Celebrating creativity, diversity, and community, the Charlottesville Arts Festival brings together visual and performing arts over two days of exciting activities. More than 50 fine artists and artisans will be onsite sharing their works and wares alongside immersive art experiences, artisan demonstrations, and creative workshops. Saturday features musical performances by Gina Sobel, Wytold, Lift the […]
Celebrating creativity, diversity, and community, the Charlottesville Arts Festival brings together visual and performing arts over two days of exciting activities. More than 50 fine artists and artisans will be onsite sharing their works and wares alongside immersive art experiences, artisan demonstrations, and creative workshops. Saturday features musical performances by Gina Sobel, Wytold, Lift the […]
Friday 5/23, Ace Biscuit & Barbecue Headlining a night of uncompromising sonics, self-described “minced-out billy gore” three-piece Septic Vomit unleashes its gross outtake on extreme metal-core at—where else?—a barbecue joint. Minute-long documentarian murder samples, overdriven detuned guitars, and blasting drums vie for conquest, clouding a vocal that brings new meaning to the word “guttural.” If […]
In “one hand washes the other” at New City Arts, Vibha Vijay endows art with emotional import, incorporating secondhand fabric and materials belonging to family members—a practice that allows her to explore the associations these items hold. Vijay says a recent visit to India “really sparked a lot of the thought behind this work.” Evident […]
From May 15 through May 31, Live Arts’ third annual Waterworks celebrates new work, while featuring original performances and diverse voices. “When I describe the festival,” says Live Arts Artistic Director Susan E. Evans, “[I say] it’s Charlottesville’s response to the Fringe. It’s not exactly a fringe festival in some ways, but it has that […]
Singer-songwriter, composer, concert pianist, and playwright Rebecca Magnuson brings her life story to the stage in She Sings: A Soaring Musical. The one-woman show shares a deeply personal story of escape from physical, mental, and financial abuse. Following Magnuson’s journey growing up as a piano prodigy and daughter of a conservative hell-fire preacher, the show […]
The Rivanna Roots concert series is back, with exciting outdoor shows from local acts on the banks of the river, rain or shine. Adam’s Plastic Pond brings folk ballads and modern R&B to bear in its guitar-forward brand of rock, infused with alt-country and pop inflections. The Jen Tal Band offers a genre-surveying set influenced […]
Thursday 5/16, The Paramount Theater For many rock musicians, the idea of being in a cover band is about as low as you can sink: You’re running through someone else’s songs over and over, impersonating their look while aping their playing style, and, worst of all, there’s the potential for disappointing audiences so familiar with […]
Claire Boyer “The Scarecrow,” Mountainside Studios Charlottesville resident Claire Boyer went viral after humming along to the drone of a fan on TikTok. “Kitchen Fan Lullaby” has since amassed nearly 14 million streams on Spotify and garnered Boyer a following of more than 200,000 on the music platform. Now she invites listeners on an eerie […]
A special kind of satisfaction can be found in making something useful. As one of the oldest human crafts, pottery still employs techniques that have changed very little from those used thousands of years ago. Ever since City Clay opened in the Silk Mills Building, I’ve wanted to take a class there. This spring, I […]
This isn’t your classic dad rock, it’s MomFest! Celebrate Mother’s Day weekend with a lineup of mom musicians, including 7th Grade Girl Fight, Holly Renee Allen, Another Mother, Heavy Flow, The Hot Mamas, Lora Kelley, and Devon Sproule. The afternoon features everything from indie rock and folky Americana, to swingy pop punk, singer-songwriter fare, and […]