There is no better way to beat the heat than with ice cold watermelon! Now in its 27th year, the Carytown Watermelon festival attracts over 100,000 folks to the “Mile of Style” as the Carytown shopping and dining district of Richmond is known to residents and visitors alike. (more…)
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Richmond’s Carytown Watermelon Festival August 8
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010Richmond Ballet Previews NYC Performances
Monday, March 22nd, 2010Less than a mile east of our Richmond lodging in its top floor studio, The Richmond Ballet will give locals the opportunity to enjoy the two three-ballet programs the company will perform at the Joyce Theater in New York City April 6th through the 11th. The preview runs at 407 East Canal Street, Richmond, Virginia beginning March 23 and extends to March 28th. Tickets are only $40. Here’s what Zachary Reid, a Richmond Times-Dispatch staff writer, wrote in Sunday’s newspaper.
One mile west of our Fan District bed and breakfast, at the Byrd Theatre, 2908 West Cary Street, the French Film Festival opens Thursday March 25 and continues through Sunday March 28. This popular event offers French films presented by their actors and directors at various times. The films will be shown with English subtitles and click on the link for the schedule for the festival. Ticket prices are $12 per feature; but a festival pass is only $65 – $115. Top off a French excursion with dinner or lunch at Richmond’s own French brasserie, Can Can, also in Carytown. Reservations are a must during this francophile attracting event.
Upcoming concerts at the National present Amos Lee (Tuesday), Spoon (Wednesday), Pat McGee Band (Friday), The National Country Showcase (Saturday March 27), Wilco (Monday, March 29), Pretty Lights (Thursday April 1), Tea Leaf Green (Friday April 9), SOJA (Saturday April 10), and Third Eye Blind (Sunday April 11). The National is located in downtown Richmond at Broad and 7th. The schedule at the Hat Factory, just off Canalwalk, includes Sister Hazel (Tuesday), EOTO (Saturday March 27), and Uncle Kracker with Rehab (April 6th). Leon Russell will appear on April 17th.
The Carpenter Theatre at CenterStage has scheduled Lisa Lampanelli, comedy’s Queen of Mean, for Saturday March 27th.
The Virginia Opera has announced its plans for the 2010-11 season. Performances will include Verdi’s “Rigoletto,” Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte,” Wagner’s “The Valkyrie,” and Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly.” Subscriptions at this season’s prices are now on sale. Click here for more details. Generally, each opera is offered on Friday evening and then again at a Sunday matinee; both performances will take place in the Carpenter Theater at Richmond’s CcnterStage.
Coming into Richmond for a performance? Pick your room from one of ours at our Richmond inn and stay in the middle of it all!
Watermelon
Thursday, August 6th, 2009Carytown is just a mile away from the William Miller House, Richmond’s finest Bed and Breakfast, and the big event this Sunday, August 9th, is The Carytown Watermelon Festival. From one end of Carytown’s Mile of Style to the other, about 10 blocks from the Boulevard west almost to the Powhite Parkway, Cary Street will be blocked off and pedestrian only. Tents will be set up, vendors will be selling watermelon, about 2,500 watermelons will be consumed! Proceeds from the watermelon sales (from Jeff and Angie Sears’ Hanover Plant and Vegetable Farm) will benefit the Shriner’s Children’s Hospital.
Stores will dress their window displays in cheery watermelon decor. There will also be arts and crafts vendors and many homemade items, bands (80 of them are scheduled on nine stages), 100 exhibitors will set up on the sidewalk and many of the regular merchants will be offering special sales and incentives. The parking lot at the Cary Court Shopping Center will feature family and children oriented activities like rides, slides, and other fun things.
All in all, it promises to be a great street festival!
