| |
|

Saturday Music Series
The Harwell Grice Band
May 10th @ 1pm Heritage Gardens
The Harwell Grice Band
will perform Saturday, May 10, 2008 at Heritage Gardens in Hopewell.
The Harwell Grice Band is a "hard-driving" bluegrass band based in
Southwest Virginia. They take traditional bluegrass and add amazing
songwriting, along with classic two and three part harmonies to
create their own progressive style of music.
The performance will coincide with Heritage Garden’s Annual Plant
Sale, hosted by the Wonder City Garden Club in honor of Mother’s
Day. Heritage Gardens is located at 900 East Broadway and will open
at 8:30 a.m. to accommodate interested buyers.
The show is free and
open to the public.
Visit The Harwell Grice
Band website for more information about the band and
additional tour dates.
For up-to-date event
information visit our
New Harmonies webpage or the
exhibit
blogspot.
The
Appomattox Regional Library is now a stop on the 2008 Virginia
TimeTravelers Passport!
The Hopewell Library has
been added as stop on the 2008 TimeTravelers program "Virginia
Harmonies" as part of the New Harmonies: Celebrating American
Roots Music exhibit. Students who visit the exhibit here (and
other historic sites) can collect a stamp to start them on their way
to receiving a certificate from Governor Kaine, a TimeTravelers
patch, and a t-shirt! Start up materials, information, and stamps
are available from the checkout desk at the Hopewell Library.
Visit the
TimeTravelers website
for more information.
|
 |
New
Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music A Smithsonian
Institution Exhibit |
|

|
|
New Harmonies:
Celebrating American Roots Music is currently on display at
the Hopewell Library until May 24, 2008. New Harmonies
explores the distinct cultural identities of American roots music,
from blues to bluegrass, with recordings, photographs, instruments,
lyrics, and artist profiles.
Also on display are two
local exhibits, Old Friends: Music of the Southside from
1900-1930 and Transmission: Songs from Then to Now.
Old Friends presents four local music stories and their relation
to the roots music styles of Hawaiian, western swing, jubilee
gospel, and slave spirituals. Transmission tracks the lyrics
and arrangements of today’s popular songs to their foundations in
early roots music genres.
New Harmonies is part of Museum on Main Street, a
collaboration between the Smithsonian
Institution and the Virginia Association of Museums. Support for
Museum on Main Street has been provided by the United States
Congress. For additional information on New Harmonies or Museum on
Main Street, visit
www.museumonmainstreet.org.
The Appomattox Regional Libraries has partnered with the Historic
Hopewell Foundation and the Beacon Theatre for New Harmonies,
along with local historic sites. In addition to the exhibit, the
Library is hosting a weekly Saturday Music Series featuring a
wide range of musical acts, and a Thursday Lecture Series
presenting lectures on aspects of roots music. Support for these
events has been provided by the City of Hopewell.
|
 |
Youth
Programs |
|

|
|
Story Times
Rhythm and Roots
Mondays - Hopewell Library @ 10:00 & 11:00 am
Tuesdays - Dinwiddie Library @ 10:30 am
Thursdays - Hopewell Library @
10:00 & 11:00 am
Fridays - Carson Depot Library @ 10:30 am
2nd & 4th Wednesday of Every Month - Disputanta Library @ 10:00 am
May 14th
May 28th
Bedtime Story Times (For all ages)
Feeling Foolish
McKenney Library - Tuesday, May 6th @ 6:00 pm
Rohoic Library - Tuesday, May 22nd @ 6:00 pm
Teen Programs
Teen Council Meeting
Saturday, May 17 @ 4:30 pm
Hopewell Library
|
|
 |
|
Appomattox Regional
Library System
Headquarters
209 East Cawson Street
Hopewell, Virginia 23860
(804) 458-6329
(804) 861-0322
|
|
|
Happenings!
ARLS Board Meeting
The ARLS Board of Trustees will meet on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at the
Burrowsville Library.
This meeting will begin at 6:00 pm.
All
meetings are open to the public.
April 2008 Board Report (pdf) |
|
|
|