January 25 to January 31, 2010

From a kids winter carnival to an Irish jigging folk duo and a backwards 1k race to an opera singing star… YOUR WEEK IN EVENTS IS WAITING! Get out there and heart your community! If you want to see everything happenin’ in our greater Roanoke Valley and beyond, check out our main calendar of events here or for the best of the best, pick up A Useful Paper today! It’s all FREE, yo!

MONDAY

RSO – Sounds of Life!

Time: 8pm | Place: Roanoke Civic Center, Roanoke, VA | Price: $7-$49 | Link
Dvorak will warm your heart, Mozart will make you chuckle and Gershwin’s jazzy lullaby will have you humming along.

THURSDAY

Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy

Time: 7:30pm | Place: Jefferson Center, 541 Luck Ave, Roanoke, VA
Price: $22-$32 | Link
This duo performs Celtic music combined with lilting vocals and toe-tapping intensity.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY

Kid’s Winter Carnival

Time: 5-9pm Fri, 9am-9pm Sat, 12-7pm Sun
Place: Salem Civic Center, Salem, VA | Price: FREE
Kids got cabin fever? Ride tickets are $1 or 24 for $20, each one requires 3 to 4 tickets.

FRIDAY

Nancy & Two Meteors and CJ Boyd

Time: 7pm | Place: The Water Heater, 813 5th St, Roanoke, VA | Link
Nancy & Two Meteors play the kind of music that makes you wanna dance while CJ Boyd offers equal parts ambient and virtuosic, melancholic and playful.

Robinella

Time: 7:30pm | Place: Kirk Ave Music, 22 Kirk Ave, Roanoke, VA | Price: $10
As an artist and singer/songwriter, Robinella sees repetition in paint, in color, and in song rolling off her lips. Her music intertwines with her life.

The Elderly Brothers

Time: 8pm | Place: Blue 5 Restaurant, 312 2nd Street, Roanoke, VA | Price: FREE
The Elderly Brothers perform a variety of songs that, mostly by pure coincidence, involve trucks, trains, the consumption of alcohol, and the various forms of heartbreak.

SUNDAY

National Backwards Day 1K (Postponed because of Impending Snow!!!)

Time: 1pm | Place: Meet @ Macados, downtown Roanoke, VA | Price: $5 entry fee
A good for you race in the speed of reverse. After-party at 1pm. Race at 2:30pm. Yea, you read it right. It’s backywards, duh! Glorious prizes abound!

Wedding Singer

Time: 2pm | Place: Roanoke Civic Center, Roanoke, VA | Price: $27-$49
The Wedding Singer takes us back to 1985, a time when hair was big, greed was good, collars were up, and a wedding singer just might be the coolest guy in the room.

Opera Roanoke Presents: Kallen Esperian

Time: 2:30pm | Place: Jefferson Center, 541 Luck Ave, Roanoke, VA | Link
Kallen Esperian has partnered star quality like Pavarotti and Domingo from La Scala to the Metropolitan Opera.

Will Kimbrough

Time: 7:30pm | Place: Kirk Ave Music, 22 Kirk Ave, Roanoke, VA
A singer/songwriter raised in the deep south of the Alabama Gulf Coast, Will’s songs and sound reflect equally his lifetime of playing and writing.