Artist Gertrude Evans’ depiction of three Loudoun Black patriots who fought in the Revolutionary War is included in a new exhibit at the Thomas Balch Library.
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Painter Jess Sauder finds inspiration on her porch and creates using pages from the past.
HISTORY
A new Thomas Balch Library exhibit highlights the experiences of Black patriots and loyalists fighting for freedom in the Revolutionary War.
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With the opening opening Whites Ferry Brewery, hospitality entrepreneur Sanjeev Verma is the latest member of Loudoun’s craft beverage community.
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A new Asian flavor is mixing in with downtown Leesburg’s restaurant scene with the opening of Ebisu Sushi and Thai.
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Exploring Loudoun’s Rich Black History
BY DOUG ROGERS
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In 1933, African American lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston, dean of Howard University’s Law School, assembled an all-Black legal defense team for a murder trial at the Loudoun County Courthouse. The team (among them a young Thurgood Marshall who would go on to become the nation’s first Black Supreme Court Justice) set a historic legal precedent by challenging the court’s all-white jury selection process. They identified 13 qualified Black Loudoun residents who were excluded from consideration. The challenge was epochal: two
years later the Supreme Court ruled biased jury selections unconstitutional.
Ninety years on Houston, who became known as “The Man Who Killed Jim Crow,” has now been immortalized in Loudoun. In September 2024, the county courthouse where he took his stand was renamed the Charles Hamilton Houston Courthouse and in December it was designated a National Historic Landmark.
“He was remarkable for more than that case,” said Donna Bohanon, a member of the Loudoun Heritage Commission that proposed the name change and national landmark designation in
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Photo by Norman K. Styer Loudoun’s historic courthouse in downtown Leesburg has been named to honor the contributions of groundbreaking Civil Rights attorney Charles Hamilton Houston and a 1933 trial that challenged racial bias in the jury selection.
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2023. “He was also pivotal in helping the local African American community establish the Loudoun Branch of the NAACP and in the community’s fight for an African American school, the Douglass High School.”
As Loudoun marks Black History Month, a visit to the courthouse is just one way to honor the county’s rich Black heritage.
Another is to visit historic Morven Park, which is partnering with Leesburg and the Thomas Balch Library on the “246 Years Project,” the first-ever genealogical searchable database of enslaved individuals in America. The project uses digitized copies of historic records to document and honor millions of enslaved peoples in a free, online, custom-built database.
Talking of the Balch Library, in February and March it will host “Black Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution,” a collection of original artwork of Black heroes of the Revolution such as Loudoun’s own Daniel Coleman. On Feb. 23, Alica O. Cohen of the Black History Committee,
Friends of the Thomas Balch Library will give a powerful talk on the same subject at Cascades Library.
On Feb. 8, meanwhile, Oatlands Historic House & Gardens will host “Trafficked to Louisiana,” a presentation by researcher Emily Stanfill on the fate of 40 men, women and children trafficked in 1838 from James Monroe’s Oak Hill to Louisiana. Stanfill traveled across multiple states and up the Mississippi River to Iberville Parish, Louisiana for her research. The talk starts at 1 p.m. and is open to all.
Black history is also a celebration of course.
On Feb. 27, at Salamander Middleburg, sommelier Catherine Watkins’ monthly Salamander Uncorked program will feature vintages from prominent Black wine producers paired with superb food from Harriman’s Piedmont Grill. Let’s all raise a glass to America’s rich Black history.
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ART SCENE
Layering with Jess Sauder
BY KATIANA DAWN GetOutLoudoun.com
Picture the serenity of watching birds flutter to a back porch, singing their soft lullabies and then taking off again to continue their journey. It is this precise scene that captures artist Jess Sauder’s attention and inspires much of her work.
Sauder describes her work as “eclectic, exploratory, but also reflective of the surrounding beauty.”
Sauder bears witness to her surroundings, and allows them to speak for themselves—or sing if they are the birds on her porch—before exploring how to capture the beauty they provide.
Growing up, Sauders did not envision art meaning much to her. With a brother who is a talented artist, she stuck to the unspoken sibling rule and never attempted to follow down the road he had claimed. In college, Sauders studied recreational therapy and only took one art class her senior year as it was a requirement for graduating.
Little did she expect to be noticed for her talent
by the oil painting professor who questioned why she was not, in fact, an art major. “It never crossed my mind. But that is something that’s always been in the back of my head, that he saw something.”
