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Join us in the taproom from 4-9PM for a toast to Toast RVA with a Belgian Style IPA collaboration brewed in celebration of their 5 year anniversary! Gaucho will be here slinging tacos and other original South American eats!
This Belgian Style IPA was dry hopped on jarrylo and idaho 7 hops lending a spicy, fruity aroma. Light and dry this Belgian Style IPA carries notes of pear and apple. Come enjoy on draft only!
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Presenting our fifth annual Richmond Bluegrass Festival: an all day celebration of music with mobile gourmet food vendors and unique beers on draft.
This event is FREE & all ages! Live music begins at 2pm with Sweet Yonder.
Bands:
Hot Seats
Molly Payne & The Mistakes
River City Band
Dragon Run
Sweet Yonder
Food Trucks:
River City Wood Fire
Arroz
Dank Eats
Gelati Celesti
Prost!
Sammich
Saucy's BBQ
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CURRENT Art Fair is excited to announce our collaboration with local brewery, event space, and community mainstay Hardywood Park Craft Brewery to produce three exclusive syrup flavors for their classic German-style Berliner Weisse. Hardywood is both locally and internationally acclaimed for their beer that is brewed with purpose, local ingredients, and sustainable energy as well as with an obsession over quality.
Join us Sunday, August 20, 2017 from 1pm to 4pm at Hardywood’s public taproom for a glass (or two) with live music and CURRENT merchandise being printed on-site by our cultural partner Studio Two Three. This event and CURRENT’s main event will be free and open to the public. Bikini Panini will be around serving up their Mediterranean flavors.
In conjunction with the debut of our Berliner Weisse syrup flavors, our Preview Party tickets and Patron level memberships will go on sale at the event. Tickets will continue to be available for purchase online through the CURRENT website following the Hardywood event.
Additionally, CURRENT is looking forward to providing Hardywood’s Berliner Weisse and CURRENT’s exclusive syrup flavors throughout the fair September 28 - October 1, 2017.
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The Richmond Taproom opens at 4pm, food trucks begin service at 5:30pm.
The Hardywood Food Truck Court is a street foodie's delight with local gourmet mobile food vendors and many more carts on rotation in the weeks to come. Enjoy our line up of seasonal craft beers to pair with an eclectic variety of food for meat lovers and vegetarians alike!
Hardywood Food Truck Court runs from 5:30-9pm (the brewery is open until 10pm, last call 9:30) every Thursday through the season and is a family friendly environment. All ages are welcome at the brewery. Virginia ABC law prohibits bringing outside alcoholic beverages on-site, and underage drinking will be strictly prohibited.
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The Richmond Taproom opens at 4pm, food trucks begin service at 5:30pm.
The Hardywood Food Truck Court is a street foodie's delight with local gourmet mobile food vendors and many more carts on rotation in the weeks to come. Enjoy our line up of seasonal craft beers to pair with an eclectic variety of food for meat lovers and vegetarians alike!
Hardywood Food Truck Court runs from 5:30-9pm (the brewery is open until 10pm, last call 9:30) every Thursday through the season and is a family friendly environment. All ages are welcome at the brewery. Virginia ABC law prohibits bringing outside alcoholic beverages on-site, and underage drinking will be strictly prohibited.
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Foolery returns, friends! The taproom is open from 1-10PM on August 26 with Foolery available on draft (no growler fills) and in 750mL bottles to go. Coconut Cassowary will also be avilable on draft and in 750mL to go!
Hardywood Foolery is one of the top 10 milk stouts in the world on BeerAdvocate.com, and holds an overall 100 rating on RateBeer.com. Come on out and collect your allocation of this fan favorite! There are approximately 320 cases available; 4 bottle limit per guest. ***A note to our Hardywood Family Tree Beer Club members: you will have an opportunity to pre-purchase up to 4 additional bottles in advance of the release date!
We will have Arroz RVA, Smokie JOE'S BBQ and Sugar Shack Donuts truck on site! Live music will start at 6PM, stay tuned for details!
Hardywood Foolery is a huge Imperial Stout aged for eight months in bourbon barrels. Massive chocolate, vanilla, and caramel flavors are preceded by aromatic hints of dark cherry, tobacco, leather and oak. Thick and rich, Foolery brings rounded bourbon character contributions from the barrels and a nice warming finish.
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Join us in the beer garden for the perfect addition to you day on the river! Kiwi Lime Berliner Wiesse will be available on draft and in 16oz cans from 4-10PM! Sammich will be here slinging their sammies all evening!
Berliner Weisse is known for its refreshing tartness and delicate body, making it an historically popular style to beat the heat of summer at outdoor cafes in Berlin, Germany. Hardywood has recreated this delightful, thirst-quenching style using a kettle souring method and traditional German ingredients.
