LSO events offers a little time travel

From staff reports
Published: November 4, 2008

The Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra is going retro for two upcoming events.
The Friends of the Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra will host the Family Sock Hop from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday at the Moose Lodge on Lakeside Drive.
The evening will include music from the 1950s and ’60s, dance demonstrations from members of local shag clubs, a contest for the best ’50s-style dress, and free soft drinks, hot dogs, pizza, cotton candy and popcorn.
Tickets are $50 for the first two family members and $10 for each additional ticket. They can be purchased at Aylors Farm and Garden, the Macon Bookshop, The Summit, Arthur’s Jewelry in Wyndhurst, Givens Books, Hardwick’s Gifts and the Lynchburg Visitors Center, or online at http://www.lynchburgtickets.com.
Special discounts for school or scout groups, sports teams, clubs and other groups are available by calling (434) 384-2947 or (434) 384-5675.
The following weekend, the LSO will offer its tribute to Motown with grooves from the ’60s and ’70s in “Get Down Tonight,” a nightclub-style show and dance at 9 p.m. Nov. 15 in the Academy of Fine Arts’ Joy and Lynch Christian Warehouse Theatre.
The show will also benefit the symphony, which launched its 25th performance season in September.
Bill Carroll, a trumpeter and a founding member of the LSO, conceived the idea. His band, BC’s Big Rhythm Sound, will perform, featuring vocalist Becky Grandley and keyboard/vocalist Lew Taylor.
“The most requested type of music just about anywhere we play is Motown,” Carroll says in a news release.
“There’s something magical about it. It’s kept people going during both good and bad times.”
The theater will be outfitted with a dance floor and table seating. The LSO has already sold more than half of the 250 available tickets.
Tickets for the three-hour show are $20, and are available at Givens Books, the Lynchburg Tourist Information Center, online at http://www.lynchburgtickets.com or by calling the LSO at (434) 845-6604.