Venture Richmond’s Friday Cheers concert series starts tomorrow night, happening on Fridays in May and June from 6:00pm to 9:30 p.m. on Brown’s Island. Admission is $5 or $10 depending on the show, children under 12 are free.
Valerie June with Devon Gilfillian open Friday Cheers tomorrow night.
From the FaceBook event page:
LIPID
(Cary Street Rap Punk-Featuring Members of Kuni, Leather Daddy, and No Tomorrow)BUTT
(you already know them you already L.U.V. them)HAIRCUT
(you want it you need it ‘Shutting Down’ is a 7in you should bump almost daily)GUMMING
(new tape out on Not Normal!)BUFFALO TOFU BITES AT 8 MUSIC AT 9
8-10 dollars ALL OF IT FOR RRFP.
Portion of Gumming merch sales to RRFP.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project (RRFP) seeks to further Reproductive Justice by providing practical and financial support for abortion services in Virginia and surrounding communities. RRFP strives to be a resource to the community by engaging in grassroots advocacy for the full spectrum of reproductive rights.
More info: http://www.rrfp.net/
From announcement:
VINYL CONFLICT PRESENTS
our FIRST photo show featuring Chris Boarts Larson of Slug and Lettuce fame!The show will have an opening party Friday March 2nd and will run for the entire month of March.
We have Richmond specific hardcore punk photos from 1997-2002 hand picked for your pleasure.
Expect to see: AVAIL, STRIKE ANYWHERE, DARKEST HOUR, HIS HERO IS GONE, HATE O FOUR, HATEBREED, STOP IT!!!, AUS ROTTEN, TEAR IT UP, PAGE 99, DYSTOPIA, CONVERGE, AMDI PETERSENS ARMI, ANN BERRETA, VARUKERS, MUNICIPAL WASTE, 9 SHOCKS TERROR and so many more!
Prints will be for sale, we will be collecting orders and everything will be available at the end of the month via pick up or shipping. We are just going to print everything at one time to keep things simple. The first 10 prints of each photo will be numbered and signed by Chris!
Concert is happening this Saturday at 2 pm in the Gellman Room at the Main branch of the Richmond Public Library.
From the FaceBook event page:
The Thales Piano Trio is proud to present music written by three women from three different countries and eras: Jennifer Higdon, Rebecca Clarke, and Clara Schumann.
This concert is FREE and open to the public!
Thales Piano Trio
Ellen Cockerham Riccio, violin
Sara Bennett Wolfe, cello
Daniel Stipe, pianoThe Thales Piano Trio has performed as part of concert series’ across the Eastern seaboard, at venues including Washington College in Chestertown MD, Trinity Lutheran Church in Richmond VA, and St. Paul’s on the Green in Norwalk CT. In addition, they have presented house concerts at numerous private residences.
Now in their second season as an ensemble, the Thales Piano Trio is the product of more than a decade of musical collaboration between Ellen, Sara, and Daniel in all possible duo combinations: Ellen and Sara won a fellowship to study and perform as half of the Heiligenstadt Quartet at the Brevard Music Center; Sara and Daniel performed sonata repertoire together at Princeton University Chapel; since meeting in 2013, Daniel and Ellen have shared the stage frequently, including as part of the Belz-Parker Artists Ascending Concert Series in Memphis and the Forest Hill Recital Series in Richmond. The trio is named for the famous mathematician Thales (THAY-lees) of Miletus. Thales’ theorem states: If A, B and C are points on a circle where the line AC is a diameter of the circle, then the angle ∠ABC is a right angle. The musicians are thrilled to be “completing the triangle” by joining together to form a trio; as such they found Thales’ name particularly appropriate.
Wayne Hancock singing about reefer!
Innov Gnawa (If you liked them, there is an excellent new album out by gnawa master Maalem Mahmoud Gania called Colours of the Night that you should check out).
Wild Horses
The Green Fields of America (playing IN the Kanawha Canal where hundreds of Irish and African laborers worked and died)
Accordians!
Betsayda Machado y La Parranda El Clavo (The main band led a procession down to the stage to start of their set)
Spanish flamenco was spellbinding (despite a rather noisy and disruptive audience)
The San Francisco Taiko was exuberant and fun.
The female-led go-go group Be’la Dona got the crowd going…
Soul singer Don Bryant singing “I Can’t Stand The Rain”
Thankfully, I have only saw a few parking problems in the neighborhood. And police were patrolling. On the other hand, I have heard some anecdotes from neighbors about some traffic problems that still need to be corrected.
Ready to do it again today, Richmond?
Start of Folk Festival:
Irish music and dancing:
Broom dancing (I imagine this probably happened in some Oregon Hill kitchens):
Funana music and the Great Bitori:
A bluesy end to the first night:
More Richmond Folk Festival on the way today and tomorrow!
The new Tim Berry music video was shot with the help of his four year old daughter Lela Jane (and features a lot of Oregon Hill scenery). Click here for noisey.vice.com article.