In May 2024, Rappahannock County musicians/artists John Hallberg and Linda Heimstra asked Luke to get cranky — four times, in fact. Crankies — moving panoramas with hand-painted, backlit artwork, music, narration and, often, shadow puppets — are a form of folk art that brings to life folk tales, some of them ancient.
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A look at the unique work — and good works — of the Rappahannock Benevolent Fund, a nonprofit that provides help, financial and otherwise, to those who need it in Rappahannock County, Va.
Just before Christmas 2023, the participants in the Vocal Immersion Program at Castleton perform “Festival of Voices,” an art song and lieder recital at Castleton Theatre House, with faculty Robert Grayson, Michelle DeYoung, Paul Groves and Dietlinde Turban Maazel.
“You Are My Everything” is the Aug. 20, 2023 program of the songs and letters of Robert and Clara Schumann that concluded the Castleton Festival – University of South Carolina Vocal Immersion Residency, featuring performances by tenor Dominic Armstrong and mezzo-soprano Rachel Calloway.
The story of Weston, the historic Casanova farmstead in Fauquier County, Va., and the women of the Warrenton Antiquarian Society who inherited it, restored it and continue to lovingly preserve its place in Virginia history.
Another beautiful Rappahannock afternoon on the grass with 1000 Faces Mask Theater, performing founder Peggy Schadler’s latest play, “Marco Polo Travels the Electronic Super Highway,” Sept. 17, 2022 at Pen Druid Brewing in Sperryville, Virginia.
A switch this year to eight-man football by Rappahannock County High School — Northern Virginia’s smallest school division, and one of the smallest in the state — turned out to be a big win for the team, the school and the community at large.
After a two-year hiatus due to COVID, one of the community’s most popular long-standing traditions – the Amissville Volunteer Fire and Rescue Carnival and Parade – returns. Produced for Foothills Forum and Rappahannock News.
After several years indoors and a year off due to the pandemic, 1000 Faces Mask Theater returned to the great outdoors — specifically to a grassy hill beside Pen Druid Brewing in Sperryville, Va., with the Blue Ridge Mountains as backdrop.
Our first animation! Conceived by Jane Bowling-Wilson, executive director of the Northern Piedmont Community Foundation, with wonderful illustrations by Lucas Wilson and top-notch voiceover by Tish Iceton.