Support the Santa House of Midtown Portsmouth and enjoy a Car Show and Craft Fair at Portsmouth Kroger Marketplace. Family Friendly event with Santa on the scene!

You can donate any unwrapped new toy or monetary donation to help The Santa House get a jump on Christmas. Our goal is to Fill The Santa House!!

Vehicle Entry
$20 Cars and Trucks
$10 Bikes, toys, and Motorcycles
($5 off when you donate an unwrapped new toy at registration)
All Makes and Models, Open Class Car Show.

Top 30 and 10 Special class awards.

TOP 30
BEST IN SHOW
BEST IN SHOW – RUNNER UP
BEST DOMESTIC BUILD
BEST IMPORT BUILD
BEST TRUCK/SUV BUILD
BEST BIKE/MOTORCYCLE BUILD
BEST STREET CAR BUILD
SANTA’S PICK
MRS. CLAUS PICK
KROGER’S PICK

LOW CAR LIMBO CHAMP
LOW CONVERTIBLE LIMBO CHAMP
LOW TRUCK LIMBO CHAMP
UNLIMITED LIMBO CHAMP

3 – KID’S COLORING CHAMP

Music, Kid’s Coloring Contest, Low Vehicle Limbo contest, raffle items, and 50/50 Raffle

Schedule:
10:00 Registration
11:00 Driver’s Meeting/Judging
1:00 Registration Closes
1:30 Low Vehicle Limbo
3:30 Awards
4:00 Event Ends

The Santa House
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Santa.house.1/

Visit the Olde Towne Portsmouth Antiques to Flea Market the first Saturday of each month and enjoy the eclectic collection of unique and antique wares. With more than 70 vendors, you will discover a great selection of antique and flea market items of all types – priced to sell! Shop for estate furniture, architectural salvage, china, silverware, art, sports gear, musical instruments, books and ephemera, hand-made crafts and toys, as well as decorative accessories and one-of-a-kind items. A favorite of local and visitors alike, it is a treasure hunter’s dream come true!

The Olde Towne Antiques to Flea Market is conveniently located in the County Street Parking Garage and is held year round, rain or shine on the first Saturday of each month.

Always Free Admission & Free Parking!

Call 757-405-3500 for additional information and vendor space rentals.

As part of this First Saturday Free event, come enjoy the exhibits and then sit in the courtyard and relax to the the amazing musical sounds of the Rhythm Project Portsmouth Rising Stars at their Steel Pan Drum Recital from 11 am – 1 pm.

In addition to free admission, the Museum is offering kite-kits for sale at $5 each. These delta kites can be decorated with magic markers and then flown outside at the beach or a park. It is an easy and fun activity to create a piece of artwork that will take to the air on a string. Please call 757 393-8543 for more information.

Find your balance when you practice hatha yoga at Paradise Creek Nature Park. Taught by Robin Dunbar, Deputy Director – Education, the Elizabeth River Project. Robin is a certified yoga fit instructor who also teaches at area YMCAs when she is not educating children to help restore the Elizabeth River.

Gather at the Fred W. Beazley River Academy. Outside when weather permits. Enjoy a playlist of river music. Ages 13 & up.

This event is FREE but registration is required: (757)-392-7132, rdunbar@elizabethriver.org. Presented by the non-profit Elizabeth River Project. Donations welcome to keep river education and restoration growing: elizabethriver.org.

The Portsmouth Music Club is hosting “Music for an Olde Towne Afternoon Cabaret” on Saturday, May 5, at 4:00 pm. The Cabaret is a fundraiser for the A. J. Lancaster Scholarship Fund to benefit music majors. The performers will be Kyle Becker, Jazz Vocalist and Pianist, and Heather Mayes, Vocalist.  The tickets are $10 for Adults and $5 for Students and may be purchased at the door.

Hymn Fest features the choirs from Court Street Baptist, First Presbyterian, Monumental United Methodist, St. Paul’s Catholic, St. John’s Episcopal, and Trinity Episcopal Churches along with the Brass Ensemble.

This tour takes you inside seven of Hampton Roads most interesting and beautiful churches as well as the Chevra T’helim synagogue. It starts at St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church on the corner of Washington and High streets. St. Paul’s stunning German glass from the early years of the twentieth century has just been cleaned as have its many murals and statuary. Other church interiors on the tour are Trinity Episcopal Church, from 1762, with its six windows by Louis Comfort Tiffany (on his pencil list and so done by him, not Tiffany and Co.), painted windows from the 1850s and Civil War era and rare English White Friars windows; Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, perhaps the oldest black congregation in the nation, with handsome ceiling murals, pews hand hewn by slaves, hiding places on the “underground railroad,” and slave made stained glass and ironwork; St. John’s Episcopal Church in high Victorian style with what is thought to be the largest alter window ever made by Tiffany and Company; Monumental United Methodist Church which claims to be the oldest continuously operating Methodist congregation in the South and third oldest in the nation; Chevra T’helim synagogue, recently restored as a museum with a Holocaust Torah; First Presbyterian with two-hundred year old English pews and rare English stenciled glass windows and finally Court Street Baptist which is one of only two Baptist churches in the nation in the Romanesque Revival style – inside its dozens of stained glass windows in gold and pink fill the interior with a golden glow.

