The JD Allen Trio creates music that is rooted in the jazz tradition and is relentlessly contemporary, honest, and uncompromising. Driven by raw energy, tenor saxophonist and composer Allen, bassist Ian Kenselaar, and drummer Nic Cacioppo engage with spontaneity and form to create an introspective, urgent, and powerful sound infused with improvisational depth. What emerges […]
The JD Allen Trio creates music that is rooted in the jazz tradition and is relentlessly contemporary, honest, and uncompromising. Driven by raw energy, tenor saxophonist and composer Allen, bassist Ian Kenselaar, and drummer Nic Cacioppo engage with spontaneity and form to create an introspective, urgent, and powerful sound infused with improvisational depth. What emerges […]
Award-winning singer-songwriter Roberta Lea is known as a powerful performer and engaging storyteller. The Virginia native has built a career as a touring member of The Black Opry, one of CMT’s Next Women of Country Class of 2023, and a voting member of the Recording Academy. Her debut album Too Much of a Woman explores […]
Grammy Award-winning progressive bluegrass purveyors The Infamous Stringdusters return to town with Oakland, California’s retro-soul outfit The California Honeydrops. Known for high-energy performances and improv jams, the Stringdusters push the boundaries of Americana music while honoring its deep running roots, captivating audiences across the country and around the world. Born out of the Bay Area […]
Monica Ong is a visual poet and author of the new book Planetaria. With a focus on family and diaspora as well as astronomy, the poems in Planetaria are tactile—not just visual but multidimensional. The book features a poem that takes the form of a wheel that’s viewed through a View-Master toy, a poem with […]
Madi Diaz is overcome with emotion. And she certainly lets her heart rule her hands and her voice. Diaz’s kind of heartfelt music either works for you or it doesn’t; that is to say that someone baring her soul with soft determination either resonates with you and your own life experiences, or you shudder at […]
Durham, North Carolina-based folk duo Viv & Riley and Nashville, Tennessee-based singer-songwriter Rachel Baiman linked up in 2022 to form the supergroup Kissing Other People. With encouragement from producer Greg Griffith, the new trio launched its project with an openness to exploration above technicality. With that ethos the group has pursued more analog, indie, and […]
Award-winning singer-songwriter Ali Thibodeau is the musical force behind Deau Eyes. A storyteller at heart with a strong belief in collaboration, she surrounds herself with a cadre of exceptional artists as bandmates and co-conspirators in electric entertainment and cross-genre experimentation. Prabir brings raga-inspired alt-rock to the stage in an East-meets-West mashup of musical stylings including […]
Since 2006, The Vivaldi Project has been stringing audiences along with a host of engaging programs focused on Baroque and classical works. Co-directors Elizabeth Field (violin) and Allison Nyquist (viola) have created an impactful trio with the help of Stephanie Vial (cello); for their performance at UVA’s cozy but stately Old Cabell Hall on Friday, […]
Started in Puerto Rico by singer-songwriter Maurice Sanabria-Ortiz and percussionist Roberto Candelario, Kadencia was reborn in Richmond, Virginia, in 2018, courtesy of percussionists Maurice “Tito” Sanabria and Santos Ramirez. The now-10-piece band promotes its Puerto Rican heritage by playing original bomba, plena, and salsa, educating audiences on the island’s native musical expressions, and getting everyone […]
Have you ever seen Stunt Rock? You’d remember if you did. The 1978 trash cinema is some kind of musical/action/mockumentary about an Aussie stuntman who arrives in L.A., meeting up with a relative who performs in a terribly confused band called Sorcery. It’s the band I want to talk about: theatrically adventurous though musically inept, […]