Bluegrass band inspired by 1970’s folk-rock.
Johnson’s Crossroad - Bail Money
Johnson’s Crossroad - Tired
Johnson’s Crossroad - Those Lonesome Blues
Johnson’s Crossroad - The Bitter End
Johnson’s Crossroad - Left Behind
Johnson’s Crossroad - In Betweens
Young local singer-songwriter leads a fundraiser for the Nelson High School Gay/Straight Alliance. Also featuring Neptune and the Never Rockets.
Filthy and satirical guitar and cello duo
Barling and Collins - (That’s Right) I’m Looking At Your Girlfriend
Acoustic set from the roots-rock and Americana quartet
The Lost Souls - Wildflower
The Lost Souls - NJ Turnpike
The Lost Souls - Horseshoes
The Lost Souls - Scarred Smart
Delta blues on acoustic and slide guitar.
Guitarist plays jazz and pop
Featuring a guest appearance by VCU pianist
Featuring a guest appearance by VCU pianist
Fingerpicked guitar fed through a loop pedal to produce a one-man bluegrass band.
Cello and piano sonatas by Brahms and Beethoven
UVA’s cello faculty instructor leads the third annual “cello day,” featuring master classes, performances, and a guest appearance by New York Philharmonic cellist Ru-Pei Yeh. RSVP to .
Modal and hard bop jazz saxophonist who follows closely in Coltrane’s giant footsteps and is best known for his 1970s stints with legends like Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, and Buddy Rich, and Elvin Jones.
80’s covers performed on acoustic instruments by members of local bluegrass fiends Old School Freight Train
Progressive acoustic bluegrass jamband
Funky rock from the jamband fave and undisputed champion of the “sacred steel” tradition which uses the pedal steel guitar in gospel worship.
Electric folk and bluegrass jamband
Retro 1960s psychedelic pop. Head And The Heart opens.
buy tickets onlineAggressive revolving-door dual-drummer Southern sludge metal outfit; recommended for fans of Mastodon and Baroness. Rosetta and Fight Amp open.
buy tickets onlineThe local folk duo leads the charge at this fundraiser for Appalachian Voices, a non-profit organization which promotes sustainable coal mining operations. Also featuring Dewi Sant and Matrimony.
The Honey Dewdrops - Nowhere To Stand
The Honey Dewdrops - Fly Away Free
Southern rock and country. With the Lost Souls and Cody Purvis.
The Lost Souls - Wildflower
The Lost Souls - NJ Turnpike
The Lost Souls - Horseshoes
The Lost Souls - Scarred Smart
Dream-pop and garage rock. With Hot Lava and Left & Right.
White Laces - Motorik Twilight
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Yeah, yeah, Jolie Holland, folk-rock songwriter who splits the difference between California freak-folk and Texas Americana and was a founding member of the Be Good Tanyas. But the real draw here is Kyp Malone, the TV On The Radio guitarist who split off for the Rain Machine solo project, playing all the instruments himself on a killer set of songs which prove him a much more potent creative force than you’d have guessed based on the output from his other band.
Jolie Holland - Back Hand Blues
Jolie Holland - Black Stars
Jolie Holland - Crazy Dreams
Jolie Holland - I Wanna Die
Jolie Holland - Old Fashion Morphine
Jolie Holland - Springtime Can Kill You
Local country-rock trio. Roots-rock guitarist Brian Patrick and songwriter Carl Anderson open.
The Brian Patrick Band - Tumbleweed
The Brian Patrick Band - Nowhere Left To Fall
The Brian Patrick Band - It Hurts Me More
The Brian Patrick Band - Don’t Believe In Me
The Brian Patrick Band - California
The Brian Patrick Band - Big Muddy
Local folk rocker Chris Campanelli and the Dusty Jackets open.
Paul Curreri - Once Upon A Rooftop
Paul Curreri - California
Paul Curreri - Long Gone Again
Local bluegrass outfit. The Pickin’ Shack opens.
buy tickets onlineThe folky Americana singer-songwriters, one of them a recent addition to the lineup of country-rock superstars-in-the-making The Zac Brown Band, share the stage and alternate songs with improvised set lists. Holly Allen opens.
buy tickets onlineLo-fi indie rock inspired by Guided By Voices. The Hilarious Posters open.
