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More images from another Front Royal Historic Downtown weekend
In addition to the “From the Heart” weekend downtown Front Royal entertainment mentioned in a related story on music, haircutting and styling, this past weekend saw other downtown events and entertainment.
Those events, among others we may have missed from simply not knowing about them until after the fact, included the Mark Clay-led Vinyl Tracks band entertaining with its repertoire of classic vinyl-era music at a Thursday evening Gazebo Gathering;

Vinyl Tracks gathers fans at the Gazebo, early Thursday evening. Below, haven’t we seen that father-daughter/drummer-singer team on stage with their own band somewhere before? – Hint, it was ‘Aftershock-ing’. Royal Examiner Photos/Roger Bianchini




a Saturday vintage car show on East Main Street;

Beautiful over and under the hood




a late afternoon Friday resurrection of the weekly “Yappy Hour” Julia Wagner Animal Shelter/WC Humane Society fundraising event at East Main Street’s ViNoVa wine, beer and tapa restaurant, as previewed by Malcolm Barr Sr. on Royal Examiner’s website;

Pals Rico, left, and Diva at outdoor portion of Friday’s ‘Yappy Hour’ at ViNoVa – Below, ‘Could we have some more water in our bowls, please’ these 2 hot dogs may have been thinking; and water they got under the tent shade.

and the band Starting Early tracing rock history through the 1960’s-‘70’s beginning with a properly suited Beatles set, followed by some classic power trio (Hendrix, Cream) and quartet (Zeppelin) music, among others, followed by some originals in the Virginia Beer Museum back-of-house outdoor Biergarten.

It was too late to be Starting Early by the time the band got to its 1960’s-‘70’s power trio and quartet sets in the Va. Beer Museum Biergarten.
Enjoy these images from those events, and come on downtown for the next installment of Front Royal re-opened, masks and social distancing encouraged, as Warren County and all of Virginia walk the tightrope between pandemic precautions and COVID-19 spikes and economic rebounding this unprecedented summer of 2020.
