Matthew Burtner was raised in Alaska where he was fascinated by glaciers. As a professional musician, he was inspired to compose a symphony around the sounds of those massive mountains of ice that are now melting.
Charlottesville’s native son is in the running to enter the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Eight years ago, after winning a local art-in-place grant, Schulman retrofitted an old-school payphone to play the chirps, tweets and calls (get it?) of birds local to Takoma Park, Maryland, the Washington suburb he calls home.
PK German, a now-defunct organization, once brought stars from the Ramones to Kool & the Gang to Grounds.
When friends think of Dabney Lancaster Stellmann, they remember her always having a pad and paper in front of her.
When Claire Frazier Bolton is stressed, she turns to her iPhone Notes app.
Come gather ‘round, people, wherever you roam: From February 5 – 11, WTJU’s 2024 Folk Marathon airs round-the-clock folk and roots specials from around the globe. We’re gathering our friends for a raft of musical deep dives.
The University's most bejeweled student organization started with a Yik Yak message.
Home to the University’s premier performance space, Old Cabell Hall serves as a hub of musical celebration for the Charlottesville community. But upon stepping into the building, many visitors are struck initially not by music — but by artwork.
Surrounded by the warm, festive ambiance of the gaily-decorated University Baptist Church, members of the University community gathered for the Virginia Women’s Chorus’ 40th Annual Candlelight Concert Saturday afternoon.
A future performing arts center at the University of Virginia will be named for Tessa and Richard Ader, a pair of philanthropists who previously donated $50 million to the University as part of a commitment to bolster music, dance and theater in Charlottesville and Central Virginia.
Noel Lobley's 2022 groundbreaking study of the world's largest archive of field recordings of African music, 'Sound Fragments: From Field Recording to African-Electronic Stories', has won two more prizes at the recent Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) meeting.
