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This weekend Charlottesville was in everyone’s social media newsfeed. Outlets from the Boston Globe to the Washington Post to NPR reported on the torch-bearing group, led by UVA grad and white nationalist leader Richard Spencer, that gathered around the General Robert E. Lee statue Saturday to protest the statue’s removal—and to chant white heritage phrases such as “blood and soil” (p. 11). A candlelight counterprotest Sunday drew hundreds of people who wanted to show the world that that is not our city. As Mayor Mike Signer tweeted, “We are a Welcoming City. But such intolerance is not welcome here.” One group that has sometimes felt marginalized is our local hip-hop community, whose members had trouble booking shows after a nightclub incident in 2007 (p. 21). But Charlottesville artists say the scene is surging once again: More venues are booking hip-hop acts, some MCs are gaining national prominence with 1 million listens on SoundCloud, and others are moving to bigger cities, such as Atlanta, and drawing even more attention to the music being made here. I hope our city’s collective reaction to the statue protest is a sign that we are a town of diversity, inclusivity, tolerance and peace.—Jessica Luck
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but which Mayor Signer compared to a KKK rally, the group chanted “we will not be replaced,” “blood and soil” and “Russia is our friend.” The latter, explains Kessler, is because “Russian people are a white people.” Police estimated that crowd at around 100 to 150, according to the Daily Progress, while Kessler put it at more than 200. The first officer to arrive found a single male yelling “leave my town” to the white supremacists, and the demonstration broke up when police ordered everyone to disperse. “We reject this intimidation,” tweeted Signer. “We are a Welcoming City, but such intolerance is not welcome here.” Signer has since been the target of anti-Semitic trolls on Twitter. House Minority Leader Toscano joined in on Twitter: “Outrageous protests in Charlottesville this evening by apparent white supremacists. Unacceptable!” And Charlottesville native/gubernatorial candidate Tom Perriello tweeted, “Get your white supremacist hate out of my hometown.” “We won, you lost, little Tommy,” replied Spencer.
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marched to Jackson Park at Court Square, passing the Festival of Cultures being held in Lee Park. “I’m here to say no to the city of Charlottesville,” said Spencer in an NBC29 interview. “You are not going to tear down this statue and you’re not going to replace us.” It’s not clear who organized the event and from where the attendees hailed, but many appeared to be from out of town, including Nathan Damigo, who allegedly punched a woman at a Berkeley demonstration and is the founder of white nationalist group Identity Evropa, and Atlanta attorney Sam Dickson, who has represented Spencer and who calls himself a “racial communitarian activist” on his website. Spencer did not respond to an email inquiring about the white rights gathering. The Jackson Park event was mostly peaceful until the end, when members of Showing Up for Racial Justice and others began shouting at the white nationalists as they left Jackson Park and followed them down Jefferson Street. At the 9pm event at Lee Park, which Kessler called a “funeral procession for the dead,”
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ew group Equity and Progress in Charlottesville hopes to piggyback on the progressivism sparked by Bernie Sanders’ campaign last year, while elbowing aside the ruling Democratic party’s stranglehold on local government. EPIC is holding forums to ferret out candidates in local races most closely aligned with its goals of adding affordable housing, and stanching gentrification and racial inequity. A May 9 forum at The Haven brought the three Democratic candidates seeking nominations for two open seats on City Council in the upcoming June 13 primary, as well as more than 60 citizens. Incumbent Bob Fenwick, who often finds himself on the losing end of 4-1 council votes, asserted at the outset, “I’m a progressive Democrat.” Fenwick likes the word “robust,” and used that in response to a question about a living wage to describe the charitable allocations slashed the previous year that he asked City Manager Maurice Jones to put into this year’s “people’s budget.” Says Fenwick, “To an amazing extent, it was robust.” For candidate Heather Hill, an industrial engineer and mom who is president of the North Downtown Residents Association, issues such as a $15 minimum wage or racial inequity need to be addressed “holistically.” She also noted a couple of times that she was “energized” and is covering the city door-to-door. And School Board member Amy Laufer’s mantra, repeated about five times: “If you work here, you should be able to afford to live here.” Moderator Karen Waters Wicks asked the candidates to commit to EPIC goals of adding 1,000 units of affordable housing
and a $15 minimum wage but, better yet, a $17.50 living wage. The candidates all replied with concern about affordability, while refraining from pledges. “I’ve heard loud and clear that this is a top priority,” said Hill on affordable housing. “I don’t want to promise something I’m not sure I can accomplish in my tenure on council.” “If you work in the city, you should be able to live here,” said Laufer. “I think the county can do a lot more to help the city,” said Fenwick, who also advocates fixing up houses in the city. One issue the candidates seemed to feel was more manageable was parking. Fenwick segued during a living wage question—he favors an incremental approach —to the parking meters planned for downtown. “I don’t know anyone who’s said to me, ‘Why don’t we try parking meters again?’” he said. For Hill, it’s an issue that needs to be addressed holistically. “The analytical side of me is eager to dive in,” she said, while noting that she’d taken CAT and the bus was 30 minutes late. “It’s not a reliable way to get to work.” From the audience, Vice-Mayor Wes Bellamy asked the candidates if they support the local Black Lives Matter chapter. Laufer noted that she’d worked with Bellamy on the Charlottesville Alliance for Black Male Achievement. “I definitely support success for all people,” she said. Hill once again touted a “holistic approach” that included child care, job training and support of the vulnerable. “Do you support our local Black Lives Matter?” asked Bellamy again, while Showing Up for Racial Justice member Joe Starsia interjected: “We’re trying to get you to say ‘black lives matter.’” The three candidates voiced their support in response to Starsia.
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he Board of Supervisors’ interest in relocating Albemarle County’s houses of justice from their current location on Court Square to their own jurisdiction has been overshadowed by opposition, but county attorney Greg Kamptner thinks he may have found a way to circumvent the need for public approval. He told supervisors at their May 3 meeting that House Bill 2313, passed in this year’s General Assembly session, says, “in the case of the removal of a county courthouse that is not located in a city or town and is not being relocated to a city or town, such removal shall not require a petition or approval by the voters.” Kamptner says HB2313 applies because Court Square is within Albemarle County and not the corporate limits of Charlottesville. “Before the board chose that option, it would thoroughly consider the comments and other input received from the public,” he says in an email. The BOS will hold a work session on June 14, when county staff will give supes an update on the hiring of a development adviser and exploring partnership possibilities for the court relocation, according to Kamptner. “The bill was passed 98 to nothing,” says Bruce Williamson, chair of the BAR-Bench Committee of the Charlottesville-Albemarle Bar Association. “They have the absolute right to locate their courts where they wish to locate them. The bigger question is, is it good for the county and is it good for the entire city and county community?” Since the Albemarle Board of Supervisors passed a 4-2 resolution in November directing staff to explore options to relocate one or both of the courthouses, Williamson has been vocal about his opposition.
In November, he said, “This has been couched as a matter of convenience for lawyers. Nothing could be further from the truth. Adding in travel time to the urban ring would increase costs, reduce the number of cases public defenders could take and keep more people incarcerated while they wait for a hearing.” And it isn’t only happening here. In Staunton, a similar issue arose when Augusta County supervisors called for a referendum vote to move their courthouse from the downtown area to Verona. It failed when about two-thirds of county residents voted to keep it in its current location, though six of seven supervisors supported the move. “As far as what we can do, we’re very limited,” says Tracy Pyles, chair of the Augusta County Board of Supervisors. “So we’re asking for some changes in the rules governing us.” Currently, if a referendum vote fails, the board can’t initiate another one for 10 years. While his staff hopes that can be amended, Pyles offers advice to the Albemarle BOS. “First of all, try to have your cost estimate as realistic as possible,” he says. He believes a major reason the public voted against moving the Augusta County Courthouse was the $45 million price tag, which was the worst-case scenario—the move would most likely have cost about $35 million. He also recommends documenting the ongoing operating costs of keeping the courthouse in place and moving it, he says, by noting details such as accruals in tax revenue and the price for relocating lawyers. “Be able to really show why you intend to do it,” Pyles says. “If you can’t show monetary savings and efficiency improvement, you’re hardpressed to say why.”
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Ditto for the recent raises councilors gave themselves. Jackson questions the money the city gives to nonprofits, and suggests some nonprofits could be consolidated, while adding funding to faith-based initiatives. “Charlottesville wants to look elite,” he says. But when the people who work here and keep the city running can’t afford to live here, he says, “That’s kind of like slavery, isn’t it?” Jackson joins the race with four other independents—Nancy Carpenter, Paul Long, Nikuyah Walker and Dale Woodson. Equity and Progress in Charlottesville will hold a forum for independent council candidates Wednesday, May 17, at 6pm at The Haven.
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He calls the reaction to his documenting the event ironic. “I’m black and I was threatened and assaulted by white liberal demonstrators,” he says. Stern says he agrees with Spencer on the monument issue. “I believe that the Lee statue should not be removed,” he says. Stern has footage of counterprotesters locking arms and blocking Kessler, while shouting, “Black Lives Matter.” After police announced the park closed at 10pm and participants were leaving, Kessler, 33, was arrested for not obeying officers’ commands to leave and for inciting others with his bullhorn, as was Charles William Best, 21, for assaulting law enforcement, a felony, and Jordan McNeish, 28, for disorderly conduct for spitting on Kessler, according to police. On Monday, Perriello held a press conference at Lee Park, where at least a dozen police officers were stationed around the park. He called for a state commission
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he first time Kenneth Jackson ran for City Council in 2004, he did so as a Republican. This time around, he’s running as an independent, but holding on to conservative values. “It’s about people, not parties,” he said at a campaign kickoff May 12 at Tonsler Park. The 10th-generation Charlottesvillian had been on a hiatus from politics, but was back on the scene in February to denounce City Council plans to move the statue of General Robert E. Lee. “The Lee statue isn’t so much a divisive issue,” he says. “It’s a silly issue.” He objects to the money being spent to defend in court the decision to move the statue, and says that money would have been better spent on salaries for teachers and police officers. He also suggests that money could be used for the city’s public housing, such as fixing the elevator at Crescent Halls. On the issue of creating affordable housing, he scoffs. “You’ve been saying that for 30 years.” Jackson isn’t a supporter of the Our Town Charlottesville town hall meetings, in which councilors go to neighborhoods and bring pizza. “If we’re going to have a meeting, I don’t need a pizza party,” he says. “I heard they spent $1,500 on pizza. That’s ridiculous.”
Vice-Mayor Wes Bellamy, who called for the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue last year, says he’s been threatened with lynching, and his family has been harassed.
