There are some gorgeous posters floating around advertising tomorrow night’s show just south of town at Rapunzel’s, a co-bill featuring We Are Star Children and Sarah White and the Pearls. Catch White before she heads to Jersey City to play the Dave Matthews Band Caravan later this month.
The UVA Art Museum opens a new exhibit today that’s a little more esoteric than recent shows that centered on Southern photographers and African-American art in the 1970s. It’s called "New Images, New Techniques: Abstraction in British Screenprints circa 1970," which doesn’t scream mass appeal but was apparently a time and place of great innovation in the printmaking form. Read more here.
Terry Frost (English, 1915-2003) Straw, Orange, Blue, 1972
On Saturday night, the Jefferson hosts a solid triple bill headlined by the Canadian complicated electronic duo Junior Boys, famous for their quiet and endearing dance music and friendship with Charlottesville’s favorite Canadian electro-rock act, Caribou. Miracle Fortress opens, as does the formerly local pop duo Birdlips, who have a new EP every time I visit their website (except for today). Details.
Something for theater-lovers: Play On! Theatre draws the curtain on its fifth season with Yasmina Reza’s Art, a comedy about a group of friends whose relationships almost combust after one spends lots of money on a nearly featureless white painting, raising questions about what makes art art. The show opened there last night and runs through July; details are here.
Also this weekend is the WNRN-sponsored Campout East, headlined by Sons of Bill and two bands fronted by indie rock legend David Lowery: Cracker and Camper van Beethoven. Also performing is Jonny Corndawg, the foul-mouthed, leather-working, marathon-running country music singer who tends to charm the pants off anyone who can stomach him.
