Blues and roots-rock
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.
The reliable roots-rock standbys say goodbye to their Miller’s residency with one final show before their big upcoming tour.
The Rogan Brothers - Into The Light
The Rogan Brothers - Heartbeat
The Rogan Brothers - Hang Tough
Free-flowing improv jam session featuring Showcase regulars
Classical, tango, Latin and jazz on violin and piano
Tweedy at the Paramount. PHOTO BY TOM DALY
Robert Jospé and Inner Rhythm - Blue Blaze
Robert Jospé and Inner Rhythm - Blue Rumba
Robert Jospé and Inner Rhythm with Heather Maxwell - Malado
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 onlineSpend your New Year’s Eve with two bands that hung out on the fringes of 90’s alt-rock and thoroughly appreciate the weirdest elements of the American Deep South. One of them will probably throw fried chicken at you during the course of the show, but we won’t tell you which unless you buy the expensive VIP tickets that also include champagne, hor d’ourves and table service.
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.
While we’re on the subject of new beginnings, the New Year’s Day release show for the debut album from this
local singer-songwriter is about as auspicious as you can reasonably hope for. Naughty Dynamic and the Design opens with a funky acoustic set, and Americana-rockers Pantherburn close out the night with a set of tunes from their own debut record.
Pantherburn - The Octopus
Pantherburn - Mister Baby [demo]
Led Zeppelin tribute band
buy tickets onlineAcclaimed young violinist. With piano accompaniment by Robert Kulek.
Classical string quartet performs Haydn, Beethoven, and a piece by the Austrian composer they are named for.
German baroque pieces by Bach, Handel, and Telemann performed by the German early music ensemble
Classical string quartet and woodwind ensemble join forces for a Bach fugue
Sick of spending your holidays with Trans-Siberian Orchestra yet? Give Trans-Continental Hustle a shot instead — that’s the latest album from raging “gypsy-punk” rockers Gogol Bordello, whose wild shows are soundtracked by the unlikely combination of distorted guitars and greasy accordion parts. Bizarro-rockers Man Man open.
buy tickets onlineChristmas show by the local country rock brother band featuring guests like guitarist Nick Cordle, Travis Elliott, and the titular Papa Bill. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to a soup kitchen and canned food donations will also be accepted at the door.
Sons Of Bill - Broken Bottles
Sons Of Bill - Joey’s Arm
Sons Of Bill - Rock And Roll
The Hill And Wood - I Can Say What You Want
buy tickets onlineJazzy funk
Basshound - Till I Hit The Ground
Basshound - Ranura Bastarda [live]
Space Cadet 7 - Killer Octopus
Folk songwriter with ties to jamband heroes Tea Leaf Green. With Carl Anderson and Tara Mills.
buy tickets onlineMountain blues and gospel
Vaden Cox - My Spirit Aches
Vaden Cox - Walk On The Water
Carolina power-pop trio in the vein of Superchunk and heavily influenced by mid-90’s alternative. With Lights East and local stargazing rockers Astronomers.
Hammer No More The Fingers - Shutterbug
Jamband. The Bridge opens.
Tea Leaf Green - Crackers and Cheese
Tea Leaf Green - Earth and Sky
The Bridge - Moonlight Mission
Acoustic trio plays classic folk and rock
Beethoven, Schumann, Silvestrini and more on oboe and cello.
Singer-songwriter
Eric Reitz - Lunar Lonely
Eric Reitz - Dublin
Eric Reitz - Cumberland
Eric Reitz - Carolina
Eric Reitz - Breaking
Eric Reitz - 12 South
As in years past, the coffee shop’s annual Christmas concert blowout is a compelling reason to make the drive out to Lovingston. Your big draws here include folk singer-songwriter duo Gene and Gala Mills, guitarist Thomas Gunn, alt-rocker turned sensitive songwriter Andy Waldeck, psychedelic Americana rockers Junior Moment, Delta bluesman and slide guitar fiend Eli Cook, up-and-coming songstress Sally Rose Monnes.
Gene and Gayla Mills - Ghost Town
Gene and Gayla Mills - Fool’s Gold
Gene and Gayla Mills - Waiting For Rain
Eli Cook - Static In The Blood
Thomas Gunn - Conversations With A Wishing Well
Thomas Gunn - Ma Jolie
Andy Waldeck - Those Days Are Gone
Andy Waldeck - Ordinary Men
Andy Waldeck - Diggin Me
Andy Waldeck - Healing
Junior Moment - Mirror
Junior Moment - Point Of View
Junior Moment - Number 11
Funk and R&B. With Neptune and the Never Rockets.
The local guitar ace plays soul, rock, and blues with a new trio for the new year.
