Grammy Award winner and purveyor of mountain music, Steep Canyon Rangers builds off traditional bluegrass to bring its Americana sounds to the stage. Hailing from the Appalachian and Piedmont regions of North Carolina, the group honed its songwriting craft through 14 studio records—including three collaborative albums with actor and banjo aficionado Steve Martin. Additional collaborations […]
Riding radio waves and stacking the stage with diverse acts, the WTJU Folk Marathon returns with lively local sounds. Evening and Saturday live performances include sets from regional acts Red & the Romantics (pictured), Scuffletown, Buzzard Hollow Boys, Richelle Claiborne & Friends, Please Don’t Tell, BRIMS, and Mama Tried, among others. You can listen online […]
February 7–March 21 Second Street Gallery presents two new exhibitions from artists with local ties engaging the overlap of abstraction and figuration. In the Main Gallery, “Liminal” offers mixed-media works by Charlottesville-based artist Cassie Guy (artwork pictured above). In the Dové Gallery, “Signs of Life” shows paintings and drawings exploring grief and the cyclic nature […]
Follow the beats of a life lived on stages and screens across the world with Patti LuPone: A Life in Notes. This solo show takes audiences through the ages and eras of the three-time Tony Award winner as she reflects on her life through the songs that made an impact on her. From the rock […]
Celebrate a very merry un-un-birthday with a show marking 110 years of Alice in Wonderland on screen. Originally premiering in January 1915, this silent version of the classic Lewis Carroll story brings sepia-toned scenes and a live score together within The Looking Glass, IX Art Park’s immersive arts space. Between the bizarre visuals of the […]
Jazz compositions and charity coalesce in The Mingus Awareness Project. Since 2007, the project has provided opportunities for musicians to perform new arrangements of works by the venerated bassist, bandleader, and composer Charles Mingus. All proceeds from the shows go to funding research into Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), the nervous system disease from which Mingus […]
Funk-forward Umphrey’s McGee has taken the long and winding road to build itself up over the better part of three decades, performing more than 2,700 live shows. Innovators of live sets and festival offerings, the group has earned a dedicated following of listeners eager to engage with its communion of music and technology. Fans of […]
Combine the arc of personal growth with a fish-out-of-water story, and add the tension and humor of an odd-couple narrative, and you’ll have something similar to Grace & Glorie. Performed by arrangement with Concord Theatricals, this two-act play by Tom Ziegler places the title characters into an unlikely alliance. Grace, a 90-year-old cantankerous cancer patient, […]
It was a sad day this past November when the doors shuttered at 606 W. Main St. While many gathered then to bemoan the loss of Blue Moon Diner, the long-time restaurant and music venue, others were unable to join in the immediate mourning. The Blue Moon Diner Celebration offers a chance to raise a […]
Step back in time with Silents Scored Live, a silent-film screening with in-person musical accompaniment. Composer, film lecturer, and Violet Crown artist-in-residence Matt Marshall brings more than two decades of experience writing and performing music for classic film screenings that offer a glimpse into what the cinematic experience once was. Marshall live-scores works from the […]