The following events are planned this weekend:
Front Porch Fridays
The Fringe Benefits Band will perform at the Front Porch Friday concert from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at Strasburg Square. Nonprofit organizations will be selling brews and snacks. Information: www.facebook.com/DiscoverStrasburg/.
Yard party/show
Cedar Creek Valley Ruritan Club will host a yard party and antique car and tractor show from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at 2011 Star Tannery Road, Star Tannery. Entertainment by The Robbie Limon Band. Information: 540-607-0140
Artfest, Vintage Woodstock
Woodstock will host the Shenandoah Valley Artfest and Vintage Woodstock Festival on Saturday on Court Square.
The Artfest will be held from 2 to 8 p.m. Bill Vaughan and Friends will perform from 2 to 4 p.m.
The Vintage Woodstock Festival will be held from 6 to 10 p.m. with dancing in the streets, games, food, wine and beer. Support your fire department by dunking town leaders, police officers and more, $2 for three tries. Music entertainment provided by E3.
Information: 540-459-3621.
Winchester Little Theatre
The Winchester Little Theatre will present the following performances:
• Video-on-demand of “Saints & Martyrs” through Saturday. Tickets are $5.
• Winchester Little Theatre for Kids will present two one-act plays “Oh Chad” and “Something Bad Is Happening” on Sunday for OnDemand video. Tickets are $5, plus fees.
Information: 540-662-3331 or Valerie O’Keefe at 540-336-2357 or www.winchesterlittletheatre.org.
Fishing rodeo
Wilkins Lake in Jim Barnett Park in Winchester will host a family day fishing rodeo from 7 to 10 a.m. Saturday for ages 4 and older. There will be a special stocking of the lake and there will be prizes for several divisions.
The cost is $5 per person. Register by 1 p.m. today at https://tinyurl.com/e35v7tdm or on Saturday at the lake. Information: 540-662-4946.
Trails marker unveiled
Winchester will unveil a new interpretive African American Civil War Trails marker at noon Saturday on the north side of City Hall on the grounds near the cannon, 15 N. Cameron St.
Speakers include Winchester City Manager Dan Hoffman, Mayor John David Smith Jr., Don Booker and Winchester NAACP chapter President Mike Faison.
Benefit fundraiser
A benefit fundraiser will be held for Mason Ryder from 3 to 8 p.m. on Saturday at 1481 Hazard Mill Road, Bentonville.
Money raised will help the Front Royal 8-year-old boy with the cost of a liver transplant.
There will be live music, cornhole tournament, basket raffles, silent auction, coin drive and 50/50 ticket raffle. Food will be sold.
Benefit concert
A concert to benefit local musician James Vaughan, who recently suffered a stroke, will be held at 1 p.m. on Sunday at the Virginia Beer Museum, 16 Chester St., Front Royal.
Performances by Robbie Limon, The Other Band, River Driven Band, Bev Williams, Phil Zuckerman, Donnie Walton, Opposite Shores, Amanda Wilkins and Sam Stilwell, Donnie Poe’s Outlaw Country, John Landes, Hank Gorecki, Bill Lucas and AfterShock.
Fish fry float
Discover Strasburg and the Strasburg Police Department will host its annual fish fry float from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Strasburg Town Park, 295 Park Road.
The event will include a free kayak float for ages 12 and older. Registration can be made at https://tinyurl.com/t62attvu. There will also be a free tube float for ages 3 and older, bouncy house/water slide, kid’s fishing games, fast pitch radar game, cornhole tournament, fly fishing demonstration, tug-o-war, live wildlife presentation and watermelon eating contest.
Information: Olivia Hilton by calling 540-465-9197 or email ohilton@strasburgva.com.
Sky Meadows State Park
Sky Meadows State Park in Delaplane will host Beekeepers of Northern Shenandoah Valley featuring a program examining all aspects of beekeeping from 1 to 3 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is free although parking ranges from $3 to $5. Information: 540-592-3556 or www.dcr.virginia.gov/state-parks.
Belle Grove
This summer, Belle Grove is participating in the Blue Star Museum program, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, and the Department of Defense. The program provides free admission to currently serving U.S. military personnel and their families through Sept. 6.
Belle Grove is partnering with the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley to honor U.S. Navy master diver Carl Brashear in a free online program at 7 p.m. on Tuesday. The guest speaker will be Chief Warrant Officer 5 Phillip Brashear, who will discuss his father’s journey to become the first African American to graduate from the Diving & Salvage School and to become a master diver. The major motion picture “Men of Honor” was based on Carl Brashear’s life. Registration: https://tinyurl.com/b28dzjbz.
Shenandoah Conservatory
Shenandoah Conservatory’s Symphony Orchestra will perform virtually the works of Aron Copland through July 1. Tickets range from $8 to $20. Information, tickets: 540-665-4569, www.conservatoryperforms.org.
Rockwell exhibit
An exhibit featuring dozens of original works and hundreds of vintage Saturday Evening Post covers by Norman Rockwell will be on display through Aug. 8 at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, 901 Amherst St., Winchester.
Admission is free on Wednesdays. Admission other days is $15 for adults, $10 for seniors and youth ages 13 to 18 and free for children 12 and younger.
Information: 540-662-1473 or www.themsv.org.
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