Wendy Marsters during her 12-hour wait to get in to the DMB show at JPJ.It was only a poster, but it meant everything to Wendy Marsters.
The Northern California high school teacher has been listening to Dave Matthews Band since 1995, and she catches the band’s show every time they happen near her home. But for the final show on the final tour before a fan-freaking hiatus, she decided to cross the continent.
“I knew it would be epic— ” she says in a phone call from Chico, “epic in Dave Matthews Band-ness.”
And she even found an epic seat in Charlottesville. As the 20th person in line for the November 20 show at John Paul Jones Arena, the 41-year-old parlayed her 12-hour wait into primo, second-row seats.
“I had the best seat in the house,” says Marsters “And I wanted a poster as a symbol of this trip.”
Every DMB show has a different, limited edition poster, and Marsters paid $40 for one of the 650 Methane Studios posters printed just for the Saturday event.
“There’s key shows that sell out and are important and people collect the posters,” explains Marsters. And because the Charlottesville show was the last one until 2012, there’s one offered on eBay for $400.
After the three-and-a-half hour concert, Marsters went to the nearby McDonald’s restaurant while the Arena traffic cleared. She started talking to a young man from Richmond who’d also been at the show, and who asked how much she wanted for the poster and offered her $250, she says. No way, responded Marsters.
“It’s priceless to me,” she says she (more)
Folk-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
Jamband. Also featuring The Grey Matter.
The Heavy Pets - Drenched
The Heavy Pets - Girl You Make Me Stupid
The Grey Matter - Pumpkin
The Grey Matter - Laughing Bones
The Grey Matter - Stagger Lee
Taiwanese surf and garage-rock. Also featuring Sweatheart.
Fellini’s #9’s regular pianists pair up with vocalists — Bob Bennetta with John Carden and Hod O’Brien with one Veronica Swift — for a night of jazz to take you into 2011.
Fellini’s #9’s favorite junkyard rockers help the reincarnated watering hole celebrate its sixth anniversary.
Local folk rock songwriter.
Galen Curry - Oh Mama
Galen Curry - I Tore Down A Mountain
Americana-rock. Also featuring Northern Diver.
Pantherburn - The Octopus
Pantherburn - Mister Baby [demo]
Holst, Mozart, Bach, and more
The last time this gospel-influenced indie-folk songwriter booked a show in Charlottesville, about a year or so ago, he had to cancel because of a last-minute trip to China. And while he was over there, he linked up with a Chinese record label that started making plans to handle his next release; that was also canceled in the end, but he’s putting it out anyway and touring in support of it here. This one comes recommended for fans of Richmond mainstays The Great White Jenkins, some of whom also do double duty in his band. James Harris Moore opens.
James Wallace and the Naked Light - Killing The Dog
James Wallace and the Naked Light - Dancing Star (No Naked Light)
James Wallace and the Naked Light - Colors
Folky Americana duo whose songs tend to be about major historical events filtered through a lens of anarchist politics.
Seemingly confused about the meaning of “holiday,” local alt-country songwriter Sarah White curates the usual annual yuletide folk fiesta, her own entry being The (All New) Acorn Sisters, her old-school classic country duo with singer Sian Richards. Also: Jim Waive, Paul Curreri, and Old Calf. Some of the proceeds will benefit Blue Ridge Area Food Bank, and donations of canned food are also encouraged.
Jim Waive and the Young Divorcees - Strike A Match
Paul Curreri - Once Upon A Rooftop
Paul Curreri - California
Paul Curreri - Long Gone Again
Traditional Scottish highland bagpipe and drum tunes
Christmas program featuring brass and handbell accompaniment
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Holiday concert. Free, but bring canned food to donate to the Emergency Food Bank.
Psychedelic electronic rock in the vein of Animal Collective. Also featuring Home Video.
Americana-rock from an alum of the Hackensaw Boys and Old Crow Medicine Show. With Mister Baby and Marionette.
Pantherburn - The Octopus
Pantherburn - Mister Baby [demo]
One man band
Old Man Kelly - Jolie Anne
Old Man Kelly - Bully In The Alley
Acoustic set from the Astronomers frontman. With David Ramirez and Ryan Douglas Phillips.
This Christmas show from the local early music ensemble will involve Johannes Ockeghem’s Intemerata dei Mater as well as several Palestrina hymns and motets, and also doubles as the release show for their new album, Fifteenth Century Choirs.
Folk music for the holidays — both in the broadest sense, ie including klezmer for Hannukah and Malian music for Kwanzaa in addition to Christmas carols played on banjo and mandolin.
Local alt-folk singer-songwriter.
David Tewksbury - Mystery
David Tewksbury - Deal
