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 […]
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 […]
Founded in the year 2000 by a group of musicians, dancers, and teachers, The Blue Ridge Irish Music School has fostered creative expression through the Celtic cultural traditions of music, dance, and song for more than two decades. Now, it’s getting the proverbial band back together for the BRIMS 25th Anniversary Reunion Concert. Current and […]
More than 100 performers from DMR Adventures come together with graduating seniors, regional artists, and Broadway talents for Broadway at The Paramount, a celebration of arts education that showcases unforgettable acts. Drawing from the most memorable moments featured in DMR Adventures’ latest season, this fusion of song, dance, and stagecraft offers selections from Elf, Shrek, […]
Lincoln Michel’s new novel, Metallic Realms, is a skillful send-up of science fiction fandom and writing group dynamics, set in contemporary Brooklyn. Crafted as a book within a book, readers meet the members of a sci-fi writing group known as Orb 4 who are struggling to get along, pay rent, and work on a series […]
To say that Jay Pun is a busy guy is an understatement. The musician, restaurateur, educator, and father of two recently authored a children’s book, Som Tum and Sticky Rice, and co-founded VeryAsian VA, which in turn launched the VeryAsian VA Celebration. The fourth annual music event takes place on Friday, May 9, at Ting […]
Visitors to The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia are greeted by a tangle of painted trout suspended in a wash of green background, rising from floor to ceiling. The imagery invites them into the first-floor gallery, where they’ll find “O’ Powa O’ Meng: The Art and Legacy of Jody Folwell,” a […]
The L.A.-based World Ballet Company presents a visually stunning new production based on the classic novel The Great Gatsby. Featuring lavish sets and costumes, multimedia effects, and amazing acrobatics, the performance puts the narrative of wealth, romance, and tragedy tied to the American dream to an original score of jazz-inspired arrangements reminiscent of the Roaring […]
It’s the dawn of a new era at Vault Virginia with the unveiling of The Guild, an intimate live-music venue presenting world-class experiences organized by The Festy co-founder Michael Allenby. The debut event features two seated shows from a bluegrass trio led by Jeremy Garrett of the Grammy Award-winning band The Infamous Stringdusters. Garrett, an […]
Dust off your chaps and shine up your spurs, because CINCH World’s Toughest Rodeo rides into town for two nights of ripsnorting fun. The action between cowboys kicks up a notch as riders vie for a chance to compete at the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas later this year. Featuring bareback, saddle bronc, and […]
Saturday 5/3, IX Art Park Ships In The Night, the one-gal, electronic, smoke-and-mirrors synth project of Charlottesville’s own Alethea Leventhal, descends from the ethereal mists for what local fans will recognize as a performance wrapped in a thematic event. SITN has a recurring habit of playing all manner of spookily framed balls, proms, raves, and […]