The Hilarious Posters - The Fists The Fighting
The Hilarious Posters - Crossed Over The Ocean
The Hilarious Posters - That Thing You Don’t
The Hilarious Posters - Sugarbread Falls
Americana-rock. With Ocean Versus Daughter and Jenny and the Holzers.
Pantherburn - The Octopus
Pantherburn - Mister Baby [demo]
Award-winning DC acoustic folk-pop singer-songwriter
Talia Segal - Honeydew Smoothie
Talia Segal - Mona Lisa Smiling
Talia Segal - Smoking Gun
Talia Segal - Whole Wide World
Prodigious young folk-pop singer-songwriter in the vein of Emmylou Harris and Alison Krauss.
Sahara Smith - The Real Thing
Sahara Smith - Are You Lonely
Folk-rock. Bobby Bare Jr. opens with country-rock with an occasional absurdist edge.
buy tickets onlineTed Pitney and Megan Huddleston’s Americana band join the raucous bluegrass-rockers for a powerhouse local folk-rock lineup.
6 Day Bender - Kick Out The Fire
6 Day Bender - Devil Lets You Dance
6 Day Bender - Factory Man
Singer-songwriter. Local pianist DJ Elaris opens.
The weary road warrior is a common theme in country music, but North Carolina songwriter PJ Bond actually earned his stripes in that field with his Year Of A Thousand Roommates phase, wherein he traveled the world for a year while touring and blogging, including a stop in Austria where his latest EP was recorded in one shot.
Lo-fi bedroom freak-folk songwriter
Timid heart-on-sleeve folk-pop songwriter who owes his career to Grey’s Anatomy and Scrubs trying out a new alt-rock edge with his latest album. Anya Marina and Andrew Allen open, the former notably with a breathy sexpot cover of T.I.’s “Whatever You Like.”
buy tickets onlineTwin teen pop-rock singers in the vein of Pink and Train.
Nalani and Sarina - Letting You Go
Nalani and Sarina - Hey! (I’m OK)
Twin teen pop-rock singers in the vein of Pink and Train.
Nalani and Sarina - Letting You Go
Nalani and Sarina - Hey! (I’m OK)
UVA’s performance faculty specialists perform Bach, Schumann and Argentine tango composer Astor Piazzolla on oboe and cello with a particular eye toward the ways in which visual concepts like space and color influenced their chamber music.
Psychedelic electronics. With Centric and Sports Bar.
Local Afro-pop scholar
Heather Maxwell - African Women
Heather Maxwell - Ashanti Boy
Heather Maxwell - Boloci
Heather Maxwell - Can’t Take My Man
Heather Maxwell - Orphan’s Lullaby
Heather Maxwell - Surrender
Jewish folk singer and her apprentice.
Folk singer.
Award-winning local folk rock songwriter.
Galen Curry - Oh Mama
Galen Curry - I Tore Down A Mountain
Several of Charlottesville’s finest guitarists will band together to pay their respects to the original gypsy alien troubadour at Bold as Love, a Jimi Hendrix tribute concert at the Jefferson Theater. The sound of these guys channeling Jimi on one cover song after another should be something to behold, but we rounded them up and found that their personal reflections were just as interesting. Eli Cook: Before I started even playing guitar, his music moved me in a way that no one else’s had before. Not only was he a ground breaking guitarist, but an amazing lyricist and arranger as well — that gets overlooked quite often. The only monster in the set is “Machine Gun.” The idea of trying to cover it is a little audacious, as the only version most people are familliar with is a very long masterpiece of live improvisation that displays more aggression, angst, and depth of feeling than pretty much any electric guitar piece since. But a challenge is always good, and something that Jimi would never have backed down from. Performing: Machine Gun, Voodoo Chile Ian Gilliam: Jimi was the first mainstream rock guitar player to combine his influences into a unique sound that almost made it hard to tell where it all came from. If you listen to Jimi with an ear pointed toward blues, you can hear phrases straight from Freddie King, Buddy Guy, and Guitar Slim, but the way Jimi brought those influences together to create a sound that was all his own was pioneering. Performing: Remember, Nine To The Universe Jay Pun: Hendrix has been a huge influence on my guitar playing since I first started. Even if you can’t actually hear Hendrix riffs in my guitar style, he definitely shaped me into who I am today. I can remember learning