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Roadside Theater
Performance & Residency Schedule
February - December, 2005
Specific performance times will
be added as they become available.
FEBRUARY 16, 1:00PM
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE
WISE , VA
Roadside Theater and community musicians and singers perform music
from Betsy, an original musical play with 23 Old Time Mountain
and Jazz compositions
MARCH 1, 6:30PM
INDIAN BOTTOM CHURCH
BLACKEY, KY
Appalachian spiritual singing in the Old Regular Baptist
tradition
MARCH 6
MT. EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE BIG STONE GAP, VA
Music concert featuring Roadside's Ron Short and others, in celebration
of Jeanette Carter's (of the Carter Family Fold) birthday
MARCH 15-19
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY TISCH SCHOLARS/APPALSHOP EXCHANGE
WHITESBURG, KY
A five-day exchange between Roadside/Appalshop artists and Tisch
School of the Arts students and faculty
MARCH 17
ST. MARY'S CONVENT
NORTON , VA
Ron Short performs Music from Home for a St. Patrick's
Day celebration (by invitation only)
MARCH 31-APRIL
1
POCAHONTUS COUNTY OPERA HOUSE
MARLINTON, WV
Music from Home, 21 original songs and a plainspoken narrative
about life, love, and home
APRIL
14, 7:30PM
HONAKER REDBUD FESTIVAL
HONAKER HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
HONAKER, VA
BIG SANDY SUITE, Ron Short performs an original Appalachian
play with music accompanied by guitar, fiddle, and banjo
APRIL 22-23, 8:00PM,
APRIL 24, 2:00PM, APRIL 29-30, 8:00PM, MAY 1, 2:00PM AT THE UNIVERSITY
OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE
WISE, VA
Miners and Millhands, a new, original musical play by Ron
Short, produced in collaboration with UVA-Wise and community artists;
part of the Continental Harmonies Project
MAY
6, 7:00pm
MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, BIG STONE GAP, VA
Music from Home, 21 original songs and a plainspoken narrative
about life, love, and home (an event to honor Janette Carter of
the Carter Family Fold)
MAY 24, 7:30PM
APPALACHIAN ARTS CENTER
BIG STONE GAP, VA
Music from Home, 21 original songs and a plainspoken narrative
about life, love, and home
JUNE 1, 7:00pm
Indian Bottom Church
Blackey , KY
Appalachian spiritual singing in the Old Regular Baptist tradition,
a part of Appalshop's Annual Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival
JUNE 2-4
APPALSHOP'S ANNUAL SEEDTIME ON THE CUMBERLAND
WHITESBURG, KY
A three-day festival of traditional and contemporary Appalachian
music, storytelling, and workshops; see Appalshop's website for
more information (www.appalshop.org)
JUNE 13
MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY
UPWARD BOUND, MOREHEAD, KY Mountain Tales & Music,
An energetic performance of traditional tales and songs of the Appalachian
Mountains
JUNE 18
WILLIAMSBURG, KY
Singing on the Mountain, an Appalachian traditional
music workshop
JUNE 20, 8:00pm
BARTER THEATRE
ABINGDON, VA
Mountain Tales & Music,a part of the International
Rural Network Conference, sponsored by the Rural Policy Research Institute
in Washington, D.C.
JUNE 20-26
COWAN FOLK SCHOOL
COWAN, KY
Roadside's Ron Short teaches singing at this week of workshops
in traditional Appalachian art
JULY 31
FLOYD FEST 2005
FLOYD, VA
Roadside's Ron Short performs in concert
AUGUST 1-5
MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOLK SCHOOL
BIG STONE GAP, VA
Roadside's Ron Short teaches singing at this week of workshops in
traditional Appalachian art
AUGUST 6
CARTER FAMILY FOLD
HILTONS, VA
Roadside's Ron Short performs in concert at the Carter Family Fold's
annual festival
AUGUST
7, 1:00pm
NEW BEGINNINGS CONCERT
NATURAL TUNNEL STATE PARK, DUFFIELD, VA
Music from Home, 21 original songs and a plainspoken narrative
about life, love, and home
AUGUST
12, 10:00am
JONESVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL JONESVILLE, VA
Teacher inservice theater workshop
AUGUST
27
ZOE SPEAKS CLEAR CREEK MUSIC FESTIVAL
BEREA, KY
Singing on the Mountain, traditional and original Appalachian
music; see website
SEPTEMBER 10, 12:00 noon
DOC BOGGS FESTIVAL
COUNTRY CABIN, JOSEPHINE, VA
Music from Home, 21 original songs and a plainspoken narrative
about life, love, and home
SEPTEMBER 22, 7:00pm
UNIVERSITY OF VA-WISE
