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.
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Humanities Program: 
Spring 2026 Java & Jazz
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March 2026
​JAVA & JAZZ
​6-8 pm 
Saturday, March 28, 2026

Second Stage | Amherst
194 2nd Street,
​Amherst, VA 24521

Joseph Henson, saxophone
Jon Werking, piano
Jon Brye, bass
Jay Ware, drums  

Playing some jazz standards and some Henson originals. 

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