Not one, but two award-winning local bands and musicians will perform at the Groovin’ in the Park concert series on the waterfront stage 5-8 p.m. Saturday, July 22, at Deltaville Maritime Museum (DMM) and Holly Point Nature Park. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 after 12 noon on July 22 and at the gate. Children younger than 12 are admitted for free.
Pleasant Living magazines2021 and 2022 “Best of the Rivah” award-winning band “Rip Tide” takes the stage from 6-8 p.m. with their very popular mix of classic rock and country music favorites.
Opening for Riptide from 5-6 p.m. will be Clayton Neal and Gary Archer, the lead vocalists and songwriters from the five-time “Best of the Rivah” and genre defying band Jumbo Lump Daddy.
Making full use of the DMM’s expanded waterfront park, the musicians will perform on the creek bank against a setting of DMM’s waterfront, on pristine Mill Creek. This is a “bring your own lawn chair or blanket” event. Some folding chairs will be available. There are outside tables, so feel free to picnic.
As reminder for all the friends and members of the Deltaville Maritime Museum (DMM) and those interested in preserving Chesapeake Bay maritime history…
the DMM maritime park is in the middle of fundraising a matching grant that gives $2 for every $1 donated. A $10 donation becomes $20.
When these rails are in place, a cradle set will be attached to the wheels, then connected to a huge chain and visitors will be able to see how multi-ton vessels were pulled on land for refitting using a marine railway. The railway preservation will be paid for in part by the Mary Morton Parsons Foundation Grant. (Photo by Bill Powell)
The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation will award DMM $50,000 when $50,000 is raised as a match from donations to build at least two more sections of our planned exhibit center.
In the five months since receiving this grant challenge, DMM has raised $26,724.80 or 53.4% of the $50,000 challenge amount and have until November of this year to raise the remaining $23,000.
The Board of the Deltaville Maritime Museum is reaching out to all friends of the museum to please help us fulfill this grant and promise. This project will not only house the new Lackey engine collection and the Hawkins outboard collection but the enclosed hub will provide space for medium size events, expanding our community facilities. Please mark your donations either “parsons grant donation” or “matching grant.”
For information, visit www.deltavillemuseum.com, email office@deltavillemuseum.com, or write to P.O. Box 466, Deltaville, VA 23043 or call 804-776-7200.
Explorer at oyster festival: At the 2022 Oyster Festival, the replica colonial-era shallop waits for the action of children’s Education Day. The vessel was built by the Deltaville Maritime Museum and, along with the F.D. Crockett, are the roving ambassadors for the maritime park’s maritime history outreach. (Photo by Bill Powell)
The premier juried art show in Middlesex County, Arts in the Middle, will be offered at Hewick Plantation near Urbanna this coming weekend. The art is something special by talented artists from the entire east coast. In addition to fine art, there will be music of all types on two stages. There is also a display of young local artists that is quite inspiring.
The Museums of Middlesex (MOM) will have the John Smith replica shallop, the Explorer, onsite to highlight Middlesex County’s rich history. Volunteers will be on hand to tell not only that history, but about building the replica shallop, about Captain John Smith, his explorations, and how Stingray Point got its name. Stop in and say, “Hello.”
The Museums of Middlesex (MOM) is an LLC formed in 2015 of four foundations and museums in Middlesex to work together increasing our tourism visibility and acquainting folks far and wide with Middlesex’s 350-year history and maritime heritage. MOM’s information table and canopy along with the Deltaville Maritime Museum’s Explorer will be located right at the main entrance.
The annual Arts in the Middle (AIM) Fine Arts Festival is open to all, with no admission fees, on Saturday, June 3, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday, June 4, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. The festival site is Hewick Plantation, which is at 5123 Old Virginia St., just west of Urbanna. Parking is free, but a donation to help fund future festivals is appreciated, festival organizers say.
There’s nothing like the steel drums and rhythms of island music played in those waterfront breezes! Catch it all at the first ever pop-up Sunday concert as Barefoot Davis comes to town Sunday, June 18, all the way from Saint Thomas Island. So, throw on your island gear, grab your cooler and lawn chair, and come on down to the Deltaville Maritime Museum from 2-4 p.m. for a musical trip to the islands. Gates open at 1 p.m. This is not a Groovin’ concert, so you need to get tickets at the Deltaville Maritime Museum office or at the door. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. (Contributed)
Deltaville Maritime Museum (DMM) and Holly Point Nature Park will celebrate Memorial Day weekend with a Saturday of shopping, free creek cruises, boat tours, children’s activities and model trains. All this, plus music — the DMM maritime park will welcome back Deltaville musical couple Sandy and O.T. (Ollie) Adcock to headline the Holly Point Market’s new open mic opportunity that will be offered inside the open events pavilion from 10 a.m.-noon.
