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April 2024
Spring Community Cleanup
Calling all community members! It's almost time for our Spring Community Cleanup! Join us April 13 at 8 am to help beautify Mathews! Meet us at the Mathews County Visitor & Information Center at 239 Main Street to pickup your bags, vests, gloves, grabbers, nets, and snacks! We encourage community organizations and civic groups, as well as individuals, to participate- it's a fulfilling and fun day! If you've adopted a highway, it's the perfect day to clean your stretch of…
Find out more »Reid Harrison Tribute with the Dimeslots
This free show is a celebration of life for Flat Iron Crossroads' cherished friend and volunteer, Reid Harrison. He was instrumental in the early stages of inception with sound and production, booking talented artists, developing the website, and is the voice behind this special slideshow: https://youtu.be/Nscv8MV-phQ
Find out more »Community Musical Event
Join the Westville Christian Church for a community musical event! Talent from across Mathews and the area will perform- a love offering will be taken, and every penny of the money will be used to send special needs children to Craig Springs Camp this summer! The camp is situated in the western part of the state, and is a wonderful opportunity for these kids. Each camper must have an individual qualified counselor and special equipment, and the West Mathews Church's…
Find out more »Historic Garden Week
The Garden Club of Gloucester and Mathews is sponsoring this year's Garden Week tours! Gloucester will have two separate tours this year, each requiring its own ticket: the Saturday tour will feature three homes and the new Fine Arts Museum of Gloucester, and the Sunday tour will feature a multi-acre garden with sculpture throughout. Each tour is an art lover’s delight. Their owners have cultivated beautiful gardens and collected paintings, sculptures, and objets d’art in their travels. Visitors will want…
Find out more »Markets on Main
Join us for an extended market on the third Saturday of each month, April-August! Vendors and artisans, food specials and live music will be on Main Street from 10 am-3 pm!
Find out more »Family Art Festival
Come create with the Bay School! A day of artistic fun in The Bay School Backyard - art activities, live music, food vendors, raku firing, and beer from Gloucester Brewing Company- fun for all ages! Bring your favorite lawn chairs, and be ready to dance and groove to live music on the Bay School's backyard stage while enjoying lunch from Hungry Hungry Arrow. Or take part in the annual Raku Firing Fundraiser while you are there! Proceeds from this event…
Find out more »Party at the Wharf Summer Series
Join the Mathews Land Conservancy at Williams Wharf for the Party at the Wharf Summer Series 2024! Gates open for the events at 5 pm, with live music from 6-9 pm! The event is family-friendly, and kids 12 and under are free. Tickets are $5 (except for the 5/18 event, which is free for all), with a cash bar and food trucks at all events. Bring a lawn chair- cooler not permitted. Bands and Food Truck Listing: April 26 Robbie…
Find out more »Anthony Romano & the Conquerors
Singer, guitarist, songwriter, and bandleader, Anthony Rosano, has always been drawn to grit, gravitas and the connection that comes from making music. Although his music roots are implanted in the firmament of the blues, he takes his cue from any number of archival influences.
Find out more »May 2024
May Faire 2024: A Rural Life
May Faire 2024: A Rural Life, will explore our county’s history—farming fishing and families—from the past to the present, in a County Fair atmosphere! This year’s May Faire children’s corner will be hosted by the local Kiwanis Club and will feature a midway of games with electric basketball, rubber duckies, hatching baby chickens brought to us by CA & J Farm, a petting zoo area, a Hungarian pig and an archaeological dig sponsored by Fairfield Foundation. Inside the Museum there…
Find out more »Bids for Kids Annual Spring Auction Fundraiser
Join the Gloucester Montessori School for a Spring Auction Fundraiser at Hyco House. There will be a cash bar available, a charcuterie table, catered dinner from Olivia's, fresh local oysters and live music!
Find out more »‘The Greatest Show’ Recital
Join the Mathews Dance Studio for their annual recital, "The Greatest Show"- a circus-themed performance that combines the music from Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey’s Circus with “The Greatest Showman”.
Find out more »Colby Helms & the Virginia Creepers
At the bottom of the Southwest Virginia foothills half-a-mile from the nearest neighbor, 21-year-old Colby T. Helms resides in an “underground house” built by his late father on land his family has owned for generations. Colby first dreamed of making music his life at age 12, when a group of Blue Ridge Mountain old-time and bluegrass players performed songs like The Ozark Mountain Daredevils’ “Standing On The Rock” and the gospel classic “A Beautiful Life” at his father’s funeral in…
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