The revelation has stuck with her through work in long term care, memory care, and as a mother. When she had an opportunity to combine worlds, Sauder brought art into her memory care work with painting.
“I did painting with memory care. That’s one-onone and small classes. And then the pandemic came and everything shut down.”
As with many, time spent at home during the lockdown led to a surprising discovery.
“That’s when I started luring birds to my porch,” she said with a laugh, “and they were just like these joyful little friends.”
She used her skill with watercolor to bring the birds to life that demonstrates Her boundless creativity goes beyond the paint to the paper and material underneath each bird.
“My grandfather is a pastor missionary so there’s a cabin my parents have up in Maine that is full of really old books in all different languages and there’s nothing you can really do with them. I brought a few of these home with me and started using upcycled paper,” she said.
The pages of these old books became an infinite source of canvases. Along with books, Sauders used old sewing patterns to create a texture
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to the foundation of the painting before any watercolor touched the surface.
“I think in this case it’s kind of good that I didn’t have any formal art training because it means that I’m open. There is a freedom in not knowing because you just have to go for it.”
In community classes Sauder has led she noted how people tend to be their own worst critics because of prior expectations within art. To approach the process without expectations has been a blessing.
Where Sauder has been able to find her own peace in creating these watercolor paintings, she also is keen on sharing that peace with others in the community through her art classes for memory care, classes at area libraries, and working with the Loudoun Coalition for Women and Girls.
“Looking back as a recreational therapist, you do an assessment, you make goals, and one of the things you do is look at the barriers. Then you try to find ways to overcome the barrier so that you can help whoever you’re helping,” she said. “Where I’m coming from with art, it’s really
interesting because there’s so many barriers that people create because everybody is afraid. There are so many boxes that we are like ‘I have to fit in here.’ So trying to help people realize that they don’t have to do it that way. It’s about the exploration of discovery and creating and not getting something to look a certain way.”
Her aim in sharing art with people is not about guidelines, proper ways to do things, or a “right” way. Rather, the significance is that participants relax and are able to connect with the experience of the work.
“I’ve done a few paint nights where everybody paints the same thing. Those are fun and you can see how everybody has their own certain look, but you see for some people it’s so anxiety-producing because they’re thinking they have to be exact,” she said.
Sauder urges them to keep going and seeing where it leads without trying to make it look exactly like something. “That’s a really hard thing for people to do,” she said.
She finds inspiration in our love for nature. Sauder
Fighting For Freedom: The Black Patriots & Loyalists
As the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution approaches, historians are looking deeper into the roots of the nation’s founding to highlight under-told stories.
That’s true of a new exhibit on display at Leesburg’s Thomas Balch Library. A partnership between the library’s Black History Committee and the Piedmont Heritage Foundation puts the spotlight on the role the Black community played during the war—both as revolutionary patriots and as loyalists fighting to put down the rebellion against the British crown.
Committee member Gertrude Evans, a self-taught artist, brings the subjects to life in a series of paintings. Evans began painting in the 1980s as
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a form of therapy during a divorce, searching for subjects on the Balch Library shelves. “Libraries change lives because it changed my life,” she said. Evans often found inspiration in Black history and Civil Rights topics.
That’s why Exhibit Coordinator Alicia Cohen reached out to her as she began an exploration of Black soldiers during the Revolution.
Cohen, also a member of the Black History Committee, said she was surprised to learn at several conferences about the large group Black loyalists who fought for the British who settled in the Canadian providence of Nova Scotia, especially in the village of Birchtown.
“I've been to Nova Scotia. Nobody told me about this,” she recalled thinking.
Years later as a member of the county’s VA250 commemoration committee, Cohen thought about how she could contribute to the group’s work telling the story of the nation’s founding.
She thought about exploring the stories of Black patriots. “And then it gets deeper, because we use the word patriot in a military sense. The patriot is not necessarily a person who is in the military,” she said. “A patriot could be a poet who is writing like Phillis Wheatley to tell George Washington that he should break away from the British. So, she's showing her resistance to the crown through her writing.”
Others like James Armistead Lafayette offered intel as spies. Enslaved workers also played a role. “They were the ones who were creating the bread basket. They were owned, but they did the work. Now that didn't mean everybody did the work. There were small white farmers who did their own work,” she said.
