The Arts Are Alive
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By Anita L. Sherman
olorfully painted hallways. Artwork gracing the walls. Cozy places to sit around every corner. A piano in every room. And room to spare for performing.
Who wouldn’t want to learn and be inspired here?
Located at 39 Culpeper Street in Warrenton, Allegro Community School of the Arts has gone through a recent renovation. It was a Boy Scout Eagle project that put in the finishing touches, adding freshly painted walls and trims. “We have Micah Gueck to thank,” said Lachelle Yoder, who, along with her husband, Sam, and a staff of teachers and volunteers run the nonprofit performing arts school established in 2004 and anchored in Old Town since 2013. “We can do this,” Yoder said of the pandemic challenges facing them. Bringing the arts to Fauquier and neighboring counties like Prince William, Culpeper and Rappahannock became more difficult but not impossible. Ideas to go virtual with many of their offerings already had been in the pipeline before coronavirus. Now there was urgency to make that happen. In July, Allegro announced it was now offering the Learning
Photo by Anita L. Sherman
Sam and Lachelle Yoder of Allegro. Annex, a unique blend of general education and the performing arts. Designed to meet the needs of busy families during unprecedented times, the Learning Annex
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has affordable programs with schedules created to complement the different county school system schedules. It’s billed as a “one-stop shop program” for students where tutors, teaching assistants, supervised lunches and the performing arts are
