This in-the-round style performance features an all-star lineup of local folk singers: Devon Sproule, Paul Curreri, Jan Smith, Browning Porter, Jeff Romano, and a special guest we’re not supposed to tell you about (but there might be a big hint below). It’s a benefit show for the Charlottesville Waldorf School, which is raising funds for a new facility that might very well turn out to be one of the most ecologically-minded school buildings in the country.

Devon Sproule - Keep Your Silver Shined
Devon Sproule - 1340 Chesapeake St.
Devon Sproule - Let’s Go Out
Paul Curreri - Long Gone Again Again
Jan Smith - James River
Jan Smith - Your Mamma Don’t Care

In early April, before the near-universal acclaim for Portishead’s Third had started pouring in, the most striking thing about the impending album was the fact that their music was still alive at all so many years after Dummy. The existence of My Brightest Diamond is arguably even better proof of that, though: songwriter Shara Worden has been most successful as one of Sufjan Steven’s supporting musicians, but her solo work sometimes delves into the same melding of electronics and melancholy which defined early Bristol trip-hop in the early 1990s, often with crashing guitars and light orchestral flourishes taking the place of the soul-searching minimalism.

My Brightest Diamond - Something Of An End
My Brightest Diamond - Inside A Boy
My Brightest Diamond - Golden Star [Alias remix]
My Brightest Diamond - Freak Out [Panique mix]

Also performing: Clare and the Reasons, who do their Brooklyn pop thing bolstered with the titular composer’s Berklee jazz brains.

Crozet singer

The local guitarist and sax player team up to lead their jazz combo through the weekly gig.

Jeff Decker - Street Lights

Accordion Death Squad plays Balkan and gypsy music with… well, you know.

Accordion Death Squad - Di, Margule, Di

Also featuring hectic Texans Wax Museum Pandemonium.

Raucous Cajun punk

Jolie Fille - Lake Arthur Stomp