Not quite a family band, strictly speaking, but close enough — The Fitzmaurice Band is a young and accordingly progressive Maryland bluegrass and alt-country quintet which sprung from a 2009 Hampton VA bluegrass festival with the titular twenty-year-old identical twin sisters fronting the band on guitar and bass after years of singing together as kids.
The Fitzmaurice Band - Cross Your Mind
The Fitzmaurice Band - California
The Fitzmaurice Band - Barely A Man
The Fitzmaurice Band - Annie Kay
Local songwriter Stone Aielli opens.
Late saxophonist LeRoi Moore will get to say goodbye to fans through some of the final recordings he made with his Dave Matthews Band bretheren on the band’s forthcoming album Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King. Matthews tells Rolling Stone that several tracks on the new disc feature Moore’s playing including a track titled “Lying in the Hands of God,” which Matthews describes as “kind of like a duet between us.” The album title is partly an homage to Moore as Matthews reveals “Groogrux King” was a nickname of Moore’s. The album is due out on June 2.
PVCC Theatre gets in touch with its inner Flavio at the first reading of John Carden’s new musical.For local singer, composer, and hairdresser John Carden, being a jack-of-all-trades is second nature. After finding international success as an opera singer, Carden unexpectedly shifted his tune and began performing jazz with iconic local pianist George Melvin in 2007. Now Carden has shifted once more and embraced a new form– the musical.
During the summer of 2006, Carden put on his composer hat and began penning a musical based on an Italian play from 1682. “I had never written a musical before, so I really gave it a lot of thought,” Carden says. “I wrote a whole new script, changed characters and it became Fabulous Flavio.”
The musical, which follows the comic and tragic trajectory of King Flavio and his kingdom, combines all aspects of Carden’s musical career. In composing the score, the opera-turned-jazz singer brought all his musical influences to the task.
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What Internet fan sites had rumored to be true was made official this morning when concert promoter Live Nation announced that U2 would play Scott Stadium on Thursday, October 1. Tickets will go on sale this Friday, April 3 at 10am. Tickets will be available at four different price levels: $32 for the nosebleeds, $57 and $97 to get closer, and $252 for the premium reach-out-and-touch-Bono variety.
Amy Ray and Emily Saliers broke out big in 1989 with their self-titled major-label debut thanks in large part to the success of “Closer To Fine,” which is still a folk-pop classic to this day. Last month’s Poseidon and the Bitter Bug was a two-disc affair, half dripping with Mitchell Froom production and half consisting of more barebones acoustic renditions of the same songs. More importantly, though, it was a breaking point for the Indigos: with comparatively little fanfare, they ditched their label and joined the megalo-indie ranks of like-minded convention buckers like Radiohead and Counting Crows.
Nashville rocker Will Hoge has been touring hard for years, including dates with My Morning Jacket and the Black Crowes, and even sustaining serious injuries after he crashed his scooter into a van last summer couldn’t stop him.
Opener Katie Herzig writes songs with her bedroom recording gear that can later make it all the way to the Grammy Awards.
Katie Herzig - Hologram
Katie Herzig - Sumatra
Katie Herzig - Songbird
Katie Herzig - Shovel
Katie Herzig - How The West Was Won
Katie Herzig - Gypsy Girl
Like many hippie bands before them, Atlanta psychedelic reggae band DubConscious wants their music to have positive social and political impacts (ok), so when they released their last album, NonViolent (ok), they encouraged fans to purchase it digitally to cut back on waste (still OK), then mailed the download codes out on postcards that had embedded seeds and could be planted to grow wildflowers (POW!).
Dubconscious - Unify
Dubconscious - NonViolent
The downBEAT Project opens.
The DOWNbeat Project - Simple Life [live]
buy tickets onlineA Cvillian folk singer transplanted to Austin, Danny Schmidt returns to introduce his new album and bid his old stomping grounds farewell.
Danny Schmidt - Leaves Are Burning
Danny Schmidt - Dark Eyed Prince
Danny Schmidt - This Too Shall Pass
John Ashley opens.
