Community Calendar

Visit the Turner Pavilion every third Thursday from 5 to 8pm June through August to enjoy live music, local artisans and farmers, food trucks and vendors, and hands-on activities with community organizations. Check our Facebook and Instagram for info about activities and vendors!

Join Kate Tamarkin, therapeutic musician at Hospice of the Piedmont and Professor Emeritus and Music Director Laureate of the Charlottesville Symphony, for an introduction to the emerging field of “Music as Care.” She will explore the history, philosophy, and foundational principles of using live music to support healing and well-being in hospice and clinical settings.

Kate will demonstrate these principles through a live. Celtic harp performance, illustrating how music is adapted in real time to meet individual needs. The session will conclude with a guided musical meditation for the audience, offering a direct experience of music’s restorative and reflective power.

Oak Grove Theater's 2026 summer session continues with the Agatha Christie classic "A Murder Is Announced": A seemingly innocent newspaper notice announces a murder that hasn’t yet occurred. Curiosity draws the villagers of Chipping Cleghorn to the appointed place and time. When the lights go out and a gunshot rings out; the game turns deadly. Miss Marple quietly observes as secrets, disguises, and motives unravel. Agatha Christie delivers a clever, classic puzzle where nothing is quite as it seems.

Join us for live theater outdoors under the stars at beautiful Oak Grove Theater; performances begin at 8:45pm sharp, but attendees are welcome to come early and encouraged to bring a picnic and enjoy the grounds. Oak Grove Theater sells tickets for the season - one season ticket purchase allows you to see each show once; tickets for a single performance are not available. Learn more and purchase your tickets here

Summer Teen Show at Live Arts: BE MORE CHILL

Live Arts can keep you cool in the summer heat. Come and see Live Arts’ summer teen musical BE MORE CHILL. Music and lyrics by Joe Iconis, book by Joe Tracz, based on the 2004 novel by Ned Vizzini. Directed by Daniel Kunkel. This fan-favorite sci-fi musical is a rocking new story about high school, technology, and what we're willing to do to get what we want. Visit livearts.org for tickets.

Support local children while enjoying dinner at Chipotle!

Join Connections Early Learning Center for a Chipotle Fundraiser on **Saturday, July 11, from 4:00–8:00 PM** at **1615 Reservoir St., Suite 101, Harrisonburg**. During the event, **25% of qualifying sales** will be donated to Connections Early Learning Center to help support programs and resources for local children and families.

To participate, show the fundraiser flyer when ordering in the restaurant or place a pickup order online using fundraiser code **HA8Z7GX**. (Delivery orders and gift cards do not qualify.)

Bring your family, invite your friends, and enjoy a delicious meal while giving back to your community!

Pat Turner Ritchie will speak on Fort Hogg, the only known military fort in the Plains District that predates the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

The Shenandoah Valley Art Center’s featured exhibit at the 416 Gallery is “Vivid Reflections” by Joey Truxell. Viewers are invited into a world where bold color, surreal imagery, and storytelling collide. His vividly rendered characters inhabit symbolic spaces that explore the tension between innocence and awareness. As the artist states, “This isn’t just art you look at – it’s art that looks back.” Based in Waynesboro, Virginia, Truxell draws on over five decades of experience across illustration, design, and muralism. His use of light and color reveals what he calls “the light within,” creating work that is both playful and thought-provoking - inviting viewers to engage and see differently. An Opening Reception will be held May 2, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. where you are invited to meet and talk to the artist. The exhibition will be open to the public May 2 – June 20, Tuesday – Thursday, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., 416 W. Main St. Waynesboro, VA 22980.

Virginia author Robert B. Mitchell will talk about his book "The Partisans: James G. Blaine, Roscoe Conkling, and the Politics of Rivalry and Revenge in the Gilded Age" July 16 at Parentheses Books in Harrisonburg, Va.

Blaine and Conkling ranked as two of the most prominent Republican politicians of the Gilded Age. Their feud began in 1866 after Blaine mocked Conkling’s “super-eminent overpowering turkey-gobbler strut” on the House floor. Conkling never forgave the insult.

The two fought on Capitol Hill, at political conventions, and in the struggle for power in the administration of President James A. Garfield featured in the Netflix series “Death by Lightning.” Conkling’s refusal to endorse Blaine during the 1884 presidential campaign contributed to his rival’s defeat.

Mitchell is a Virginia resident and retired Washington Post news service editor. He is the author of books about the Credit Mobilier scandal and 19th-century populist James B. Weaver.

The Sperryville Summer Concert Series is back and runs over five months, May through September. This year’s lineup includes returning and new top local bands appearing on the Sperryville stage in the River District, at 6PM every third Thursday, with rain dates every fourth Thursday, each month.

July 16: A local favorite with an irreverent twist, District Dad Band gets the crowd dancing to everything from bluegrass to classic rock to pop hits. They promise fun for the whole family — and the occasional surprise cover you didn’t know you needed.

The concerts are located near the beautiful confluence of the north and south branches of the Thornton River, at the end of River Lane (accessed from Water Street) next to Copper Fox Antiques and Copper Fox Distillery. For those using GPS, the address is 7 River Lane, Sperryville, VA 22740. Check out the rest of the concerts here!

3rd Annual Red Kettle Ride to support the local program and services of The Salvation Army of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County. Registration is at 8:30 am, KSU at 9:30. $25 per rider and $5 per passenger.