BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Friends of Old Town - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Friends of Old Town REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250905T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250905T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T205336 CREATED:20250108T153541Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250528T193814Z UID:10000007-1757059200-1757091600@friendsofoldtown.org SUMMARY:First Fridays DESCRIPTION:Discover the heartbeat of Old Town Winchester with Friends of Old Town’s First Fridays! From June through October\, kick off your weekend each month with live music\, local art\, and the popular sip & stroll program\, which lets you enjoy our vibrant downtown while supporting Old Town’s restaurants and shops. These evenings celebrate the creativity\, culture\, and small businesses that make Old Town unique. Whether you’re here for special events or just exploring\, First Fridays are your invitation to experience all that makes our city a thriving community hub. URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org/event/first-fridays/2025-09-05/ LOCATION:V ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://friendsofoldtown.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/FF-Logo-whitebg.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250906T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250906T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T205336 CREATED:20250128T154849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T154849Z UID:10000024-1757152800-1757181600@friendsofoldtown.org SUMMARY:ShenArtsFest DESCRIPTION:Old Town Winchester\, VA is a beautiful venue for a festival with dedicated crowds and wonderful staff and volunteers. We hope you will apply!​ \nThe Shenandoah Arts Council (ShenArts) is proud to present a juried\, fine art festival\, showcasing the work of artists from all over our region. Located along Piccadilly St. between Cameron St and Indian Alley\, visitors will have the opportunity to discover handmade-in-the-USA\, original works of art across every medium\, along with music\, dance and various entertainers.​ \nShenArts’ careful vetting process ensures the finest and most diverse offerings of sculpture\, pottery\, jewelry\, photography\, mixed-media\, painting and more to suit every artistic taste and budget. \n** ShenArts Fest will take place rain or shine. URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org/event/shenartsfest/ LOCATION:V ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://friendsofoldtown.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2025-SAF-square-ad-with-new-logo.png ORGANIZER;CN="Shenandoah Arts Council":MAILTO:info@shenarts.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250913T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250913T130000 DTSTAMP:20260406T205336 CREATED:20250804T132650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250804T132650Z UID:10000064-1757761200-1757768400@friendsofoldtown.org SUMMARY:Author Event: Leah Rampy - Earth & Soul DESCRIPTION:Amidst accelerating climate devastation and an uncertain future comes a clarion call to renew a deep and personal relationship with Earth. Facing directly into the devastation of climate chaos and biodiversity loss\, Rampy leads her readers on a soul journey into grief and loss to also claim the beauty\, joy and possibilities available when we reconnect with Earth. As we follow the author’s compelling personal experiences and engagingly lyrical stories of whales\, cedars\, sparrows\, and more\, we see the necessity and urgency of learning from the wisdom of our kin in the natural world. Writing at the intersection of spirituality\, ecology\, and story\, Leah Rampy illuminates a path to reweaving nature and soul. Under Rampy’s deft guidance\, the beauty and genius of this sacred world unfolds before us. Even now when the world as we knew it is ending and a new story lies beyond what we can envision\, we may live fully alive and lay stepping stones toward a diverse and vibrant world of oneness and mutual flourishing. URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org/event/author-event-leah-rampy-earth-soul/ LOCATION:Winchester Book Gallery\, 7 North Loudoun Street\, Winchester\, V\, 22601\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://friendsofoldtown.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Rampy-FrontCover-Final-HiRes-Oct301.png ORGANIZER;CN="Winchester Book Gallery":MAILTO:info@winchesterbookgallery.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250913T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250913T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T205336 CREATED:20250728T210902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250728T210902Z UID:10000063-1757768400-1757790000@friendsofoldtown.org SUMMARY:Fiddles & Fifths - Bluegrass & Bourbon Festival's DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Old Civil War Museum in downtown Winchester for a free day of live music\, local flavor\, and bourbon tastings.\n🎶 Featuring performances by:\n🔥 The Bridge City Sinners\n🎸 Brennan Edwards & The Monday Blues\n🎻 Reno & Dunlap\nMusic kicks off at 2 PM\, and bourbon tasting tickets will be on sale soon!\nSave the date\, tell your friends\, and come party with us in the heart of Old Town URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org/event/fiddles-fifths-bluegrass-bourbon-festivals/ LOCATION:V ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://friendsofoldtown.