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It’s a gray Sunday evening, 50-something degrees and drizzling when The Beetnix step onto the outdoor stage at IX Art Park. It’s been raining all day, but a crowd of more than 100 has gathered on the graffiti-painted concrete ground in front of the stage. Many of them hold their phones and tablets in the air, precipitation be damned, ready to capture Charlottesville’s most legendary hiphop duo on video. “Come closer,” Damani “Glitch One” Harrison says to the crowd as he picks up a mic. With his arms stretched out wide, Louis “Waterloo” Hampton beckons for everyone to move in closer. For Harrison, 39, hip-hop has been part of his life since he was a kid. A military brat who grew up in Germany and Philadelphia, he remembers exactly where he was when the music caught him. He was 9 or 10 years old, riding around Philadelphia in the passenger seat of his cousin David’s black Nissan Maxima (he “had all the good music and a good car stereo,” Harrison says), listening to Power 99 hip-hop and R&B radio. When Whodini’s “Freaks Come Out at Night” spun over the airwaves, Harrison recalls how different it sounded from the R&B, jazz, soul and gospel his parents had played. “It touched me in a different way,” Harrison says. “The words, the rhyming of the stories. Being a small kid, it was like someone took all the children’s books that you grew up reading and set them to music, and made them relevant to me.” After moving to Charlottesville in the early 2000s with friends, Harrison started The Beetnix and met Hampton “through a strange turn of circumstances.” Harrison says they connected instantly over “comic books, weird movies, geek culture,” and they shared an in-your-face, socially conscious edge. Both MCs (a lyricist and rapper) were into painting pictures with their words, “movies for the blind,” as German rapper Cage says. The Beetnix were keen on getting their music heard all over town, so Harrison and Hampton would save up $500 and visit the only CD duplicator in Charlottesville at the time (remember, this was pre-internet streaming), get 400 copies of their CD, then leave them on tables at the Downtown Mudhouse and hand them out for free at shows. One of those CDs made it into the hands of Remy St. Clair, 32, a local MC, radio and event host who says The Beetnix are one of
the most influential groups he’s ever had in his CD player, right up there with Bone Thugs-n-Harmony and Public Enemy. St. Clair, who commits much of his time to the Charlottesville hip-hop scene, is one of the organizers of the Nine Pillars Hip-hop Cultural Fest, the occasion of The Beetnix’s set at IX, the duo’s first show in nearly four years. Over the course of a week in April, Nine Pillars made Charlottesville history with its workshops, lectures and performances as this city’s first hip-hop-focused festival. Many local artists agree that The Beetnix are the among the most influential groups in Charlottesville hip-hop, and although the duo has been absent from the stage for a few years, their influence hasn’t wavered. The Beetnix gave local hip-hop artists confidence, St. Clair tells the crowd. “They gave us a scolding. They gave us hope.” As Harrison and Hampton spit through their set with furrowed brows and focused looks, Keese Allen, 26, a local MC known simply as Keese, stands there in a hooded rain jacket the same shade of red as his Vans high-top sneakers. “I can’t believe this is happening,” he says with a grin, adding that he’s been “waiting on this for years.” Whether he is referring to The Beetnix performance or the festival as a whole isn’t quite clear but, either way, he’s elated. Like most people in the crowd, he knows all the lyrics to the songs and nods his head in time. At the end of The Beetnix set, Harrison, wearing a black T-shirt with the words “FSOCIETY” printed in red below an image of the Anonymous mask, matching black Adidas shoes with red stripes and jeans, stands at the edge of the stage and looks out at the crowd as Hampton, visibly moved, wipes a tear from the corner of his eye. “It’s not a dream. It’s a reality that’s occurring,” Harrison says, referencing a line from Aesop Rock’s “No Regrets”: “You can dream a little dream or you can live a little dream / I’d rather live it.”
‘Just trying to be heard’ In December 2007, C-VILLE ran a cover story with the headline “C’ville hip-hop R.I.P.?” The piece was written in the wake of a shooting that occurred at the now-defunct Outback Lodge on Preston Avenue, where, as the article details, on the night of November 14, 2007, police responded to reports of shots fired near the venue. A Louisa County man was shot in the leg and a second weapon was found on a convicted felon. The incident led to the cancellation of hip-hop shows at the venue and, according to many longtime hip-hop artists in town, gave some other venues in town a reason to deny hip-hop a place on their stages. “We’ve had a lot of talent around...but everybody was so scared to bring in hip-hop acts because of violence and all that,” says Hampton. “It was a huge negative stigma. ...But our core fan base definitely held us down; we had little to no trouble at [Beetnix] shows. And a
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lot of these guys [making music in town] right now, they have that core fan base.” Shonn “Bumpy Brown” Brown, 36, a producer who’s made beats for artists in town and elsewhere since he was a teenager, says that hip-hop, both locally and globally, has been wrongly perceived—“profiled,” he says—as a beacon for violence. “There’s not much to talk about except the profiling, point blank period,” he says. “Sometimes stuff happens and sometimes stuff don’t. You can’t expect, or know, it’s going to happen. If [hip-hop] is a positive thing that could grow and keep people out of doing certain things, then why stop it?” he asks. Hampton, 36, like so many other MCs, was writing lyrics and delivering them into the mic (an act known as “spitting”) long before he stood on a stage. He’d grown up listening to lyricists like Jay-Z, Nas and Ice Cube, artists who gave him the advice— “check yourself before you wreck yourself ”—that an older brother or a father would have doled out otherwise, and once he hit high school, he was winning freestyle battles at Monticello High School and Western Albemarle High. After meeting Brown, Hampton began visiting the Music Resource Center over Max/Trax near the Corner, where Brown, who’d already started making beats, encouraged Hampton to write his own lyrics. Brown would drop a cassette tape of beats into the tape deck while Hampton and others stood around a single mic and took turns spitting their verses, each rapper trying to outdo the next. Hampton stayed up “late, late, late at night, on school nights,” writing.
“I would lose time, just going over and over” the words, Hampton remembers. “If you could perfectly recite these 16 bars, and everyone’s patting you on the back, nobody can tell you shit. You’re 10 feet tall.” Hip-hop happens in the MRC, in schoolyards, high school hallways and on sidewalks in the 10th and Page neighborhood. It’s happened in the basement of Tokyo Rose to the music of Myson King. And it happens in home recording studios and in quiet moments of writing in bedrooms. “Hip-hop is not this wild beast that comes down from the hill. It’s not this imaginary thing. It’s been here the whole time, fully integrated into society,” Harrison says. “The scene isn’t exploding; it’s being revealed.” Over the last few years, venues such as The Ante Room, Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, Magnolia House and newly The Villa Sports Bar and Ultra Lounge, in the old Outback Lodge spot, have helped give local hip-hop artists a space to spit their lines and say what’s on their minds—hip-hop is like therapy for those who practice it, and a remedy for the listener, too. But take a look at most venue and festival calendars—everywhere from breweries to the Southern Café and Music Hall to the Jefferson Theater—and you’ll see more indie rock, singer-songwriter music than anything else. If hip-hop is on the calendar, it’s occasional. Some hip-hop-friendly venues have shut down or, in the case of Random Row Books on West Main Street, where Anthony “Double A 1 K” Amos held the occasional Verbs and Vibes open mic and hip-hop show, been demolished to make way for a hotel.
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The Beetnix, Louis “Waterloo” Hampton and Damani “Glitch One” Harrison, perform at The Nine Pillars Hip-hop Cultural Fest block party on April 23. The weeklong festival, which included events such as a beatmaking workshop, a lecture on the history and cultural significance of hip-hop, and a Charlottesville vs. Richmond No Filter rap battle, culminated in this block party where more than a dozen local artists performed and The Beetnix got on stage together for the first time in four years. (Top) Mike “Saint Mike” Moxham DJs for The Beetnix during their set. (Right) Charlottesville hip-hop artist up-and-comer Nay Nichelle performs at Nine Pillars.
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The goal is “to make people recognize, to show that we’re more serious. This is a lot of people’s lives; this is what they love,” Brown says before rattling off the names of no fewer than three dozen artists whom he’s worked with (or, for that matter, whom he’s related to) in town over the years. And that list isn’t complete Local artists like Sondai are getting their music played on Spotify; others are gathering listeners on SoundCloud. “There’s still a lot of people that we, that I haven’t even heard of, that I wish would show their faces. There’s probably more happening as we speak,” says Brown. And “eventually, more people are going to believe in it.” Like Brown, Hampton feels as though hiphop has been misunderstood and unfairly pushed to the margins by venues and, to an extent, listeners, in Charlottesville. There’s the stigma that hip-hop promotes violence and drug use, that rappers only rap about money, guns, drugs and sex. Those rappers are out there, sure, but they don’t represent the entire genre. “A lot of people don’t see the other side of it; they don’t hear the consciousness of it,” says Hampton, not to mention the wordplay, the rhymes. “They just hear about somebody getting robbed, or whatever. But there’s so much more to it. There’s so much more to it. So much beauty.” Plus, “you can’t have a community like Charlottesville and not have hip-hop be a major part of it. There is a community here, a black community, that has something to say, and this is one of their ways to say it,” says Hampton.
“Every week, someone else is picking up a mic and starts rapping,” says Rico “Sweet Lick” Hearns, an event promoter who, for the past four years, has been interviewing local hip-hop MCs, producers and DJs about their music for his Sweet Lick Weekly web series. “Everyone’s just trying to be heard.”
Sondai In mid-February Kevin Skinner was feeling down. Earlier in the month, Skinner, who goes by the moniker Sondai (pronounced “Sunday”) released a single, “One Chick,” on Spotify, and it hadn’t received much traction— maybe 150 listens over two weeks. The 27-year-old hip-hop artist has been writing and recording music for more than a decade— and he’s been writing poetry for even longer— but with the release of “One Chick,” he started to question his choice to pursue music. Skinner relies on music to keep him going. “When I have a bad day, I don’t have to call anybody to talk about it, I can just write,” he says. It’s why he goes by Sondai: Sunday is a day to practice one’s faith, and his is music. He contemplated removing “One Chick” from Spotify and other sites—something he’s done with his material in the past—but decided to think about it for one more day. The next morning, he woke to a slew of texts from a friend. “Yo. Did you know you’re on the front of my Spotify?” the friend asked. Skinner figured it was algorithm-based; if his friend CONTINUED ON PAGE 25
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Louis “Waterloo” Hampton, onehalf of local hip-hop legends The Beetnix, has shared his previously unreleased solo album, Give ‘Em Hell, Kid, with us. Head to c-ville.com/hip-hop to hear for yourself what Hampton says is some of his best and most personal material. Meet Doughman, a 28-year-old producer and “the left ventricle” of Charlottesville hip-hop, and Devyn “DJ Double U” Wildy, 24, who loves DJ-ing so much that he rarely turns down a gig.
transitioning MCs from beat to beat or, in a party setting, keeping the crowd happy via music) is that there are more venues booking hip-hop than there were a few years ago— maybe three or four instead of one or two. It’s an improvement, but it’s not quite enough, especially because they’ll lose one when The Ante Room is torn down, along with the rest of the Main Street Arena, in 2018; a tech incubator will be built in its place. Sitting on a black pleather couch pushed up against a royal purple wall at I Feel Famous Studios, a one-room production, recording and mentoring studio in the basement of a house in Belmont, Brown says there is indeed more hip-hop in Charlottesville than ever. He shakes a cigarette out of a pack pulled from the pocket of his black leather jacket and tugs on a small gold medallion hanging at the center of his chest while explaining that artists are starting to aspire to something more than local stardom. “[Hip-hop] is bigger than the local scene, of course, but you’ve got to start somewhere, and why not at home?” he says. Artists like Lady Taij, who came up in Charlottesville and recently moved to Atlanta to reach a wider audience, are honing their skills in the ’ville and moving up and out when the time comes. Someone who hears Lady Taij in Atlanta might be prompted to check out the scene she came from and could get into Charlottesville artists like Nay Nichelle, or hear a beat from Doughman, a producer whom Harrison calls “the left ventricle” of Charlottesville hip-hop, because so many beats are going through him.
