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Bucking broncs, Shakespeare al fresco, music, wine and more
The summer weekend planner: Bucking broncs, Shakespeare al fresco, music, wine and more – plan your summer weekend in Loudoun.
July 10-12
Celebrate wine, food, music and good company at the DC Wine Country's Food, Wine Festival, at Whitehall Manor, Whitehall Farm Lane, Bluemont, 6-9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 5-8 p.m. Sunday. Tickets ($30 individual, $100 for two with dinner, $775 table for 10 with buffet diner) must be purchased in advance at www.VAFoodandWine.org.
July 10
Picnic in the Park, 7 p.m. at Lucketts Schoolhouse, 42361 Lucketts Road – music theater and Disney songs. Tickets $30 at door. Bring blankets, gourmet picnic baskets available by preorder. 713-628-0403 or thelittledivastudio@gmail.com.
July 11-12
Bring a lawn chair and a picnic lunch, settle down on the lawn of Morven Park and let the Not Just Shakespeare troupe weave the magic of “A Midsummer Night's Dream.” Performances start at 6 p.m. $10, students and seniors $5.
July 11
Lucketts Rodeo at Chapel View Farm, 14290 Chapel Lane, – gate opens at 5 p.m., the show starts at 7:30 p.m. with bull riding, barrel racing, team roping, calf roping, pony rides and a petting zoo. 703-431-9578 or 703-927-7704.
"Fighting and Frolicking: The Civil War Comes to Morven Park," 10 a.m.-4 p.m. -- musket-firing demonstrations, cooking over an open fire, military drills, tours of replicas of log huts built by soldiers during Civil War. Visit www.morvenpark.org.
Explore the Scottish connection to Mosby’s Rangers and their enchantment with Scottish poet Robert Burns and romantic novelist Sir Walter Scott in a program called "Mosby’s Tam O’Shanter Rebels." 7:30-9:30 p.m. Meet at Rector House across from Atoka store just off U.S. 50 west of Middleburg. $5, students $2. 540-687-6681.
Flea Market, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Lovettsville Game Club, 16 S. Berlin Turnpike.
Go birding at 8 a.m. at the Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve, 21085 The Woods Road, Leesburg. Free. 540-554-2542, or jcoleman@loudounwildlife.org.
Maybe next year they will provide enough seats for everyone to sit? This was about one of the worst rodeos I have seen east of the Mississippi! Lack of seating, pi$$-poor announcer on the mic, lack of decent food. Oh well, at least the money went for a worthy cause, the Lucketts Community Center.
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