If you’re interested in checking out the most famous thing to come out of Central Virginia since…well, maybe ever, the Dave Matthews Band starts its two-night run at JPJ this evening. There’s plenty of fanfare surrounding those events, including a pre-show at the Jefferson with frequent Dave collaborator Tim Reynolds and his band TR3; after Saturday night’s show comes a’tootin’ a group called Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue. Get your Dave fix to last you through 2011, cause he ain’t playin’ until 2012.
At Live Arts tonight comes TechnoSonics XI: Mediated Nature, a free show from the Virginia Center for Computer Music that explores the intersection of nature and technology using musical composition. TechnoSonics is always a good way to keep tabs on what’s happening with UVA’s graduate students in musical composition. So expect lots of treats tonight: Auto-Tuned whales, a Shofar looped with a string quarter and, of course, musical robots. Read this week’s Feedback column about TechnoSonics here.
Or if you’d prefer some to hear musicians on the upswing, the
release a new EP tonight at the Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar called
, which I write about in next week’s Feedback column. Check out the band tonight, and form your own conclusion about the band’s tight, exciting new material.
What else is up this weekend?