Oktoberfest

Oktoberfest is back! Join the Frontier Culture Museum for our annual Oktoberfest. This year we will be hosting Elbe Musikanten German Band from Richmond, Virginia. We will also have Bavarian Chef food truck, from Madison, Virginia, and Rick’s BBQ on-site for food and Blue Ridge Beverage onsite for beer. The museum will open at 9 AM that day and music will begin at 12 PM. This event is a special ticketed event and Annual Passes can not be used for this event. Advanced tickets are recommended for the day of the event. Any tickets purchased for the October 1st date will be honored for the rescheduled event date. If you cannot come on October 30th, you can use your tickets on any general admission day, no refunds will be given.

Oak Grove Folk Music Festival

Great acts, beautiful surroundings, free parking, good food & drink, and a relaxed, intimate and tree-shaded ambiance you can find nowhere else. The Oak Grove Folk Music Festival features three days of fantastic folk and acoustic music. Three concerts, workshops, open mike Saturday, and a gospel sing Sunday morning… All in a beautiful small open theater setting in a forest of old oak trees. Parking is free… There is food and drink… Promotional items… And a lot of people who just love the music.

Kinky Boots

Kinky Boots is the big-hearted musical extravaganza that won six Tonys including Best Musical, the Grammy for Best Musical Theatre album and London’s Olivier Award for Best Musical. Kinky Boots features a joyous, Tony-winning score by pop icon Cyndi Lauper, and a hilarious, uplifting book by four-time Tony winner, Harvey Fierstein. Billy Porter won a Best Actor Tony Award for his portrayal of Lola. Charlie Price has reluctantly inherited his father’s shoe factory, which is on the verge of bankruptcy. Trying to live up to his father’s legacy and save his family business, Charlie finds inspiration in the form of Lola, a fabulous entertainer in need of some sturdy stilettos. As they work to turn the factory around, this unlikely pair find that they have more in common than they realized… and discover that when you change your mind, you can change your whole world.

Run For Your Wife

A classic door slamming British farce by Ray Cooney. What happens when a cabbie does his ‘good deed’ and exposes his secret lives, or should we say, “his secret wives?” If you enjoyed our productions of ‘It Runs in the Family’ (the silly play about the doctors) or ‘Out of Order’ (the one with the body which shows up everywhere), you must come and see this!

Revolutionary War Weekend: Captive Beyond the Mountain

Revolutionary War Weekend: Captive Beyond the Mountain is the museum’s largest living history event with over 100 living historians. Join the museum in exploring the experience of British and German POWs in the Shenandoah Valley during the Revolutionary War. This event takes place over two days on Saturday, August 27 and Sunday, August 28 from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM. General admission rates apply and is free to Annual Passholders. Schedule for the day: While many interpretive activities will be on-going throughout the day, we have some can’t miss activities happening on specific sites. 9:30 – Morning Formation, Drill & Roll call at 1820s farm 10:00 AM – Milking Demo on English Farm 11:30 AM – Feeding the army: Ration issuance at 1820s Farm 12:00 PM – Interactive Patrol at 1820s farm 1:00 PM – Meet the Baroness Von Riedesel at 1820s farm 1:30 PM – Presentation on Black Loyalists at Mt Tabor Church 2:00 PM – Court Martial Program at schoolhouse 2:30 PM – Women of the Army Presentation at 1760s farm 3:00 PM – Grand Review & Musket Demonstration at 1820s farm 3:30 PM – Prisoner’s put on a play by the tinsmith’s shop 4:00 PM – Native Americans in the Revolution presentation at American Indian farm On Saturday, Lucky Duck Kettle Corn will be on site and on Sunday, Rick’s BBQ will be onsite for both the event and for the Roots Concert Series.

Roots Concert Series with Level Best

Join the Frontier Culture Museum for our August American Roots Concert Series. Each year, we welcome artist from across Virginia that represents the origins of the music we know and love today. For our fourth and final 2022 concert, we are hosting Level Best. With exciting instrumental solo work, Level Best has that soulful polish, earned with years of playing Bluegrass and Country music; and their four lead singers provide a unique range of vocal combinations and colors. Level Best will bring an engaging repertoire of Bluegrass and Country gems to the Roots Music concert stage! James Field – Guitar; Wally Hughes – Fiddle, Dobro; Lisa Kay Howard-Hughes – Mandolin; Terry Wittenberg – Banjo; Joe Hannabach – Bass Tickets are $12 per person, $60 for a reserved table, and free to Annual Passholders.

Roots Concert Series with Whitetop Mountain Band

Join the Frontier Culture Museum for our August American Roots Concert Series. Each year, we welcome artist from across Virginia that represents the origins of the music we know and love today. For our third 2022 concert, we are hosting Whitetop Mountain Band. Bringing a legacy of old-time sounds to the stage, the Whitetop Mountain Band is an award-winning family ensemble that has long-time traditional roots in Whitetop, Virginia, an area rich in old-time music tradition. The band’s members have been essential to preserving the Whitetop region’s style of old-time fiddling and banjo picking. These legendary musicians serve as teachers of the style while entertaining audiences with fiddle/banjo instrumentals, powerful solos, and harmony vocals on blues, classic country, honky-tonk, traditional bluegrass numbers, old-timey ballads, originals, and four-part mountain gospel songs. The group has played numerous festivals, including the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, National Folklife Festival, World Music Institute in New York City, and Carter Family Festival. In 2012 the Virginia Senate issued a proclamation recognizing the band’s contributions to the music of Southwest Virginia. Band members include Emily Spencer, clawhammer banjo and vocals; Martha Spencer, guitar, fiddle, vocals, and dance; Kilby Spencer, fiddle; Debbie Bramer, bass, vocals, and dance; and Ersel Fletcher, vocals, guitar, and dance. Tickets are $12 per person, $60 for a reserved table, and free to Annual Passholders.

ALL YOU CAN EAT DRAG BRUNCH

Back by request! Angelle’s Drag Brunch! Can’t make it to the Saturday night Drag? No problem. Back by request…. SUNDAY BRUNCH DRAG! Hosted by THE BEAUTIFUL Angelle-Zhane Sounds by Hurt City’s finest DJ Double U & DJ Immaculate $15 TICKETS ONLINE $20 CASH COVER This event is open to ALL ages Tickets must be purchased per person *Tips are not included in ticket price, please bring cash for your servers and queens!!

Easy Like Sunday Morn…. w/ John Goslin

Relax with cider/beer flights & enjoy live music on the patio

Arsenic and Old Lace

The Valley Playhouse is proud to present their summer production of Arsenic & Old Lace live at Court Square Theater! In Arsenic and Old Lace, the audience meets the charming and innocent ladies who populate their cellar with the remains of socially and religiously “acceptable” roomers; and the antics of their nephew who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt. When their other nephew Mortimer returns home and learns of his aunt’s “hobby,” mayhem ensues.