Hear Together: Valley Open Doors Coldest Night of the Year
Valley Open Doors is a nonprofit in Harrisonburg on a mission to provide safe shelter for the unhoused, as well as compassionate support and access to services for all in our community.
As they continue to respond to homelessness and other hardships in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County, they are changing the tune for those they serve. Valley Open Doors is hosting their first ever Coldest Night of the Year; a winterrific family-friendly walk at the Rockingham County Fairgrounds on Saturday, February 22nd.
You can participate individually, on a team, or support a walker. They invite you to gather for good… because it’s cold out there.
Hear Together: Court Square Theater Spring Performances
Court Square Theater, a program of Arts Council of the Valley in Harrisonburg, is a nonprofit theater hosting concerts featuring singer-songwriters, bluegrass musicians, pop tributes, and more throughout the Spring.
They invite you to join them for performances with artists like Kody Norris, Irene Kelley, and Robbie Limon.
Hear Together: Innerwork Center’s The Bench
Innerwork Center is a nonprofit organization located in Richmond’s Museum District. Throughout 2025, they invite you to join them for The Bench, a monthly community sit happening the last Saturday of every month from 4 to 5 PM at their Gathering Space.
The Bench is open to the public—and is a safe and welcoming space, free of dogma or division, where they aim to hold the fullness of life—the questions, the edges, and the mysteries—with compassion and presence. Sitting together in silence, they aim to create a sacred community where healing can take root, where they can listen deeply and recognize our shared connection.
Whether you stay for a few moments or the full hour, The Bench offers a practice of being with life, as it is, in a space of quiet connection and community.
John Morrison on D’Angelo’s ‘Voodoo’ on World Cafe
D’Angelo helped usher in the neo-soul movement, updating the sounds of 70s R&B for the hip-hop generation, with his debut in 1995. Five years later, he put out Voodoo – an album that musicians like Janelle Monáe and Frank Ocean still draw on today. On the next World Cafe, correspondent John Morrison talks about D’Angelo’s lasting influence as Voodoo turns twenty-five years old.
Encore: The Weather Station on World Cafe
The Weather Station is the musical moniker of Canadian artist Tamara Lindeman. On the next World Cafe, you’ll hear a beautiful performance from The Weather Station and Tamara tells stories about how a toy keyboard, birds and a massive report on climate change inspired her 2021 album, Ignorance. Her new album, Humanhood, comes out at the end of this week.
Hear Together: Three Notch’d Road: The Virginia Baroque Ensemble Valentine’s Program
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.
