Half Shell concerts
Music on the Half Shell Stage will feature Brasswind Band on Friday, August 30, and SlapNation on Friday, September 6, 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.
Summer Jam
An Outdoor Summer Jam will be held from 6-11 p.m. Friday, August 30, at the Northumberland County Community Center, 679 Browns Store Road, Heathsville.
The fee is $10 per person. Guests are reminded to bring their own bottle, yard chairs, tents, coolers and tables. Music will be provided by DJ Master Mix. Activities will move indoors if it rains.
Beach music
The Colonial Beach Community Foundation on September 14 will host the sixth annual Northern Neck Beach Music Festival in the Town of Colonial Beach on September 14. Bands will include Feature Attraction, Motown Butta returning, plus Band of Oz.
Advance tickets are available at www.givebutter.com/nnbeachmusic2024 for $35 each. After August 31, the ticket price goes up to $45. The event is rain or shine. Guests are urged to bring a chair. No outside food or beverages. Party tent rentals are available at beachmusiccbva@gmail.com.
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.
Annual meeting
The Friends of Northumberland Public Library will hold their annual meeting at 5 p.m. Thursday, September 5 at NPL, 7204 Northumberland Highway, Heathsville.
The agenda will include reports on the various accomplishments of the organization, Ye Olde Book Shoppe and the library for the previous fiscal year. The Friends are looking for new board members.
Wine & Whiskers
Garfield’s Rescue Inc. will hold Wine & Whiskers from 5-7:30 p.m. Thursday, September 5, at Trinity Episcopal Church Pavilion, 8484 Mary Ball Road, Lancaster. The event will offer wine, hors d’oeuvres, music by Paragon DJ, a silent auction and a 50/50 raffle.
Tickets are $50. Purchase tickets at Bayside Animal Hospital, 78 Whisk Drive, White Stone; FNCAS Thrift Shop 80 Jessie duPont Memorial Highway, Burgess; RAL Art Center, 19 North Main Street, Kilmarnock; or www.garfieldsrescue.org. Proceeds support rescued homeless cats.
Crab feast
The Northumberland County Community Center, 679 Browns Store Road, Heathsville, will host a crab feast from 2-6 p.m. September 7. In addition to all-you-can-eat steamed crabs, the menu will include fried chicken, fried fish, hot dogs, hamburgers, corn on the cob, baked beans, homemade soups, tea and water.
The fee is $50 per person. For tickets see any board member or call James Long, 724-3240, or Stacy Evans, 436-5898. Beer and wine will be available for purchase as well.
Family stories
Historian and genealogist Lori Jackson Black will present “How to Tell Your Family Story” at 7 p.m. September 6 at Mathews Museum, 200 Main Street, Mathews. Black will discuss basic research techniques, share helpful hints, review ways to efficiently compile family data, story and photographs and publish them.
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 $150 per person through September 14. Proceeds will benefit youth through the State Fair of Virginia Scholarship Program.
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 through Concerts by the Bay and includes reciprocal opportunities at Arts Alive in West Point and Rappahannock Concert Association in Heathsville. Too view the various upcoming concerts for 2024-25 see 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. Group rates are available. For group rates, call 1-888-210-8006.
Boots and Barbecue
Boots and Barbecue to benefit Northern Neck Land Conservancy will be held from 1-4 p.m. September 28 at King Copsico Farm on the water in Westmoreland County.
The event features a barbecue buffet, music and exhibitors and demonstrations that reflect the rural character of the Northern Neck. Tickets are $50 each. To become a sponsor or purchase a ticket, visit nnconserve.org.
Antique quilts
“Threads of Our History: Quilts of Mathews Virginia,” will open at the Mathews Museum, 200 Main Street, Mathews, on October 5 and will be on exhibit through the end of December.
Beginning October 4, the museum will be open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through the end of December.
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.
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.
Christmas show
The Kilmarnock Museum recently announced a bus trip to the Old Dominion Barn Dance Christmas Show on December 14 to see Wilson Fairchild and Hunter Owens. A chartered coach will depart from Chesapeake Commons in Kilmarnock at 11:30 a.m. and return between 9:30 and 10 p.m. A nonrefundable $135 fee includes roundtrip fare, seats to the show and snacks on the bus.
The bus will stop for dinner on the return trip at Nick’s Spaghetti and Steak House in Shacklefords. Dinner is not included in the fee. To reserve a seat, call Mary Brent, 238-8738, or Ashburn, 296-0930. Cash or checks payable to Kilmarnock Museum is expected at time of booking.
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.