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Tea Bazaar owner Gwendolyn Hall says that hip-hop is “like modern-day beat poetry,” and she’s happy to have it in her tea house. Hip-hop shows are, on average, some of the venue’s most well-attended shows. Jeyon Falsini, owner of The Ante Room who previously booked hip-hop shows at Outback Lodge, says that it’s a huge scene, both artist- and fan-wise, that’s becoming “more locally mainstream.” Whether there are more artists now than ever he can’t say for sure, but he’s seeing more of them—instead of booking a hip-hop show occasionally, he’s booking at least one a month at his venue. The general consensus among MCs, producers and DJs (the ones responsible for
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NINE PILLARS OF HIP-HOP
“Rap is something you do, hip-hop is something you live,” spits KRS-One in the hook of his song “9 Elements” off of his 2003 Kristyles album. When the organizers of the Nine Pillars Hip-hop Cultural Fest put together a week of events, they wanted to show Charlottesville that hip-hop isn’t just music, it’s a lifestyle. So they built their festival—which included a beat-making workshop, live graffiti art, a lecture on hip-hop history and various music performances—around the nine elements, or nine pillars, of hip-hop culture: 1. Breaking/breakdancing/ b-boying 2. MC-ing/rap 3. Graffiti art/tagging 4. DJ-ing 5. Beatboxing 6. Street fashion 7. Street language 8. Street knowledge (“common sense, the wisdom of elders from way back whence,” KRS-One says) 9. Street entrepreneurialism
EquallyOpposite The first time Lamar “Gordo” Gordon saw Zachary “ZacMac” McMullen, McMullen was spitting—fast—for a small circle of fellow students at Piedmont Virginia Community College. “Aren’t you looking for a partner?” Gordon’s girlfriend asked as they walked by McMullen’s impromptu performance. “Yeah,” Gordon replied, not letting on that he was impressed by McMullen’s verse. He’d been creating rap parody videos and posting them to YouTube, and he wanted a creative partner. The next day, McMullen, who’d seen some of those YouTube videos and wanted in, happened to walk up to Gordon and started talking parodies. Gordon didn’t recognize McMullen, but McMullen followed Gordon around campus for a week, insisting they should work together. Finally, Gordon asked McMullen to rap for him, to show him what he’s got. When McMullen started rapping, Gordon recognized his voice and style immediately. And when McMullen told Gordon about a dream he had when he was a kid—one where his pants fell down in gym class and, no matter what he did, he couldn’t pull them up—Gordon was sold. It was the most original thing he’d heard all day. CONTINUED ON PAGE 26
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Kevin Skinner, who goes by the moniker Sondai (pronounced “Sunday”), writes poetry in addition to lyrics. He says that writing gives him “existential purpose,” and it’s important to him that people connect with his words. A fan once wrote to Skinner and told him his song “So Reality” helped him through a really rough time in his life. “One person saying that meant the world to me,” Skinner says. AMY JACKSON
“I’m talkin’ ’bout some real shit,” he declared a few lines later as his audience reached toward him to give dap—bump fists, or shake hands and lock thumbs during the set.
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“If you understand what the nine pillars are, you can apply them to your craft and fully utilize them,” says Remy St. Clair, one half of local duo Sons of Ichibei, who organized the festival along with rap partner Cullen “Fellowman” Wade, Devyn “DJ Double U” Wildy, Meliza Brillantes and Matt Burke. Everyone has his own interpretation of the pillars, or elements, says Wade. “I don’t breakdance, but I don’t have to be doing backspins and headspins and crazy footwork in order to be practicing that element. I just have to be able to express myself through physical motion. Hip-hop is an awareness...it’s how you move through the world. So when I walk a certain way, that’s breakdancing, b-boying, because I’m bringing my physical movement in line with the spirit and soul of hip-hop culture. When I speak a certain way, that’s the language component.”
was always looking up his stuff, then it’d make sense that “One Chick” would pop up as a suggested track. But that wasn’t it. “One Chick” was on that week’s Fresh Finds playlist on the Spotify home page. According to the Spotify website, the popular playlist, updated every Wednesday, is “an automated curation of bound to break songs across five genres, powered by an analysis of Spotify tastemakers.” In a single day, “One Chick,” a song about being in love with two women and the fear of choosing the wrong one—a song that was recorded, mixed and mastered in 20-year-old Finn Downey’s Belmont studio—garnered more than 20,000 listens. At press time, it had nearly 300,000 listens on Spotify alone. Skinner still doesn’t know exactly how it happened, but it felt like a long time coming. He wrote his first poem, “I Feel Lonely,” during in-school suspension when he was in second grade in the Bronx. He started putting words to music when he was a pre-teen and put hours and hours into writing songs when he was at Charlottesville High School. He keeps all of his writing, from ideas jotted down on school worksheets and restaurant napkins to his neatly scribed poetry notebooks that never leave the house and the small leather notebooks full of lyrics that Skinner carries in his pockets. He likes to have a record of how he’s felt and when he felt that way, he says. It helps him keep in touch with who he is. He’s “just an average Joe,” he says, making music that he hopes other people will connect with. A voracious reader, he always carries a paperback book with him, and he has stacks of them in his bedroom. He’s read Sylvia Plath’s Ariel over and over, and he recently finished José Saramago’s Death Without Interruptions, a book about what the world would be like if nobody died. But he’s not that into fiction, he says; he prefers real stories. “You have this life. This is it,” he says. “Why would you have to make anything up?” When Skinner listens to music, he likes to be drawn into the artist’s world. “I want to feel like I know [that person],” he says. Listen to his new album Wallflower and you’ll get to know Skinner quite well—his tendency to view life as a series of movie scenes, his experience as a young black man in America, his yearning for romance and his aspiration to have “40 fucking acres with no neighbors.” You’ll hear his love for rhyme, vocabulary and imagery, too, when he strings together metaphors into one big, sensuous allegory: “In my room it’s a tomb an acoustic the strings I pull are attached to a heart that’s gone black but it’s never too bad you can always come back like elastic to me,” he spits fast as fire on “HourGlass.” On that same track, he expresses his desire to relate to others over the music: “Start the spark that’ll change the globe, / A caveman when it’s sticks and stones, / you’re not stupid,
we’re just humans, / dreamin’ lucid, release the nooses.” Skinner is a sensitive guy—he feels the good and the bad with equal depth, he says. “Experts say that plants are aware of their surroundings and react to outside stimuli,” he says of the story he’s telling on his new record. “When you see someone standing in the corner of a party or just observing any situation, you never know what they’re feeling on the inside. …I decide to just tell the listener what I was feeling,” Skinner says. Lately, he’s been feeling pretty good. At the Wallflower album release show at Magnolia House on April 29, Skinner couldn’t stop smiling. It had been a warm day and temperatures rose inside the house as a crowd of 50 or so people packed in to hear him perform his new tracks. As Skinner picked up the mic, a single lamp cast light on his many tattoos—two of which reference Sylvia Plath’s “Balloons” and Pink Floyd’s The Wall. The room grew warmer with the grooving bodies, and beads of sweat slid down temples and off the tips of noses as the crowd matched Skinner word for word on “One Chick.” Barely able to contain his delight, Skinner dabbed the back of his neck with a terrycloth towel between songs and thanked the crowd and his mom, who stood in the corner filming the entire 25-minute set, for their support. “So what, so fuck it, still ridin’ ’round in my bucket,” he rhymed to the hypedup, smiling crowd as it bounced to the “This Life” hook. “This life, this life / Don’t come without no price. / Don’t come without no vices / so save a seat on that flight. / We up, we out, we ridin’ around and we gettin’ it,” he sang.
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“I was persistent,” McMullen says with a satisfied smile. Gordon, 25, is calm and deliberate in conversation. He works in a factory. He’s a realist. He believes in coincidence. He writes down all of his lyrics in the Notes app on his phone and works them over and over and over—people always think he’s texting, but he’s writing. He says that his mom kept a figurative blindfold over his eyes when he was growing up in Orange County. “Cocaine could be right in front of me and I’d think it was sugar,” he says with a burst of laughter. “My mom would be like, ‘Oh, baby’s that sugar. But that’s not sugar for you.’ The common sense didn’t come until I was in high school, and then I was like, ‘What have I been around?!’” McMullen, also 25, is an excited fasttalker. He works on a farm. He’s a dreamer. He believes in irony. He builds his lyrics via memorization, working out one line then going over it to build the next; he’ll go over those two bars and make the third; go over those three and make the fourth. Eventually, it’s memorized. He says he “grew up very, very fast” in Madison, “doing dumb stuff, getting into trouble.” For all of their apparent differences, Gordon and McMullen are quite similar. When the duo moved to Charlottesville in 2015 to be closer to a hip-hop scene, this was the biggest city either of them had been to. They’re both into baseball hats, comic books, video games and cartoons. They’re both quirky and goofy and not afraid to show it in their lyrics: “I don’t speak Japanese / I speak happinese,” Gordon spits on one song. “Playing games, eating Mike and Ikes / Now that sounds like my kind of night,” McMullen rhymes on another. In their songs, they frequently trade off roles, one playing the straight man and the other playing the clown; one gets dark while the other goes light, equally in opposition and all in service of a shared message. On “Prepare for Snow,” a single from their upcoming record Xmas in August, Gordon voices innocence while McMullen voices experience over a beat that sounds like a twinkly sweet soundtrack to a video game snow globe world. As always, they
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come together in the hook: “Bring your ass inside before you go catch a cold. / You better ask next time, before you go out the door. / The world will wake you up, / ho ho hooo / Put you in the ground, / ho ho hoooo / It’s dangerous when the world is cold, / So prepare for snow.” With their true-to-themselves brand of hip-hop, EquallyOpposite is sneaking into the consciousness of audiences here in Charlottesville—“Those guys can spit!” says Hampton—and elsewhere. Last year, the duo performed shows all over Virginia, in Brooklyn, Atlanta, at the POP Montreal Festival in Canada and in front of thousands of people at the Pittsburgh Pride Festival. “With us, you never know what you’re gonna get,” says Gordon. Maybe it’s a hook based off of Fred Flintstone’s “Yabba Dabba Doo” or a line about being “a good cookie.” Maybe it’s a declaration of their expectations of a listener, as in “Yuki,” where, in the hook to the song, they explain how it feels “yuki” to make music without a message, how they refuse to “dumb it down for the public / just so your ass can stomach it.” They’re into sick beats, but only as a gateway into their weird and wonderful world of lyrical quirks. “We’re trying to find that medium between conscious and popular, saying things you need to hear in a cool way to make you accept it,” says McMullen. Gordon says it best in the hook to “Yabba Dabba”: “I preach the print a bit different / If this don’t pin a point of yo interest,” he spits. “Trust, believe that we can dig deeper. / Two tunnel vision.”