WISE, VA
Music from Home, 21 original songs and a plainspoken narrative
about life, love, and home
OCTOBER
1, afternoon
WISE FALL FLING
WISE, VA
Music from Home, original songs and a plainspoken narrative
about life, love, and home
OCTOBER
5, 1:00pm
MT. EMPIRE OLDER CITIZENS
BIG STONE GAP, VA
Music from Home, 21 original songs and a plainspoken narrative
about life, love, and home
OCTOBER 7
BREAKS INTERSTATE PARK
BREAKS, KY/VA
Music from Home, 21 original songs and a plainspoken narrative
about life, love, and home
OCTOBER
8, 11:30am
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA-WISE
WISE, VA
A concert of excerpts from Miners and Millhands
OCTOBER
8, 4:00pm
RALPH STANLEY MUSEUM
CLINTWOOD, VA
Ron Short and Scott Mullins in concert
OCTOBER 14 & 15
HOME CRAFTS DAYS
MT. EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE BIG STONE GAP, VA
Music from Home, 21 original songs and a plainspoken narrative
about life, love, and home
OCTOBER 20, 3:00-6:00pm
LONESOME PINE OFFICE ON YOUTH PICNIC AT BULLITT PARK
BIG STONE GAP, VA
Roadside's Ron Short and the Ridgewood Boys perform at the Office
on Youth's Anniversary Picnic
OCTOBER 22, 7:30pm
CARTER FAMILY FOLD
HILTONS , VA
Roadside's Ron Short performs in concert
OCTOBER 29, 6:00pm
WILDERNESS ROAD PARK
LEE COUNTY, VA
Roadside's Ron Short performs in concert with the
Empire String Band for the Southwest Virginia Land
Trust Barbeque
NOVEMBER 5
MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
BIG STONE GAP, VA
Ron Short performs with the Empire String Band at a fundraiser for
WMMT-FM
NOVEMBER 10, 7:30pm
JETTIE BAKER CENTER
CLINTWOOD , VA
Music from Home, for the Mountain Empire Community College
Scholarship Fund (Reception at 6:00pm)
NOVEMBER 11, 1:00pm
MOUNTAIN EMPIRE OLDER CITIZENS
BIG STONE GAP, VA
Music from Home, 21 original songs and a plainspoken narrative
about life, love, and home
NOVEMBER 25 & 26
COWAN CREEK COMMUNITY CENTER
COWAN, KY
Singing workshop and concert
DECEMBER 2, 7:00pm
INDIAN BOTTOM CHURCH
BLACKEY, KY
Christmas in Appalachia, an original holiday performance
in collaboration with the community
DECEMBER
13
HONAKER LION'S CLUB
HONAKER, VA
Christmas in Appalachia, an original holiday performance
DECEMBER
9, 7:00pm
COWAN CREEK COMMUNITY CENTER
COWAN, KY
Christmas in Appalachia, an original holiday performance
in collaboration with the community
DECEMBER
16, 7:00pm
APPALSHOP CENTER
WHITESBURG, KY
Christmas in Appalachia, an original holiday performance
in collaboration with the community
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Ron Short and
Hal Cannon perform a traditional mountain tale at the National Museum
of the American Indian in New York. (Photo by: Enid Farber)
On
The Road With Roadside Director, Dudley Cocke
APRIL
8-13,
2005
SAN DIEGO, CA
Co-host, Grantmakers in the Arts Party, featuring live music from
Luis & Kinan Valdez's new musical, Corridos REMIX;
part of the Council on Foundations Annual Conference
MAY
2
NEW YORK, NY
Celebrant, Book Party for Jan Cohen-Cruz's Local Arts:
Community-based Performance in the United States (Rutgers University
Press) at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts
MAY 17-18
ANN ARBOR, MI
Panelist, "The Future of Diversity in the Arts," Futuring
Diversity Conference, launching the national Center for Institutional
Diversity at the University of Michigan
JUNE
21-26
BLUE LAKE, CA
Moderator, "Books on Ensembles" with Linda Burnham, Jan
Cohen-Cruz, and Ferdinand Lewis, National Ensemble Theaters Festival
at Dell'Arte
SEPTEMBER
16, 6:00-8:30pm
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
THE PUCK BLDG., 295 LAFAYETTE
Panel: "Leadership, Performance, & Social Change: The Art
of Acting in the World" with Dudley Cocke, Jawole Willa Jo
Zollar (Urban Bush Women), and Mark Valdez (Cornerstone Theater)
Check
out where we've been:
see Roadside's 2003-2004 Performance
and Residency Schedule
see
Roadside's 2002-2003 Performance and Residency Schedule
see
Roadside's 2001-2002 Performance and Residency Schedule
View
a map of Roadside Theater's performance, residency, and exchange
sites
see
Dudley Cocke's 2004 schedule
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out about booking a Roadside Theater performance or residency
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