“What I was learning is all of these people are patriots in different ways,” she said.
And, Cohen said, they were fighting two wars: the loyalist for freedom from enslavement that Britain offered for their service and the patriots’ freedom from British rule.
Cohen reached out to Travis Shaw, director of education at Piedmont Heritage Foundation, to learn more about local Black men who served in the military as soldiers. They found records of eight who fought for the colonies.
One featured in the exhibit was Daniel Coleman, who settled in Loudoun after the war. Loudoun Court records show he continued to draw his war pension here until his death in 1860 at the age of 91.
For those fighting for the crown, Shaw points to
a 1775 proclamation by Virginia’s last royal governor, John Murray, the fourth Earl of Dunmore, that promised freedom to any enslaved person or indentured servant who would join the British.
“We know that hundreds, if not thousands of men, women and children took that opportunity to try and attain their freedom,” Shaw said. “Many of them, unfortunately, didn't make it. Disease took a terrible toll on these people.”
Evans’ depiction of a uniformed soldier in the crown’s Ethiopian regiment comprised of formerly enslaved men is among her favorites in the exhibit.
Shaw noted that armies on both sides were racially integrated during the Revolutionary War, but that would not be the case again until the Truman Administration more than a century later.
Shaw said that many of the Black men joining the British forces carried arms, while others worked as laborers and spies.
“We've found plenty of records of women and children working for the army. So, there's probably at least 20,000 African Americans who find freedom through the British Army during the war, which is pretty impressive,” he said. Their service is recorded in “The Book of Negroes,” a ledger made as the British are evacuating New York City at the end of the war. “They refused to send these people back into slavery, and so they resettled them and kept a record with their names, their age, description, how they're related to one another, who their former master was.”
That record today is a gold mine for those trying to trace their ancestry, he said.
Evan’s works include a depiction of a Canadian settlement where many of those Black loyalist soldiers were given land after the war, although some later resettled in other British colonies in Africa and the Caribbean.
Cohen notes that even for the Black Americans who fought for their freedom during the Revolution, they didn’t receive full citizenship until the 1965 adoption of the Voting Rights Act.
“So that is definitely 200 years of fighting back and forth and back and forth—and now in 2025 you know fighting again,” she said.
On Sunday, Feb. 23 at 2 p.m. at Cascades Library, Cohen will present a talk on the Revolutionary War contributions of Black Americans including Crispus Attucks and James Armistead Lafayette. Learn more about local Virginia 250 activities at visitloudoun. org/loudoun250.
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Craft Beverage Scene Grows with White’s Ferry Brewery
BY WILLIAM TIMME GetOutLoudoun.com
The latest addition to Loudoun’s craft beverage community, White’s Ferry Brewery opened quietly in December and owner Sanjeev Verma said the response has validated the leap into the new enterprise.
Verma, a restaurant business veteran of almost 35 years, immigrated to the United States in 1991, where he began a new life completely from scratch.
“I always worked 100 plus hours,” Verma said, describing his experience initially moving to the country with little resources to spare. “People are sleeping, I’m still working.”
From opening his first Indian cuisine restaurant in Winchester in 1999, Verma undertook a journey of opening and closing several different restaurants, including spots in Leesburg, Hagerstown, MD, Bethesda, MD, and a banqueting business.
“Everyone should set a goal in life where they want to be in the next five years,” Verma said. “Of course, there are a lot of hurdles. I went down. I went up. I went again up. Then went down. Life is all about risk. … To know the depth of the water, you have to jump in.”
White’s Ferry Brewery is the next step in that journey. The property sits at the top of a hill overlooking the Potomac River with an outdoor pavilion area that includes heaters and TVs, alongside a view of the tree line and two mini-golf holes. Verma plans to use the shed in front of the building as a private room, but the building wasn’t originally intended as such.
Verma’s son, Sehaj Singh, who is director of operations at the adjacent White’s Ferry Manor wedding venue, said the shed originally would house the brewery. Those plans changed after they found Loudoun brewer Mitch Pilchuck, a link-up that gave them the confidence to invest more into the project.
Pilchuck found his passion for the craft behind beer when he started home brewing in 1995, a stint that led to him creating NOVA Homebrew, a club for craft beverage hobbyists that continues today. In 2015, Pilchuck attended a brewing school in England, where he discovered the great pub scene.
