C-VILLE Minute: Your weekend preview
Plenty of fun to be had despite the stormy weekend: Derby Dames do "Virginia is for Shovers," check out a classic film or hang with Jimmy Cliff, the proto-rude boy.
Live Arts announces its 2010-2011 season
It was the first season announcement under the theater’s new executive director.
Jesse Winchester; Mockingbird; Thursday, May 27
There was little cause for argument from the start. At Mockingbird, the roots music hall in Staunton, a nearby table ordered s’mores and creme brulée as I finished a plate of fried oysters—the cole slaw side is not to be missed—and opener Mary Gordon Hall, of Batesville, took the stage. Hall trilled a short set […]
The Festy shapes up; Live Arts’ education director moves on
The Infamous Stringdusters’ give some local love at the Festy. Plus, read a response to last week’s cover story about women in local music.
C-VILLE Minute: Your weekend preview
Sanctioned swimming holes open this weekend, plus plenty of good shows, from Borrowed Beams tonight to the Dixie Bee-Liners tomorrow.
Local man, Miljenko Matijevic, is the new Jim Morrison
Miljenko Matijevic, local studio owner and onetime singer for SteelHeart, will hit stage with the remaining Doors tonight.
No more shows at Random Row Books?
Owner Deramus says he won’t renovate the rented space to meet city requirements.
The Paramount Theater looks back on five years
“In the beginning,” says the Paramount Theater’s General Manager Mary Beth Aungier, “all the shows were sold out. There was an excitement in town, and everybody involved in the theater was so excited."
Women are everywhere in Charlottesville’s arts community.
So where are the women in rock?
Marie Landragin doesn’t just play guitar. She plays guitar like a man. At a recent show at the Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, her band Corsair thrilled a crowd of about 25 people, mostly men. The focus of the room was not the band’s singer and lead guitarist, Paul Sebring—although he is a compelling and frenetic […]
More girls in the boys club
The comment board on my Feedback blog became ground zero in the debate over women in rock music when I asked an age-old question in April. Where are the women in Charlottesville rock? Just because the question bears asking doesn’t mean it can’t be answered. There are several bands here in town that prominently feature […]