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Join us in the taproom from 4-10PM! We will have Jus Cukn, LLC here slinging their mobile cuisine. Live music starts at 6PM!
Time was, The Pinkerton Raid's Jesse James DeConto would spend his days writing about murder and mayhem as a newspaper reporter. Almost every day, he'd drive from his former home in Carrboro to the Orange County Courthouse in Hillsborough, N.C.
Driving north on Highway 86, he'd pass a traffic sign that said "TOLERANCE ENDS." It was meant for big-rig truckers, to tell them to detour off the country road and get on the sturdier Interstate 85.
Something about crime reporting that most people don't know: There's a lot of waiting around. You sit there in court, waiting for a judge to make a ruling, waiting for a lawyer to show up, waiting for a defendant to be brought over from the jail.
"I'd be watching people's lives falling apart – or already having fallen apart – and I was watching a seven-year relationship falling apart in my own life, thinking about what went wrong, what was next for me," Jesse says. "I'd just sit there writing lyrics in my reporter's notebook."
Out of those vulnerable moments sprang the songs from Tolerance Ends, Love Begins, The Pinkerton Raid's third full-length album.
What started with intimate, personal storytelling became a communal experience with instrumentation evolving over the next seven years, as Jesse handed off songs like "Tolerance Ends," "Hollywood," and "Deeper Than Skin" for his sister Katie to take lead vocals.
The siblings built many of the arrangements around their brother Steven's acoustic guitar, layering Eric Johnson and Michael DePue's electric guitars with the expansive drumming of Steve Anderson (Kamara Thomas & The Night Drivers) and the twee textures of Chimeatron, ukulele and brass. Wilson Greene (Look Homeward, Mipso) added guitars and banjo. Recorded with Mark Simonsen (The Old Ceremony, Dead Tongues) and Thom Canova at Mitch Easter's Fidelitorium and at Studio M in the spring of 2016, Tolerance Ends, Love Begins is a story of broken love and resurrection, their most hopeful collection to date.
Laney Sullivan and Jameson Price make up the world fusion folk band Lobo Marino. They are also the founders of the Earth Folk Collective and Fonticello Food Forest Project in Richmond, Virginia. Deeply dedicated to environmental and social justice, when traveling they carry in the music a message of humanity's need for reconnection with the earth. While at home they spend time community organizing and running their homestead and donation based education center The Earth Folk Collective.
Forming in the spring of 2015, THE FOLLY brought together Richmond, VA songwriters Jordan Lette and Anneliese Grant, as well as a collection of backing musicians; each member bringing their own stylistic technique to the group. Being as the band has an array of musical influences, THE FOLLY's dynamic sound is structured around a base of eclecticism. The songwriting is catchy and inviting, yet unique and abstract in an alluring fashion, blending familiar classic feeling with modern sounds. The band often invites multi-instrumentalists in recording and generates energetic on-stage performances. All of these aspects allow for the creation that is THE FOLLY experience.
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Joins us from 4-10PM for the release of Kiwi Lime Berliner Weisse Can Release! Sammich will be here slinging sammies all evening! Live tunes kick off at 6PM!
About Shane Cooley
Shane Cooley isn't concerned about the voices in his head. For half of his 29 years, they have given him answers in the form of song. He has officially released seven albums and EPs, and currently has over fifty songs that have not been recorded..and counting. His sound, a majestic blend of mainly folk, rock and blues, has a seasoned uniqueness. His tell-tale voice and emotionally driven live performances can give you goosebumps, both solo and with his band. The poetry in his lyrics, however, are what give him his high caliber.
His seventh and latest release, Kings Highway, was produced by Bob Rupe (Sparklehorse,Cracker), and received critical acclaim from Austin Chronicle writer Jim Caligiuri, hailing him as a "substantial songsmith." The album also received airplay from radio stations in the U.S. and Europe, including NPR station KUTX in Austin. His work has been recognized by songwriting contests such as the International Acoustic Music Awards and Mountain Stage NewSong Contest. His songs have also been placed on television shows including NBC's "The Mysteries of Laura," and IBC's "The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman." He also composed the music for the Amazon/Onion Creek Productions' book preview for "Tough Love," by New York Times Bestseller Lori Foster.
Shane wrote his first song when he was ten years old, in a rural part of Virginia known as the Northern Neck. He played his first show at age thirteen. After graduating with an English degree from the The College of William and Mary in 2010, he took to the road, booking his own tours throughout the U.S. and a European tour in 2012. He has spent the past few years in Austin, TX, where he has been honing his skills and marinating his sound in one of the world's most active music scenes. Over the years, Shane's prolific songwriting has become an impressive catalog, and he has been known played four-hour shows of his own original music.
