And they said it couldn’t be done.
- PVCC will be hosting folk singer and sometime-children’s songwriter John McCutcheon on February 5. For what it’s worth, the man plays 12 instruments has been nominated for five Grammys. I mean, come on—the man’s URL is www.FolkMusic.com. Call the PVCC Box Office at 961-5376 for tickets, or visit Plan 9 Music or Sidetracks.
- Some good news for two local artists last week. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts awarded $8,000 professional fellowships to filmmaker and UVA professor Kevin Everson, whose feature Erie showed at the Virginia Film Festival in November; and Janet Grahame, a mixed-media visual artist, who specializes in printmaking and is based at McGuffey Art Center. Christopher Oliver, a PhD candidate at UVA, won a $6,000 student grant for art history. Congratulations—and spend wisely, folks.
- The flow of local Best Of 2009 lists staunches to a trickle as January comes to an end. But two lists from last week are worth noting. First, WTJU’s esteemed jazz team posted their best of 2009 list last week here. (Scroll down for that.) For those of us who don’t know much about jazz (aside from the fact that it’s sometimes grating, sometimes soothing and often involves horns) the list is a convenient foray into modern jazz—much of which doesn’t fit into those criteria listed above. Mentioned among the lists are locals Robert Jospe, Jay Pun and Morwenna Lasko, and Corey Harris. Shout if I’ve missed another local. Also worth looking at is James Ford’s, of the infamous Nailgun blog, best of ’09 list, which includes some other tasty treats that may lie outside your frame of reference.