the strum pattern to “Purple Haze” and now I even teach it to my students. I have a poster of the Jimi Hendrix Experience that’s up in our music studio now. It’s amazing to have my students look at that and say they want to be Jimi. Performing: 1983, Drifting Andy Waldeck of XPS: I remember when I first heard Jimi at prep school in Connecticut. I was mesmerized. I sat and listened to the entire album, missing my classes, and stopping only to flip over the record. From that day on, my musical vocabulary has been tinged with Hendrix. He was, and still is, the ultimate guitar innovator. The sounds he was producing are amazing even by today’s standards, and his ability to weave magical little parts into others is incredible. There simply is guitar playing before Jimi, and guitar playing after Jimi, and that is the rule. Performing: Fire, Waterfall Aric Van Brocklin of the Chickenhead Blues Band: Guitar players in bands performing during the 1960s and 1970s who were expected to cover tunes by the Jimi Hendrix Experience either accepted the challenge and did the best they could or accepted their limitations and covered another artist, instead. But in either case there was respect; respect for an exceptionally creative artist who defined innovation and changed the way that the guitar was played. Here we are forty years after his death celebrating his talents and creativity. What if he were still alive today? Who knows, but his musical ideas remain alive for those of us who dare to work with them. Thanks, Jimi! God rest your soul. Performing: Little Wing, The Wind Cries Mary The Bold as Love Jimi Hendrix tribute show happens Saturday, January 15 at the Jefferson Theater. $10-$12, 8pm.
Reggae-rock. Richmond ska punks Murphy’s Kids open.
buy tickets onlineHonky-tonk country, Western swing, and Appalachian folk
The Halliday Line - The Lonesome Pine Special
The Halliday Line - I Fall To Pieces
The Halliday Line - The Black Pine
The Halliday Line - I Write You Letters
The Halliday Line - It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels
The Halliday Line - Sick, Sober, and Sorry
The Halliday Line - Milk Cow Blues
Folk rock
HoboJac - Uncle Joe
HoboJac - Ramblings Of A Sinner
HoboJac - Crossroads
Jazz tribute to local bebop pianist Hod O’Brien
Swing’s sultry vocals add depth to his classical folk-rock. PUBLICITY PHOTO
Award-winning local folk rock songwriter. Gunchux and Ryan Thompson open.
Galen Curry - Oh Mama
Galen Curry - I Tore Down A Mountain
Americana singer-songwriter. With Uncle Benguine and the Restraining Orders and Who Are The Southern Baptists?
Very 2000’s indie rock with beefy guitars as concocted by four very 1990’s former alt-rockers, most notably including Drive Like Jehu frontman Rick Froberg. Gentleman Jesse and His Men open by splitting the difference between punk rock and 1970’s power-pop.
buy tickets onlinePost-rock and shoegaze guitar tones over poppier skeletons, like Explosions In The Sky with a sense of purpose.
Indie pop with occasional experimental electronic touches.
Loud and heavy local keyboard rockers. With Gila Monster and Rugby.
New releases from both these local artists — from newcomer Swing, his debut album, featuring 14 experimental folk pieces based around his cello and a loop sampler. Sproule is of course an old hand at this by now, so she’s following last spring’s ¡Don’t Hurry For Heaven! with her first live album.
buy tickets onlineThe most famous space-gypsy guitarist of all time gets a local memorial of sorts with this tribute show, featuring covers and reverence alike from blues guitarist Eli Cook, Andy Waldeck’s improvised funk mob XPS, The Chickenhead Blues Band, and more.
buy tickets onlineEverything old is new again, or something — ring in the new year by partying like it’s 1989 with a set by the recently revitalized elder statesmen of C-ville’s 1980’s college-rock circuit. Similarly old-school blues-rockers The Nighthawks open.
buy tickets onlineAmericana from the Hogwaller Ramblers frontman.
Led Zeppelin tribute band
buy tickets onlineFolk-rock singer-songwriter and fingerstyle guitarist.
Curtis Prince - Miles And Years
Curtis Prince - Silhouette
Curtis Prince - Beneath The Moon
Curtis Prince - Little Whistler
Curtis Prince - Pushin Up Daisies
Curtis Prince - Move On