“The beers of the world are great beers. The Germans make great beers, the English make great beers. The Belgians–we’re not sure about them,” he said with a laugh before acknowledging that Belgians do in fact make great beers.
Pilchuck said he wants to create beers that sell using his philosophy of “beer is like steak,” meaning consumers should get exactly what they expect, just as they would at a steakhouse.
He said that Loudoun County has great assets for brewing beer.
“We have a great beer community,” Pilchuck said. “Everybody wants everybody to succeed.”
The craft beer menu includes the White’s Ferry Pilsner, a light Kolsch, a Belgian Tripel, a stout with hints of coffee and dark chocolate, a Hefeweizen, an IPA, a Belgian Dubbel and Pilchuck’s personal favorite, the Nutty Nomad brown ale.
“The brown ale, you could just keep on pounding that stuff, right?” Pilchuck said.
He described it as somewhat nutty, with a lighter flavor in contrast to its dark color and an aftertaste that makes you go “oh!”
Pilchuck said he likes to share the ins and outs of brewing. He wants people to come away from the brewery knowing everything they can about beer.
Singh said some of the beers took inspiration from Indian brands like Taj and Kingfisher. The brewery has been experimenting with other ideas as well, including cherry apple ciders and sours. The brewery wants to provide non-beer drinkers with fun options, too, making sure everybody has something
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The White’s Ferry Brewery staff poses in front of the tasting room.
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to enjoy, Singh said.
Pilchuck and Singh both had high praise for the brewery’s food options, a big selling point being items from the food truck outside.
There’s a lot of breweries,” Singh said. “They have great beer, but food is where our specialty is … we have really good food and really good beer.”
Singh said the chicken and mushroom white pizza is particularly notable for its blend of alfredo sauce and chicken. He also touted the chicken burger, adding that the mincing the chicken rather than frying it and adding Indian spices fuels the dish’s uniqueness.
Singh said over the course of his family’s multiple restaurants, they’ve worked with American kitchens and American cooks as well as Indian kitchens and Indian cooks. The brewery intends to combine Indian fusion food with beer that pairs appropriately.
Pilchuck called the fish and chips incredible and described the brewery’s food as American with an Indian slant.
Verma recommended the house rolls, the brewery’s take on spring rolls equipped with Indian fusion flavors.
“It’s not a typical blend,” Verma said. “We have added some kick spices to give a little next level flavor, because in the DMV area people are spoiled. They eat all sort of authentic foods all over the areas. So, we want to have our niche on the food part.”
Verma and Singh plan to add a children’s play area and more outdoor seating options, especially for the summertime when they expect even more people to show up. Verma wants to provide customers with a satisfying experience and build long lasting loyalty with customers.
“It has to be a passion,” Verma said. “Do what you like to do, right? Then you’re gonna get good at it. That’s the only thing I teach people. Tell me what they do, if you don’t like it, please don’t waste your time.”
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Matta Metzger and Naiyana Penprachum, co-founders and chefs of Ebisu Sushi and Thai stand in front of the newly opened restaurant at the corner of King and Loudoun streets in downtown Leesburg.
Authentic Sushi and Thai Restaurant Opens in Leesburg
BY WILLIAM TIMME GetOutLoudoun.com
Anew Thai and Sushi restaurant opened in Leesburg last month with the chefs expressing excitement to bring their home culture to the town.
Ebisu Sushi and Thai sits on the corner of Loudoun and King streets, in the former Delirium Café space. Delirium’s iconic elephant taps remain, with owner John Puglise noting that the animals are important in Thai culture.
Co-founder and Chef Matta Metzger and Puglise both said the decorations aid their effort to create a cozy atmosphere at the restaurant.
“Here, it’s like a family,” Metzger said. “We know each other, we know everybody, you know, we try to help each other. … When everybody comes to the restaurant, we will treat them like a family. We want them to feel like, you walk to your house and you have a big kitchen, and you have like your sister, your mom, or your aunt, and your uncle is cooking for you. That’s why we have a good feeling with the customers.”
Puglise said he wanted the restaurant to feel like “a New York style hole in the wall.” Authenticity is a key aspect of achieving that, he said.
Metzger grew up in Northeastern Thailand, where her mother worked a street food stall. She immigrated to the United States two decades ago, and Puglise said she’s worked in the restaurant industry for around 10 years. Metzger and her close friend from Thailand who she calls sister, Naiyana Penprachum, previously opened restaurants in Loudoun County, including Best Thai Kitchen in Middleburg and Red Bar Sushi in Leesburg.