The Adcocks encouraged all those local musicians who are interested to grab their instruments and come on out this Saturday, May 27. “We are hoping to continue the opportunity to have a venue for local musicians for all the markets this year,” Ollie Adcock said. “Help us make this one a success.”
We also want to alert you that the Tidewater Oyster Growers Association (TOGA) is back with its “really big show” at the Memorial weekend market. TOGA members will be manning the booth with information and equipment for oyster growers at any level.
The DMM gift shop is currently restocked for the season so, starting at 9 a.m., DMM opens early and the Holly Point Market kicks off in style in the arbors and gardens of the maritime park events and waterfront areas.
Come back to DMM around 4 p.m. as the gates open for a wonderful evening of blues/rock music with Ray Pittman and Tim Moore opening from 5-6 p.m. Area favorite keyboard man Pittman leads things off at 5 p.m. Pittman plays a crowd-pleasing mix of rhythm and blues, Motown and beach music.
To keep the blues flavor of this concert, organizers welcome blues band Blues in the Night for May 27, 6-8 p.m. This is a bring your own lawn chair, cooler and picnic event. Gates open at 4 p.m.
Tickets for Groovin’ are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Get yours at the DMM office, on the DMM website or at Nauti Nell’s store in Deltaville.
DMM is a volunteer, all-donation, nonprofit organization and is located in Deltaville at 287 Jackson Creek Road. To get to DMM, follow General Puller Highway (Route 33) east through Deltaville and turn right across from the Chris Mart Citgo convenience store.
(Bill Powell is events coordinator for Deltaville Maritime Museum. Email him at office@deltavillemuseum.com.)
Who are the Flat Tones? “We all were golfing friends that realized we all had the same love and passion for music so we started playing and practicing for fun and our personal enjoyment. We started playing doo wop and oldies and only played for friends. We were having a lot of fun doing this and started sounding better and that’s how we became the Flat Tones; oldies playing oldies.
Having heard them in person, I can tell you the Flat Tones have that hit parade music down, from Andrews sisters to big band they have the sound and style.
Unfortunately, earlier scheduled 5 p.m. opener folk singer Paige Melton has had travel issues and will not be able to make the show. We are happy to announce that, stepping up to take the stage in her place is local guitarist Isaac Boswell, who will open for the Flat Tones at 5 p.m. The gates will open at 4 p.m.
Groovin’ will happen, rain or shine. In case of inclement weather, Groovin’ will be offered in our events pavilion.
Advance $10 tickets are still available until 2 p.m. on May 6 at Nauti Nell’s store in Deltaville and the museum office in Deltaville during their daily open hours or by phone or website. Tickets at the door are $15 (children younger than 12 are admitted for free).
As the Deltaville Maritime Museum (DMM) and Holly Point Nature Park enter both their 21st anniversary and their 2023 events season, they offer a large weekend of happenings for opening weekend on May 5 and 6. Flowers are in bloom, shrubbery is budding and the arbors of the park are filling with shade as the leaves come out.
DMM will celebrate its opening with a Friday, May 5, “Cinco de Mayo” dinner and dance and a Saturday, May 6, of shopping, showing classic cars, creek cruises, children’s games, food, open mic fun in the pavilion, and music — lots of music.
At the first Holly Point Market of the season on May 6, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., there will be lots of shopping with arts, crafts, cheeses, honey, live music in the park, walking around the park and on the nature trails, eating great food, lounging around, and a concert. It’s all happening at the DMM.
Don’t miss our annual classic car show. Multiple car clubs and individuals with classic and antique cars will converge starting at 9 a.m.
Our local Deltaville musicians, Ollie and Sandy Adcock, will be playing in the open events pavilion beginning at 10 a.m.
Come back to the park around 4 p.m. as the gates open for a wonderful evening of music as local guitarist Isaac Boswell opens at 5 p.m. for the Flat-Tones performing at 6-8 p.m.
Watch the Sentinel and the museum’s website for more detail as we get closer.
“Maverick Englar,” a three-and-a-half month old mountain feist dog owned by Jim and Sondra Englar of Delta Shores in Deltaville, gives kisses to the Easter bunny at the Deltaville Maritime Museum Easter egg hunt Saturday, anticipating a basket of Easter dog treat goodies. Maverick is joined by “his dad,” Jim Englar. (Contributed)
As the Deltaville Maritime Museum’s official season opening is coming up fast on May 5 and 6, the “Bistrobunchers” are putting out a work day call to all their “Friends of the Museum” to give them a hand getting the waterfront park area ready.
