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First Virginia Wine Auction Set
Virginia’s first wine auction will be held Saturday, August 31 in Middleburg, in copjunction with the 10th annual wine festival, to benefit the restoration of the historic R.R. Depot in The Plains.
The auction will be conducted at the Festival Center on the grounds of “the most beautiful vineyard in Virginia”, Valley View Vineyard, one mile east of Middleburg on U.S. Route 50, home of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Swedenburg.
Holders of Wine Festival tickets ($9 advance, $10 gate) will have free admission to the auction which will start at 3 p.m. For more information, please write Save The R.R. Station, P.O. Box P, The Plains, Va. 22171, telephone 703-754-8564 or call Auction Chairman, John Helble, 703-536-3308.
Aerobic Classes at Family Worship
Aerobic classes are held each Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Family Worship Center on Mt. Salem Avenue in Washington. The classes are free and all are welcome.
Blue Ridge Draft Horse And Mule Show
The fourth annual Blue Ridge Draft Horse and Mule Show will be held at Ferrum College’s Blue Ridge Farm Museum on Saturday, July 27 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
At noon there will be a buggy, cart and wagon parade and later in the afternoon there will be a parade of antique farm machinery. A tour of the Farm Museum’s reconstructed 1800 living history farm is included in the show’s admission price. Admission is $2 for adults and $1 for children ages 6-12.
Brattleboro Brass Band
Rappahannock County will be hosting one of the country’s premiere traditional American dance bands on Friday, August 2, at 8 p.m. in a combined street dance and concert.
The Brattleboro Brass Band from Vermont is an ensemble that plays swing, jigs, reels, waltzes and schottisches. They have been described as sounding like a combination of a Dixieland Jazz Band, a marching parade band, a tum-of-the-century quadrille band and a Jewish Klezmer band all rolled into one. .
The audience is invited to bring lawn chairs and blankets and sit and listen to this extraordinary music and to get up and dance in the streets. In case of rain, the event will move to the Gay StreelfTheater.
The musicians are being brought to the area through the < ual efforts of the Bluemont Concert Series and the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community. Admission is $5 for the general public and $4 for RAAC members.
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