Lamar “Gordo” Gordon and Zachary “ZacMac” McMullen, who together make up EquallyOpposite, say they make “rap music for people who don’t like rap music.” Their experimental, unusual style and often humorous language is all to get the listener to pay closer attention to what they’re actually saying: As different as we appear to be, we’re all human and more similar than we think.
Cullen “Fellowman” Wade and Remy St. Clair, who met when they both joined local hip-hop culture collective Spititout Inc., recently started performing together as Sons of Ichibei, one of Charlottesville’s most socially conscious hip-hop groups. Each considers the other one to be the best lyricist he knows.
dark arts. St. Clair believes that lyrics, when spit correctly, can elevate the consciousness to new levels of understanding. He explains this while Wade works through the C-VILLE Weekly crossword puzzle in blue pen. “This is what he do,” St. Clair says of Wade. “I’m just a word nerd,” Wade says, mentioning that the wordplay, in combination with the drive to make something out of nothing and the genre’s leftist politics, is a big part of what drew him to hip-hop in the first place. Lyrics are an MC’s art, and “with art, you can get under people’s skin...you can put thoughts in people’s heads in a way that you can’t [otherwise],” says Wade while St. Clair nods his head and murmurs sounds of agreement. Wade says that if he walked out onto West Main Street and started talking to random people about the themes he addresses in his song “Seven Trumpets,” which is about the apocalypse, he’d be labeled crazy. “Forget the monsoon / listen to this song’s tune. / Gongs boom, we’ll be gone soon. / Nothing left to consume, trees will not bloom. / A clean sweep with God’s broom,” the song begins. “Seven Trumpets” explores Wade’s belief that if we “dismantle systems of oppression, we have to believe that we can build something better in the aftermath. However, when
you look around at the world, it’s hard not to feel like we’re heading for some serious turmoil and devastation.” St. Clair and Wade named their duo after a character from the Japanese comic book, or manga, Bleach. Ichibe, the “Monk Who Calls the Real Name,” is the giver and taker of names—by assigning names to people, he gives them meaning; he can also take away their names and thereby make them nothing. “In a city where hip-hop is so frowned upon, we want to give [hip-hop] the name it’s supposed to have and take away the stigmas,” St. Clair says (and it sounds cool, too, he adds). Wade, agrees; he’s finished the crossword and picked up his knitting needles, which clack lightly in his hands as he knits a brownand-orange bag—or is it a hat? Sons of Ichibei want to make sure that when someone decides to pick up a mic and spit or sit down at the computer and make a beat, there’s a place for that person to speak and be heard. And we should be ready to hear more hip-hop than ever, they say. With milliondollar condos being built downtown and historically black and low-income neighborhoods gentrifying, Wade says that plenty of people in Charlottesville, “anyone who values authentic culture and authentic expres-
sion, has good reason to be frightened and sad about the direction things are going in this town. …And the exciting emotion of hip-hop is dissatisfaction. That’s how it comes about.”
Attitude check As The Beetnix wrap up their Nine Pillars set, the sun falls beyond the horizon and the rain quickens against the night sky. People turn up their hoods and open their umbrellas, unwilling to miss a single word. The Beetnix aren’t done yet, Harrison and Hampton promise to an eruption of applause, but, for now, they set down their mics. St. Clair takes the stage to close out the festival. He thanks performers and supporters, legends and newcomers alike, and promises there’s more where this came from. “This is just the beginning,” he says. And then, as always, he tests his audience: “This is a family event, y’all, so let’s say ‘hip-hop’ this time. Attitude check?” “Hip-hop!” the crowd yells. “Attitude check?” “Hip! Hop!” Their voices grow louder. “Attitude check?” “Hip! HOP!”
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“Fuck you too,” St. Clair said with a low chuckle. It’s how St. Clair, who was performing that night with Cullen “Fellowman” Wade as Sons of Ichibei, likes to test his crowds, to see if they’re paying attention to what he’s saying and how ready they are to engage with his words. St. Clair and Wade, 31, formed Sons of Ichibei in summer 2016, though they’ve been performing and organizing hip-hop events together, along with Tracy “R.U.N.T. 215th” Saxon, as part of Spititout, Inc. since around 2011 (they can’t remember when, exactly). Sons of Ichibei sets are some of the most politically charged, socially conscious hiphop in town. “One for my God, two for the bass, three to move a mountain with a mustard seed of faith,” St. Clair begins on his track “3rd Eye Open,” before launching into a critique of, among other things, modern politics and our lack of sympathy for our fellow human beings. “Mental elevators come to elevate us and finance. / Stab us in the back like Judas. / From ashes to ashes, then to dust, / you say you’re for the people but you treat them like they’re useless. / No health care. / Place them on the curb there. / The word sympathy is forbidden to be used here. / So tell me who are you to pick and choose here? / Ye judge and be judged is the rule here,” he spits before launching into a mantra that will help solve that problem: “I said ya third eye’s open / I said ya third eye’s open / I said ya third eye’s open open open open / I said ya third eye’s open open open open / And never closing.” Sons of Ichibei’s brand of hip-hop functions in much the same way as enlightenment, opening the listener’s mind by burrowing into their ears, their heart. About a week after that show, Sons of Ichibei sit at a corner table at Milli Coffee Roasters. St. Clair keeps his wool peacoat on but unbuttoned and sips a bottle of water; Wade drinks black coffee and keeps a knitting project on the table next to him. “I believe that all true MCs are wizards, spell casters. If you say the wrong spell, bad things [can] happen,” St. Clair says, noting that in Harry Potter, when Harry tries floo powder for the first time and yells “diagonally” instead of “Diagon Alley,” he’s transported not to the place to buy school books, wands and Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans, but to Knockturn Alley, a crooked row of shops devoted to the
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Exceptional 40+ acre horse farm with stunning, custom residence. Breathtaking mountain views! 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, garage with apartment, 7-stall horse barn, and much more! 15 min. south of town! MLS#560677 $1,499,500 Will Faulconer 434.987.9455
FARMINGTON
Traditional, renovated home UNDER 1M! Offering 5 bedrooms, 2 fireplaces, beautiful kitchen and family room, spacious sunroom opening onto large deck with hot tub. Terrace level in-law apartment. MLS#543809 $949,950 Betsy Swett 434.249.2922 or Jim Faulconer 434.981.0076
Best value in Charlottesville, priced at only $169 per square foot. This wonderful custom home in Ivy offers over 5,800 finished sq. ft. on a beautiful 2+ acre lot just minutes west of Charlottesville. Expansive and inviting floor plan, stunning gourmet kitchen, two master suites, gracious formal and informal spaces and finished terrace level. Western Albemarle school district. MLS#557103 $995,000 Steve McLean 434.981.1863
BLUE RIDGE VIEWS
Superbly built, 4-bedroom, post-and-beam contemporary on 21, mostly wooded, private acres with panoramic Blue Ridge views. Beautiful kitchen, huge windows, vaulted ceilings, and main-level master. MLS#543410 $1,795,000 Jim Faulconer 434.981.0076
CARAPAN
2.5 private acres in Keswick Estates offers lovely views of the golf course and distant mountains. Architecturally designed, 7,000+ square foot residence with 5 bedrooms. For more details, go to www.keswickestate.net MLS#451592 $1,825,000 Charlotte Dammann 434.981.1250
BRAMBLEWOOD
522-acre sanctuary with a magnificent manor home, two other residences, barn, beautiful and private setting in the Southwestern Mountains and the heart of the Keswick Hunt Country. For details, go to: www.bramblewoodva.com Jim Faulconer 434.981.0076
GLENMORE
Immaculate, brick Georgian with EVERYTHING! Beautifully decorated, this lovely residence offers a gracious, open kitchen with fireplace, formal dining room, study, spacious 1st-floor master suite, and 4 additional bedrooms. MLS#552591 $719,000 Tim Michel 434.960.1124
ROSEMONT
Stunning views of the Blue Ridge from this custom brick residence. Minutes west of UVA & Charlottesville, this attractive home provides comfortable one-level living with living room, kitchen/great room, dining room, library, master and two more bedrooms, and a guest wing with sitting area and two ensuite bedrooms. Quality details! www.pryorsmountain.com MLS#546661 $1,495,000 Charlotte Dammann 434.981.1250
VILLA DESTE COURT
Wonderful 13-lot community, minutes west of Charlottesville and UVA. Private, gently rolling, partly wooded, excellent homesites in a beautiful setting. Choose your builder and begin building your dream home today! 5- to 21-acre lots from $245,000. Steve McLean 434.981.1863
WEST LEIGH
EXCELLENT CONDITION! Living room with fireplace, large eat-in kitchen, spacious master bedroom, hardwood floors on main level, almost 3,000 square feet of living space. Superb location on 3.05 mostly open acres. MLS#556041 $549,000 Jim Faulconer 434.981.0076
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Exceptional privacy and views of the Rockfish Valley from this 28-acre retreat with a 2-bedroom home on top of the Blue Ridge! Less than 3 miles from I-64, and steps from the Appalachian Trail. MLS#560945 $840,000 Steve McLean 434.981.1863
ANDREWSIA
Gorgeous 253+/- acre parcel with views of the mountains in the distance. Currently being used as fertile crop land. One of the best land parcels to come on the market in a long time. MLS#509267 $1,295,000 Charlotte Dammann 434.981.1250
Lovely-39 acre country estate in renowned Somerset area of Orange County, near Montpelier. Charming circa 1857 Virginia farmhouse, recently renovated and enlarged, including new master bedroom suite and other spaces. Expansive lawn, lush pastures, panoramic views of the Southwest Mountains and beautiful countryside. Good fencing and several barns. Less than 30 minutes to Charlottesville. MLS#561448 $895,000 Jim Faulconer 434.981.0076
IVY AREA
Magnificent, European-style estate property on 22 private acres only 10 miles from Charlottesville. Elevated site with panoramic pastoral and Blue Ridge views! Guest cottage, 2-acre pond, river frontage, many recreational opportunities. $1,925,000 MLS#558286 Jim Faulconer 434.981.0076
WATERHOUSE
Charlottesville’s premier, upscale condominium community located one block from the Historic Downtown Mall. 15 residences ranging in size from 956 to 4,268 finished sq. ft. Steve McLean 434.981.1863 or visit: www. waterhousecharlottesville.com
LOWFIELDS
251-acre farm overlooking the James River with Blue Ridge Mtn. views. 3,600+ square foot main house with pool, charming guest cottage, barns and outbuildings. Under conservation easement. MLS#547364 $2,295,000 Steve McLean 434.981.1863
KEENE
Wonderful, historic southern Albemarle County farm with 150+/- acres, including a guest cottage and great charm in a private setting among other large estates. Only 20 minutes south of Charlottesville. MLS#561792 $1,695,000. Tim Michel 434.960.1124
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Exquisite brick mansion, meticulously maintained and built with superb quality and materials, details and features. Over 9,000 finished square feet, 13,000 total, 5 bedrooms, 6.5 baths. 98.23 gently rolling and private acres, mostly pastures, also with a large stream and pond. Only 5 miles to shopping and 15 miles to UVA. Call, text or email for brochure, more details: www.totierhillsfarm.com MLS#553364 $3,389,000 Jim Faulconer 434.981.0076
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260-acre Virginia estate showcases an English Country-style main residence surrounded by 7 acres of world-class gardens. Dependencies include a charming stone guest house, a stone barn, and a renovated 1800s log house. 20 miles SW of Charlottesville & I-64. MLS#560478 $3,450,000 Steve McLean 434.981.1863
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Fantastic home located in the Holly Hill subdivision featuring 5 bedrooms and 3.5 baths, functional floor plan with spacious finished walkout basement, and a sunny deck overlooking a large yard. MLS#560185 $359,000 Courtney Heyward 434.531.6567
Private 5+ acre lot in Meriwether Lewis school district. Wooded, elevated lot offers exceptional privacy and gorgeous winter views of the Blue Ridge Mountains one mile west of Ivy. Great opportunity! MLS#560621 $350,000 Steve McLean 434.981.1863
HEROLD CIRCLE
Move into Ivy’s best neighborhood near Meriwether Lewis elementary. This updated home offers 4–5 bedrooms, walk-out lower level, outdoor decks, and a rare flat yard. Minutes to town and trails. MLS#561164 $548,000 Tim Michel 434.960.1124
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Classic Greek Revival on the National Historic Registry. This spectacular manor has been meticulously renovated with 8,200 sq. ft. of living space, 6 bedrooms, 6 baths, 10 fireplaces, and 10-foot ceilings. Grounds feature formal gardens, mountain views, full equestrian facilities, 18-stall barn, indoor arena, and two cottages. Minutes to Charlottesville. www. albemarleva.com MLS#537630 $5,800,000 Andrew Middleditch 434.981.1410
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ARTS THIS WEEK Wednesday 5/17 music Jazz Collective #9. Bop, swing, Latin, funk and soul with a chill vibe. Free, 6:30pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Jim Waive. No-pick, percussive honky-tonk guitar and compelling lyrics. Free, 8pm. Blue Moon Diner, 512 W. Main St. 980-6666. Skip Haga. Keyboardist plays country, rock and blues-tinged tunes. Free, 6:30pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278. The Seven Bends. Southern-fried and tiedyed rock, blues and funk band improvises jams that take songs to a cosmic level. 21plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526. Will Overman Band. Americana band plays the Brews With a View series. With Matthew McAllister. 21-plus. $20, 6pm. Second Street Gallery, 115 Second St. SE. 977-7284.
