Fall Fiber Festival

Fall Fiber Festival – Saturday Oct 3rd and Sunday October 4th

Montpelier

The Fall Fiber Festival and Montpelier Sheep Dog Trials is a celebration of traditional fiber techniques and an opportunity to view working dogs at their best! Join our family-friendly event to learn all about fiber animals, shearing, spinning, weaving, and fiber arts. You can join one of our many classes, view a demonstrations, enjoy our lauded sheep dog trials, or submit your best fiber art in one of our many competitive divisions. We will have a variety of vendors selling artisan goods and food trucks to feed any appetite.

ADMISSION FEE
Day of Festival – $10
16 & under – FREE

While we love all animals, pets are not allowed at the Festival. Please leave your furry friends at home for the day.

CASPCA Fall Fest

CASPCA Fall Fest – Sunday, Oct 4th 11AM

IX Art Park

Fall Fest is our primary adoption event, and this year we’re going all in: adoptions are free, all weekend, both at Fall Fest and at the shelter — thanks to our friends at Piedmont Tire Co. So grab the kids, grab your partner, grab the dog (really!), and come spend an early fall day with us. There might just be a new family member waiting for you. 

Something Fun for Everyone.

We built this day for the whole crew, not just the little ones.

For the kids: trick-or-treating at our vendor tables, SuperFun inflatables, face painting, balloon animals, bottle toss, gourd painting, and a decorate-your-own trick-or-treat bag station.
For the grown-ups: we’ve got you covered too — swing by Have Heart Tattoo’s pop-up for a $100 flash tattoo, or try your luck at bottle toss for a bottle of Eastwood wine.
For your pup: strike a pose for a silhouette portrait with Studio Zero Photography, let them stretch their legs on the slat mill with Better Dog Co, or treat them to a nail trim from PUPS.
And don’t miss our crowd favorites: the dog costume contest (sponsored by Virginia Veterinary Specialists & Emergency!) and the pumpkin pie eating contest for dogs.

“Weird Al” Yankovic – Bigger and Weirder

“Weird Al” Yankovic – The Bigger and Weirder Tour

Thursday, October 8 – John Paul Jones Arena 7:30 PM

Special Guest Puddles Pity Party

Tickets available through Ticketmaster

Crozet Arts & Crafts Festival

Crozet Arts & Crafts Festival  – Saturday Oct 10 & Sunday Oct 11

Claudius Crozet Park

Lucinda Williams

Paramount Presents: Lucinda Williams and Her Band: World’s Gone Wrong Tour

Friday, October 16th, 8:00PM – The Paramount Theater

“My dad, as a poet, always told me to never censor myself – that’s one of his cardinal rules of creative writing,” says multiple-Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams. “That became my motto which I’ve stuck by all these years.” Miller Williams’ advice clearly is born out on Lucinda’s powerful eighteenth studio album, the provocative World’s Gone Wrong. “I felt a sense of urgency in making this record,” she adds.

Filled with gut-wrenching topical songs, the album’s ten tracks were written and recorded in a blast of collaborative creativity as Lucinda and her cowriters – primarily husband/manager/co-producer Tom Overby and guitarist Doug Pettibone – grappled with events transpiring during the spring of 2025. A whole other album had been in the works, but that “urgency” to address our current cataclysmic situation motivated Lucinda and company to cut World’s Gone Wrong in direct response. “Music is a powerful weapon,” she points out. “I want this record to make people aware, wake them up. I like to push people’s buttons.”

Lucinda, Pettibone, and Overby returned to co-producer Ray Kennedy’s Room & Board Studio in Nashville to cut the tracks with her newly configured band: guitarist Marc Ford (Black Crowes), drummer Brady Blade (Emmylou Harris), and her longtime bassist David Sutton. On the gripping title track, they’re joined by guest vocalist Brittney Spencer and keyboardist Rob Burger on Hammond B3. Its title inspired by the 1931 Mississippi Sheiks song (repurposed by Dylan in ‘93), the lyrics give voice to the lives of baffled everyday Americans: a nurse and a car salesman “workin’ long hours” and “lookin’ for comfort in a song.”

Throughout the album, Lucinda is at her most direct, not mincing words via those distinctive, one-of-a-kind vocals. The hymnlike “We’ve Come Too Far to Turn Around,” featuring Norah Jones on piano and harmonies, is a heartbreaking closer, yet there is an aspirational quality too. “Norah’s voice lifts the song up,” says Lucinda. “Her part is subtle, kind of quiet, but it adds a whole level of something to the song.” That “something” permeates the entirety of World’s Gone Wrong, giving courage to listeners who are – as the title track says – “lookin’ for comfort in a song.”

And that’s what Lucinda fans have come to depend on over the past 45 years – since her sophomore effort comprised of originals, Happy Woman Blues, in 1980. With a back catalog of remarkable albums, including 1998’s game-changing Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, three Grammy awards and countless accolades, including Time Magazine naming her America’s Best Songwriter in 2001, Williams is one of our most revered artists, beloved for her singular vocals and extraordinary songs. And in these troubling times, we need the light she shines on World’s Gone Wrong more than ever before.