Little High Neighborhood Association

Information for and about the Little High Neighborhood in Charlottesville, VA

Events

In recent years the Little High Neighborhood has hosted a series of backyard concerts, story telling for children and adults, a garden day, experts on various topics such as the importance of native plants, annual picnics, and assorted political candidates and public officials. Our schedule for 2022 will be posted in this section of the website as soon as it's available.

Neighborhood Summer Picnic, June 1

Little High Neighborhood Summer Picnic 2023Our Summer Neighborhood Picnic will be held Sunday, June 1, from 5:00 to 7:00pm in and around the Meade Park Pavilion.

The neighborhood association will provide a variety of pizzas from Vita Nova, sides, and dessert.

BYO: drink, seat, and $10 (payable in cash, check, or via Venmo) for optional annual neighborhood association dues.

Join us in meeting the Charlottesville City Council candidates (Juandiego Wade, Brian Pinkston, and Jennifer Fleisher) running in the June 17, 2025 election.

Members of CHIPP (Charlottesville Invasive Plant Partnership) will be joining us. Learn how CHIPP is collaborating with our neighborhood to help save the tree canopy.

Most importantly, our summer picnics have always been a great opportunity to get to know or reconnect with neighbors so we encourage absolutely everyone to come — and bring another neighbor!

Neighborhood Bonfire November 10

All Little High neighborhood residents, friends, family, visitors, and persons of good will are invited to a bonfire hosted by the Little High neighborhood association on Sunday, November 10, 7-9pm in the backyard of 1201 Little High (on the corner of Little High and 12th streets). In addition to the fire, the neighborhood association will provide hot cider, s’mores-making supplies, and a few extra chairs. You should bring yourselves and maybe a folding chair in case we don’t have enough. This is a lovely opportunity to come and hang out with and get to know your neighbors. Please join us!

Backyard Concert RESCHEDULED to August 15th, 7pm

The neighborhood backyard concert originally scheduled for tomorrow night has been RESCHEDULED to Thursday, August 15, 7pm, in the backyard of 1011 Little High Street.

Sumner & Herb will open with a short sing along and will be followed by Playing for Fun, a group of 10 talented musicians (some of whom are professionals) who gather each week at the home of Sudi Durland. This group plays everything from traditional to country to classic rock on guitar, bass, flute, harmonica and fiddle.

PFF playing in the backyard of 1011 Little High in August 2023

This event is FREE and open to the public. As always, we will pass the hat for donations to help support the Haven, the multi-resource day shelter downtown (112 West Market Street).

Our neighborhood  raised $678 (not bad!) at our first two concerts of the summer. We have a chance to surpass any of our previous summer concert efforts (begun in 2020) if we can keep this momentum going.

Anya Movius, Brian Keena Thurs., July 11, 7pm

Brian Keena. Anya Movius

The Little High Neighborhood Association is hosting a backyard neighborhood concert TOMORROW (Thursday, July 11) at 7pm in the backyard of 1107 East Jefferson Street.

This event is FREE.

EVERYONE in or out of the neighborhood is invited. Passports, birth certificates, photo ID, and major credit cards are NOT required. The turnstiles will be open starting at 6:30pm. The music will start promptly at 7pm. The lights at all our concerts run on solar power — i.e., we have to wrap up when the sun goes down which is why we don’t host jam bands.

Neighborhood concert Thursday (7/11) at 7pm

Neighborhood concert this Thursday (7/11) at 7pm in the backyard of 1107 E Jefferson St. featuring the phenomenal Brian Keena and the amazing Anya Movius.
Everyone is invited and the event is FREE.

More about this week’s performers

Brian Keena

Brian Keena

Having grown up in a musical family, Brian Keena plays (or played) a number of instruments, including trumpet, baritone horn, trombone, hand percussion, guitar, drums, keyboards, vocals, kazoo and bass. He also presents a weekly jazz and blues program on our local radio community radio station, WTJU, 91.1FM.

For this event, Brian will most likely play a guitar of some sort, and present covers of some of his favorite tunes from the pop, blues, rock and jazz worlds.

Anya Movius

Anya Movius

Anya Movius grew up in this neighborhood and began performing at open mic nights at a very young age. This summer, Anya, a Charlottesville High School graduate who just completed her first year at Harvard univerity, is recording an album and already has several singles out on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, etc. She has done a concert/interview for WTJU and was chosen for Harvard’s prestigious freshman talent show.

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