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/fiddles-and-fifths-header-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250914T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250914T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T205336 CREATED:20250807T205621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250807T205621Z UID:10000071-1757851200-1757858400@friendsofoldtown.org SUMMARY:Author Event: Sandra Jackson-Opoku - Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes DESCRIPTION:With SAVVY SUMMERS AND THE SWEET POTATOCRIMES award-winning author Sandra Jackson-Opoku presents a sparkling debut mystery set on the south side of Chicago\, featuring the quick-witted\, unforgettable Savvy Summers\, proprietor of a soul food café. \nWhen Savvy first opened Essie’s soul food café\, she never expected her customer-favorite sweet potato pie to become the center of a murder investigation. But when Grandy Jaspers\, the 75-year-oldneighborhood womanizer\, drops dead at table two\, she suddenly has more to worry about than just maintaining Essie’s reputation for the finest soul food in the Chicagoland area. \nEven as the police deem Grandy’s death an accident\, Savvy quickly finds herself—and her beloved café—in the middle of an entire city’s worth of bad press. Desperate to clear her name and keep her business afloat\, Savvy and her snooping assistant manager\, Penny Lopés\, take it upon themselves to find who really killed Grandy. \nBut with a slimy investor harassing her to sell her name and business\, customers avoiding her sweet potato pie like the plague\, and her police sergeant ex-husband suddenly back in the picture\, will Savvy be able to clear the café’s name and solve Grandy’s murder before it all falls apart? \nSandra Jackson-Opoku is the author of the award-winning novel\, The River Where Blood is Born and Hot Johnny and the Women Who Loved Him\, an Essence Magazine Bestseller in Hardcover Fiction. She also coedited the anthology Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks. Her fiction\, nonfiction\, and dramatic works are widely published and produced in Adi Magazine\, Midnight & Indigo\, Aunt Chloe\, Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction\, New Daughters of Africa\, Obsidian\, Another Chicago Magazine\, story South\, Lifeline Theatre\, the Chicago Humanities Festival\, and others. Professional recognition includes a Plentitudes Journal Prize\, the Hearst Foundation James Baldwin Fellowship at MacDowell Arts\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Fellowship\, an American Library Association Black Caucus Award\, a City of Chicago Esteemed Artist Award\, the Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award\, a Globe Soup Story Award\, the Joan Perry Barnes Fellow in Crime Writing at Story knife Writers Retreat and a Pushcart Prize nomination. URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org/event/author-event-sandra-jackson-opoku-savvy-summers-and-the-sweet-potato-crimes/ LOCATION:Winchester Book Gallery\, 7 North Loudoun Street\, Winchester\, V\, 22601\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://friendsofoldtown.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Author-Event-Sandra-Jackson-Opoku-Savvy-Summers-and-the-Sweet-Potato-Crimes-.png ORGANIZER;CN="Winchester Book Gallery":MAILTO:info@winchesterbookgallery.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250917T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250917T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T205336 CREATED:20250109T174132Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250115T191419Z UID:10000018-1758121200-1758124800@friendsofoldtown.org SUMMARY:Youth Matters: Inspiring the Next Generation of Leaders DESCRIPTION:We love hearing from our amazing Old Town community! \nThat’s why Friends of Old Town is hosting monthly outreach and input sessions all year long. These laid-back\, open-forum meetups are a great chance to share ideas\, chat about what’s happening in Old Town\, and help shape our future together. \nEach session focuses on a fun\, guided topic to keep things lively and productive. URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org/event/youth-matters-inspiring-the-next-generation-of-leaders/ LOCATION:Winchester Brew Works CATEGORIES:Community Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://friendsofoldtown.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/4-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250917T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250917T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T205336 CREATED:20250912T130237Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250912T130237Z UID:10000093-1758135600-1758142800@friendsofoldtown.org SUMMARY:Open Mic Talent Showcase DESCRIPTION:Have you got talent? Want to try your hand in front of a live crowd? The Cider House is having an Open Mic Showcase September 17! Unlike most open mics\, this one isn’t just for music (honestly\, we only have the vibe/hookups for acoustic). We will be featuring comedy\, magic\, monologues… you name it! Sign ups start at 6\, and the show is on at 7pm. Contact @sargisbrian on Instagram for more information. URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org/event/open-mic-talent-showcase-2/ LOCATION:The Cider House\, 30 E Piccadilly St\, Winchester\, V\, 22601\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://friendsofoldtown.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/open-mic-sep-standee.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Cider House":MAILTO:jes@winchesterciderworks.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250917T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250917T233000 DTSTAMP:20260406T205336 CREATED:20250901T144708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250901T144708Z UID:10000081-1758139200-1758151800@friendsofoldtown.org SUMMARY:EDGE Ensemble Concert DESCRIPTION:Shenandoah New Music \nPassport Control\nCelebrate Shenandoah University’s sesquicentennial with the EDGE Ensemble as it looks boldly to the future\, celebrating the next 150 years of music on planet Earth. This vibrant program features new works by living composers from Australia\, France\, Iceland\, Poland\, Slovenia\, Sweden and the United States. URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org/event/edge-ensemble-concert/ LOCATION:Bright Box\, 15 N Loudoun Street\, Winchester\, VA\, 22601\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://friendsofoldtown.