Bloomin’ With Barry: The Parade Wave
In the first of this week’s Bloomin’ With Barry segments, yours truly and longtime morning radio personality Barry Lee talk about participating in last year’s Apple Blossom Festival Grand Feature Parade. Enjoy the memories this week, brought to you by Winchester Printers and Les Veach State Farm Insurance! ~Randy~
News Maker Dario Savarese discusses free SABF events
News Maker Dario Saverese speaks with Scott Bradley about the quickly approaching Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festivalâs free events such as the Grand Feature Parade and the Friday night fireworks display.
To listen to Dario’s News Maker, click here.
News Makers are sponsored by Warren County Together We are Community.
For more news from across the Shenandoah Valley, click here.
News Maker Dario Savarese discusses free SABF events
News Maker Dario Saverese speaks with Scott Bradley about the quickly approaching Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival’s free events such as the Grand Feature Parade and the Friday night fireworks display.
News Makers are sponsored by Warren County Together We are Community.
For more news from across the Shenandoah Valley, click here.
/
RSS Feed
Brian Sullivan selected as SABF Grand Marshall
The 96th Annual Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival announced Brian Sullivan as the Grand Marshall.
Sullivan is a 1989 Graduate of James Wood High School and anchor of CNBCâs 7:00 pm show âLast Call.â
He originally moved to the area in ninth grade and graduated from James Wood before attending Virginia Tech.
He has spent over 25 years in financial journalism and television and has been nominated for Emmys and the prestigious Loeb Award.
Sullivan will attend numerous festival events on Friday and appear in both Firefighters’ and Grand Feature Parades.
Along with the announcement of the Grand Marshall Apple Blossom Official announced the Store is now open for Official Festival clothing and souvenirs with hours found here.
Apple Blossom Ticket and events information is found here.
For more news from across the Shenandoah Valley, click here.
SABF seeks volunteers to revitalize parade floats
The 96th Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival is quickly approaching, and they announced that your help is needed for one of the most important parts of the parade.
The Festivalâs sixteen floats need freshening up after their yearly storage in the Nolandâs Plumbing Supply Building on Papermill Road.
From now until the end of April, volunteers will meet to help dust, clean, patch, build and paint the floats which will be used in the upcoming parades.
The open work times include Wednesdays from 1-6 pm, Saturdays from 1-8 pm and Sundays from 1- 6 pm.
All supplies are provided.
Credit certificates for volunteer hours are available.
For questions or more information, call 540-662-3863 or just show up at the warehouse.
For more news from across the Shenandoah Valley, click here.
95th SABF is in full Bloom
We are in full Bloom here in the Shenandoah Valley as the 95th Apple Blossom Festival is here.
Today will bring us some of the marquis events like the Grand Feature Parade which will have bands from around the country, floats, and this year’s Grand Marshall Terry Bradshaw and Sports Marshall Julius Erving.
Then put on your dancing boots for the Square dance or the Country Music Party.
Bloomin Sunday will cap things off at the Frederick County Fairgrounds with fun for the whole family.
For a full list of events, click here.
For more news from across the Shenandoah Valley, click here.
Bloomin’ With Barry 4-25-22
It’s Apple Blossom Festival Week, and the Wake-Up Crew celebrates with “Bloomin’ With Barry” as we share Festival Memories with the long time local radio morning icon. This morning, Randy & Barry talk about the perfect food to eat during commercial breaks of the Grand Feature Parade TV broadcast, something that became a tradition in their 15 years of working together. Enjoy!
SABF announce Sports Marshal for 95 Festival
Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival (SABF) representatives have announced the Sports Marshal for the 95 Festival.
“Dr. J”, Julius Winfield Erving will attend this year’s festival and speak at the annual Sports Breakfast at the James R. Wilkins Jr. Athletics and Events Center at Shenandoah University.
Erving has been named one of the top 40 most important athletes of all time by Sports Illustrated.
Erving is not just well known and respected on the basketball court he is also a respected executive and entrepreneur.
He is currently the founder and managing member of Erving Global Opportunity LLC.
Erving will speak at 8:00 a.m. on Apr. 30 at the Sports Breakfast and then ride in the grand feature parade later that day.
Tickets and information for all SABF events available at thebloom.com.
For more news from across the Shenandoah Valley, click here.