On his eponymously titled new album, Scivic Rivers, the nom de plume of singer-songwriter and UVA alum Randy Bickford, explores the labor of starting a family within the context of modern society. The record pulls together harmonica, pedal steel, and pointillistic arrangements in songs like “Shenandoah Granite,” on which Bickford sings about climate grief as a couple slowly drifts apart, and “Instruction After the Fact,” a piece offering advice to the next generation that’s set to the disquieting pulse of an Optigan synth. Bickford is joined by local musicians Ned Oldham and Jordan Perry.
Friday 6/2. Free, 7pm. The Garage, 100 E. Jefferson St. thegaragecville.com
