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The Hampton Jazz Festival is a major musical event started in 1968, and features many of the world's major jazz artists. It is held during the last full weekend in June each year, with the primary venue being Hampton, Virginia's Hampton Coliseum. Festival organizers describe it as "the best available jazz, R&B and blues artists that are on tour ...
Virginia Stage Company's seasons run from September to April and include six productions, five main season plays and one season extra. The company's repertoire includes Broadway hits such as The Wiz, Venus in Fur, A Streetcar Named Desire and Peter and the Starcatcher, locally written and produced plays such as I Sing the Rising Sea and The Hampton Years, [4] and classics such as The Tempest ...
The Virginia Arts Festival, founded in 1997, ... Hampton Roads Times is an online magazine for Norfolk and the Hampton Roads area. [citation needed]
Festival name Location Food July Pork, Peanut, and Pine Festival Surry County: Pork, peanuts May Pungo Strawberry Festival Virginia Beach: Strawberries May Taste of Arlington: Arlington: General restaurant cuisine September Charlottesville Vegan Roots Fest [1] Charlottesville: Vegan cuisine
The term "Hampton Roads" is a centuries-old designation that originated when the region was a struggling English outpost nearly four hundred years ago.. The word "Hampton" honors one of the founders of the Virginia Company of London and a great supporter of the colonization of Virginia, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton.
The Virginia Peninsula is highlighted in orange Virginia Peninsula This 1996 satellite photo shows Hampton Roads, with the lower (southeastern) end of Virginia Peninsula filling most of the top half of the image. The Virginia Peninsula is located in southeast Virginia, bounded by the York River, James River, Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay.
Many counties and localities host county fairs and festivals. The State Fair of Virginia was held at the Richmond International Raceway every September until the 2008. The fair is now held at the Meadow Event Park in Doswell, Virginia. The September Neptune Festival in Virginia Beach celebrates the city, the waterfront, and regional artists.
Hampton Roads Naval Museum-U.S. Navy Museum in Hampton Roads, VA and holder of many Jamestown Exposition artifacts and papers Archived 2015-07-17 at the Wayback Machine; Mark Twain and Henry Huttleston Rogers in Virginia, Twain Quotes "When the World came to Town", Naval Station Norfolk; Jamestown Rediscovery; Sewell's Point 1923 Annexation ...