Instrumental rock, blues, funk, and R&B from the local guitar wizard and drummin’ madman Will Coles.

Jamal Millner’s Comrades - Break Out

Folk tunes from the formerly-local multi-instrumentalist (dulcimer wizard, especially) and singer-songwriter whom Cash once called “the most impressive instrumentalist I’ve ever heard.”

Banjo and fiddle duets

Three singer-songwriters perform in the round

Pensive acoustic folk-pop and Americana singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Mister Baby beefs up the tunes of local alt-country songwriter Megan Huddleston. Also featuring local Americana rock outfit Pantherburn and Asheville country-rockers Wooden Toothe. This show is a dual fundraiser for both the SPCA and Mister Baby bassist Jake Hopping’s ailing mother.

Pantherburn - The Octopus
Pantherburn - Mister Baby [demo]

Country and folk duo

The Don’t Tell Darlings - Single Girls

Look, do you really need us to explain this?

Alt-country songwriter

Carlton James - St. Augy
Carlton James - Smile Boys
Carlton James - Dig A Hole
Carlton James - Blue Moon Please

Americana rock

Americana singer-songwriter. Sons Of Bill guitarist Sam Wilson opens.

Sam Wilson - A Melody Instead
Sam Wilson - In The Morning
Sam Wilson - Once In Your Life
Sam Wilson - Green Gates

Choral folk music from South Africa, Corsica, and the Balkans, among others, with a touch of 30’s gospel and accompaniment on instruments like accordion, fiddle, tambura, and drums. Show up early for a $12 workshop which runs from 2pm onward.

Singer-songwriter

Bluegrass and old-time

Love songs in anticipation of valentines day

Acoustic singer-songwriter

Fellini’s piano staple Jim Wray and bebopper Hod O’Brien face off in an unusual duo format which started with a chance encounter at the Hamner two years back.

Jim Wray and Hod O’Brien - Indeed I Do

The experimental Italian composer sweeps his usual African field recording projects under the rug just long enough to demonstrate Mask Mirror, a custom-programmed sampler instrument he created which sorts and outputs speech and text according to both phonetic sounds and semantic meanings and which serves as his platform for improvisational performance art.

And now, in a new segment which we desperately hope we’ll find semi-legitimate cause to bring back repeatedly, let’s hear this event listing rendered through the built-in text-to-speech function on this Mac.

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Choral

Rootsy singer-songwriter plays blues and swing with guitar accompanist

Barbara Martin - Existential Blues [with Mac Walter]

Featuring Peter Richardson, Humberto Sales, Miles Pearce, and more.

Cover band

Loop-driven pop-rock from Richmond songwriter Brian Martin which draws from Keller Williams and Coldplay, proudly 100% free of electric instrumentation.

Two of the pillars from classic C-ville acoustic rock act SGGL perform to raise money for relief efforts in Haiti.

The young songwriter and his new band the Point play a set surrounded by the surrealist paintings of artist John Lynch

Mardi Gras festivities soundtracked by the local jazz singer and bebop pianist

Pianist and singer

The “Musical Postcards” series continues with a look at “The Heartland of Europe,” which will focus on music from the Czech Republic, Poland, and Estonia.

The “Musical Postcards” series continues with a look at “The Heartland of Europe,” which will focus on music from the Czech Republic, Poland, and Estonia.

Narrative-heavy newgrass and folk from the energetic Richmond quartet.

Reggae

The Greg Ward Project - Right Time

Hot gypsy jazz from the local guitar player.

Olivarez Trio - Choti
Olivarez Trio - Adieu, Bienville
Olivarez Trio - Chez Drennon
Olivarez Trio - Valse De Tchan Tchou

This potty-mouthed duo makes fun of pretty much everything using a guitar and a cello.

Barling and Collins - (That’s Right) I’m Looking At Your Girlfriend