January 14, 2025

Three Notch’d Road: The Virginia Baroque Ensemble is a nonprofit based in Charlottesville that seeks to enrich the culture of Central Virginia through historically informed performances that reveal the beauty of early music.

They are presenting the third program of their fourteenth season in Staunton, Crozet, and Charlottesville public concerts on Friday, February 14th; Saturday, February 15th; and Sunday, February 16th. This Valentine’s program, entitled “If Music Be the Food of Love,” will celebrate love in its many forms through a blending of Italian pastoral drama with songs from the British Isles. This program will feature soprano Sheila Dietrich and historical clarinetist Dominic Giardino and include vocal and instrumental chamber music by Vivaldi and Handel and the songs of Henry Purcell. 

The weekend of January 24th-26th, they’re presenting ‘Grace and Glorie,’ a sentimental comedy by Virginia playwright Tom Ziegler at Victory Hall Theater in Scottsville.

Featuring a cantankerous elderly woman from rural Virginia and her sophisticated hospice worker from NYC, this play tells the story of the ultimate odd couple facing life and death together. 

Proceeds support theater performances, programs, arts and nature classes as well as general operations.

As part of its 25th Anniversary celebration, Blue Ridge Irish Music School (BRIMS) in Charlottesville is presenting the exhibit TRAD: Portraits of Irish & Scottish Traditional Musicians by photographer Chris Bickford at Piedmont Virginia Community College.

The opening will take place on Friday, January 31st, from 5:00-7:00 p.m. in the Dickinson Theater at PVCC and will feature a live Irish music performance.

The exhibit runs through March 29th.