A stellar roster of local musicians joins the Albemarle High School Jazz Ensemble for its annual Swing Into Spring benefit concert, an evening of standards, pop, and R&B favorites. The award-winning band, under the direction of Andrew LaPrade, is joined by John D’earth, Charles Owens, Greg Thomas, Jay Pun, Morwenna Lasko, Taylor Barnett, Bobby Gregg, […]
The good times roll at Boogie on the Bayou, the 10th-anniversary celebration of The Front Porch. The evening is packed with announcements of new programs, fundraising activities, food, and drink, while Jelly Street Jazz and Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience bring out the boogie. Try your luck in the steamboat-style casino room, silent auction, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]