News and views from the heart of Vance County, N.C.
RALEIGH – The Got to Be NC Festival at the State Fairgrounds will continue to feature the family-friendly events that have made it a favorite local spring festival. The event, which takes place May 17-19, will again feature hundreds of antique tractors, a daily tractor parade, lots of local food, classic cars, live music, a [...]
RALEIGH, N.C. (May 15, 2013) – The music traditions that led to bluegrass have rung out in the North Carolina mountains for hundreds of years. With Raleigh’s selection as host of the International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass in September, music lovers have more reason than ever to experience this living legacy in cities, [...]
Artists are invited to submit their works for the 47th annual Kerr Lake Art Show, which will be open to the public May 20-31. The event, co-sponsored by Vance-Granville Community College and the Kerr Lake Art Society, will be held on the second floor of Building 7 on VGCC’s Main Campus in Vance County, N.C. [...]
Vance-Granville Community College has announced the cast for its special Dinner Theater production of the classic play “Our Town,” which will be presented on the evenings of April 25 and April 26 in the Civic Center on VGCC’s Main Campus in Vance County. The award-winning Thornton Wilder play, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this year [...]
The 2013 Fisher of Men Church Alumni Scholarship Gala will be held Saturday, April 27th, 2013 at the Bullocksville Park Lake house located at 3054 Bullocksville Park Road, Manson, NC. This is a Black Tie Affair event. Doors open 6pm – until… $99.00 per person All proceeds benefit FOMC Alumni Association Scholarship Fund Guest Speaker [...]
The 16th North Carolina Community Colleges Art Exhibition is officially open for public viewing in downtown Raleigh, and it includes four works representing Vance-Granville Community College. Paintings by Laurie Stephens and Jean Quick, both of Oxford, and quilts by Peggy Stocks and May Thurber, both of Manson, were selected to take their place among the [...]
The 16th Full Frame Documentary Film Festival begins Thursday at various locations in downtown Durham and runs through April 7. For the first time, Full Frame is a qualifying event for the Academy Awards for best documentary short and the Producers Guild of America Awards, which means that along with meeting other criteria, films can [...]
The Let’s Talk About It series at the Perry Memorial Library continues with another program at the library on April 4 at 7 p.m. The book for this program is Plainsong and the speaker will be Tess Ocana. This project is made possible in part by funding from the North Carolina Humanities Council, a statewide [...]
The Perry Memorial Library will be alive with stories on April 23 when the library’s annual Storytelling Festival takes place. The Storytelling Festival is made possible through the generous support of the Vance County Arts Council, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the Friends of the Perry Memorial Library. During the day fourth-grade students from [...]
Henderson, NC (March 28, 2013) – 2013’s first of three free “Meet Me in the Street” concerts is scheduled for Friday, April 26. Featured band will be The Konnection Band, a well-known, six member local band, that presents a variety of rock, funk, R&B, beach and country music . The free concert will take place [...]
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