music With all the excitement surrounding the return of Bob Dylan to Charlottesville, it’s easy to forget that his foundation—straight-ahead folk music—has been largely banished to the shadows. New folk singer-songwriters, awash not in Dylan’s resplendent history, must scrape together bits of acclaim here and there. Lord, they might as well be poets or intellectual […]
music With all the excitement surrounding the return of Bob Dylan to Charlottesville, it’s easy to forget that his foundation—straight-ahead folk music—has been largely banished to the shadows. New folk singer-songwriters, awash not in Dylan’s resplendent history, must scrape together bits of acclaim here and there. Lord, they might as well be poets or intellectual […]
music The eighth annual Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival began with a major bang on Sunday, September 9. Literally, a major bang, as the event opened with Mozart’s String Quintet in C Major, K. 515. The 220-year-old piece’s melodies ricocheted back and forth between violas, violins and cello, filling Old Cabell Hall with the sweet sounds […]
Nathan Antonio Washington, the man arrested for two sexual assaults linked to the serial rapist, has been tied to another sexual attack. A DNA sample obtained from Washington matched DNA evidence found at the scene of the sexual assault that occurred in a Waynesboro motel in 1997, according to The Daily Progress. That assault was […]
The city police department is still looking for the person who shot three people in the early hours of September 9 while they sat in a car in the parking lot at 200 Water St. Zinele Brown, a 28-year-old Albemarle County resident; Jarret Jackson, a 20-year-old Charlottesville resident; and a 19-year-old male whose name hasn’t […]
William Cocke: “In a lot of ways it was a typical U-Hall show. The acoustics aren’t that good in there, the acoustics were never that great. “I’m probably the only one, but I liked ‘Joey.’ I’ve always liked that song. It’s about a mobster who gets whacked at a Clam Bar. It was off of […]
Given name Robert Allen Zimmerman Declan Patrick MacManus Born May 24, 1941, Duluth, Minnesota August 25, 1954, London, England Wives 2 3 First record Bob Dylan (1962 on Columbia) My Aim Is True (1977 on Columbia) Latest record Modern Times (2006 on Sony BMG) The River in Reverse (with Allen Toussaint; 2006 on Verve Forecast) […]
We’re not the only ones that are excited that Dylan is coming to town. We asked some local musicians to tell us their favorite Dylan lyrics, and here’s what they said. See if you can match the musicians with the lines that they chose. 1. Timothy Summers (co-director of the Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival)2. Terri […]
In the fall of 1980, Elvis Costello released a collection of 20 stellar songs called Get Happy!!, and although it was his fourth near-perfect record in as many years, the performer was anything but elated. In fact, he was secretly contemplating retirement. “I didn’t want to do it anymore,” Costello admitted to writer Greil Marcus […]
Election day is just around the corner. A seven-week-long corner. Nonetheless, it’s prime time for Albemarle County Board of Supervisors candidates to get their messages out. And what better way than via the Internet?