Celebrate the 60th anniversary of The Sound of Music with a screening that’s unfortunately relevant. The Oscar-winning film set in pre-WWII Salzburg combines an unforgettable soundtrack by Rodgers and Hammerstein with incredible performances from Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer as the real-life story of the Von Trapp Family Singers plays out. Witness a powerful account […]
A touring production of the new queer tragedy Studio Apartment is coming to Charlottesville’s most socially engaged artist-run gallery space. The play, set in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1995, centers on an eccentric middle-aged painter named Dave and their youthful live-in portrait model Monty. When Dave brings home a new model and roommate—a young Filipino […]
Two-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Sierra Hull’s bona fide bluegrass excellence is defined by her impeccable picking skills. A six-time International Bluegrass Music Association Mandolin Player of the Year—the first woman to receive the honor—Hull hails from Byrdstown, Tennessee, with an Americana sound rooted in acoustic inventiveness. Her unification of the traditional and innovative has landed her […]
The McGill/McHale Trio formed in 2014 when brothers Anthony and Demarre McGill—clarinetist and flutist, respectively—were joined by pianist Michael McHale to perform at Bowling Green University in Ohio. Since then, the acclaimed artists—Anthony was the New York Philharmonic’s first Black principal musician and a social activist who won the Avery Fisher Prize in 2020—have combined […]
Built on a base of rock, Latin jazz, and Americana music, Richmond’s Brookhouse blends a bilingual body of work carried by driving rhythms and sultry strings. Featuring a mix of acoustic and electric songs, English and Spanish lyrics, and earnest, mysterious songwriting, the band celebrates a mission to demonstrate that we all contain multitudes. See […]
If gazing into the boundless night sky prompts existential questions—“Where does it all come from? What does it all mean?”—you’ll want to open UVA Astronomy Professor Kelsey Johnson’s latest book. In Into the Unknown: The Quest to Understand the Mysteries of the Cosmos, Johnson doesn’t necessarily answer all the cosmic quandaries that confound us, but […]
Learn how Colonial culinary tastes were shaped and American cuisine started to define itself at the screening of James Hemings: Ghost in America’s Kitchen. This 2022 documentary explores the life, contributions, and eventual erasure of perhaps the most influential American chef of all time. Credited with introducing staples such as ice cream, French fries, and […]
Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Todd Dulaney and Amber Bullock, former winner of BET’s “Sunday Best,” headline the Black History Month Gospel Concert. Chicago native Dulaney was drafted by the New York Mets at age 18, but left professional baseball behind to serve the Lord through singing. With four albums to his credit, Dulaney is a Stellar Award […]
Three Notch’d Road: The Virginia Baroque Ensemble presents its Saint Valentine’s Day program, If Music Be the Food of Love, at three regional venues. Celebrating love in its varied forms, these vocal and instrumental chamber works offer passionate laments, transcendent airs, and joyous dances. Blending Italian pastoral drama with songs from the British Isles, the […]
New Jersey’s most famous slacker-stoners roll up for a smokin’ spoken-word show with Jay and Silent Bob: The Aural Sects Tour. Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith have appeared as the eponymous ne’er-do-well duo in eight films over the past 30 years, but this live show gives them a chance to shed their on-screen personas and […]