Go to the ATM today, because you’re going to need cash for two excellent spring-is-here events: opening day at the city market and the Gordon Avenue Library’s annual spring book sale.
- WTJU’s new director is Burr Beard. He will replace Chuck Taylor, who retired on January 1 but stayed around until the station could find a suitable replacement. Burr’s being shipped in from Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, where he manages and directs the radio station at Lehigh Carbon Community College. He is apparently an accomplished hammer dulcimer player, so he’ll fit right in Appalachia.
- Listen to NPR on Sunday morning around 9:40am for a story about Devon Sproule and Paul Curreri.
- The Charlottesville Pavilion has released its full lineup for the summer, which is shaping up to be pretty impressive. The legendary Jimmy Cliff comes on June 6, Sinatra 2.0 beta Harry Connick, Jr., croons on June 16, and God among men B.B. King does his thing on July 17. There’s also the Fridays after Five schedule.
- The Village Voice has rated the best music-related April Fools jokes according to "believability" and "amusement."
- A conversation between Neil Young and Jonathan Demme appeared in the New Yorker this week. It seems Neil Young only likes to show his face through shoddy modern technologies.
- Yours truly is taking the weekend and heading to Harrisonburg for Virginia’s less fashionable (but just as good!) answer to South by Southwest, the Mid-Atlantic College Radio Conference, or MACRoCk. Plenty of Charlottesville and bands to be seen there, including Cosmonaut’s Ruin, Invisible Hand, Drunk Tigers, Borrowed Beams of Light. This writer will even be stepping out from behind the laptop tomorrow night.