stage Romeo and Juliet. The world’s most popular romantic tragedy featuring star-crossed lovers from feuding families. $33-59, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (877) 682-4236.
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on drums, Pete Spaar on bass and J.C. Kuhl on sax. Free, 10pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.
BRIMS Traditional Ensemble. Irish and Celtic music and dance. Free, 8pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387.
grooves around every turn. 21-plus. Free, 10:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549.
Bob Bennetta. Jazz pianist, educator, composer and arranger plays a lively set. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.
Charlie Mars. Modern troubadour tells it like it is. $18-20, 8pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.
DJ 2 Low’s Country Night. Line dancing music. Free, 8:30pm. Tavern on the James, 280 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-3500.
Born Crooked. Blues duo gets into it. Free, 8pm. The Villa Sports Bar and Ultra Lounge, 917 Preston Ave. 825-3423.
Choose Your Own Adventure. Gina Sobel leads a rotating cast of rock wizards and funk preachers, fabricating new and unexpected
Greg Ward. Island reggae on the patio. Free, 8pm. Wild Wing Cafe, 820 W. Main St. 979-9464.
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Keith McFaden. Uncle Band’s Men at Rice vocalist/guitarist tears it up with a solo set. Free, 7pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088. MidLife Crisis. Acoustic oldies and folk-country originals. Free, 7:30pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278. CONTINUED ON PAGE 38
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dance Cville Hoedown. Rob Craighurst calls the figures, and Tunes in the Hood provides the music for a night of contras and mixers. $510, 7:30pm. Front Porch Music School, 221 E. Water St. 806-7062.
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The Gold String (Tin Angel)
And the Heart (Wes Swing)
EP (Fat Possum)
After time in Texas and England, Devon Sproule’s return to central Virginia was rightly celebrated by local fans of the Canada-born, Twin Oaks-raised singer-songwriter. On The Gold String, Sproule weaves stories rich with touching details (“Here we are, curled in the dark / The last two spoons left in the drawer”), her conversational vocals always central in musical settings ranging from jazzy and chill (“Trees at Your Mom’s” and “Drawing Circles”) to stormy (“Jana” and “More Together”) and hazy (“Listen to This” and “Tree Detail”). A stellar supporting band fills out the texture with chops and taste.
Wes Swing has heady aspirations for And the Heart, aiming to “create an introspective space that allows folks to rest and connect to themselves...” Composed after a debilitating injury and subsequent depression, the mostly acoustic album sounds steadfast, if not jubilant—several songs are dark and heavy on low strings (Swing’s main instrument is cello). But Swing’s voice is delicate and fluid, floating into upper registers on “Missing Winter” and “Sing to Me”—he imparts a fragility possessed of tensile strength, a little like the gentler moments of Anohni.
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Blog posts about a Charlottesville musician on Fat Possum records raised some eyebrows around here. But indeed, in Gold Connections’ Will Marsh we have a new taxpayer/indie buzz act. These remixed recordings were tracked when Marsh was at William & Mary hanging with Will Toledo of Car Seat Headrest—its five servings of self-aware woebegone white boy rock land somewhere between Real Estate and Andrew Cedermark. The songs shift with aplomb from twangy guitar to crashing drums, and Marsh’s broken-in, oft-distorted vocals convey angst while avoiding mawkishness. So when’s the next one?
The Rapids (Adar)
Bright Idea (Cream Dream)
Diminutive powerhouse vocalist Adar has gathered an enthusiastic following with her charismatic live shows, and it seems that pretty soon we’ll be talking about “when Adar used to play this tiny bar in Charlottesville.” At shows, the Amy Winehouse vibes are conspicuous, but on The Rapids, classic soul sonics give way to balladry as well as touches of reggae and Cubanismo. Her band delivers tasty trumpet and organ solos and whining steel guitar; Adar’s lyrics are sensorily rich with flavors and textures, and Nate Leath’s production sets everything in the right space.
It must be said that Cream Dream sounds like old Sea and Cake, and that’s a good thing. The chord progressions often form melodies in themselves, and singer Max Hoffman sounds like a youthful Sam Prekop. Hoffman’s 20something ponderings rush by in a blur, but that’s mostly to say that here the words serve the tunes, which are worth it. Bassist Garen Dorsey bounces along while drummer Daniel Richardson adds a light but steady touch—the result is stylish indie that creates its own breeze. Play “Wonder Why” and open your windows.
Criatura (Haircut) Haircut features some of the most solid citizens of Charlottesville’s DIY scene–singer Juliana Viana and guitarist Daniel Berti have put on umpteen house shows, bringing dozens of bands to town while watering local flowers as well. So it would almost be a civic duty to like this EP, but it’s no struggle—the three songs are a bracing blast of classic punk. Righteous ferocity comes through Viana’s singing whether it’s in English or Spanish, and whether you can decipher the lyrics, which involve “consent, being Latin-American, grief, femininity.” Vital. —Nick Rubin
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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet). A modern feminist comedy that winds through the plots of Shakespeare’s Othello and Romeo and Juliet. $25-62, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (877) 682-4236. Improv Night. Big Blue Door spring “harold” groups perform longform improv comedy. $5, 7pm. C’ville Coffee, 1301 Harris St. 817-2633. [title of show]. Phoenix Theatre Works performs this one-act musical that follows its own creation as an entry in the New York Musical Theatre Festival. $20, 7:30pm. Belmont Arts Collaborative, 221 Carlton Rd. Ste. 3. 422-4700.
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Dál Riata. Irish trio. Free, 8pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387. Debra Guy. Native Virginian known for her distinctive, strong voice and gritty, honest tunes. With Justin Trawick and Drew Pompano. $8, 8pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561. Nick and Stephen Pollock. Father-son duo. Free, 10pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Scott Ward. Live music patio party. Free, 5pm. Tavern on the James, 280 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-3500. The Michael Elswick Gathering. Epic jazz ensemble influenced by hard bop, New Orleans jazz, American punk-gospel and Cambodian surf-rock. Free, 7pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Will Leggett and Friends. Grandaddy’s Gravy band member rustles up some friends for a show. 21-plus. Free, 6:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549.
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Heard not seen SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 7:30pm with guest conductor Erin Freeman
Takin’ care of backstage business at area music venues By Mary Shea Valliant arts@c-ville.com
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Leroy Anderson’s Classical Jukebox Duke Ellington Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald Summertime from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess Selections from Hello Dolly! Suite from Hamilton: An American Musical AND MORE!
Mishap stories include a bus driver who drove to Charlotte instead of Charlottesville, a raging alcoholic lead singer, sending a van to Philadelphia to pick up bandmates who missed connecting flights and tending to artists’ stomach bugs.
Sponsors: Elizabeth Natoli The Honorable Gerald L. Baliles and Robin D. Baliles in honor of Anne R. Worrell
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Medley from Grease
f Gary Green does his job well at the Paramount Theater, nobody will know. As the theater’s audio production manager, he analyzes how sound waves produced by artists will be affected by rising temperature and humidity as audience members fill the space. He knows how voices sound in each microphone, and where the Paramount’s resonance frequencies are—these being the frequencies at which objects vibrate. “[Audience members] only notice when things go wrong,” Green says, citing an experience when a digital soundboard crashed and he almost canceled Clint Black’s show. “They walk into a live concert expecting the sound of the studio. It’s a high mark to reach night after night.” B.J. Pendleton is another local “sound guy” who determines what audiences hear, primarily for shows at the Jefferson Theater since it reopened in 2009. “I love mixing shows,” Pendleton says. “I can make or break your show. You guys can practice as much as you want and have great lyrics, but I can throw that out in two seconds.” Pendleton is joking of course, and says he wouldn’t do something that “horrible.” He first encountered the Charlottesville music scene in the early 2000s when his hip-hop band, Man Mountain Jr., opened
for The Hackensaw Boys at a Liberty Hall Pig Picking. He says it was a full departure from The Roots-like vibe Pendleton’s band created. “It was us in the middle of a field playing on a hay trailer, people drinking beer, and a pig,” he says. “I’ve mixed [sound for] The Hackensaw Boys a million times now. It’s funny how it all comes together.” He also manages international tours for artists including Amos Lee, Robert Glasper and Gregory Porter, while running his music production company, Pendleton Presents. He and his wife have a 9-month-old and 2-year-old. Sometimes, Pendleton says, he likes to sleep. Kirby Hutto, general manager for the Sprint Pavilion since construction broke ground in 2004, says he can go to almost any show on the East Coast and find some-
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Full flavored Animal Collective is ‘Kinda Bonkers’ in the best way By Desiré Moses arts@c-ville.com
Animal Collective The Jefferson Theater May 20
Animal Collective blends a collision of musical cults into modern jams at the Jefferson on Saturday.
something to the listener, the summary has its own colors or flavors to it.” Animal Collective enhances these flavors live through improvisation, jamming and song transitions—techniques that were staples for the Grateful Dead. The Dead has always been a source of inspiration for Animal Collective, and its 2009 song, “What Would I Want? Sky,” includes the first and only licensed Grateful Dead sample. “I’m more of an American Beauty-only kind of dude, but [the rest of the guys in the band] were like trading tapes and super into it since they were much younger and going to shows and stuff,” Lennox says. “So I’m not sure there’s too many bands that I would argue have been a bigger influence on Animal Collective than the Grateful Dead.” As the band embarks on another tour behind last year’s Painted With, Lennox says they’ll continue to use these techniques to keep the set exciting. “Because we’ve toured in the U.S. with these songs a couple times last year, we wanna bring something new to the table so even though it may not be songs nobody’s heard before, it’ll be some kind of older song that’s reworked in a new way or we’ll do some of the EP songs or something like that where we’re adding something fresh to the set,” he explains. “And it’s not just for audiences; it’s for us, too, you know. You wanna keep the ball rolling and keep the energy moving forward in some way. I’m just speaking for myself, but there’s always a fear of getting stale or thinking too hard about where you’ve been, so I think speaking for all of us again, I think it’s always important to keep things moving forward.”
