Mark your calendars for Sunday, September 10, 2017 from 5:00 – 9:00 PM and come enjoy a wonderful evening of great food, beverages, and entertainment at Bower Center for the Arts. The 4th Annual Bedford’s Finest Fare will celebrate Bedford’s vibrant food, beverages, music, and art! Local chefs will offer a sampling of mouth-watering gourmet appetizers,...
Tom Bachtell Reception June 4th 2 – 4 PM Meet Tom, illustrator for the New Yorker magazine, and view his amazing illustrations in the Terrace Gallery! Gallery talk starts @ 2:30. This event is catered and a cash bar will be available!
Mark your calendar and bring your lawn chairs for Bower Center for the Arts 8th Annual Crawfish Festival! Hundreds of pounds of freshwater crawfish are brought to Bedford live and boiled on the spot. Etoufee, red beans & rice, chicken gumbo, corn on the cob, and potatoes are included in the spring feast. Dr. John Bower...
Lenny Marcus hails from Wash, DC, but he worked for many years in New Orleans, studying and performing with legends such as Ray Bryant, Ellis Marsalis, Alvin Batiste, and recording with David “Fathead” Newman, Charlie Byrd, Frank Foster, Sonny Fortune, Brian Lynch, Jane Powell and others. His band is a well-schooled jazz group. Lenny has...
Join us for a wonderful evening at the Bower Center for the Arts for art, delicious food and drink, live and silent auctions, and much more ~ all benefiting Big Otter Mill! Art Show: May 2-5, 2017 Gala & Silent Auction: May 5th @ 5:00pm with Live Auction by Joe Pillow @ 6:30pm Tickets: $25...
Singer and composer Elena Mullins will perform in a baroque concert. She will be accompanied by David McCormick on violin and Anthony Harvey on lute and theorbo. All three are well-known to AGAR audiences for their performances with Three Notch’d Road and Alkemie. Tickets can be purchased in advance at lynchburgtickets.com or Bower Center for...
Baskind and his trio with perform rock/jazz/blues/beach, country/bluegrass with local artist Keith Campbell in this cabaret style concert. Marc was raised in the heart of the Mississippi Delta (Greenville) and influenced by jazz, blues, and classics. He started ukulele at 7, guitar at 11, and majored in Tuba, leaving him in love with almost every...
Out of Bounds A Two-woman Show Exploration. Existential. Experimental. by Suzanne Paddock Out of their normal bounds regarding themes, subject matter, technique and materials, this collection of watercolors by Perri Mason and oils by Suzanne V Paddock, represents experimentation to encourage individual artistic growth. It explores personally unfamiliar, uncomfortable, unknown territory and reflects the struggles...
Come to the Bower Center on January 14th at 7:30 pm to be entertained by the JoyBells and Perkins & Envision, two amazing gospel groups. Tickets can be purchased in advance at lynchburgtickets.com or Bower Center for $10 or at the door the evening of the performance for $12. For more information you may phone...
Destination Bedford offers big, bold and unforgettable experiences. You’ll see stunning beauty in the Blue Ridge Mountains and hear stories of bravery that will take your breath away at the National D-Day Memorial.
