Lynch’s Landing presented the award Thursday during its
annual ceremony to honor people, businesses and organizations that promote
downtown Lynchburg.
Randolph College had a role in the popular Get!Downtown
festival from the beginning. In a story in today’s News & Advance, Hermina
Hendricks, a music professor and director of multicultural services, explains that staff at
the College wanted to create an event that would help the city’s many college
students get to know the downtown district and local businesses.
“We wanted them to really know Lynchburg,” she explains in
the article.
The first Get!Downtown festival was held in September 2009,
and it has become an annual event. Many Randolph College students have enjoyed
spending time there, watching street performers including stilt dancers, mimes,
hip hop dancers, and bands.
The event also helps Randolph students get to know the coffee
shops, restaurants, art galleries, bakeries, farmer’s market, and other local
businesses just two miles south of campus.
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| Randolph College's radio station WWRM has played music for the Get!Downtown festival. |