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Back in February, Animal Collective released The Painters EP, a companion to the band’s 10th album, Painting With, which came out last year. The EP includes two songs from the Painting With sessions, a cover of “Jimmy Mack,” popularized by Martha and the Vandellas, and the opening track, “Kinda Bonkers,” which was plucked from the group’s vault. “‘Kind of Bonkers’ started actually a couple years ago,” Lennox says. “There was this project where we wanted to make four tracks where each of the four of us in Animal Collective would start a song and then kind of pass our work to the next person in line and the tracks would just go around like that. We didn’t ultimately finish those, but ‘Bonkers’ was one of the ones that we finished.” This method fits squarely into the Collective’s ethos, as their songs are a landscape made up of disparate layers that rely on space, rhythm, noise and ambience to make up the whole. Lennox says that the order in which they sequence the tracks on records can help create an environment for the listener to inhabit. “It may not always be so literal as far as like, ‘We wanna feel like we’re going into this ice cave now and now we’re in the desert’... but certainly the goal is to, on a micro level, have some sort of experience or invoke some sort of feeling or thought within the song,” says Lennox. “Then on a more macro level have that same type of thing happen when you’re listening to a sequence of songs. And hopefully if the right pieces are assembled, not only do the singular songs [mean]
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The music they were creating in that practice space had a life of its own. From acoustic-based tunes to trippy psych-pop punches and frenetic compositions drenched in synth and reverb, Animal Collective has always transformed and challenged boundaries. While the band’s approach to songwriting usually relies on road-testing material before committing to anything in the studio, Lennox says each record is different. “It’s more stuff outside of music that gets us going one direction or another and often there’s like a whole bunch of things thrown out in the beginning,” he says. “There can be a slightly different method depending upon how much we see each other, how close we are geographically to each other.”
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s one-fourth of experimental pop band Animal Collective and a solo artist in his own right, Noah Lennox (who creates under the moniker Panda Bear) has been making music professionally for nearly 20 years. Along with Dave Portner (Avey Tare), Brian Weitz (Geologist) and Josh Dibb (Deakin), Lennox and the Collective made their mainstream crossover in 2009 with the album Merriweather Post Pavilion, but had amassed a cult following long before that. After playing music together while growing up in Baltimore, Lennox, Portner and Weitz all wound up in Manhattan in the early 2000s, playing alongside groups such as Black Dice while the burgeoning garage rock scene that produced bands like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs was in full swing. “Dave [Portner] and I both worked at a record shop, 12 to like 8 or so, so it was always like you’d get off work, maybe get something to eat...” Lennox says. “We had a space we shared with a whole bunch of bands. It was down by the water on North Fourth, I think. It was kind of a wasteland down there. I mean, there was like nothing.” Lennox says they’d get to the practice space around 10pm and play until 1 or 2 in the morning. “We’d get the G train back home, which was always a bummer ’cause it just wouldn’t run very often,” he explains. “I don’t mean to complain—it wasn’t like super rough times. We weren’t living a life of luxury, but all things considered it was pretty fantastic. There were a couple times we fell asleep on it and went the wrong way and all sorts of shenanigans. We hated the G train. It was kind of our nemesis.”
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one he knows working backstage. Though Hutto thinks the Pavilion hits a “sweet spot” and can attract a variety of acts, he says the space isn’t always easy for performers to visit. “We’re a challenge logistically,” says Hutto. “Once [the artists] get out of their trucks and into the venue, we’re going to do everything we can to make it a memorable, favorable experience for them.” Keeping the artists and the fans happy is a priority for Hutto, whose mishap stories include a bus driver who drove to Charlotte instead of Charlottesville, a raging alcoholic lead singer, sending a van to Philadelphia to pick up bandmates who missed connecting flights and tending to artists’ stomach bugs. He remembers Jack White refused to have the color red in his dressing room. No red cups, no red decorations, no red anything. When Jack White’s tour arrived, everything red was gone, Hutto says, thanks to the Pavilion’s hospitality director. “You can’t get drawn into the madness when part of your job is solving that,” Hutto says, crediting the ability to stay cool under pressure and his team’s resourcefulness. “The rest of the stuff can be background noise as long as the artist goes on. ...It’s truly an art.” George Gilliam, general manager for the Southern Café and Music Hall, reviewed one band’s contract that included a request for a Tickle Me Elmo toy. He says strange requests can be a test to make sure venues read artists’ contracts thoroughly. “We did not buy a Tickle Me Elmo,” confirms Gilliam. Green tells stories of two legendary bands he won’t name, saying one was “not happy” with the Paramount’s soup spoons and showerheads and another recent big-name act threatened the theater’s stage manager. Green says his 20 years of experience teaching Albemarle High School students with oppositional defiant disorder prepared him to deal with artists who are “prone to tantrums” and believe “the world revolves around them.” Despite the occasional big egos and odd requests, most staffers feel fortunate to be working behind the scenes, where they sometimes meet artists they admire. Mary Beth Aungier, talent contract administrator for the Lockn’ Festival and venue manager for Infinity Downs Farm, has extensive industry ties through her years as a tour manager. In the ’80s she managed an international tour for Carlene Carter, June Carter Cash’s daughter, and fondly remembers riding shotgun in a red Triumph with Carter and her former husband, Nick Lowe, then meeting Elvis Costello later that evening. Hutto faced a humbling moment two years ago watching his musical hero Ry Cooder. “It was the most starstruck I’ve ever been,” says Hutto, who was fretting about getting his show poster signed. “I had to leave backstage because I was being too much of a fanboy.” “Many of these people are pleasant, engaging, wonderful,” says Green. “You quickly become aware that they all sleep, eat and breathe like the rest of us.” After Crosby, Stills & Nash finished their set at the Paramount several years ago, Green says Graham Nash thanked every person on the crew. “We’re the first ones there and the last to leave...saying thank you goes a long way,” he says.
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Charlottesville Reading Series. Fiction writer Amanda Korman and poet Ross White read from their work. Free, 7pm. The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, 209 Monticello Rd. 984-5669.
Open Music Jam. Play some tunes or just listen. Free, 7pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-7837. The Karen Jonas Band. Alt-country and Americana songwriter performs with her band as part of WTJU’s Lambeth Live series. Free, 8pm. WTJU, 350 Emmet St. N. 924-0885.
PoetrySong. Tj Oriola and Jess Brophy share songs and poetry before opening the mic up to anyone who wants to read or sing. Free, 5:30pm. WriterHouse, 508 Dale Ave. 296-1922.
The Mavericks. Grammy-winning band plays an eclectic mix of neotraditional country, Latin and rockabilly. $37-40, 8:30pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948.
Saturday 5/20
The Sally Rose Band. Original songs that cover a vast range of genres from Southern rock to gypsy folk, Appalachian and ragtime soul. Free, 6pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. 975-0094.
stage Blithe Spirit. A séance goes awry when a visiting “happy medium” summons the ghost of a man’s first wife. $8, 8pm. Four County Players, 5256 Governor Barbour St. Barboursville. (540) 832-5355. Death of a Salesman. Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play finds out-of-work Willy Loman at odds with his future and his family. $20-25, 8pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. 977-4177. The Wizard of Oz. Follow the Yellow Brick Road straight to the Black Box Players’ production of this classic tale. $10, 7pm. Burnley-Moran Elementary School, 1300 Long St. blackboxplayers.com. Our Town. A three-act story about the small town of Grover’s Corners told through the everyday lives of its citizens. $29-42, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St, Staunton. (877) 682-4236.
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music Alex, Kevin and Friends. Alex Davis plays fiddle, Kevin Donleavy plays the tin whistle and bodhran and friends play other things. Free, 4:30pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387. Animal Collective. Experimental, slightly bonkers pop. With Circuit des Yeux. $29-33, 7:30pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948. BiG! Acoustic rock and blues covers and originals. Free, 8pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088. Devon Sproule. Captivating indie-folk songwriter with a singular voice releases her new record, The Gold String. $13-15, 7:30pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 806-7062. DJ Frank Rivera. Former Club 216 resident DJ spins a fun and surprising mix of hip-hop and Top 40. 21-plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526. Evan Mook. Classical and jazz pianist creates an elegant and romantic ambience. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Hip-Hop Hallucinogen. Michele Ponseti, aka DJ PonFetti, spins hip-hop, Top 40, electronic, reggae and more. 21-plus. $7-10, 10pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561. CONTINUED ON PAGE 40
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The Southern Café and Music Hall 7/14 On his latest album Hard Love, Tim Showalter has pivoted away from sad-bastard confessionals toward indulgent, distorted alt-rock anthems; perfect for blowing off steam in the heart of summer.—Jedd Ferris
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Saturday 5/20 Michael Coleman Band. Singer-songwriter influenced by Otis Redding, Van Morrison, Dave Matthews and Stevie Wonder draws from his own upbringing and life experiences. Free, 7pm. Pro Re Nata Farm Brewery, 6135 Rockfish Gap Tpke., Crozet. 823-4878.
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Mountain of Fate. Band makes its debut. $5, 8:30pm. Tavern on the James, 280 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-3500. Phil Gibbs. Folk, country, blues, rock, jazz and cowboy songs. Free, 4pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-7837. Southern Company. Party band plays crowd-pleasing favorites. Free, 9pm. Heritage on Main, 309 W. Main St., Waynesboro. (540) 946-6166. Speidel, Goodrich and Goggin. Acoustic guitars, harmony and humor. Free, 6:30pm. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. 823-2001. The Gladstones. Four-piece rock ‘n’ roll outfit. Free, 8pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.
C-VILLE: What is your songwriting process? Devon Sproule: I don’t write a lot of songs per year—I put out a record every two or three or more years—so my process tends to change with each song I write. Often I will be inspired by somebody else’s chord
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“You Can Come Home,” a collaboration with Mike O’Neill from the album Colours When I began this / I ran a fast ship. Top of the water / I barely scratched it. But each empty day / I took on the weight. I lost the wide eye. I lost the wide sky.
