Coach Tom Holaday (left) of Mathews will perform a comedy show at the Harvest Festival at the Gloucester Moose Lodge on Sept. 30 to benefit the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU. Sonya King (center) and Lionel Harris are also on the bill (right).
Tom Holaday of Mathews, known to his fans, as well as his former students as Coach Holaday, will be performing his third comedy show at the Gloucester Moose Lodge, 6565 Moose Drive, on Saturday, Sept. 30, as part of the sixth annual Harvest Festival.
The comedy show begins at 4:30 p.m. and will feature Holaday, Sonya King and Lionel Harris. King has performed on Good Morning America and The View. Harris has been a feature at the Dry Bar Comedy Club.
“Both of them are professional comedians,” said Holaday.
Holaday has been doing standup for more than 30 years. He got his start at a Gloucester High School JV football banquet, where he taught and coached for over a decade. He told several off-the-cuff jokes that night and an attendee of t...