Yes, its also tax day, but we are forgetting all that and coming out to the museum and Holly Point Nature Park on Saturday, April 15, 8 a.m. to noon. The “bunchers” will be working on the tea house and tea house kitchen getting it spiffed up and ready for the first event. Take a look at our new heating and cooling in the tea house and our new kitchen and bar equipment.
We are looking for volunteers to rake and pickup the waterfront park and stage area. Bring your own work gloves and favorite rake.
We will have plenty of bottled water and Marion is going to make a stew we can share. Make it a family affair. It’s a great thing when our community works together!
Don’t miss our opening weekend’s May 5 Cinco de Mayo Dinner and Dance with the Sons of Bach 5-9 p.m. Tickets are now on sale at museum office. Call the office or check out our website…
Scores pack the Deltaville Maritime Museum’s waterfront park for a recent concert. (Contributed)
Advance tickets and members only ticket packages are now in the mail and on sale for the Deltaville Maritime Museum’s (DMM’s) Groovin’ in the Park 2023, a casual, waterfront, concert series. This will be the 15th season of Groovin’ fun and music at DMM.
Groovin’ in the Park 2023 will feature five regular and two special performances, for a total of seven concerts!
Here is the full Groovin’ schedule:
5-6 p.m. Saturday, May 6 — Paige Melton, the essence of folk.
6-8 p.m. Saturday, May 6 — Flat Tones, everybody’s favorites and harmonies.
5-6 p.m. Saturday, May 27 — The fabulous Ray Pittman. Beach, blues and soul.
6-8 p.m. Saturday, May 27 — No. 1 Blues Billboard artist Bobby Messano, Blues Hall of Fame.
5-6 p.m. Saturday, June 24 — Sincerely Iris, on the road again with Todd Murray.
6-8 p.m. Saturday, June 24 — Mike and Amy Aiken Band, Country with an Ocean View.
5-6 p.m. Saturday, July 22 — TBA.
6-8 p.m. Saturday, July 22 — Rip Tide, voted No. 1 “Rivah” band 2021-2022.
5-6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 26 — Ali Thibodeau, “Deau Eyes,” alternative pop with a little bit of punk.
6-8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 26 — Stuck on a Name band, Let’s reggae, island breezes.
5-6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 2 — Labor Day Bonus Groovin’, Toby Gillie and the Unpredictables.
Deltaville Maritime Museum, 287 Jackson Creek Road in Deltaville (Contributed)
by Bill Powell –
The holidays are almost on us and with Thanksgiving coming up, the Holiday Gift Market at the Deltaville Maritime Museum (DMM) will ring in our Holiday shopping season on Saturday, Nov. 26. Vendors will line the multicolored arbors of Holly Point Park and some will be in a mini-mall setup in the open events pavilion. The Bistro Bloody Mary Benedict Brunch will be on the closed pavilion.
Begun in 2015 as a request from the fans of our monthly breakfast biscuits and egg plates, our first “Bloody Mary Bistro Benedict Brunch” began.
It all starts Saturday, Nov. 26, early at 8 a.m. The Bunchers will serve until 1 p.m. or the eggs and crab runs out, so make sure you get there early…
Skeleton George takes over the steering of the just finished “Wright Skiff” at Deltaville Maritime Museum and says, “Darn the torpedoes, full speed ahead for Halloween!” The two students in the photo are enrolled in the Carpentry II class at Middlesex High School and are Zach Justis, left, DMM Building and Grounds Director Chuck McGhinnis next, and student Elijah Brooks to Chuck’s right. Their instructor, Josh Sterns is on the right.
Ready or not, the goblins, ghouls, ghosties, and maybe a witch, warlock, zombie or two are beginning to stir, moan and generally raise a ruckus in the “Wailin’ Woods” and for the hayrides in the “Field of Screams” out at “Scary Halloween in the Park” at Deltaville Maritime Museum Monday, Oct. 31, from 6:30-8:30 p.m.
There’ll be plenty of candy and levels of scariness for costumed folks (and real spooks) of all ages. Parking in our convenient lots and admission to this event are always free to the public.
“Scary Halloween in the Park” is being presented on the actual date of Halloween.
Our volunteers and staff work hard to make sure there is a “scariness” level to make all age groups comfortable. In the “Pavilion of Peril,” all comers will find a well-lit, less “scary” area in both north and south events pavilion wings with plenty of candy being handed out by DMM volunteers, local businesses and organizations in costume. Billz Bistro in the Pavilion will be open, Linny Lancaster and myself will be grillin’ up hot dogs and Marie Wilding will be serving hot chocolate, bottled water, chips and hot coffee.
Preparation for Halloween is hard under way but volunteers are still needed…