“A lot of their old customers have been waiting,” Puglise said.
Metzger and Puglise indicated they wanted to try new things with Ebisu—meaning eventually introducing authentic Thai street foods to the menu, bringing a piece of Metzger’s mother’s food stall to Leesburg, including a street food item called, khao man gai, a chicken and rice dish.
“They boil a chicken with ginger and some other items, then they take some of that water and they make the rice with it and then the sauce, they khao man gai sauce,” Puglise said. He added that the sauce was made from lime, cilantro, garlic, ginger and “a bunch of other items.” The chicken gets sliced, added to the cucumber with cilantro while the rice is cooked, he said.
Matta said the restaurant has “a million ideas,” mentioning a traditional Thai fermented fish with papaya salad recipe. She added that they were considering doing tastings for customers because of how unique the food items will be.
Being part of the name, Sushi is also on the menu. Metzger and Puglise spoke highly of their sushi chefs, mentioning Kahang, who studied in Japan. Another drip of authenticity they hope to introduce to the restaurant.
The menu will also include toro belly salmon, which Puglise said melts in your mouth.
Puglise said that most American’s perception of Thai food is shaped by a singular dish: pad thai, Americanized with “two tablespoons of sugar and lots of salt.”
“That’s what most people equate with Thai food,” Puglise said. “We need to change that, because there’s so many other great dishes.”
“I love my country’s food,” Metzger said. “I want everybody to come here and have an experience, because everything in this restaurant, we put our hand on, me and my sister. We work hard.”
Ebisu Sushi is located at 101 S. King St. in Leesburg. Learn more at ebisusushiandthai.com.
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is an avid walker and has a particular path in her neighborhood where she enjoys noticing the changes that occur.
“Like a tree that’s fallen down, there’s a log and then you see that it gets hollow, and then you see that it collapses and the mushrooms grow on it. There’s so much beauty there it’s like just layers and layers,” she said.
That might be why she uses upcycled paper as the basis of her work, from the very start of each piece there are already layers in play.
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Manager Saria Hammound echoed some of that passion when he spoke about the team’s strengths.
“We work, honestly, just like as a family. We all know our roles and each person does their job all the way,” Hammound said. “They [staff members] want to be in here, I think that helps a lot.”
Members of that team include Verma’s sons, who are learning the restaurant business through the lessons of hard work that rubbed off on him from his parents.
She highlights one of her nature scene works. “I love holes in leaves and how all these little imperfections in the light shines through. It’s just so captivating,” she said. “It’s like that idea: You know how we are, some good, some bad but just like there’s just beauty and that’s wonderful.”
Sauders work can be found at Global Local in Leesburg. She looks forward to more community classes this year and continuing to explore and discover.
Learn more at brushinhandllc.com.
Entrepreneurship is in the family’s blood, he said.
Singh said that work ethic will be evident at the brewery. “It means everything. We went all in,” Singh said. “In this project, everything we do, we do full-hearted. We don’t half-ass anything.”
Whites Ferry Brewery is located at 42484 Whites Ferry Road north of Leesburg. It is open Saturdays and Sundays from 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
More information at wfbrew.com.
lh loudoun happenings
02.13
EXPLORING THE ART OF MEMORY
The next presentation of Hillsboro’s Eat, Drink and Be Literary lecture series features an evening of thought-provoking poetry and prose by Nancy Cook.
The 2025 Farwell Cottage Artist in Residence, Cook's work often focuses on justice themes. She is the founder of the Witness Project, writing workshops in Minneapolis and was 2022 Writer-in-Residence at Harpers Ferry National Park.
Her Feb. 7 program at Hillsboro’s Old Stone School will be an exploration of the aspects of collective and individual memory.
Neo-traditional musician Kate MacLeod will provide accompaniment on fiddle, guitar, and Appalachian mountain dulcimer.
For details and tickets, go to oldstoneschool.org.
CELEBRATING PATSY CLINE’S PIEDMONT ROOTS
The Virginia Piedmont Heritage Area puts the spotlight on Patsy Cline’s rise to prominence performing at venues throughout the Shenandoah Valley and Piedmont region during a Feb. 13 program. It is the fourth year for the nonprofit’s tribute concert featuring Bess Putnam who brings Cline’s iconic hits to life in an intimate setting.
