Little High Neighborhood Association
Information for and about the Little High Neighborhood in Charlottesville, VA
Music and other neighborhood events
The Little High neighborhood’s 5th annual summer concert series kicks off Thursday, June 12th at 7pm with Playing for Fun, a big band (8 local and area musicians!) playing folk, rock, bluegrass, country, and Celtic music. You’ll hear guitar, fiddle, mandolin, harmonica, and a mix of whistles and flutes. You’re sure to find some you know to sing or hum along with.
Location: 1011 Little High Street (near Charlottesville Day School).
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Our neighborhood concert series kicks off this Thursday, June 20, 7pm, at 1118 Little High street with a great lineup:
Passionate singer, great harmonica player, and all around world-class front man Waverly Milor will team up with amazing slide guitarist Jack Roy to put on the best electric blues performance east of the Mississippi.
Singer, songwriter, and very impressive guitar player Luke Foster will follow with a set featuring original music that will leave everyone wondering why he isn’t already in Nashville and whether they can get a selfie so they can brag that they knew him back before he only did stadium tours.
We are very lucky to have these musicians living in our midst who are willing to share their extraordinary talents with us — for FREE.
ps — as always, we will pass the hat to help raise money for the Haven. Our neighborhood concert series raised over $650 last summer. Let’s try to do even better this summer!
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