🔥 Fired up for Ashland Fourth Fridays? Your July event guide for Friday the 28th’s culinary, performing, and fine artists are just a scroll away 👇
Live entertainment:
🩰 5 PM Ashland Dance Academy’s junior dancers perform a number inside The Depot.
🎵5 - 8 PM Zbey tha Poet performs uplifting spoken word hip-hop live.
🕺 6 PM Ashland Dance Academy invites everyone to a dance party on Ashland Town Hall Lawn.
👢 7 PM Boot Scooters lead line dancing at Ashland Town Hall.
🏛️Ashland Museum tells the story of our town through historical artifacts, oral histories, biographies, and more.
👻 Ashland Haunted History Tours reenacts the haunted history of our Victorian town.
🐇 RED VEIN Escape challenges guests to puzzling games.
🎥 Ashland Theatre shows a movie at 7 PM.
Eat and Drink:
🍜 Ban Thai Restaurant dishes out authentic Thai tea and cuisine for carryout.
🥘 The Henry Clay Inn provides dine-in options inside the historic space.
🍺 Origin Beer Lab pours craft brews inside, on the patio, and in their beer garden.
🥘 The Iron Horse Restaurant serves seasonal elevated southern cuisine on the patio.
🥘 The Caboose Market & Cafe pairs beers and wine with farm-to-table meals indoors and out.
🥘 Ashland Meat Co. At Cross Bros serves up sandwiches, salads, ice cream, and beverages indoors and out.
🥘 The Depot serves pizza and libations with three art vendors on display and a 5 PM performance by Ashland Dance Academy.
🥘 Trackside Kitchen and Wine show off their renovated space with all-American meals.
🍨 Sweet Frog lets you make your own frozen yogurt dreams come true.
🍹 Casa Herradura Family Mexican Restaurant offers a can’t-miss margarita special on the patio or in the expanded dining room.
🥘 Huddle Up Sports Bar is the destination for a giant dance floor, drinks, and dining.
🥘 Andy's Restaurant & Lounge’s homestyle plates pair perfectly with their outdoor patio and billiards.
🍲 Tops China serves Chinese food favorites for dine-in or takeout.
Food trucks:
😋 Hungry Hungry Arrow is a Native American-owned food truck and catering business dishing out community-focused food.
🥤Easy Squeezed pours fair-styled drink to keep you cool all Friday.
🧁 Sugar Florist Bakery specialty baker sets up their booth for custom-made cupcake bouquets, floral sugar cookies, and boozy treats in Origin Beer Lab’s beer garden.
🍋 The Ashland Kiwanis Club sets up a good old-fashioned lemonade stand outside Ashland Meat Company to benefit the Children's Hospital of Richmond.
Art:
🎨 Refunkit shop with funky, handcrafted art and gifts created by artists from Virginia and beyond.
🖼️ The Shop at 112 fabulous vintage finds with an eye towards Chinoiserie chic, classic French, English & Italian accents.
🌟 Tiny Tim’s Trains & Toys generates playful delight for kids and kids-at-heart.
🌱 Heartspace Hydration on Town Hall lawn provides handmade jewelry and preserved nature home decor made with foraged materials.
🖼️ Marigold Art Studio on Town Hall lawn sells affordable watercolor prints on paper, mugs, totes, tee-shirts, and more.
🎨 Immagine', LLC on Town Hall lawn produces art prints, stationery, and gift items.
🌟 Sazha Star’s Closet feat Phoenix Moon on Town Hall lawn repurposes jewelry and art.
📝 Handmade Greeting Card Factory on Town Hall lawn creates custom cards and journals.
🪴 KP Jenkins Jewelry and Fine Arts on Town Hall lawn has jewelry inspired by nature.
🕯️ Scentzbyjavonllc on Town Hall lawn sells candles, room sprays, carpet deodorizers, lotion, body oils, and cups.
🖼️ Aergase Art on Town Hall lawn displays original stained glass art.
PinPaalz on Town Hall Lawn creates cuddly crochet cuties.
🕯️ Living with Grace inside The Depot offers stylish home decor.
🎨 On Point Accents inside The Depot offers unique handmade signs, paint parties, tumblers and more.
🐸 Toad Hill Goods inside The Depot reclaims wood and linoleum block prints for handmade and homemade items.
🖼️ The Asylum on Robinson Street is a self-publishing and collaborative press working in the traditional printmaking techniques of intaglio, woodcut, and monotype.
💎 a4ordablebeauty Jewelry Accessories, LLC on Robinson Street sells handcrafted jewelry for a bargain.
🕯️ Sweet Heat Candles on Robinson Street repurposes recycled bottles to house beautiful soy candles.
🏠 SkyCart Crafts on Robinson Street has homemade decor like wreaths, serving boards, and even gnomes.
🐢 The Box Turtle Sanctuary of Central VA on Robinson Street totes their turtles to Ashland Fourth Fridays for meet and greets as well as educational activities.