"This Ol’ Country Girl” begins at 7 p.m. at Buchanan Hall, 8549 John Mosby Highway in Upperville. Tickets are $40 at piedmontheritage.org.
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UNTOLD STORY: THE ENSLAVED PEOPLE AT OAK HILL
Oatlands on Feb. 8 will host a lecture by archaeologist and historian Emily Stanfill on her research into the lives of enslaved people
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at President James Monroe’s Oak Hill plantation south of Leesburg.
Stanfill will discuss the 40 men, women and children who were sold in 1838 from Oak Hill to work on the Alhambra sugar plantation in Iberville Parish in Louisiana. Members of the Baker, Gantt, Harris, Berryman, and other families were transported by ship from the port of Alexandria, down the East Coast, and up the Mississippi River.
The free program, supported by a grant from the VA250 Commission and Virginia Humanities, begins at 1 p.m. Oatlands Historic Home and Gardens is located at 20850 Oatlands Lane south of Leesburg.
Learn more at oatlands.org.
CASSETTE CHRONICLES CABARET: GAMES, GROOVES, AND GLORY
The StageCoach Theatre Company is offering a one-of-a-kind ’80s-inspired variety show packed with live performances, trivia, games, and nostalgia for a Valentine's season treat.
Produced by Kat Brais and directed by Doug Marcks the dinner theater program promises a night of singalongs and laughs over five nights at the theater house at 20937 Ashburn Road. Shows will be held Feb. 14, 15, 16, 22 and 23 starting at 7 p.m.
For tickets and more information, go to stagechtc. com.
GET ARTRAGEOUS AT FRANKLIN PARK
02.22
Imagine witnessing the creativity of an artist creating a masterpiece before your eyes in mere moments. Then combine that experience with captivating vocals, intricate choreography and exciting music.
That’s what’s in store for the Feb. 22 Franklin Park Art Center performance of Artrageous, a professional touring troupe of artists, musicians, singers and dancers that pays tribute to a variety of art forms, icons and musical genres. The performance culminates with a gallery of finished paintings.
The show starts at 4 p.m. The arts center is located at 36441 Blueridge Lane west of Purcellville.
For details and tickets, go to franklinparkartscenter.org.
MARTY FRIEDMAN
Tuesday, Feb. 11
Tally Ho Theater tallyhotheater.com
The heavy metal guitarist spent more than a decade performing with Megadeth and release 13 solo albums during his 44-year career on the rock stage.
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DANNY PAISLEY
Saturday, Feb. 15
Lucketts Community Center luckettsbluegrass.org
The four-time IBMA Male Vocalist of the Year performs with The Southern Grass, with an opening show by banjo phenom Ettore Buzzini.
CARBON LEAF
Saturday, Feb. 22
Tally Ho Theater tallyhotheater.com
The popular Richmond-based band returns to perform a night of their alt-country, Celtic, and folk-infused indie rock tunes.
CHRIS TIMBERS BAND
Saturday, Feb. 22
Crooked Run Fermentation crookedrunfermentation.com
A hometown favorite performs alternative soul, a blend of country, contemporary jazz, blues, and rock.
BLUES BREAKDOWN
Friday, Feb. 28
The Barns at Hamilton Station thebarnsathamiltonstation.com Mary Shaver and Linwood Taylor and Bad Influence Band rock the barn with a special night of blues.
Loudoun’s Attractions
CATTY CORNER CAFE
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DOUBLE X ARCHERY
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LOUDOUN HERITAGE FARM MUSEUM
Travel through time to meet the 10 generations of Loudoun County residents who built this county and left their mark on the land. Exhibits include a schoolhouse, general store, Native American artifact display and the American Workhorse Museum Collection.
Morven Park is a 1,000-acre historic estate on the edge of Leesburg that was home to Virginia governor and agricultural pioneer Westmoreland Davis. Tours of the Greek Revival mansion include 16th century Belgian tapestries, Spanish cassones, hundreds of silver pieces, Hudson River Valley paintings, and Asian treasures. The estate also features the Winmill Carriage Museum, the Museum of Hounds and Hunting of North America, formal boxwood gardens, miles of hiking and riding trails, and athletic elds. 17195 Southern Planter Lane Leesburg, VA 20176 703-777-2414 • morvenpark.org
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