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/240911-EDGEEnsemble-047-CKingMedia.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Shenandoah Conservatory":MAILTO:MiKayla.Hatfield@su.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T193000 DTSTAMP:20260406T205336 CREATED:20250912T130307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250912T130307Z UID:10000091-1758214800-1758223800@friendsofoldtown.org SUMMARY:Home Seller Seminar DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 18th from 5:00–7:30 PM at the Handley Library (Benham Gallery Room) here in Winchester. This free community event will give local homeowners practical tips on preparing\, pricing\, and selling their homes in today’s market. URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org/event/home-seller-seminar/ LOCATION:V ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://friendsofoldtown.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Screenshot-2025-09-08-at-11.08.14-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250919T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250919T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T205336 CREATED:20250903T192804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250903T192804Z UID:10000084-1758301200-1758308400@friendsofoldtown.org SUMMARY:Wine tasting at Murphy Beverage Company DESCRIPTION:Come join us for a free wine tasting where Margaret of Williams Corner Wines will pour four wines. URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org/event/wine-tasting-at-murphy-beverage-company/ LOCATION:Murphy Beverage Company\, 167 N Loudoun Street\, Winchester\, V\, 22601\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://friendsofoldtown.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Wine-tasting_9.19.25_with-logo-or-business-name-v4.png ORGANIZER;CN="Murphy Beverage Company":MAILTO:murphybeverage@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250920T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250920T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T205336 CREATED:20250826T165102Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250826T165102Z UID:10000079-1758362400-1758387600@friendsofoldtown.org SUMMARY:Mabon Luna Market DESCRIPTION:Join us for our 3rd annual Mabon Luna Market on Saturday\, September 20th from 10 am to 5 pm! We will be hosting 20+ vendors with a large variety of products and services to celebrate the autumn season. URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org/event/mabon-luna-market/ LOCATION:Moon Phased Metaphysical\, 125 S. Loudoun Street\, Winchester\, V\, 22601\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://friendsofoldtown.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Facebook-Events-4.png ORGANIZER;CN="Moon Phased Metaphysical":MAILTO:mcammer12@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250920T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250920T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T205336 CREATED:20250708T125308Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250708T125308Z UID:10000054-1758369600-1758384000@friendsofoldtown.org SUMMARY:Celebracion of Winchester DESCRIPTION:Celebración of Winchester is a free one-day festival celebrating Hispanic Heritage in the Winchester region. It will take place on Saturday\, September 20th\, from 12 pm to 4 pm in the Old Town Pedestrian Mall in Winchester\, and we want YOU to be a part of it! \nStay up-to-date on our Facebook page. URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org/event/celebracion-of-winchester/ LOCATION:V ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://friendsofoldtown.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/cropped-logo.gif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250920T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250920T230000 DTSTAMP:20260406T205336 CREATED:20250814T131955Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250814T131955Z UID:10000073-1758402000-1758409200@friendsofoldtown.org SUMMARY:Reggaeton DESCRIPTION:Join us for the unofficial Winchester Celebración afterparty!\nThe classics you grew up on. The hits you can’t stop playing. One unforgettable night.\nFrom the golden era of Don Omar\, Daddy Yankee\, and Ivy Queen to the new wave led by Bad Bunny\, Eladio Carrión\, Feid\, and Karol G— DJ SUELTO and DJ LJ are spinning reggaetón through the ages with a party that blends throwback anthems with the modern Latin sound that’s taking over the world.\nExpect nothing but bangers\, sweat\, and sing-alongs all night long! URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org/event/reggaeton/ LOCATION:Bright Box\, 15 N Loudoun Street\, Winchester\, VA\, 22601\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://friendsofoldtown.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/reggaeton-poster-2025-v-copy-1-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bright Box":MAILTO:nick@brightboxtheater.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250925T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250925T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T205336 CREATED:20250912T130429Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250912T130430Z UID:10000069-1758825000-1758832200@friendsofoldtown.org SUMMARY:British Bingo DESCRIPTION:British Bingo is going monthly! 🎉\nJoin us for British Bingo every third Thursday of the month at The Cider House!\nHosted by our very own cidermaster\, it’s totally free to play\, with prizes\, cider\, and fun guaranteed.\nMark your calendars\, bring your mates\, and let the games begin! URL:https://friendsofoldtown.org/event/british-bingo-2/ LOCATION:The Cider House\, 30 E Piccadilly St\, Winchester\, V\, 22601\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://friendsofoldtown.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/british-bingo-promo-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Cider House":MAILTO:jes@winchesterciderworks.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR