You probably know by now that Wes Swing and Devon Sproule join forces for a double CD-release show tonight at the Jefferson Theater. Swing will have copies of his debut disc, Through a Fogged Glass (which I wrote about in this week’s Feedback column) and the much-admired Sproule will be hawking her first-ever live record, Live in London. Both discs come highly recommended. Find out all of the details here.
Our Feedback Session with Wes Swing. More below.
Pick up a copy of this week’s C-VILLE for the skinny on First Friday openings and events. New shows are up all along the mall, from McGuffey Art Center‘s new members show, to a group show at Chroma (which looked great through the window this morning), to Second Street Gallery‘s show of a new film by Kevin Everson and big, classically-inspired sketches by Josephine Taylor. Off the normal circuit, the Italian artist Cassandra Wainhouse has work (mixed media on salvaged maps) hanging on the walls of a Downtown apartment; details for that are here.
Further off the Fridays circuit, Les Yeux du Monde opens a show of sketches tomorrow by the noted local painter Russ Warren (his work has been at Venice Biennale and the Whitney Biennial) called "This I Saw: 100 Tunes of Death, Humor and Lies," which sounds interesting: Two hundred of his sketches will be displayed in portfolios and projected on the wall. After the opening (Saturday, 4-6pm), Warren discusses the work at 3pm on Sunday.
Russ Warren. Untitled, 2010. India ink on paper, 14 x 11 inches. More below.
Things are looking up for theater lovers, as well. Tickets are said to be going fast as things wind down over at Live Arts. They’ve got a real crowd-pleaser on there now in The Drowsy Chaperone, wherein a sad-sack Broadway conjures an absurd musical from memory. (Read our review here.) A limited engagement runs through the weekend at the Hamner with Nelson County High’s drama squad, who won the Virginia High School League One Act Play Festival State Championship title in December. They’ve got Henry Fielding’s The History Of Tom Jones, and tickets (which go toward getting the team to New York City) are on sale here.
Or if you like your theater broadcast from elsewhere, you’re in luck. As the Daily Progress notes today, this year marks the 100th anniversary of Puccini’s opera La Fanciulla del West, the Metropolitan Opera’s performance of which is scheduled broadcast Saturday afternoon, as part of the Paramount‘s continued Met in HD programming.
What are you up to this weekend?