About Paulo Franco
Paulo Franco is a Richmond, Virginia based singer/ songwriter. In terms of recording, it may seem that Franco has come to the game later in life than some, but his musical journey has been a lifelong story. Born to Colombian immigrants and raised in Washington D.C., Paulo embraces his heritage as a first generation American and his songs and style reflect that. As a child, his father turned him on to the country music of the United States via the Johnny Cash Variety show and on his own he discovered a love for rock n roll through the Stones and the Beatles. At the age of nine, he picked up a classical guitar and a musician was born. After years of playing in various cover bands and honing his chops, Franco began writing his own material in earnest in 2010.
Paulo's songs are steeped in storytelling, often drawing from his own life and those around him. The sound is a seamless blend of the myriad of influences that have shaped both his everyday life and his musical tastes. Listeners will find glimpses John Prine's wit, The Stones' rock n roll heart, and the fluidity of The Grateful Dead often times infused with the rhythms of traditional Latin and Colombian music. He has recently included original Spanish songs into his songwriting as well, bringing a depth and a love of two cultures seldom seen during the same show or album. Paulo switches his voice from country twang, to rock anthem, to Spanish troubadour. His vocals are so authentically Spanish that it’s easy to forget you just heard him effortlessly sing a country tune in English.
In the last few years he has shared the stage with the likes of Dan Baird and Homemade Sin, Chris Knight, Adam Carroll, Cris Jacobs, Cory Branan and many others. 2016 saw Franco's latest release, The Last Card, an album No Depression calls “a phenomenal sophomore record.” No Depression's Emily Hinde listed The Last Card at No. 2 of the year's best, behind only Avett Brothers. Paste Magazine hails Franco's effort as possibly the most sincere album of the year. The Last Card, produced by Bob Rupe (The Silos, Cracker, Gutterball and Sparklehorse) and featuring a virtual who's who of Richmond musicians, shows that Franco wears his heart on his sleeve musically and can hang with any songwriter working today. The next year will find Paulo following up on the national attention the record is receiving with more shows and a wider range of national touring and a tour of Colombia.
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NOT A MASTER GARDENER?... NO PROBLEM!
DON'T HAVE A GREEN THUMB?... IT'S ALL GOOD!
THERE IS NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED!
Just follow along while our Party Host guides you step-by-step through the featured project in about 1.5 hours. If you’re feeling creative, change the design to suit your whim.
We provide all the planting supplies: a solid container, soil, plants, rocks, decorative elements, smock, music, and a good time. Come out early to enjoy a bite to eat before we get started, just let them know you’re with Plant Nite. Secure your seats 15 - 30 minutes prior to start time, especially if part of a large group. Food and drinks are available for purchase from the venue and NOT included in the ticket price. Outside food and drink are not allowed - NO BYOB. Events are for adults, 21+ only.
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Join us from 7-9PM for an evening of easy gardening, beer sipping, and time with good friends. The Dog Wagon will be here serving hot dogs with all the toppings!
Just follow along while our Party Host guides you step-by-step through the featured project in about 1.5 hours. If you’re feeling creative, change the design to suit your whim.
We provide all the planting supplies: a solid container, soil, plants, rocks, decorative elements, smock, music, and a good time. Come out early to enjoy dinner before we get started, just let them know you’re with Plant Nite. Secure your seats 15 - 30 minutes prior to start time, especially if part of a large group. Food and drinks are available for purchase from the venue and NOT included in the ticket price. Outside food and drink are not allowed - NO BYOB. Events are for adults, 21+ only.
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Join us Saturday, August 19th for the Virginia Craft Brewers Fest in Charlottesville, VA. The Fest will be hosted by Three Notch'd Brewing Company and is the only sanctioned event of the Virginia Craft Brewers Guild. Thousands of craft beer lovers from Virginia and surrounding states enjoy chatting with the brewers responsible for the tasty libations.
With nearly 100 breweries from across Virginia on hand to serve tastings from 2-8 PM (with VIP entry beginning at 1PM), you should plan to stay for the day so you get to taste them all. We are a family friendly Fest and offer designated driver ticket options to make sure all guests are able to enjoy their time.
Located in beautiful downtown Charlottesville, IX Art Park is centrally located to I64.
The Virginia Craft Brewers Fest has sold out each year, so don't wait too long to buy your tickets!
Interested in volunteering? Click here.
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Join us in the beer garden from 12-6PM with Bikini Panini providing their mouth watering Mediterranean cuisine! We are featuring a few different berliner syrups this afternoon for the Current Art Fair Ticket Launch happening today from 1-4PM! Live tunes begin at 3PM!
This is the release party for #TRRRASHCRYSTALRADIO, a split tape of 9 tracks recorded live in the studio on Time Is Tight on WRIR 97.3 FM with Paul Ivey in the Summer of 2017 by Vvuumm and HEADLESSMANTIS! It's a family affair, as the six members of the two bands have been coming up in Richmond together for the past five years. Recluse Raccoon and Paul Ivey will be kicking off the show!