This irreverent Austin alt-country and bluegrass quintet exploded in the early days of Napster thanks to a hilarious cover of Snoop’s Gin and Juice. Well, sort of — the file was mislabeled, attributed to other quirky-cover jamband acts like Phish and Widespread Panic by befuddled listeners who had no idea what they were hearing and just decided to take their best guess. When Haymaker! came out this past January, they were able to do it entirely on their own terms but that didn’t necessarily make everything smooth and straightforward — they’re still as odd and unpredictable as ever, and maybe even a little more proud of it now.
Jim Waive and the Young Divorcees open.
Jim Waive and the Young Divorcees - Strike A Match
buy tickets onlineRurally-minded indie-folk from Baltimore. With local folk-rock quartet The Hill and Wood
buy tickets onlineIt Came From The Sky is a heavy new post-rock band from made up of former members of After The Fire and Tyger and the Lamb. Also featuring North Carolina rock duo The Bronzed Chorus and Waynesboro instrumental metal trio iOdic.
Photo by David Kling_Thing
Local punk rock quartet. With Hail Hydra and Order.
Worn In Red - Vital Joys
Worn In Red - When People Have Something To Say
If Chicago gothic industrial quartet The Gothsicles can’t prove their general irreverence to your satisfaction with the name alone, maybe their goofy Nintendo synths or goofier stage names (Sega Lugosi, DarkNES) will do the trick. Likewise, before you take Caustic too seriously, you should probably know that main man Matt Fanale writes about Thin Mints on Twitter and then goes on to use the phrase “sad panda” after missing an Andrew Bird show. Prometheus Burning seems to be the most straightforward of the bunch, with kick drum samples dripping with distortion and absolutely no trace of pop appeal in the vocals; that’s probably for the best, since Fanale’s 2007 album Booze Up And Riot includes a song called “Kill AFI (They Started It).”
The Gothsicles - Konami Code
Caustic - Industrial Moustache Ride
Prometheus Burning - Ouroboros Deathride
Garage punk trio. With Nobunny, The Rock n Roll Adventure Kids, and Hollywood
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Teenage rockers. With A Lifelike Story and Shut Up and Deal.
Garage rock quartet from Sweden. The Crueligans and the Rock and Roll Cannibals open.
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Crushing local heavy metal band
Horsefang - River Of Dead Horses
Horsefang - We Will Use Your Dead As Vessels
Horsefang - Plaguebreaker
Horsefang - Genesis In The Retort
Bride Of The Narwhal and The Black Shade open with distortion pedals instead set to “punk”.
buy tickets onlinePastoral indie-folk
Catchy-ass guilty-pleasure electro-pop in the vein of CSS. Local youngsters Your Spirit Animal In The Unreal City open.
Drum-n-bass and electronica, with support from Richmond’s Silo Effect and like-minded DJ Cadence
Singer-songwriter Jonatha Brooke has been doing her folk-pop thing for more than twenty years at this point, but her latest release, last summer’s The Works, is especially cool — just as Billy Bragg and Wilco did on the Mermaid Avenue discs a decade ago, Brooke got to write the music that would go behind some of Woody Guthrie’s unrecorded lyrics, and also recruited top-shelf helper elves like Mitchell Froom, Bob Clearmountain, Keb’ Mo’, Steve Gadd, Christian McBride, and Derek Trucks, among others. More recently, she also co-wrote the theme song for the creepy new Joss Whedon vehicle Dollhouse.
Jonatha Brooke - All You Gotta Do Is Touch Me
buy tickets onlineLive electronica trio with impromptu sampler tweaking and even honest-to-god instruments; “part IDM and part improv,” according to Time Out Chicago. The Bandaloop Doctors open.
Student bands from Albemarle High School and Western Albemarle High School — most notably, The Wave — perform at this fundraiser for the new scholarship created for local high school athletes as a memorial for Sydney Aichs, the local teenager killed in a tragic car accident about a year ago.
