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In This Issue

• David Grace illustrates life through photography David Grace's first camera was a Brownie Hawkeye that he got when he was in elementary school.
• Rebecca Hartman dreams of being a role model When Rebecca Hartman was 9, she was in her first musical, "A Christmas Carol," in Ronkonkoma, New York.
• Virginia Highlands Festival presents fine arts awards The 67th Annual Virginia Highlands Festival presented awards to the "Juried Fine Art" show winners.

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• Capturing the "essence' of Bristol Rhythm & Roots BRISTOL, Tenn./Va. — And the cradle rocked. Yesterday afternoon in the Birthplace of Country Music, the 15th chapter of Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion filed within the ranks of history. Steve Earle contributed at 5 on the clock and resoundingly hit the li
• The sun sets on another Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion Some of the weekend's largest crowds cheered and hollered for festival headliners Steve Earle and Delbert McClinton Sunday as the curtain came down on the 2015 Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion.
• "Farm and Fun Time" revival takes place during Rhythm & Roots WBCM Radio Bristol celebrated a revival of the classic live radio program Farm and Fun Time.
• Barter cancels Christmas show, "The Santaland Diaries" After several months of searching for an alternate venue to house the Christmas production "The Santaland Diaries," Barter Theatre management announces the cancellation of this production.
• Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion 2015 about to begin Time to rock the cradle within the world's Birthplace of Country Music.
• Teenager with "an old soul' Austin Stanley is not your typical teenager. While other high school students his age are playing sports, texting on their phones, and hanging out with friends, Austin is just glad to be himself.
• 42 years and 15 albums later Kansas on yellow brick road Christmas Day, 1976. Amid "Jingle Bells" and Cheech & Chong's "Santa and His Old Lady" came a newly minted epic from a band out of nowhere.
• Billy Bob Thornton and The Boxmasters visit Bristol sites A sweat-soaked Billy Bob Thornton concluded his and The Boxmasters' 90-minute performance Aug. 30 with a declarative "That Mountain." "I want to go over that mountain," sang Thornton, "before the day that I die."
• Auditions coming up soon for Northeast State's Got Talent show BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. — Northeast State Community College's music and choral program will hold preliminary auditions Sept. 14 and Sept. 15 for its annual Northeast State's Got Talent show.
• BMS performer Steven Tyler learns about Bristol BRISTOL, Tenn. — Rock legend Steven Tyler had the crowd Saturday evening walking his way at Bristol Motor Speedway. Before Tyler took the stage for the pre-race concert of the Irwin Tools Night Race, he visited with some locals. Leah Ross, executive direc
• Barter Theatre Project has been chosen as winner of the annual Dominion ArtStars Rising Star Award Virginians for the Arts, in partnership with the Dominion Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Dominion Resources, Inc., has announced Barter Theatre's Project REAL has been chosen as the winner of the annual Dominion ArtStars Rising Star Award.
• Busker Fest coming up in Abingdon ABINGDON, Va. — Main Street is going to feel like Times Square in New York City as buskers — street performers — take to the sidewalks this Labor Day weekend.
• Photographer Randy Ratliff captures outdoor scenery ABINGDON, Va. — Randy Ratliff wanders to waterfalls, looks around lighthouses and seeks streams with beauty.
• Bristol celebrates 30th anniversary of country music mural downtown BRISTOL, Tenn. — Jimmie Rodgers cast a grin and two thumbs up over the left shoulder of Tim White and the VW Boys Tuesday night.