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Two of UVA’s favorite crooners join forces for a rare, one-night-only show. Nathan Colberg graduated back in 2017,...

Vocal exercises

Nay Nichelle likes to write outside. There’s something inspirational about natural sunlight, she says, especially at...

ARTS Pick: Sons of Bill

Overcoming injuries, battling “drinking issues” and months at a time on the road would change, possibly derail, most...

ARTS Pick: Big country

Rob Cheatham is an ideal modern country artist—his twang echoes the sounds that currently dominate the genre, while...

ARTS Pick: Bar seen

Though Will Thomas Reed is currently based in Nashville, where he’s paying his dues in the country music scene, his...

Launching a movement

On his first day of college, Wes Swing rented a cello. There was something about the instrument that called to him....

Getting a lift

Last April, A’nija Johnson walked into the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center auditorium ready to...

A slow tumble down the...

Unranked and surely incomplete, here’s an alphabetical list of what Charlottesville-area artists released this year....

They doth protest

Everyone knows at least one protest song. There’s Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land,” which American Songwriter...

Poetic edge

Climbing into your mom’s minivan when you’d lied only slightly about your whereabouts for the evening, reeking of...