Also performing: The Great Eastern and Speaking Of The Elephant, and talented Crozet songwriter Rob Martin with a solo acoustic set
Speaking Of The Elephant - Beach Jam
The Wave - My Robot
The Wave - Sometimes
The Wave - Little People
The Wave - Sometimes
Richmond alt-rockers with touches of new wave. Also featuring assorted local and Richmond pop-rock acts like Tracing Shadows, Roslyn, and the Jim Ivins Band.
buy tickets onlineThe cultural downfall of Metallica, once hands-down the most influential metal band since Sabbath, might have started at any one of a number of watershed points — the radio-friendly, ballad-heavy, Bob Rock-produced Black Album, the country twang on Load’s “Mama Said” which presumably lead to the Skynyrd cover (another possibility there, actually), drummer Lars Ulrich’s unpopular early anti-Napster stance, the nearly universally snickered-about 2003 musical and interpersonal trainwreck that was St. Anger… shall we continue? (The 7pm start time for this show isn’t doing them any favors, either — off to Never Never Land before Letterman? Come on, guys. That’s unforgivable.)
Stay home, drink whiskey, and blast “Orion” and “The Call Of Ktulu.” That’s what 1989 Lars would have wanted.
buy tickets onlineNo longer a local yet still a local favorite, Danny Schmidt drops by with copies of his new album and fellow Austin singer-songwriter Carrie Elkin.
Danny Schmidt - Leaves Are Burning
Danny Schmidt - Dark Eyed Prince
Danny Schmidt - This Too Shall Pass
Asheville trio Telepath incorporates elements of Afrobeat and traditional Indian and Arabic music in their jammy electronic music, which has won them slots opening for the Disco Biscuits and a record deal with the guys in Sound Tribe Sector 9.
Telepath - Subterfuge
Telepath - Jadhi
Telepath - Global Rights
Telepath - Contact
The Bandaloop Doctors and Abel Okugawa open, the latter in DJ mode with a set of original electronica from his recent album Dance Like A Speaker.
And speaking of Afrobeat, check out his entry for Femi Kuti’s recent remix contest:
Abel Okugawa - You Better Ask Yourself [Femi Kuti remix]
buy tickets onlineHüsker Düde Bob Mould is best known for the 80’s hardcore band that bridged the gap between the proto-punk of the 70’s and the alt-rock of the 90’s, making possible the more chaotic corner of the mainstream occupied by the likes of the Pixies and Jane’s Addiction. His 90’s band, Sugar, was a fairly predictable move after the Dü broke up in 1987 (even if 1994’s File Under: Easy Listening was a bit of a misnomer), but recent years have taken him into a wider variety of environments, including electronic duo project Blowoff (who turned up at R2 a while back), the theme song to the Daily Show (”Dog On Fire,” interpreted by They Might Be Giants), collaborations with Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty, and solo acoustic performances.
Bob Mould - City Lights (Days Go By)
Local fave Lauren Hoffman kicks things off with her brooding, reflective singer-songwriter tunes.
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Surf’s up! Wipeout! None of these exclamations make sense in landlocked central Virginia unless you’re at a show by this local surf-rock quintet, which usually tries to channel the beach vibe exemplified by the Ventures and “Misirlou.”
Surfzilla - The Joker’s Wild
Surfzilla - The Jester
Surfzilla - GooGoo Muck
Surfzilla - Failsafe
Surfzilla - Cecilia Ann
Surfzilla - Apache
Experimental music, electronics, and installations from the Pinko Communoids, Troy Rogers, Gerrit Roessler, Peter Traub, and more, including another look at mechanical boogiebot PAM.
Sheesh, with so many descriptors in the names, do we really need to tell you anything more? Telemann and Bach, guest horn players Lowell Greer and Ian Zook. That’s the best we can do; sorry.
Big-band sax player and pianist Billy Tipton, born Dorothy, lived most of her life as a man because it worked to her advantage in the jazz world, with the truth only coming to light when he/she was literally on his/her deathbead. Thus, the namesake for these four lovely ladies (not, regrettably, transsexuals, although founding member John Otto did qualify), who take their four saxes through jazz and into Klezmer and R&B. They’re performing with drummer Chris Stromquist on this tour; appropriately enough, we have no idea whether that’s a man or a woman.
