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August 19th Concert Features Josh Mayo
The next neighborhood backyard concert is Tuesday, August 19, 7pm, in the lovely backyard of 1208 East Jefferson Street (the house with the Awesome Table and Awesome Little Library). The featured performer is Josh Mayo, a veteran of the local music scene whose star is clearly on the rise. It was a very pleasant surprise to discover he lives in our neighborhood. We thank him for donating his time!
Jonathan Rice will open the show with a few instrumental acoustic guitar tunes he learned from years of study at Random Dissonance House in Washington, DC. Holden Mayasz, the noted music critic, described one of Jonathan Rice’s early career opening act performances as “too loud, I mean it was loud enough that I could hear it. So I cut off one of my ears” (Acoustic Guitar Music for Nihilists, “Critics Roundtable,” volume XXIX, 1979). Jonathan Rice’s guitar playing is, however, leavened by the fact that he doesn’t sing. Fortunately, he will be joined for a couple of quick songs at the end by the amazingly talented Emma Givens, the rising queen/triathlete of Country Music.
Have you seen an otter in the Rivanna River? (seriously)
If you happen to spot an otter in the Rivanna River please report this to the Rivanna Conservation Alliance. The Rivanna Conservation Alliance is a local 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with the goal of working with the community to conserve the Rivanna River and its watershed through water quality monitoring, restoration, education, and stewardship. According to the RCA, otters have been spotted throughout the Rivanna River watershed. The RCA’s Rivanna River Otter Monitoring Project was created to document and monitor the presence of otters to help with its overall monitoring of the health of the Rivanna River. Otters depend on clean river water to survive, so the presence of otters in a given part of the river is a key sign that the water in that area is clean.
According to the RCA, otters are most active at dawn and dusk, but may be seen at any time of day. Just keep your eyes open whenever you’re within sight of the river and be sure to submit any sighting to the RCA.
July 31st Backyard Concert Features Josh Mayo CANCELLED FOR 7/31
** We will RESCHEDULE asap **
The next neighborhood backyard concert is Thursday, July 31, 7pm, in the very well shaded and cool backyard of 1208 East Jefferson Street (the house with the Awesome Table and Awesome Little Library). The featured performer is Josh Mayo, a veteran of the local music scene whose star is clearly on the rise. It was a very pleasant surprise to discover he lives in our neighborhood!
Just to remind everyone that these backyard concerts are still very much open to the participation of neighborhood amateur musicians, Jonathan Rice will open the show with a few instrumental acoustic guitar tunes from the Dada school of guitar playing. One music critic described Jonathan Rice’s instrumental guitar playing as a “delightfully rapid blur of arpeggiation that tends to linger unironically in dissonance and unreason” (Acoustic Guitar for the Apocalypse, Oct/Nov, 1982). Jonathan Rice doesn’t sing (his vocal chords were strained during his service in the Spanish Civil War), so he will be joined at the end by a singer/secret mystery guest with an amazing voice and very deep connections to our neighborhood.
Luke Foster, Live In Concert, Thursday (7/17)
One Show Only!
Luke Foster will be playing and singing in the backyard of 1118 Little High Street this Thursday, July 17, at 7pm. Luke Foster is a very talented singer, songwriter, guitar player, and all around good guy who happens to have a blue guitar and live in our neighborhood. So we impose on him every year to come out and play for us. Everyone has a good time.
This concert is free and open to every non-fascist person of good will from anywhere in the city, county, Commonwealth, country, and the wide world beyond. Please join us!
A rain date has not yet been chosen. In the event of rain, we will announce a rain date asap.
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