Fridays After Five, presented by Bud Light, continues to be Charlottesville’s favorite live concert series. 2018 will be the 31st year of free live music and fun. Growing up in Nelson County, Virginia, a small town along the Blue Ridge Mountains, Koda Kerl and Marie Borgman met each other in elementary school. Little did they know then that one day... more

Listen First in Charlottesville, April 20 - 22, is a weekend-long series of events dedicated to bridging divides here and across the country. The main event will be on Saturday, April 21st at the Sprint Pavilion. Local and national leaders will offer practical advice and inspiration for understanding those outside our ideological or cultural... more

Old Crow Medicine Show started busking on street corners in 1998 New York state and up through Canada, winning audiences along the way with their boundless energy and spirit. They eventually found themselves in Boone, North Carolina where they caught the attention of folk icon Doc Watson while playing in front of a pharmacy. He invited the band to... more

Fridays After Five, presented by Bud Light, continues to be Charlottesville’s favorite live concert series. 2018 will be the 31st year of free live music and fun. Powerhouse vocalist and songwriter Adar Seligman-McComas is based out of Charlottesville, Virginia and formed her band, ADAR, in the summer of 2016. The band quickly gathered an... more

The National: Four years have passed since the release of Trouble Will Find Me, and to the outside world it might have seemed like the members of the National spent that long interim working on everything but new National songs. But in September 2014, two months before the band headlined the 20,000-seat O2 Arena in London, Aaron passed along the... more

ODESZA returns with its long-anticipated third album, a body of work filled with longing, nostalgia, hope and unity. Titled A Moment Apart, these 16 tracks mark the next step in the evolution of production duo Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight, who have been making music together since their college days at Western Washington University. Over a... more

Fridays After Five, presented by Bud Light, continues to be Charlottesville’s favorite live concert series. 2018 will be the 31st year of free live music and fun. Independent Reggae Artist Mighty Joshua engages audiences by opening minds and activating bodies through song. Conscious lyrics flow freely to create distinctive refrains that pulse with... more

Concerned about the risk of brain injury from sports, military service or falls? Want to learn more about how to decrease your risk of stroke? How serious are concussions? What local services are available if you're experiencing frequent falls? Visit information tables for: - Educational materials - Local resources - Blood pressure checks - Stroke... more

At the beginning of her eighth decade of singing truth, Mavis Staples has delivered If All I Was Was Black (ANTI- Records), ten songs about America today, where the present is filled with ghosts of the past. "Nothing has changed," Mavis said in early August, just days before the world watched neo-Nazis march with swastika flags in Charlottesville,... more

Fridays After Five, presented by Bud Light, continues to be Charlottesville’s favorite live concert series. 2018 will be the 31st year of free live music and fun. Born and raised in the two Virginias, Sarah White’s musical style is as familiar as it is hard to define -- not quite country, not quite rock, not quite folk -- but a little bit like all... more

Australian indie folk singer/songwriter Vance Joy began his career playing the Melbourne open-mike scene at the end of the 2000s while completing his law degree. Finding success with his intimate Bon Iver-influenced songs, Joy decided to put law on hold and pursue a music career instead. Born James Keogh, the singer took the name Vance Joy from a... more

Fridays After Five, presented by Bud Light, continues to be Charlottesville’s favorite live concert series. 2018 will be the 31st year of free live music and fun. Some of Charlottesville’s Finest Players are coming together to pay tribute to the unparalleled singer, song-writer, producer, actor, and cultural phenomenon, Prince. "Cville's Purple All... more

Fridays After Five, presented by Bud Light, continues to be Charlottesville’s favorite live concert series. 2018 will be the 31st year of free live music and fun. Red & the Romantics' music has been described as Americana & Roots, though the sound is diverse. Crossing over several genres, the songs are original and written by Erik "Red"... more

Blackberry Smoke has never been a band that stands still. Whether pursuing the dream by logging hundreds of thousands of miles on America’s highways and abroad or relentlessly exploring the many facets of its most unique art form, the Atlanta quintet is always on the move. The songs on Blackberry Smoke’s sixth album, Like an Arrow show just how far... more

Twenty years after they began releasing records as the Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have politely declined the opportunity to slow down with age. With a legacy of releases and countless U.S. and international tours behind them, the Indigo Girls have forged their own way in the music business. Selling over 14 million records, they are... more

The mission of the Virginia Festival of the Wheel is to present 80 of the finest field of vintage and classic cars ever assembled in the Commonwealth. Our event will be a real Celebration Of The Automobile. The Virginia Festival of The Wheel will be held at the Sprint Pavilion on Charlottesville's Downtown Mall Sunday, October 7. Our goal is to... more