The Tiptons Sax Quartet - Number Six
The Tiptons Sax Quartet - Raisa
The Tiptons Sax Quartet - Sind’
The Tiptons Sax Quartet - Fallout
The Tiptons Sax Quartet - The Shop Of Wild Dreams
The Tiptons Sax Quartet - Yugo A Go Go
Last year, amid swirling rumors of a genuine-as-can-be-given-that-Bonham-is-dead Zeppelin reunion tour, word started to spread that the classic rock gods had been booked for Coran Capshaw’s seventh annual Bonnaroo music festival in Tennessee. Close, but no cigar — it was the wrong Zeppelin! Instead, it was these four loud ladies who took to the stage, proving once and for all that Robert Plant’s falsetto is totally freaky.
The Rogan Brothers open.
The Rogan Brothers - Into The Light
The Rogan Brothers - Heartbeat
The Rogan Brothers - Hang Tough
Classic folk and country duo
The Don’t Tell Darlings - Single Girls
Acoustic and electric pop and rock originals from a pair of local teenage guitarists.
Two Kings - In Your Heart
Two Kings - Janey Omph
Two Kings - Pieces
Vocalist and African music scholar Heather Maxwell teams up with local drummer Robert Jospe, keyboard player Lucy Kilpatrick, and vocalist/percussionist Temi Awosogba for a hybrid lecture and performance with inspiration as the central theme. She calls it “kind of Heather Maxwell unplugged;” expect anecdotes and extended banter every couple songs or so, more dancing than usual, and an accompanying slide show with pictures from her travels in West Africa during the late 1980’s. Send your optional RSVP to [email protected] if you’re feeling nice.
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
Fight songs and such from throughout UVA’s history.
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Performing Maurice Ravel’s orchestral adaptation of Modeste Mussorgsky Pictures At An Exhibition piano suite, as well as other pieces by Ravel and Samuel Barber. D.C. sax player Timothy Roberts makes a guest appearance for Paul Maurices Tableuax de Provence.
Performing Maurice Ravel’s orchestral adaptation of Modeste Mussorgsky’s ten-stage piano suite Pictures At An Exhibition, as well as other pieces by Ravel and Samuel Barber. D.C. sax player Timothy Roberts makes a guest appearance for Paul Maurices Tableuax de Provence.
In the shadow of the larger Jazz Ensemble, the UVA Music Department also runs several smaller student jazz groups which meet weekly and are coached by faculty members like Jeff Decker, Mike Rosensky, and Pete Sparr. They’re usually spread throughout the week, but here you can catch them all in one place as they play tunes by Jobim, Mingus, and what have you.
The “mountain rock” quartet squeezes a hometown gig in between their trip to SXSW, a few dates in North Carolina, and a longer tour that takes up the rest of April. And, more importantly, the recording sessions for their next album, tentatively slated for release over the summer under the name 200 Roses. “‘200 Chinese Democracies’ was too wordy,” says banjo-wielding frontman Luke Nutting. Also rejected: 200 Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head.
6 Day Bender - Kick Out The Fire
6 Day Bender - Devil Lets You Dance
Award-winning six-piece rock and roll a cappella ensemble with original tunes and reinvented covers.
Americana from the driving force behind the man behind the Hogwaller Ramblers, with banjo from the man behind the Prism.
Byron Massie sings acoustic country with religious inflections, and here’s celebrating the release of his debut album, which was recorded in the studio upstairs.
Local keyboard player delivers oldies, Motown, and a few originals
The buzzsaw guitars and Ramonesy chaos of these D.C. punk rockers won them accolades from the Washington Post, which has repeatedly called them one of the city’s best bands. The Last Blackouts open.
Baltimore indie rockers who layer Of Montreal-style synths and electronics behind Peabody Conservatory-trained frontman James Wolff’s guitar parts. D.B.B. Plays Cups opens.
Four-piece pop, rock, and funk group.
Ultraviolet Ballet - Arielle
Ultraviolet Ballet - Another Dimension
Gypsy indie-folk from New York with accordion parts applied liberally. Lovecrumbs opens.
Lovecrumbs - Commander Disco
Lovecrumbs - Lamina
Staples of Irish culture: jigs, reels, and beer.
