Phantom Family Halo are hard to describe. Can you imagine Mark Bolan and Syd Barrett wanting to start a band thats equally into pysch and folk, as well as bits of Suicide and early Faust? Wrap yer mind around that and welcome. TPFH feature members of The For Carnation, Dead Child and Slint (Reunion).”

and now for something completely different.

Check out the palace of wonders, always something…umm…interesting going on there.

Check out my friends over at Club Orpheus tonight for their new Thursday night mixer.

DJ/ and Karaoke host Jewlz is having her weekly quiz night at Bunkers in Leesburg tonight.

Speaking of karaoke you can check out DJ mistah fingaz at Sully’s in Chantilly, and like I said before ..if you can absolutely NOTHING to do tonight, come see me at the Shadetree in Centreville doing a little music followed by some karaoke later. Now the news…

Thousands of fans have marked the 30th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death with a candlelight vigil at the singer’s Memphis home, Graceland. Visitors finally finished filing past his grave at about 0730 local time, eleven hours after the gates opened. “The King” died of a heart attack on 16 August 1977, aged 42. Ex-wife Priscilla Presley said Elvis was still a powerful figure. “To see the fans from all over the world… it’s mind-boggling,” she said. The vigil will be followed by a tribute concert featuring video footage of Elvis. The footage will be accompanied by a live performance featuring former band members and backing singers. An estimated 75,000 fans from around the world have traveled to Memphis – where temperatures have topped 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) – to attend events celebrating the superstar’s life and music.

I don’t remember much about that day, were stationed in Germany at the time and I had just turned seven, i remember watching my mother cry and her not being able to tell me, it is amazing to me the impact that this larger then life individual had on music and pop culture in general, was he flawed? Sure he was but let he who is without sin cast the first stone,

Peace and Love and long live the king

L

Hump Day is just fun to say.

Morning kids, L here. Lets see what we have going on today.

Primo productions is throwing down at Eyebar in DC starting at ten oclock. Ladies have an open bar from ten till Eleven. Music is Latin in flavor and they play the hell out of it. Tell them I sent you, they won’t have any idea who the hell your talking about but it will be fun. Here are few shots of some other Primo Productions events.

Looks like open mike night at the Bohemian caverns. Check it out and let me know how it goes.

Check this stuff out and let me know what you think. Updates and builds are coming soon, I am switching the blog over to the website soon. Let me know who of you out there are actually reading this thing and what will make it better. If you look over to the right, I got the entertainment myspace link over there and we need more friends…talk to you soon.

Keeping it safe IS keeping it real

Peace

L

What about Tuesdays???

This just in. Tradewinds Nightclub in Camp Springs Maryland is having Rare Essence. A night that is being hosted and promoted by Epic Concepts. Make sure you print this off to get the deal. Also you might tell them where you got it just for the hell of it.

CCBC CATONSVILLE/BARN THEATRE in baltimore Maryland, is hosting a live comedy show. Your headliner for the evening will be Lonnie Davis, and hosted by Sonny Fuller. Show starts at eight.

Panarama Productions puts on great shows. If you have been to one you know what I mean…check this out. Nothing in the world like a wet tshirt contest, with good drink specials. click the pic to get the 411.
Ok, I am sure there is somthing I am missing, but DJ Taylor is flipping out, and is in need of a bottle. See you tomorrow kids.

Peace and Love

L