nTelos Wireless Pavilion

Fridays After Five! Opening - Morro Azul Samba School United by musical interests that include samba, funk, soul, blues, bossa, jazz and Spanish flamenco; Humberto Oliveira Sales and Madeline Holly Sales blend the melodic, rhythmic and harmonic riches from North and South America. Berto, native to Brazil, pursued a formal education in classical guitar. His knowledge of Brazilian rhythms and study of Spanish Flamenco add to the unique finger picking style he uses. Madeline brings with her the ... Visit Website

Fridays After Five! Opening - Carl Anderson Times are tough for just about everyone these days, especially for those who live in what is often referred to as the "flyover states," in the heart of the country. People have become tougher, their skins have grown thicker and they have become much harder to win over. That especially holds true when it comes to the music that rolls into the bars, music halls and honky tonks of their towns. The overwhelming success that Turnpike Troubadours h... Visit Website

Primus are a band who need no introduction. For the past 27 years the group have followed in the footsteps of boundary-pushing artists like Frank Zappa and Pink Floyd to create some of the most original and inventive music in existence—and they've collaborated with everyone from Tom Waits to Tom Morello over the years in the process. However nothing could properly prepare listeners for Green Naugahyde, which is the band's first album in eleven years featuring the line-up of bassist/singer... Visit Website

Tickets On Sale 4/8 The nTelos Wireless Pavilion welcomes Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award-winner Joan Baez and the Grammy-winning Indigo Girls for an evening of fantastic music. For over five decades, Joan Baez has been a force of nature in American music, combining art and activism both on and off stage. Baez has both written and performed some of the most influential songs in the history of American pop: "Diamonds and Rust," "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," "Am... Visit Website

Fridays After Five! Opening - Sally Rose Kathryn Caine has released 6 Americana albums that have been praised for her vocal talent, songwriting ability, musicianship, and production quality. With each CD, you hear the influences of gospel, bluegrass, country and rock n' roll. Kathryn is a prolific songwriter, fantastic live performer, and an amazing singer. You always hear traces of the high and lonesome in her voice as well as the gritty gospel. She has played the Birchmere, the Bluebird Cafe,... Visit Website

PRESENTED BY LOOK3 FESTIVAL OF THE PHOTOGRAPH: See the exciting work of 20 professional and emerging photographers projected onto a giant 40-foot screen in the nTelos Wireless Pavilion! This two-hour showcase of visual essays and multimedia projects covers a range of genres, from photojournalism to natural history to fine art. The projections explore each artist's process and vision—incorporating narrative, audio from the field, and interviews with the subjects. Billed as “3 days o... Visit Website

PRESENTED BY LOOK3 FESTIVAL OF THE PHOTOGRAPH LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph is a celebration of photography, created by photographers, for those who share a passion for the still image. The Festival features exhibits and on-stage appearances of our INsight artists, as well as exhibitions, outdoor projections, workshops and interviews over three days and nights. Support LOOK3 with a tax-deductible donation! Billed as “3 days of peace, love and photography,”the Festival is designed ... Visit Website

Fridays After Five! Opening - Ali Marcus The Gladstones are a 4 piece rock and roll outfit fronted by Charlottesville veterans Charlie Pastorfield (Skip Castro Band, Alligator) and Bob Girard (The Casuals featuring Johnny Sportcoat, Alligator) and supported by in the rhythm section by bass player Steve Riggs (The Allstars, Ian Gilliam) and drummer Jim Ralston (Baaba Seth, Jeebus). Material includes American and English Rock and Roll as well as originals from the band. They have been playing in t... Visit Website

Dictionary.com defines freedom as "the power to determine action without restraint." Thus, Gary Allan's Set You Free is a perfectly named, well-conceived album that embodies his own evolution toward personal, creative freedom. The album, sequenced with a storyline in which a man breaks the restraints of a failed relationship and conquers the loneliness of its aftermath, is the result of Allan's own journey as a man and as an artist. "It's all about healing," Allan says. "... Visit Website