Acoustic country duo
On the off chance you didn’t get your fill of second-hand weed (or, um, first-hand) at The Dead, check out this after-party, which will feature the Harrisonburg reggae band teaming up with members of Culture.
buy tickets onlineYoung local alt-rocker, formerly a protégé of Daughtry guitarist Brian Craddock. Also featuring Tracing Shadows.
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Reggae; $15 is on the steep side for Outback, but it gets you free food once you’re in.
buy tickets online6 Day Bender’s “mountain rock and roll” turns bluegrass instruments to 11.
6 Day Bender - Kick Out The Fire
6 Day Bender - Devil Lets You Dance
6 Day Bender - Factoryman
Former Charlottesville resident and current Seattle songwriter Ali Marcus opens.
Ali Marcus - Bare Feet Clean
Ali Marcus - Hangin’ On A Wire
Ali Marcus - Sad Day For Romance
Ali Marcus - The Other Side
Within 24 hours, three Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Famers and one Country Music Hall of Famer announced Charlottesville dates. From left to right, Metallica, Jackson Browne, David Byrne and George Jones.If ever there were any doubts that Charlottesville has gone from sleepy little town to national concert tour destination, they died a quick death sometime between the morning of Monday, March 23 and the morning of Tuesday, March 24. Within that 24-hour span, three Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame inductees and a Country Music Hall of Famer all announced Charlottesville dates as part of their upcoming tours.
It began when the Charlottesville Pavilion heralded the coming of former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne on Wednesday, June 10, singer-songwriter Jackson Browne on Tuesday, August 4, and honky tonk legend George Jones on Saturday, August 8. Those tickets will all go on sale on Friday, March 27 at 10am.
And then just when local music fans started counting their nickels and dimes, trying to decide which Pavilion show to attend, the John Paul Jones Arena announced that iconic rock outfit Metallica had scheduled a Charlottesville date on Saturday, October 17. Those tickets become available on Saturday, April 11 at 10am.
While these shows are great news for fans of live music all over town, a key question remains: With (more)
Old School Freight Train has added a drummer and a roots rock twang to their former bluegrass identity.For fans of local bluegrass innovators Old School Freight Train, don’t expect to hear much traditional bluegrass at Saturday’s album release party. In fact, don’t expect to hear bluegrass at all.
“The only thing I know for sure is that we are definitely not bluegrass anymore,” says guitarist Jesse Harper. “It’s more roots rock now. We still have violin, mandolin on the record, so maybe it’s roots music, maybe Americana, but not bluegrass.”
Created in 2000 with guitarist Jesse Harper’s introduction to bassist Darrell Muller’s bluegrass music in a North Carolina coffee shop, the band spent nearly the entirety of its existence as a successful jazz-infused bluegrass band, even garnering praise from mandolin master David Grisman.
Nearly a decade later, its ties to the bluegrass genre have slowly faded, and on Six Years, OSFT moves to the beat of a very different drummer– literally. Shuffling members, the band added drummer Nick Falk, while losing banjo player Ben Krakauer.
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Local hip hop fusion band
The Blackout Project - Future Celebrity
The Blackout Project - What We’ve Become
The Blackout Project - Sew The Seams
Also featuring Ballyhoo
Topsy-turvy alternative something-or-other from one of Girl Talk’s remix buddies.
Jazzy funk from Baltimore
Basshound - Till I Hit The Ground
Basshound - Ranura Bastarda [live]
Also featuring Former Champions
Jammy pop-rock singer-songwriter driven by acoustic guitar and a big ol’ backing band.
William Walter and Company - Sunflower [live]
William Walter and Company - All The Best [live]
William Walter and Company - Alright [live]
William Walter and Company - Border Crosser [live]
William Walter and Company - Myspace
Also featuring the Kings Of Belmont
The Kings Of Belmont - The Jerk Store [demo]
The Kings Of Belmont - Git R Done
The Kings Of Belmont - South Bound
The Kings Of Belmont - Beg For More
The Kings Of Belmont - Sway
The Kings Of Belmont - Talking To Myself
Grammy-nominated Malian kora player Mamadou Diabate hasn’t been quite as successful as his cousin and former teacher Toumani, but anybody who can wrangle 21 strings wrapped around a gourd deserves a little respect no matter what. Debbie Hunter opens.
buy tickets onlineThe fourth-year UVA sax student and (count ‘em) eleven buddies perform full-fledged jazz tunes and jazzed up pop and rock (ie, the inevitable Radiohead cover)
buy tickets onlineSinger Blake Christiana’s Brooklyn-based band Yarn weaves together alt-country and Yankee bluegrass, and on the last record rounded up an all-star cast including Casey Dreissen of the Sparrow Quartet, Caitlin Cary of Whiskeytown, and banjo virtuoso Tony Trischka.