Narrative “If I Can Do This” from I Love You, Go Easy The back part of the pond belongs To the pilots and yellow belly sliders. If you push to that part of the pond On the mossy dock / and fall in / hang onto your bits. To that part of the pond / we run— Hot from the sauna / mud at the bottom. If you pick the right path from the pond / You’ll come upon God’s acre, the terra bathers.
Stream-of-consciousness “Healthy Parents, Happy Couple” from Don’t Hurry for Heaven Take a book / for instance / When it’s done / you are let down. But when it’s smacking in your head / You go attacking for the end. Like a good love / too long in bed / besides / Why should we do like the movies? Moving doesn’t need a pattern. Wooing matters / not the captain.
Devon Sproule performs at The Front Porch on May 20 for the release of The Gold String.
progression and it’ll kind of perk up my ears and I’ll figure it out...and then if there’s a way to sort of lift it without, you know, ripping it off, I’ll incorporate it into a song. Being inspired by genres of music that aren’t your own is nice because once you filter it into your own language or sound, it doesn’t really sound like them anymore. I will play with the chords and often my first thought is kind of boring for melody. And so I’ll play those notes of the boring melody and then I’ll feel around those notes and find the notes that I have forgotten to sing. Because often my voice will run these same sort of scales or patterns of notes that sound sometimes pretty but not very interesting. So I’ll play those notes on the guitar to remind my voice of the notes it’s forgotten. I do most of it by ear. I can’t read music. So it’s a very intuitive process. Can you give an example of a song that inspired you? Kate Bush’s “Nocturn” from her Aerial album. That is one that I studied. There’s something about the melody. And also Amel Larrieux. She’s sort of jazz with R&B simple beats and expressive, decorative singing. How do you come up with your lyrics? I have a journal and sometimes it’s the most boring rundown of my day and sometimes it’s more verse. So, say I have a chord pro-
gression I’m interested in, sometimes I’ll take my notebook and kind of see if there’s anything in there that can fit with what I’m working with. I’ll have sort of half a lyric line and half a melody line and I’ll be trying to see if they can fit together. So they’re both created on their own and then I’m trying to ease them together and see if they can live together. And I like to go through my senses...[for] any really distinct smells or tastes or colors or textures in the setting I’ve created for the song and then incorporate those. It’s just another way of—like that melody tool— finding details that don’t always come to you in your first sketch. How do you decide whether lyrics will be narrative or not? If it’s a country-sounding song or a really folk-sounding song then it tends to be more of a narrative or a story. And if I’ve been listening to ambient or experimental music it comes out more stream-of-consciousness. How much do you draw from your life or experience? Quite a lot. When I write or hear something that somebody else has written that feels unrelated to themselves or unrelated to something they feel strongly about then I feel like I can’t connect to it as well. So when there is that sort of humming emotional energy there, that’s when it feels most real to me.
Charlottesville Swing Dance Society Monthly Dance. Dawn Garrish teaches a beginner country two-step lesson before a dance DJed by Elizabeth Pfizer. Free-$13, 8pm. Municipal Arts Center, 1119 Fifth St. SW, Ste. A. 295-9850. Embodied Storytelling Recharge. Learn to use mental and physical storytelling frameworks to create an authentic version of your personal story and purpose. $39, 2pm. The Yellow Door, 110 Goodman St. Ste. A3. 218-0435.
stage Blithe Spirit. See listing for Friday, May 19. $14-16, 8pm. Four County Players, 5256 Governor Barbour St., Barboursville. (540) 832-5355. Death of a Salesman. See listing for Friday, May 19. $20-25, 8pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. 977-4177. Romeo and Juliet. See listing for Wednesday, May 17. $33-59, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (877) 682-4236. Two Gentlemen of Verona. A comedy that centers around friendship, infidelity and the foolish behavior of people in love. $40-59, 2pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (877) 682-4236. The Wizard of Oz. See listing for Friday, May 19. $10, 7pm. Burnley-Moran Elementary School, 1300 Long St. blackboxplayers. com. [title of show]. See listing for Thursday, May 18. $20, 8pm. Belmont Arts Collaborative, 221 Carlton Rd. Ste. 3. 422-4700.
Sunday 5/21 music BandFair. Featuring Coley Town, The Accidentals, The Bobby Midnight Band and Brother Crowe. $5-10, 1pm. Cardinal Point Winery, 9423 Batesville Rd., Afton. (540) 456-8400. Mackenzie Roark. Acoustic country singer-songwriter. Free, 2pm. Wild Wolf Brew-
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ery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088. Nelson County Community Orchestra. Guest conductor John Murton directs the orchestra in An Evening at the Opera, a program featuring pieces by Vivaldi, Gluck, Handel, Bizet and others. Free, 4pm. Rockfish Valley Community Center Auditorium, 190 Rockfish School Ln., Afton. 361-0100. Olivarez Trio. Gypsy jazz guitar and folk songs from the Eastern European tradition. Free, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. 297-2326. Powers and Brown. Duo specializes in classic country, Celtic, classical and bluegrass music. Free, 4pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-7837. Sammy Horne. Cocktail pianist plays with energy and finesse. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.
Travis Elliott. Singer and guitarist takes on everything from love to spaceships. 21-plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.
stage Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet). See listing for Thursday, May 18. $2562, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (877) 682-4236. The Wizard of Oz. See listing for Friday, May 19. $10, 3pm. Burnley-Moran Elementary School, 1300 Long St. blackboxplayers. com. [title of show]. See listing for Thursday, May 18. $20, 7:30pm. Belmont Arts Collaborative, 221 Carlton Rd. Ste. 3. 422-4700.
Monday 5/22 music ATM Unit with Jonah Kane-West. Organ wizard and bass warrior embark on an epic adventure. 21-plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.
music Bob Huntington. Hear everything from The Beatles to Gordon Lightfoot. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Goth Night. The Voice of Saturn plays electronic sounds from the cosmos before Guild the Morn DJs a set of goth, new wave and electronic music from the past four decades. $10, 8pm. The Pit at Cinema Taco, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4981.
Nick and Stephen Pollock. See listing for Thursday, May 18. Free, 6:30pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.
The Onlies with Vivian Leva. Young interpreters of old-time Appalachian music. $825, 6pm. James Monroe’s Highland, 2050 James Monroe Pkwy. 293-8000. Traditional Irish Session. Bring an instrument and join the weekly jam. Free, 8:30pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387. Travis Elliott. See listing for Sunday, May 21. Free, 10:30pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.
Snatched gets all dressed up but goes nowhere By Kristofer Jenson arts@c-ville.com
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e wary of any comedy with such a conspicuous amount of talented performers as Snatched. Maybe it’ll be the star-studded movie event of the decade, but more than likely it’ll be an exercise in coasting, with a few laughs here and there but occupying much of the running time with mugging and lesser gags hogging the spotlight. Snatched is an entire entrée constructed of supporting flavors with no main ingredient, like ordering a bacon cheeseburger only they forgot the beef. What parts they included are fine, but there’s a lack of anything holding it all together and it will leave you totally unsatisfied in the end. Snatched follows Emily (Amy Schumer) and her mother, Linda (Goldie Hawn), on a vacation to Ecuador. Emily purchased the nonrefundable trip expecting to go with her boyfriend (Randall Park), only to be dumped before they leave. Unable to find a substitute, Emily insists Linda join her after discovering her mother was a jetsetting adventurer in her youth, a far cry from her present life as an overly cautious homebody who lives with her cats and “agoraphobic” (read: immature) son Jeffrey (Ike Barinholtz). Linda relents, and the two take off for an exclusive resort. Emily wants to break out of the limited experience provided by the hotel, while Linda wants to read her book by the
safety of the pool. Fellow hotel guests and oddball pair Ruth and Barb (Wanda Sykes and Joan Cusack) spell out the many ways Americans are kidnapped in foreign countries. Linda feels validated while Emily joins a mysterious, handsome stranger to see the sights and go to exclusive parties, and after convincing her mother to join her, the two are abducted and held for ransom. This is where the movie takes a massive nosedive. The chemistry between Schumer and Hawn is real, and the characters are well developed enough to make the first 20 minutes feel like a movie you’d want to spend some time with. Then, right when it should get outrageous and unpredictable, precisely the opposite happens as director Jonathan Levine (50/50) leans on celebrity cameos, overly broadcasted punchlines and gags that don’t make sense and feel pulled from an entirely different movie. For example, after escaping their kidnappers, Emily and Linda encounter an Indiana Jones-esque adventurer (Christopher Meloni). A fun idea on paper, but the normally excellent Meloni is hamming it up like he’s in one of his other famous comedic roles (Harold & Kumar, Wet Hot American Summer). He’s very good at it, but it complements no one and makes no sense in the style and rhythm of Snatched. The much-advertised tapeworm scene comes out of nowhere and doesn’t set itself up or go anywhere; it just happens and everyone
moves on. The kidnapper pursuing them— ostensibly the main point of the movie—is an afterthought and was never all that funny, exciting, interesting, or ANYTHING to begin with. Levine and writer Katie Dippold (The Heat, Ghostbusters) have an eye toward lampooning the white-Americans-in-trouble tale, depicting Emily and Linda as a greater destructive force with their privilege and
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naiveté. It’s not a bad idea, and it’s ripe territory for satire, but it never does more than suggest it as a theme before abandoning the idea while not being funny in the meantime. At least the jokes are never directly at the expense of Ecuadorians or their culture, so there’s that. The saving grace of Snatched, if you absolutely must see it, is its main supporting cast. The relationship between Jeffrey and the State Department worker he pesters into helping (Bashir Salahuddin) is worthy of its own movie, as are Ruth and Barb. Schumer and Hawn commit, but they belong in a movie that better suits their talents. This movie didn’t need to exist, so let’s just all act like it never did and find something better suited to these performers.
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Join Wild Virginia and the Rivanna River Company for an outing on the flatwater reservoir that will include snack stops and information about the watershed. Includes kayak, paddle, life jacket and guided trip. $35, 4:45-6:45pm. Beaver Creek Reservoir, 4365 Beaver Creek Rd. 971-1553.
Three Notch’d Brewing Company is hosting a block party in front of the taproom on Grady Avenue. The first 200 customers will get a free barbecue sandwich from Ace Biscuit & BBQ. Free, noon. Three Notch’d Brewing Co., 946 Grady Ave. three notchdbrewing.com
Bring the whole family to this 2.5K fun run or walk. Costumes are encouraged, and prizes will be given out. T-shirt and medal included in entry fee. $15-60 (includes family prices), 6-7:30pm. Pen Park, 1400 Pen Park Rd. Register at charlottesville. org/parksandrec.
