Summer Nights & Magic Sprites

522 2nd Street Southeast,Charlottesville VA 22902

07 August, 2021

Description

Celebrate all the magic of Southern summers with fairy-inspired artmaking and live music by Wild Common. Celebrate all the magic of Southern summers with fairy-inspired artmaking and uniquely Cville live music. Decorate wings and masks in IX Art Park's fantastical fairy garden, or come in your own Midsummer Night's Dream-inspired creation. Then unleash your mischief and magic to the genre-defying New Appalachian tunes of Wild Common. Frontwoman Davina Jackson is a soul and gospel singer with a killer voice at the center of Wild Common's music. She used to sing back-up with the Wailers. Fiddle player Nate Leath won the famous Galax Fiddler’s Convention when he was 11 and has since grown into one of the most talented fiddlers of this generation. Drummer Rob Hubbard grew up in rural Virginia and went on to become an accomplished reggae drummer. Bassist Dhara Goradia has a long jazz pedigree. And songwriter and guitarist Brennan Gilmore has roots in old-time and bluegrass but has played fusion music across the globe. Together, they take songs at their essence of melody and harmonization and reconstruct them with their diverse individual traditions and backgrounds. "Doors" at 6pm, show at 7pm | All Ages This event is outdoors; nasty weather cancels. $10 adv | $15 day of show