Yarn - Bad Bad Man
Yarn - Don’t Break My Heart
Yarn - I’m Down
Yarn - Ain’t That A Sin
Yarn - Empty Pockets
Guitar and harp player Ali Marcus started her musical career in Charlottesville and then moved to Seattle, much like another certain someone. She hasn’t totally left us behind, though: The Great Migration, her brand new sixth album (and her fourth in as many years), includes a song called “Virginia Road” which she says was written in and about Charlottesville.
Ali Marcus - Bare Feet Clean
Ali Marcus - Hangin’ On A Wire
Ali Marcus - Sad Day For Romance
Ali Marcus - The Other Side
Also featuring local acoustic folk champs The Honey Dewdrops.
The Honey Dewdrops - Nowhere To Stand
The Honey Dewdrops - Fly Away Free
After Ben Folds Five folded in 1999, frontman Ben Folds didn’t miss a beat, and transitioned relatively quickly into what would soon become his solo career. It would be a few more years, however, before drummer Darren Jessee — who, incidentally, co-wrote “Brick” — would flesh out the serene indie-pop of his Hotel Lights project and bounce back with the critically acclaimed self-titled debut.
Hotel Lights - Blue Always Finds Me
Opener Wes Swing is a classically-trained musician who’ll play anything with strings.
The newest act here, local all-girl quartet The Chickweeds, says they play “a variety of maligned instruments (banjo, ukulele, kazoo, harmonica, autoharp, fiddle, to name a few) with an old timey rag timey flair.”
The Chickweeds - Rag Mama
The Chickweeds - Warm Spell
They’re also promising “banjo tuning humor” and hula hoop stunts. We hate to say it, but Stratton Salidis’s (so many S’s!) legendary Emergency Musical Theater deal may have finally met its match. Of course, we’ve never seen him work a hula hoop.
Local all-girl quartet The Chickweeds says they play “a variety of maligned instruments (banjo, ukulele, kazoo, harmonica, autoharp, fiddle, to name a few) with an old timey rag timey flair.”
Brooklyn songwriter Tavo Carbone usually plays folk and pop with a small subset of his large rotating cast of supporting musicians, but no less than seventeen dudes showed up for his 2007 live album “Forward.”
Tavo Carbone - Boxcar Serenade
Tavo Carbone - Off To Hawaii
Tavo Carbone - Blue Boats On Black Lakes
Tonight’s friends include Nelly Kate and Sophia Brunner. Also featuring local fave Johnny Corndawg and Brooklyn Americana act Smallpox and the New Vaccine.
Monticello High School’s Client 9 joins local staples like blues guitarist Eli Cook and folk duo Carl Anderson and Carleigh Nesbit for the school’s Darfur benefit concert.
Carleigh Nesbit and Carl Anderson - Three Steps Out The Door [live]
Carleigh Nesbit and Carl Anderson - Passing Through
Carleigh Nesbit and Carl Anderson - Train Song
Carleigh Nesbit - Three Steps Out The Door
Carleigh Nesbit - River Run Dry
Carleigh Nesbit - Turn On The Heat
Carleigh Nesbit - Your City Skies
You missed abrasive Jersey punk-rockers Titus Andronicus at iS a month ago? Well, their furious tunes are matched only by their furious touring schedule — they’re back already. And if you miss this one, we’ll mock you until they come back again; chances are that won’t be in May.
Titus Andronicus - Titus Andronicus
Headliners Lucero play country-rock and open for the Pogues, among other things.
buy tickets onlineGreg Ward may hail from Harrisonburg, but his music is infused by everyone from Marley to Tosh to contemporary leaders like Soldiers Of Jah Army.