This annual dog show includes categories for family (dogs and humans), agility, costume, best rescue and, of course, best in show. Donations to the Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCA accepted; 5:30pm registration, classes at 6:30pm. Keswick Hunt Club Horse Show Grounds, 701 Club Dr., Keswick. caspca.org
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vited to taste it, Papazian was impressed and realized what he had been missing by only drinking commercially produced beer. According to Graves, Papazian’s first recipe called for a can of Blue Ribbon malt extract, sugar, water and yeast. Laughably primitive by today’s homebrewing standards, it was still far better than what was commercially available at the time. Papazian began brewing his own beer and teaching friends in his apartment on Jefferson Park Avenue. Papazian went on to write The Complete Joy of Homebrewing, which soon became the default text for anyone interested in making his own beer. He also founded the American Homebrewers Association and the Brewers Association, which is now the major trade group representing American craft brewers. Small breweries are everywhere in Virginia today, but Graves thinks the Charlot-
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ans of locally made craft beer have long felt that we had something special happening here. Now there is a book to reinforce that. Author and journalist Lee Graves has written Charlottesville Beer, documenting the history of area brewing and outlining the current state of the industry. While working as a journalist in Richmond, Graves witnessed the birth of Legend Brewery in 1994. It was Richmond’s first microbrewery, and because Graves was a well-traveled beer-lover who had been to Germany and England, the Richmond Times-Dispatch put him on the regional beer beat a few years later. That was a time when most people still thought that green bottles meant fancy beer. “My best friend was a beer geek,” Graves says. “We used to be very adventurous. We came to Charlottesville to try Blue Ridge [Brewing Company], which was the first brewpub in the state. ...I was looking around the state and Charlottesville was happening.” Graves watched as Blue Ridge was bought and transformed into Starr Hill, and South Street and other small breweries began to pop up all over town. Local beer hounds probably already know some of that history. But what comes as a surprise in Graves’ book is that the story of beer in Albemarle County likely starts with the estate of Peter Jefferson, father of Thomas Jefferson. His wife, Jane Jefferson, would have been in charge of brewing the household’s staple beer. In the households of both Peter and Thomas Jefferson, slaves were involved in brewing beer and growing the raw ingredients. “In doing the research for the book I stumbled across something that I want to
raise awareness of,” says Graves, “and that is the role of slaves in growing and selling hops. There’s instances of slaves growing and selling hops back to the plantation owner: Bagwell Grainger selling 60 pounds of hops to Thomas Jefferson for 20 bucks in 1816 is an eye-popper. Plus, Peter Hemings, I would love to have some recognition of him.” Hemings was the brother of Sally Hemings, a slave who was widely believed to have had a sexual relationship with Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson arranged for Peter Hemings to be trained by a former professional brewer from London. This likely raised the quality of Monticello’s beer above the hearthside kitchen beers that had previously been made in Albemarle County. Charlottesville went dry well before Prohibition became federal law. Graves says that in June 1907, 430 votes were cast for banning alcohol while 390 voted against the ban. But local brewing continued behind closed doors even during Prohibition. According to Graves, William “Reddy” Echols, professor of mathematics and the namesake of UVA’s Echols Scholars Program, made his first illicit batch in 1919. The results were poor, but in 1920 he managed “an excellent stout— with good flavor and alcoholic strength.” After Prohibition, the area was as much of a beer wasteland as most of the U.S.: Lagers like Budweiser and Schlitz were all that was available. But that lack of decent beer in Charlottesville turned out to be an important part of starting the craft beer revolution that eventually changed the entire American beer landscape. It was right here at the University of Virginia where Charlie Papazian, father of the craft beer movement, studied nuclear engineering and first encountered homemade beer in the early 1970s. He met a neighbor off of Montebello Circle who was making his own beer. In-
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Chow champs As the saying goes: Where there’s beer, there’s a sandwich craving. Lucky for Champion Brewing Company patrons, they’ll soon be able to get their food fix at the taproom, located at 324 Sixth St. SE, when its commercial kitchen opens the second week of June. According to a press release issued by the brewery, the kitchen will offer chef ’s specials and raclette sandwiches like those served at Brasserie Saison, Champion’s collaboration restaurant with restaurateur Will Richey (The Alley Light, The Whiskey Jar, Revolutionary Soup), located on the Downtown Mall. Champion has not yet hired a chef for the kitchen.
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Fried chicken fiends who head out to the fifth annual Gordonsville Fried Chicken Festival at the Gordonsville Fire Company Fairgrounds on Saturday will get more than a belly full of cluckin’ awesome food from a place that was dubbed “The Fried Chicken Capital of the World” in the 1800s. They’ll get a taste of history. When the Civil War broke out, Gordonsville was the main stop on two railroad lines and it was a major hub for produce coming from the Shenandoah Valley. At the time, the railroad was still new and trains didn’t have dining cars. Enterprising African-American women living in Gordonsville would make fried chicken, biscuits, pies and other treats and head to the
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train platforms to sell their goods to the train passengers. This year’s rain-or-shine event will take place from 11am to 5pm on Saturday, May 20, and will feature, among other things, cook-off contests for fried chicken and pies.
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Gemini (May 21-June 20): I invite you to try the following meditation: Picture yourself filling garbage bags with stuff that reminds you of what you used to be and don’t want to be any more. Add anything that feels like decrepit emotional baggage or that serves as a worn-out psychological crutch. When you’ve gathered up all the props and accessories that demoralize you, imagine yourself going to a beach where you build a big bonfire and hurl your mess into the flames. As you dance around the conflagration, exorcise the voices in your head that tell you boring stories about yourself. Sing songs that have as much power to relieve and release you as a spectacular orgasm.
Cancer (June 21-July 22): In normal times, your guardian animal ally might be the turtle, crab, seahorse or manta ray. But in the next three weeks, it’s the cockroach. This unfairly maligned creature is legendary for its power to thrive in virtually any environment, and I think you will have a similar resourcefulness. Like the cockroach, you will do more than merely cope with awkward adventures and complicated transitions; you will flourish. One caution: It’s possible that your adaptability may bother people who are less flexible and enterprising than you. To keep that from being a problem, be empathetic as you help them adapt. (P.S. Your temporary animal ally is exceptionally well-groomed. Cockroaches clean themselves as much as cats do.)
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): Lady Jane Grey was crowned queen of England in July 1553, but she ruled for just nine days before being deposed. I invite you to think back to a time in your own past when victory was short-lived. Maybe you accomplished a gratifying feat after an arduous struggle, only to have it quickly eclipsed by a twist of fate. Perhaps you finally made it into the limelight but then lost your audience to a distracting brouhaha. But here’s the good news: Whatever it was—a temporary triumph? incomplete success? nullified conquest?—you will soon have a chance to find redemption for it.
(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): While shopping at a funky yard sale, I found the torn off cover of a book titled You’re a Genius and I Can Prove It. Sad-
Taurus (April 20-May 20): My pregnant friend Myrna is determined to avoid giving birth via cesarean section. She believes that the best way for her son to enter the world is by him doing the hard work of squeezing through the narrow birth canal. That struggle will fortify his willpower and mobilize him to summon equally strenuous efforts in response to future challenges. It’s an interesting theory. I suggest you consider it as you contemplate how you’re going to get yourself reborn.
ly, the rest of the book was not available. Later I searched for it online, and found it was out of print. That’s unfortunate, because now would be an excellent time for you to peruse a text like this. Why? Because you need specific, detailed evidence of how unique and compelling you are—concrete data that will provide an antidote to your habitual selfdoubts and consecrate your growing sense of self-worth. Here’s what I suggest you do: Write an essay entitled “I’m an Interesting Character and Here’s the Proof.”
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Leonardo da Vinci wrote a bestiary, an odd little book in which he drew moral conclusions from the behavior of animals. One of his descriptions will be useful for you to contemplate in the near future. It was centered on what he called the “wild ass,” which we might refer to as an undomesticated donkey. Da Vinci said that this beast, “going to the fountain to drink and finding the water muddy, is never too thirsty to wait until it becomes clear before satisfying himself.” That’s a useful fable to contemplate, Libra. Be patient as you go in search of what’s pure and clean and good for you.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): My friend Allie works as a matchmaker. She has an instinctive skill at reading the potential chemistry between people. One of her key strategies is to urge her clients to write mission statements. “What would your ideal marriage look like?” she asks them. Once they have clarified what they want, the process of finding a mate seems to become easier and more fun. In accordance with the astrological omens, Scorpio, I suggest you try this exercise—even if you are already in a committed relationship. It’s an excellent time to get very specific about the inspired togetherness you’re willing to work hard to create.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In ancient Greek myth, Tiresias was a prophet who could draw useful revelations by interpreting the singing of birds. Spirits of the dead helped him devise his prognostications, too. He was in constant demand for revelations about the future. But his greatest claim to fame was the fact that a goddess magically transformed him into a woman for seven years. After that, he could speak with authority about how both genders experienced the world. This enhanced his wisdom immeasurably, adding to his oracular power. Are you interested in a less drastic but highly educational lesson, Sagittarius? Would you like to see life from a very different perspective from the one you’re accustomed to? It’s available to you if you want it.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “You remind me of the parts of myself that I will never have a chance to meet,” writes poet Mariah Gordon-Dyke, addressing a lover. Have you ever felt like saying that to a beloved ally, Capricorn? If so, I have good news: You now have an opportunity to meet and greet parts of yourself that have previously been hidden from you—aspects of your deep soul that up until now you may only have caught glimpses of. Celebrate this homecoming!
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I predict that you won’t be bitten by a dog or embarrassed by a stain or pounced on by a lawyer. Nor will you lose your keys or get yelled at by a friend or oversleep for a big appointment. On the contrary! I think you’ll be wise to expect the best. The following events are quite possible: You may be complimented by a person who’s in a position to help you. You could be invited into a place that had previously
been off-limits. While eavesdropping, you might pick up a useful clue, and while daydreaming you could recover an important memory you’d lost. Good luck like this is even more likely to sweep into your life if you work on ripening the most immature part of your personality.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): Time out. It’s intermission. Give yourself permission to be spacious and slow. Then, when you’re sweetly empty—this may take a few days—seek out experiences that appeal primarily to your wild and tender heart as opposed to your wild and jumpy mind. Just forget about the theories you believe in and the ideas you regard as central to your philosophy of life. Instead, work on developing brisk new approaches to your relationship with your feelings. Like what? Become more conscious of them, for example. Express gratitude for what they teach you. Boost your trust for their power to reveal what your mind sometimes hides from you.
Aries (March 21-April 19): “A 2-year-old kid is like using a blender, but you don’t have a top for it,” said comedian Jerry Seinfeld. Would you like to avoid a scenario like that, Aries? Would you prefer not to see what happens if your life has resemblances to turning on a topless blender that’s full of ingredients? Yes? Then please find the top and put it on! And if you can’t locate the proper top, use a dinner plate or newspaper or pizza box. Okay? It’s not too late. Even if the blender is already spewing almond milk and banana fragments and protein powder all over the ceiling. Better late than never! Expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text message horoscopes: RealAstrology.com, 1-877-873-4888.
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Region Ten invites enthusiastic, creative candidates to apply for this management position leading Region Ten’s Mohr Center. The positon will plan, staff, and coordinate services of a residential treatment program and sobering up shelter for adult males. Incumbent will provide clinical supervision and training to staff, manage administrative and facility functions, and ensure programs components adhere to regulatory guidelines. Bachelor’s degree and 3 year’s supervisory experience is required. Master’s degree preferred. Licensure (LPC/ LCSW), CSAC or RN preferred. Salary negotiable
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Q&A What are you listening to right now? I’m listening to “Tainted Love” by Soft Cell. Never gets old!
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