Tommy Emmanuel’s a native of New South Wales Australia, grew up in a musical family and reached near rock star status with his big brother Chris in their homeland.
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Yeison and his band are keeping the classic cumbia sound alive, updating it for 21st century listeners and dancers, and bringing it to the world through their performances and recordings.
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Two of our Virginia favorites were in town last spring (2024) to play the Shady Grove Coffee House out in Glen Allen. Robin and Linda Williams were celebrating a full fifty years of being married to music, and not so incidentally, to each other.
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A quarter century ago, five a-list artists–Daniel Clarke, Joel DeNunzio, Todd Herrington, JC Kuhl and Trey Pollard–fell together in an inspired collaboration that would become Modern Groove Syndicate.
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October of 2024 saw a joyful homecoming for Rebecca Hoggan Frazier, who grew up in Richmond and set her sights on a career in music early on.
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New York City based Loboko features young Congolese vocalist and guitar virtuoso Yohni Djungu Sungu, alongside Soukouss-Stars legend and master bassist, Ngouma Lokito. The group is rounded out by drummer and co-founder Morgan Greenstreet.
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There’s arguably no one who’s added more love, imagination, color and vitality to Richmond’s music scene over the past 3 or 4 decades than Barry Bless.
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Tony Furtado was turning heads as a hot banjo player back in the 1980s, winning the prestigious national championship at Winfield Kansas in 1987 just out of his teens.
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Many discovered Howard Levy’s mastery of the harmonica with the disbanding of bluegrass pathfinders New Grass Revival, and their adventurous banjo player Béla Fleck.
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Presented in the Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen, this was much more than a concert…it was a loving theatrical tribute to the earthly music of the late John Denver played in his memory and that of Frank Fuller, the father of the three siblings who dreamt up the whole ambitious production.
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This edition of JAMinc Presents offers highlights from a September 2024 live performance that sprang from the Doug Richards Orchestra’s most recent album Through a Sonic Prism…the Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim.
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JAMinc Presents our holiday gift in sound…the elegant explorations of the Clarke/Caputo/Randazzo Trio.
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This program brings you highlights from an energized homecoming concert by the completely original folk band Palmyra, that’s proudly called Richmond home for the past couple years.
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This edition of JAMinc Presents features Richmond’s First Family of Gospel Music, the Legendary Ingramettes.
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This edition highlights a joyful homecoming for the Grammy-nominated cajun artist and historian Ann Savoy who grew up in Richmond as Ann Allen, went to Douglas Freeman and then Mary Baldwin in Staunton and returned here to teach French at St. Catherine’s.
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This edition of JAMinc Presents finds us in the W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University to relive a magical night in celebration of the glory days of Motown and other related rhythm & blues tunes.
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New York City born and Jersey bred, Kenny White is well-seasoned singer/songwriter/pianist producer with an impressive resume and an even more impressive way with an audience.
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The ringleader of this edition’s guests on the show Paulo Franco, is a first-generation American with parents in the South American city of Medellin in Columbia.
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This edition of the program showcases another stellar group of Virginia musicians who have made the most of their traditional Shenandoah Valley roots, while evolving into one of Americana’s most beloved high-energy bands.
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This edition of JAMinc Presents takes a deep, delectable dive into world class jazz courtesy of a seasoned quartet of Virginia players who’ve toured the world in various configurations, but returned to their Commonwealth to enjoy a warm home game, playing for their own amusement, even amazement, and ours.
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If you’ve never witnessed the other-worldly sounds created by the three remarkable artists known collectively as Alash, this program affords a spellbinding sampler of the ages-old art of throat singing.