The Greg Ward Project - Right Time
The local king of keys performs at the opening reception for photographer Martin Phillips’ new show, which focuses on jazz-related images.
8-piece ensemble which plays throwback 1920’s swing with the occasional blues number thrown in for good measure
ACME Swing Mfg. Co. - Everybody Loves ACME
The Extraordinaires are the sort of band people are going to tell stories about around these parts for several years to come. Irony, it seems, is one of the perils of making your literary rock too good. This semi-acoustic show will also feature Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand, fresh from a trip to SXSW, and folk rock quartet The Raquellos.
The Extraordinaires - The Chicken, The Egg, or the Song?
The Extraordinaires - Neighborhood Watch
Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand - There’s Room In My Will
Family folk from Brookynite siblings Brad and Jessica Lauretti. Local teenagers To Kill A Hero won’t be opening, but dude, how cool would that be?
The two Kid Pan Alley heads punctuate their ninth elementary school residency, which pairs the kids with adults from a local senior center, with a concert at which both will perform.
Kid Pan Alley - My Shoes Are Spying On Me
Kid Pan Alley - My Dog Did My Homework
Kid Pan Alley - I Used To Know The Names Of All The Stars
Jazz and Americana are tightly woven together in the music of Robinella, the eponymous project led by Robin Ella Tipton and her husband, mandolin player Cruz Contreras. The Bittersweets, on the other hand, forgo the jazz and instead go for straightforward alt-country built around keys and guitar.
Robinella - Come Back My Way
The Bittersweets - Tidal Waves
Appalachian fiddler Alex Caton opens.
buy tickets onlineOne of C-ville’s youngest and most promising folk pairings takes to the stage with a backing band to sing songs from their duo record and probably several from Nesbit’s solo debut from last year.
Carleigh Nesbit and Carl Anderson - Three Steps Out The Door [live]
Carleigh Nesbit and Carl Anderson - Passing Through
Carleigh Nesbit and Carl Anderson - Train Song
Carleigh Nesbit - Three Steps Out The Door
Carleigh Nesbit - River Run Dry
Carleigh Nesbit - Turn On The Heat
Carleigh Nesbit - Your City Skies
The other guys aren’t slouches either: drummer Brenning Greenfield was cooking up some serious rackets on the skins with now-defunct youngstaphunk band Creole Soul Patrol a couple years ago, and violinist Shankar Srinivasan was the star soloist in the CHS orchestra’s Paramount performance of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons way back in 2006; Nesbit now likens him to younger and more Y-chromosomal version of Anne Marie Calhoun — which, as you already know if you’ve been paying attention, is serious praise indeed.
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Hey, remember how surprised you were when Mase found Jesus in 1999? We’ll raise you an Eastern religion here: former In Tenebris guitarist Jdavyd Williams now plays music descended from Kirtan, the call-and-response chants from Hindu devotional practice he picked up while in Yogaville. A lot of his material was recorded solo, but building on his background with programming darkwave synth sequences for his last band, this show will involve a larger ensemble armed with instruments rarely used in this sort of music, as well as electronics and ambient backing tracks — overall, generally more Moog than harmonium in spirit.
Jdavyd Williams - Govinda Jaya
Jdavyd Williams - Hare Ram (Jay Jay Hanuman)
Jdavyd Williams - Ma Durga
Jdavyd Williams - Nataraja
The Wiles open with abstract psychedelic rock and song titles that might make your head hurt.
The Wiles - Fritters Encounters A Lady Bug Whilst Sprawling In The Sun’s Luminous Afternoon Glow
Jangly rock and alt-country quartet from Richmond with classic rock running through their veins
The singer-songwriter performs with her trio to help raise money for the RVCC playground.
Also: The Virginia Ramblers and The Afton Amblers. Oh man.
UVA clarinetist Joel Rubin’s student ensemble plays Jewish traditional music from the 18th century onwards.
The UVA Klezmer Ensemble - Ahavo Rabo/Freylekhs Fun Der Khupe
The UVA Klezmer Ensemble - Mawa na Mwe
