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Spring 2026 Mainstage:
3pm Saturday, April 11, 2026
First Christian Church Fellowship Hall (3109 Rivermont Ave., Lynchburg 24503) Storyteller Sheila Arnold portrays an enslaved nursemaid who tells her favorite folk tales to the daughters of Thomas and Martha Jefferson at Monticello in the late 18th Century. Jefferson’s daughters wrote these stories down and they have been revived by Sheila Arnold, who tells them much as they would have been heard back then. Fiddler David McCormick of Early Music Access Project in Charlottesville plays folk tunes that his research leads him to believe were played by Hemings and Scott family musicians. These fiddlers were relatives of Sally Hemings who were black, indigenous and European musicians and popular for their playing at early 18th-Century dances, parties and dinners in Monticello and Charlottesville. Together Sheila Arnold and David McCormick bring the stories and music to life from enslaved and free storytellers and folk musicians at Monticello. |
April 2026 JAVA & JAZZ 
6-8 pm
Saturday, April 25, 2026 Second Stage | Amherst 194 2nd Street, Amherst, VA 24521 Ed Mikenas, composer, console steel guitar Andy Aeschbacher, bass Worth Proffitt, drums and percussion In addition to Western Swing and Early Jazz, Ed will showcase a couple of autobiographical tunes from circa 1972 that have relative meaning for today. Come on out, tap your toes, and listen and remember. |
EVENTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. (AGAR) | 156 Patrick Henry Highway, Amherst, VA 24521
US Mail: PO Box 117, Clifford, VA 24533 | (434) 989-3215
Email: [email protected] | Facebook: AmherstGlebeArtsResponse
US Mail: PO Box 117, Clifford, VA 24533 | (434) 989-3215
Email: [email protected] | Facebook: AmherstGlebeArtsResponse