The tour starts at 9:00 am Saturday, May 12th, with lunch (included in the price of the ticket) and ends at 3:00 pm. It is led by three costumed interpreters, among them, the Rev. John Braidfoot, the second rector of the Colonial church. Tickets sell for $21 in advance (limit 100 people). For tickets contact Dean Burgess, 757-393-0973 or atredlion3@juno.com, or send your check to Steeple to Steeple , P. O. Box 126, Portsmouth, VA 23705-0126 (made out to Steeple To Steeple ). Tickets are $20 in advance, $21 if ordered online and $25 on the day of the walk. The tour starts at Saint Paul’s Catholic Church (518 High Street, corner of Washington Street). All the churches are handicapped accessible, but please note your special needs in advance.

Clifford King Harbin
Committee Chair
704-575-8594
757-759-7371

Dean Burgess
P. O. Box 126, Portsmouth, VA 23705-0126
757-393-0973
redlion3@juno.com

The Buffalo Riders of Hampton Roads are honoring the famed Buffalo Soldiers 9th & 10th Cavalry, who served in the U. S. Army on horseback, with a spectacular four mile parade starting at I. C. Norcom High School.

The new parade route will leave from the school, proceed down High Street toward the waterfront to Crawford Street then turn and proceed back on High Street to the school at noon for more activities.

For more information please contact: Ken Wright President (757) 286-1493 or Tony Hooper (757) 218-8233.

Spend Mother’s Day enjoying the Mother’s Day Tea in the Gardens of the Historic Hill House Museum. (In case of inclement weather, tea will be held at St. John’s Episcopal Church 424 Washington Street.)

Enjoy a hot or cold cup/glass of tea, scones, tea-sandwiches, and desserts

$30 non-members
$25 for PHA members
(proceeds go toward the continued restoration)
Payment options: Online (PayPal), check, mail

Please R.S.V.P. at 757.714.3223 or email – info@thehillhousemuseum.org

Visit Stellar Wine for an evening of great food, friends and wine. All proceeds will support a great organization – Friends of the Portsmouth Juvenile Court – keeping families together since 1993.

Dover Quartet
Beverly Kane Baker, viola

PROGRAM:
MOZART String Quartet No.15 in D minor, K.421
MOZART String Quintet No.4 in G minor, K.516

These phenomenal young players formed their quartet when they were just 19-year-old students at the Curtis Institute. There followed a stunning sweep of top awards and a leap to international stardom, with The New Yorker magazine naming them “the young American string quartet of the moment.” Virginia Arts Festival audiences will have a chance to hear them in repertoire that includes Mozart as part of the André-Michel Schub celebration. That’s good news: in the spate of glowing reviews that have greeted their performances, The Washington Post particularly admired their way with Mozart: “the sound was lambent and evenly balanced, with the musicians delighting in uncovering this near-perfect score’s musical details and, tellingly, enjoying hearing one another play it. A triumph!”

“The Dover Quartet players have it in them to become the next Guarneri String Quartet — they’re that good. Expert musicianship, razor-sharp ensemble, deep musical feeling and a palpable commitment to communication made their performances satisfying on many levels.” –Chicago Tribune

“The Dover Quartet’s Kennedy Center debut shows why they should be on must-hear list.” The Washington Post

A Music Maker Revue show is fast-paced, with non-stop music. Each featured artist takes a turn in the spotlight and the band makes the transitions seamless. The group’s rollicking closers bring everyone out on stage together and often tear down the house.

Featured is an all-star band of blues and soul musicians who have played from street corners to concert halls. They include Cool John Ferguson, guitar & vocals; Harvey Dalton Arnold, bass and vocals; Alabama Slim, guitar and vocals; Thomas Rhyant, guitar and vocals and Bubba Norwood on drums. 

Allie Marie will be signing Hands of the Healer, the 4th book in her True Colors Series set in Olde Towne Portsmouth. Come out and celebrate with her and her fans!

Come out and enjoy some great acoustic music with local favorite Lori Creek! If you have never been to Copper & Oak you will be amazed by both the craft spirits and the decor!

Please join us from 12 – 2 pm for our mouth watering brunch selections, delicious mimosas, great cappuccino and the smooth jazz sounds of Woody Beckner on acoustic guitar. Relax in our intimate surroundings, bring a friend, and just enjoy! If it’s Sunday, it’s brunch at Stellar Wine.

Get a $5 Baron’s Burger and enjoy live music with local favorite Derek Smith!

Local favorite Don Comer returns to Cafe Europa for another live acoustic session featuring special guest Patti Triplett. Join us at the wine bar or call for reservations in the dining room (757-399-6652).

Enjoy the warm musical styles of the Caribbean, calypso, reggae, and a touch of salsa. Drift away with the art of pan drums and melodies.

10K and Mile Races through Olde Town, Portsmouth, VA along the Elizabeth River Seawall in the city and inside the Naval Hospital campus including great music, food & beverages — adult and otherwise.

This is a Strider Grand Prix, Youth Grand Prix and Walking Grand Prix event.

For more information:

https://runsignup.com/Race/VA/Portsmouth/ERR10KMileRaces