Children’s tours
The Steamboat Era Museum, 156 King Carter Drive, Irvington, will offer children’s tours and activities from 10:30-noon on Friday, August 9, for ages 4-12. Children will learn about steamboats, turn the wheel in the pilothouse, play steamboat era games and make a wooden steamboat to float in a pool.
The fee is $5 for children and one accompanying adult free. Sign up at steamboateramuseum.org or call at 438-6888.
Rivah quilters
The Rivah Quilters will meet at 10 a.m. Friday, August 9, at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, Kilmarnock. Joyce Anderson will present a trunk show of one block wonder quilts.
Lunch will be served after the meeting and trunk show. Visitors and new members are welcome.
Music on the Half Shell
Music on the Half Shell Stage will feature Inside Out Band on August 16 and Brass Wind Brand on August 30 at Town Centre Park, 150 North Main Street, Kilmarnock. Gates will open at 6 p.m. and music will begin at 7 p.m.
Admission is by season pass or $10. Tickets are available at www.kilmarnockva.com or the gate.
Bingo for Quilts
The Tavern Quilt Guild at Rice’s Hotel/Hughlett’s Tavern, 73 Monument Place, Heathsville, will hold Bingo for Quilts at 1:30 p.m. August 17. Players may buy packets of 15 bingo sheets plus four special games for $30. All prizes are quilted items made by guild members.
Music on the Cliffs
Sally & Brian will be featured from 6-8 p.m. August 17 at Music on the Cliffs at Westmoreland State Park, 145 Cliff Road, Montross. A $10 parking fee is payable at the gate.
Tea party and fashion show
The Mathews Museum, 200 Main Street, Mathews, will host Martha Washington and Abigail Adams as they “spill the tea” from 2-4 p.m. August 18. The “Ladies Victorian” will present “Our Founding Mothers and What They Wore.”
There also will be a silent auction with numerous tea-related items. The fee is $35 and tickets can be purchased at the Mathews County Visitor Center, Haskins Bayside Service Center and from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays at the museum.
Quilting workshop
The Rivah Quilters will hold a comfort quilt workshop from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. August 20 at St. Andrews Church, Kilmarnock. Comfort quilts are donated to patients in oncology units at local hospitals.
Black Tie & Boots
Black Tie & Boots will be held at 6 p.m. September 27, at State Fair of Virginia, Meadow Hall, Meadow Event Park, 13191 Dawn Boulevard, Doswell The gala offers dancing, dining, auctions and cocktails.
Gala tickets can be purchased at StateFairVa.org. Tickets are $125 per person through August 20, and $150 per person August 21 through September 14. Proceeds will benefit youth through the State Fair of Virginia Scholarship Program.
Rotary
The Rotary Club of the Northern Neck meets for breakfast at 7:30 a.m. on second and fourth Wednesdays at River Counties Community Foundation, 834 Rappahannock Drive, White Stone.
Senior gathering
Irvington United Methodist Church, 26 King Carter Drive, Irvington, hosts a senior gathering from noon-1:30 p.m. on second Tuesdays. Share lunch, bingo and fellowship.
Chicken dinners
Chicken dinners will be available from 5-6:30 p.m. on first Mondays at American Legion Post #117, 39 School Street, Reedville.
Meals include fried chicken, mashed potatoes, choice of vegetables, salad, roll, dessert and drink. Dinners are $12 for adults and $6 for children ages 12 and younger, at the door.
Chamber music
The Northern Neck Orchestra (NNO) 2024-25 Chamber Music Series will open at 2 p.m. September 8 at Good Luck Cellars, 1025 Good Luck Road, Kilmarnock. The four-concert series will begin with “Music for Guitar Ensemble,” performed by the Tidewater Guitar Orchestra.
Season tickets for the four-concert series are $112. Single tickets for each concert are $35. Tickets may be purchased at northernneckorchestra.org or the door. Students are admitted free.
Bay concerts
Concerts by the Bay will present Alter Eagles at 3 p.m. September 15 at the Harry M. Ward Auditorium, Mathews High School, 9889 Buckley Hall Road, Mathews.
Tickets are $30 at the door; students free. A subscription series of five concerts September through April starts at $120 and includes reciprocal opportunities at Arts Alive in West Point and Rappahannock Concert Association in Heathsville. Visit www.concertsbythebay.org.
RCA concerts
The Rappahannock Concert Association will open its 41st concert season at 7:30 p.m. September 21 at the Northumberland County School Performing Arts Theater, 201 Academic Lane, Heathsville. The six-concert series will begin with the Crown Mountain Trio Classical Ensemble.
There are four ticket purchase options, reserved seats for the six concerts, $135; regular seating for all six concerts, $110; any three of the six concerts, $70; a single concert ticket, $35. Students are always admitted free. For a full oncert schedule and to purchase tickets, go to www.rappahannockconcerts.org. For group rates, call 1-888-210-8006.
On Stage
The Rappahannock Foundation for the arts 2024-25 On Stage series will open at 7:30 p.m. October 19 with Dancing Dream, an ABBA tribute band, at the Lancaster Elementary School Theater, 191 School Street, Kilmarnock.
Admission is by season subscription, $190 for five shows, or single ticket, $45. For season schedule, shows and tickets, visit rappahannockfoundation.org or call Donna McGrath, 438-5555.
