Little High Neighborhood Association

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

Events

Little High neighborhood backyard concert June 21, 2022In recent years the Little High neighborhood has hosted a series of backyard concerts, story telling for children and adults, garden days, summer picnics, bonfires, food drives, clothing drives, experts on various topics, assorted political candidates, and public officials.

We're always interested in hosting or supporting neighborhood events, so let us know if you have an idea for an event that would be enjoyable for the neighborhood.

Fall Neighborhood Gathering November 5th

toasting marshmallowsAll 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 5, 7-9pm in the backyard of 1201 Little High (on the corner of Little High and 12th streets). The neighborhood association will provide warm apple cider, ingredients for s’mores, fire, some chairs, and introductions.

The bonfire is, of course, just an excuse for a general neighborhood gathering so come as you are but we encourage everyone to bring at least one neighbor and a scary story*.

If you would like to contribute to the bonfire, you can drop off wood and/or Guy Fawkes effigies ahead of time by adding to the pile in the backyard of 1201 Little High.

* Acceptable scary story themes include Halloween, off-year election anxieties, daylight savings time mishaps, deadly encounters with duct cleaning services spam, Guy Fawkes miscellany, scary neighbor stories from when you lived someplace else, or anything you’d else you would like to share.

Rain date: Sunday, November 12th, same place and time.

Concert Tuesday, 8/29, 7pm

The last backyard concert of the year will be held Tuesday, August 29, at 7pm sharp, at “the Farm.” The Farm is located at 1201 East Jefferson Street (between Farm Lane & 12th Street).

Admission is FREE

EVERYONE is welcome.

Performers include:

  • The Angst City Rain Dogs (pictured below) will play a short set that includes covers of songs by the Grateful Dead, Patty Smith, the Cowboy Junkies, Tracy Chapman and more. The ACRD are fronted by the amazingly talented Johnel Childress (the fire), anchored by Drew Robinson (the ice), and frequently led astray by Jon Rice (the luke-warm water).
  • Brian Keena will do a solo set of many wonderful songs.
  • Brian Keena (guitar and vocals) and Michael Bednar (upright bass) will play and sing some of the great jazz standards and more.

The Angst City Rain Dogs

Backyard Concert this Wednesday (8/16) at 7pm

1011 Little High StreetThe next neighborhood backyard concert will be held this Wednesday, August 16, at 7pm, at 1011 Little High Street. This is one of the neighborhood’s older houses (near the top of Little High, across from the Charlottesville Day School) but the back patio is a new concert venue with excellent acoustics.

As always, this event is FREE and EVERYONE is welcome! (Note: the space at this location is smaller and more confined so NO DOGS, please).

If you’ve never been, these events are a great opportunity to hang out with and get to know your neighbors. At our last concert, more than 50 people came out to see two excellent performances. The Kitchen(ette) sandwich shop on 9 ½ Street generously donated two $15 gift cards that were given away to two delighted winners in a free raffle. And people attending the concert donated more than $260 for the Haven. Let’s keep the momentum going!

At our upcoming concert, the featured performers are:

The MNMs playing for the neighborhood in June 2020

  1. The MMMs play global rhythms, mostly on strings with some vocals.  This group is led by Margarita Figueroa, author of the recently published ebook: “Close-Up: My illustrated journey through breast cancer treatment“.
  2. The second group are first time participants in our backyard concert series, but they are not musical novices. This group spun out of the weekly neighborhood acoustic music jam sessions run by Sudi Durland over the past couple of years. A veteran of the Portland, Oregon acoustic jam scene, Sudi has played a pivotal role in fostering the development of Charlottesville’s acoustic music scene over the past four years or so. Her group features several highly skilled guitar players (one of whom is a very successful professional), several excellent singers, and incorporates acoustic bass, fiddle, flute, Irish whistle, and harmonica. No photo of this amazing group was available at press time.

Little High Neighborhood Concert Wednesday, August 16, 7pm

Next Backyard Concert: August 3

The next backyard concert will be held Thursday, August 3, at 7pm, at “the Farm.” The Farm is located at 1201 East Jefferson Street (between Farm Lane & 12th Street).

Admission is FREE

EVERYONE is welcome.

Performers include:

  • Brian Keena and Michael Bednar, playing and singing jazz standards and more.
  • The NEW Angst City Ramblers, playing and singing some of the best Americana tunes on the playlist of some people with excellent musical taste.

Details to come…

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