Fridays After Five! The smart set, the music of Charlottesville's ACME Swing Mfg. Co. attracts them and keeps them moving. You need to come hear those old songs made new and some real-deal new stuff. Sax, clarinet, trombone, guitar, upright, drums and let's not forget those shoutin' and crooning vocals Together for over 5 years, ACME Swing Mfg. Co plays big-time events in DC, intimate venues in your home town and lots of places in between. Anita O'Day and Slim Gaillard would be proud. Good n... Visit Website

Fridays After Five! The Seedz first began their regular gigz at Scottsville's 330 Valley Street in the fall of 2007, and have since made a name for themselves for dependable high energy performances that guarantee audience participation. What began as a setlist of creative interpretations of well loved favorites, sprinkled with rocking originalz, has evolved to a hefty collection of The SeeDz own songs, each as different from each other as the band members themselves. Lead singer, bassist, and ... Visit Website

Tickets On Sales 4/5 Due to overwhelming demand, the iconic and Grammy-winning rock band YES have added two new legs of dates to their triple-header concert tour where they're performing three of their classic albums in their entirety, all in one concert: 1971's THE YES ALBUM, 1972's CLOSE TO THE EDGE, and 1977's GOING FOR THE ONE (track listing for all three albums listed below). The in-progress tour marks the first time since 1973 that YES--bassist CHRIS SQUIRE, guitarist STEVE HOWE, drummer A... Visit Website

On Saturday, July 27, 2013, county music legend Loretta Lynn will headline the Charlottesville Free Clinic's 2013 benefit concert at the nTelos Wireless Pavilion. Albemarle County musician/actress Schuyler Fisk, her musical partner Tim Myers and their band FM Radio will open for Loretta. For fifty years now, Loretta has fashioned a body of work as artistically and commercially successful—and as culturally significant—as any female performer you'd care to name. Her music has confronte... Visit Website

Twenty five years after winning a Best New Artist Grammy and launching one of contemporary music's most diverse and collaborative careers, Bruce Hornsby is still, blissfully, making joyful noise—and finding clever, expansive ways to chronicle the dynamic musical snapshots along the journey. Now comes the release of Bride Of The Noisemakers--an ambitious 25 track, double CD chronicling 2007-2009 live performances of some of the singer/songwriter and pianist's hand-picked songs of the past 2... Visit Website

Grace Potter & the Nocturnals' self-made 2005 debut album, Nothing but the Water revealed a musically sophisticated young band inspired by the music of the late '60s/early '70s and fronted by a then-21-year-old dynamo whose nuanced singing, organ playing and songwriting belied her age. The follow-up, 2007's This Is Somewhere, confirmed that the band had no interest in following trends but was instead in pursuit of timeless expression as it forged its identity. On 2010's self-titled third alb... Visit Website

You can capsulize most pop music acts by reciting how many hits they've had and how many millions of albums they've sold. But these conventional measurements fall short when you're assessing the impact of The Beach Boys. To be sure, this band has birthed a torrent of hit singles and sold albums by the tens of millions. But its greater significance lies in the fact that it changed the musical landscape so profoundly that every pop act since has been in its debt. Happily for us all, The Beach Boys... Visit Website

The xx exist in a time and space of their own making. In 2009 the south London trio's debut album ‘xx', quietly made at night over the course of two years, bled steadily into the public consciousness to become shorthand for newly refined ideas of teenage desire and anxiety. Articulated with a maturity beyond their years, its hallmarks were restraint and ambiguity. In the age of the over-share, ‘xx' was pop with its privacy settings on max. Three years on, Romy Madley Croft, Oliver Si... Visit Website

On Sale 2/15 fun. has announced their upcoming "Most Nights" summer headline tour with very special guests Tegan and Sara. The Grammy-nominated band's biggest North American headline trek to date will get underway July 6th at Toronto's Downsview Park and then travel through mid-September, hitting legendary indoor and outdoor venues including New York City's Pier 26, Denver's Red Rocks Amphitheatre, and The Greek Theatres in Los Angeles and Berkeley. Tegan and Sara will join fun. on ... Visit Website