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2025 New Town Festival: Blues, Brews and BBQ
Venue: St. Luke and Odd Fellows Hall, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Blacksburg Museum and Cultural Foundation, Blue Monday Band, JoJo Stockton, Lady D
Date: Saturday, October 11, 2025
Time: 12:00 - 5:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Food, Drink Specials, Miscellaneous, Charity
Cost: Free

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Description:
The Blacksburg Museum and Cultural Foundation and St. Luke & Odd Fellows Hall Events Committee presents the 12th Annual New Town Festival: Blues, Brews and BBQ on Saturday, October 11, 2025 at Historic St. Luke and Odd Fellows Hall.

Join us for our annual Blues, Brews, & BBQ event at St. Luke & Odd Fellows Hall, a nationally recognized historic landmark that once served as the social center of New Town, a neighborhood for Black residents during segregation. Learn about the special history of this neighborhood from former residents and support the building's upcoming restoration and exhibit redesign.

The Hall is the last building standing and serves as an important reminder of the resilience, pride, self-reliance, and community spirit of the people who lived there, as well as the legacy of injustice that segregation imposed. The Blues, Brews, and BBQ event recalls some of the happier times in New Town, when friends and neighbors would gather for dancing, community, and fellowship.

Enjoy live music from The JoJo Stockton Project, Lady D and Mi$$ion and The Blue Monday Band.

Performance Schedule:
• 12:30-1:30 PM: The Blue Monday Band
• 2:00-3:00 PM: The JoJo Stockton Project
• 3:30-4:30 PM: Lady D and Mi$$ion

As band leader and guitarist for Hott Sauce, Franklin County native JoJo Stockton is no stranger to the Roanoke music scene, where he currently is based. If you’re a fan of neo-soul, R&B, funk or old school music, make plans to see JoJo Stockton.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/hottsauceband

Doris A. Fields, also known as Lady D, is an R&B and soul singer, songwriter, actress, director and playwright based in Beckley, West Virginia and is known as West Virginia's "First Lady of Soul". She performs as both a duo and with her band Mi$$ion.

Among her accomplishments are her five CDs, "Nobody's Bizness," "My Turn", "Reflections" and "Go Higher". "Nobody's Bizness" was released in 2003. It is the musical soundtrack from her one-woman stage play, "The Lady and the Empress," which she wrote and performs. The play is based on the life and music of blues legend, Bessie Smith and features 10 songs originally recorded by Smith in the 20s and 30s.

In 2008, Lady D’s original song, “Go Higher” was chosen as the best Obama Inaugural Song and earned her a trip with her band, MI$$ION to Washington, DC to perform at the Obama for Change Inaugural Ball in 2009. In 2010, Lady D was honored to perform at the live recording of the HistoryMakers: “An Evening With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” at the Cultural Center in Charleston. In August 2014, Lady D was inducted into the “All Black Schools Sports & Academic Hall of Fame” (ABSSA) with a Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2017 Lady D was again honored to win the DC Blues Society Blues Challenge as a member of “Lady D with the Rogue Johnsen Trio".

She is a West Virginia native and graduate of West Virginia State University with a bachelor's degree in Communications.

Links:

• https://musicbyladyd.wordpress.com
• https://www.facebook.com/samanthagrayblues
• https://www.twitter.com/firstladyofsoul
• https://www.reverbnation.com/ladydandmssion
• https://www.instagram.com/fieldsdoris/

The Blue Monday Band has been playing Chicago-style blues together for well over a decade, and even longer individually. You'll hear classic songs by Muddy Waters, Slim Harpo, Howlin' Wolf, and more, as well as many originals!

Beer, wine and barbeque will be available for purchase from Blue Ridge Beverage and Kirk’s Famous BBQ.

Admission is free though donations are appreciated.

Seating is limited so chairs are welcome.

St. Luke and Odd Fellow Hall is located at 203 Gilbert Street in Blacksburg, VA.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.postimg.cc/tTBd9M6B/image.png.

For more information, visit: https://blacksburgmuseum.org/event/blues-brews-bbq-3/ or https://www.facebook.com/blacksburgmuseum/ or https://www.facebook.com/events/721384437459509 or https://www.instagram.com/blacksburgmuseum/.