JAMinc Presents Season 2

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.