Thanks to everyone who sent photos from this year’s fair. We’ve started a new photo gallery and will be adding more of the photo’s you’ve sent in the future. If you have some good photos of the fair that you would like to share, please send them to us via email at nrvfair@verizon.net

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The New River Valley is seeking brave men and women to compete in a Demolition Derby on Monday, July 31st 2006. The cash prizes and trophies will be awarded to the winner.

Demolition Derby’s are the fastest growing spectator sport in American today. Daring drivers battle to the finish to see who can deliberately destroy all the other cars. The last car running is declared the winner.

Safety precautions will be taken to protect the spectators. The drivers will be risking their lives to survive the motorized mayhem and collect the big cash purse.
A majority of the competitors will be from this area. Many of the drivers are gathering a large following of fans to cheer them on to victory.

Demolition Derby’s have been featured on television and in sports magazines. The New River Valley Fair will stage the only one in this area this season.  The crashing and smashing gets under way at the New River Valley Fairgrounds. We’ll see you there!

Download the demolition derby entry form (pdf)

Anyone who questioned for one second if the heart of rock n’ roll was still beating -under Christian music contexts or otherwise- must not have heard the rollicking romps found within the national debut of DecembeRadio. The recent signees to Slanted Records are just about the most electrified, raucous and riff driven foursome to come about since the original wave of classic rock and are also armed with a message of eternal importance. It’s a lethal combination indeed, one that’s earned the group comparisons to the likes of legends including Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin and Lynyrd Skynyrd right up through vintage influenced innovators like The Black Crowes, Lenny Kravitz and Jet in addition to more modern/progressive rocksters Porcupine Tree and Audioslave.
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In the early 1900’s when farmers farmed with horses, can’t you just visualize a farmer telling his neighbor. “I bet my horse can pull more than yours can”. Then to prove it, the neighbor would take him up on that bet and soon there would be some competition between several farmers.

Horsepulling has come quite far from the early 1900’s. Although the Amish use horses to do their field work, those horses who labor on the farm for many hours a day usually don’t end up in the Pulling Arena on the week-end. The few farmers that use their pulling stock to haul manure, mow hay or cut hay, do not do this on a consistent basis.

So, the Sport of Horsepulling is exactly THAT. It is a sport with a team of equine athletes. The work that goes into them to get ready for competition is endless.
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Rodney Atkins had delivered a world-class release with Honesty back in 2003, but even then he was searching for something that would bring his music home to his heart and his memory and his love for the people and the values that guide his life.

That’s what makes his new project different. The voice is still there, deep and strong, a little rough to the touch, like a fence in a field, but also tender and simmering with quiet feeling. It’s a voice that’s lived a bit since we last heard it. That difference can be heard on the new album’s first single, “If You’re Going Through Hell (Before The Devil Even Knows)”.

“When I heard the single, I loved it. It makes a powerful statement. But I had to think, ‘Okay, would I sing this song?’” This question led to songs that meet the same musical standards as the ones set by Honesty and yet come even closer to the kind of man Rodney has always been.
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Who’s Stephanie Hurt? Well, here’s a little bio of last year’s Star of the Blue Ridge contest winner.

Singing since the age of 8 in audition chorus; All-District Chrous (soprano) 1997,1998, 1999, 2000; All-State Chorus (soprano) 1999; sings with The Richards souther gospel group; classical pianist since age 8; 2006 Star of the Blue Ridge competition winner; The Richards opened up for Jimmy Fortune July4th, 2006 at Radford’s Bissett Park July 4th celebration; currently has CS out with the Richards (”New Day, New Sound” sold at concerts on record table)