Just over two weeks left before my birthday and hopefully, a new Flip Mino HD camcorder that will let me take better videos. Till then you can check out these shakey iPhone videos that I’ve taken over the past week around town. I’m headed out of town this weekend, so enjoy your Memorial Day holiday and we’ll see you next week!
Jon Fuson on lead vox/guitar, his sister Anna singing, Pickett on bass, Tom on guitar, and John Falls on drums. Last night at Marker 20.
Cheap Labor Wed. night at Hat Trix.
Anything Else Wed. night at Hat Trix. These guys are good.
Couple of sites to keep an eye on for Hampton Roads music, events and art:
VEER Magazine – Hampton Roads alternative source for news, arts, culture, entertainment and dining information.
Your757.com – designed to serve as the all-inclusive resource for “what to do” and “where to go” in Hampton Roads, with an emphasis on programs that engage new audiences and build attendance for arts, sports and entertainment organizations of all sizes in the 757 area code of Southeastern Virginia.
More out of Richmond for techno lovers! EvolveVA.com has calendar and mixes from local Richmond shows. WRIR 93.7 community radio broadcasts Saturday nights, and you can listen in here and get info on other shows at various locales around the area. Drum and bass, breakbeat, house and techno fans of all types should check this one out!
Hey Hampton Roads, did you know that you can get local, fresh, in-season produce straight from local farms? That’s right, a number of local farms sell shares of their harvest through Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs. You can pre-purchase a share of the harvest before the growing season begins. Clayhill Farms in Suffolk (PDF), for example, sells 100 shares a year for between $18 and $25 a week which gets you a basket of fresh veggies for 20 weeks starting June 8. The baskets or boxes will contain a variety of foods including sweet corn, tomatoes, cantaloupe, basil, peaches and more. There will be a variey of produce throughout the season, although specific items cannot be guarranteed.
CSAs are a great way to eat healthy and support local farms in the area. Contact Edmond, Janice & Anson Morris at clayhillfarmssca at yahoo dot com for more info.
Here is how you do a regional magazine: RVAMag.com. It’s described as a “culture hub for our beloved Richmond, VA”. Well done guys. You’re setting a fine example that we would do well to learn from here at EpicHoney.
Yes, that’s Ryan Gosling playing piano and singing while leading a chorus of elementary school kids dressed in Halloween costumes. /brain explodes.
Anyways, so this Saturday, Chicos in Chesapeake, art by Restless Bodies, music by Berk Visual. I’m gonna try to get across the Southside myself to meet these guys in person. Should be cool.
We get a lot of Google hits for our pastcoverageofWalt Redmond Jr. I thought I would pass along these photos from Vaughn Deel’s Facebook page where he posted a couple of albums of pics from last Sunday’s The Last Waltz Benefit at Saddle Ridge.
I almost declined to post this for reasons I’ll explain shortly, but here goes anyways. Via The Alfredo Torres Debacle comes word of VBNightlife.com, a Ning based social network based around, can you guess? Virginia Beach nightlife, music, bands and DJs.
First off it’s a great idea, it has about 500 members and seems to be a good source of info on what’s going on round the HRV. Why VBNightlife though? NorfolkNightlife, 757Nightlife, HamptonRoads/HRVNightlife would have been better picks. Why tie yourself to one city out of 7 when you’re just going to be covering shit that goes on in Norfolk anyways.
And my second gripe goes out to Nicole Maxino for shamelessly ripping the music calendar off of Meona.net and reposting it without attribution. I know Meona’s Stephen Sloop personally. He has been running Meona for a decade and it’s saddening to see someone taking credit for his work again. For chrissake at least give him a link at the top of the page!
In spite of that I’m still posting to this site as it is a good resource of what’s going on over in Va Beach. They’ve got a comprehensive list of the bars and bands in the area, so it’s worth checking out.
This is a benefit to raise money for the college funds of Walt Redmond, Jr’s. children.
Walt passed away last month and his music and smiling face will be missed by many.
The show will be held at Saddle Ridge on Power Plant Parkway in Hampton, VA. Saddle Ridge is divided into two places, Saddle Ridge and the Cheyenne Supper Club. Both venues will have stages in use that day. The loud rock bands will be in the big room at Saddle Ridge and the acoustic acts will be in Cheyenne Supper Club.
Admission is $10. There will be T-shirts for sale, auction items and a CD of Walt’s music available too.
Please come out and support a great cause, have some fun and hear some great music too. We play around 8:30.
May 10TH Walt Redmond Jr Tribute
Saddle Ridge Schedule
30 min sets:
4PM Soul Patch
445 Crazy X
530 Vinyl Headlights
615 Butter
7pm Excess Baggage
745 Snackbar Jones
820 Walt Redmond Sr. and Becky Morrison
830 Fine Swiss Cheese
915 Krunch
1000 Hey Hey Hooligan
1045 Borderline Crazy
1130 East Coast Rockers
1215 Super Glue
Cheyenne Club Schedule
25 Min Sets
4PM – 630PM Open Mic
630 Brad Street
705 John Harrell
740 Insley-Baggett
830 Suzy-Ray-Vaughn
905 Plastic Eddie
940 Don Butcher
1015 Tim Morgan
1050 Brian Sewell (Big Daddy)
