Weekend Reminders: Of Mice and Tochterman

Posted by Shaun Harvey on June 27th, 2008 6 Comments

Modest Mouse [press photo]Peyton Tochterman [press photo]

After a brief one week hiatus our Weekend Reminders post returns.  (Apologies for missing out last week, but I was damn busy!)  And speaking of busy…this weekend should be a humdinger!  We’ve got Fridays After Five, Modest Mouse, a birthday celebration for Gravity Lounge, and a big show at the Paramount Theater all coming up this weekend.  And that’s just for starters!  So let’s not waste anymore time talking about it.  Here are your weekend reminders:

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First off, there are a couple of shows at the Charlottesville Pavilion that serve as musical bookends to the upcoming weekend.  Kick off your Friday afternoon in fine style as Fridays After Five plays host to Peyton Tochterman and High Society.  Alex Mejias opens.  Things get underway at 5:30pm and as always, there is no admission charge.

Wrapping up your weekend is a show that we’ve had circled on our music calendar for weeks now as 106.1 The Corner teams up with the Budweiser Concert series to present Modest Mouse with special guests The Dirty Dozen Brass Band at the Pavilion on Sunday, June 29th.  I’m hoping this one speaks for itself.  Tickets are still available, $35 general admission, and gates open at 6pm.  Show starts at 7.  The rest of your weekend happenings are listed below:

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Friday, June 27th

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  • Get your accordion-driven, Ratsylvanian gypsy jive on with the Accordion Death Squad  on Saturday at Rapunzel’s in Lovingston.  8pm.  $5.

  • Lookin’ for the blues?  (music that is).  Look no further than Uncle Charlie’s in Crozet as Eli Cook and Electric Holy Fire Water promise to rock the joint.  Saturday at 9:30pm.  $5.

  • Marc Carraway and John Whitlow, better known around these parts as Scuffletown, weave their acoustic magic at the Gravity Lounge on Saturday.  8pm.  $10.  Head on downtown and celebrate the band’s 10th Anniversary Concert!

  • It’s brooms and brothels at the Twisted Branch Tea House on Saturday.  Maybe I should write that differently.  The Brooms are a country-rock five-piece from Harrisonburg and The Brothels are a folk rockin’, punk bluegrass band from Asheville, NC.  See ‘em perform live at 10pm.  $3-7.

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  • A couple events of note for you jazz fans.  The Gravity Lounge hosts Jazz Night Sunday at 7pm.  Scheduled to perform are:  George Melvin, Hod O’Brien, Robert Jospe, and John Carden’s new jazz ensemble featuring Humberto Salas.  $10.  Also of note is a performance by saxophonist Bobby Read (of Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers) with special guests Randall Pharr, Brian Caputo, and Sam Wilson at Fardowners in Crozet on Sunday.  6-9pm.  $6.

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Weekend Notes

  • The 16th Annual Nelson County Summer Festival takes place on Saturday June 28th and Sunday June 29th on the lawn of the historic Oak Ridge Estate.  Featuring live music, festival foods, and wines from eight local vineyards.  Terri Allard is one of the featured performers on Saturday, along with Tropikiimba.  Tigerlily and the Seldom Scene perform on Sunday.  For more info click the link provided.  For directions to Oak Ridge Estate click here.

  • Our friends over at cVillain have even more goodies to offer up for your weekend happenings.  Check out their weekend preview here.

  • And as always, for more on your musical happenings check out our Charlottesville Events listing at the right side of this page.  Have a great weekend folks!

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6 Responses to “Weekend Reminders: Of Mice and Tochterman”

  1. 27 Jun 2008 at 4:08 pm1Shaun Harvey said:

    so what’s on everyone plate for the weekend? i’m off to the hacks tonight and the mouse on sunday. maybe a little winin’ at Nelson County in the afternoon on Sunday. If you see an old, ragged BoSox cap wearing bearded guy say Howdy would ya? Have a great weekend.

  2. 27 Jun 2008 at 4:49 pm2squidtank said:

    Saturday night 6/28 at the Outback Lodge:

    The Unholy Four | http://www.myspace.com/unholyfour
    The Vamanos | http://thevamanos.com
    Constrictor | http://www.myspace.com/constrictorva

    Some serious rock and roll. Don’t go listen to some jam band on Saturday night - have your face melted instead. You do like Black Sabbath don’t you?

  3. 27 Jun 2008 at 5:03 pm3Shaun Harvey said:

    ain’t no jam bands in town on Saturday squid…thanks for mentioning the show here…i was going to but they got my back over at cVillain (translation: they beat me to the punch!) :)

  4. 30 Jun 2008 at 10:49 am4pk said:

    So, a question about last night’s Modest Mouse show - at the risk of hipster ridicule, I’ll admit that I’m late to the party on the band, having only “We Were Dead…” and “The Moon & Antarctica”, and I didn’t recognize a LOT of songs last night. Were those mainly new material the band was trying out, or older stuff I don’t know? (Or were they songs I DO know, rendered totally unrecognizable - a chilling but distinctly believable possibility?)

    I enjoyed the show, but there are a bunch of great songs in their catalog that I wish they would have played…

  5. 30 Jun 2008 at 11:49 am5Shaun Harvey said:

    pk…i’m beginning my review of the modest mouse show as I type. I’m pretty sure I’ve got a complete set list which I will be posting along with the review. By my count I’ve got 19 songs. 11 songs from their last two albums…1 new song from their forthcoming EP….plus King Rat which may also appear on the EP but was also released on the Fire It Up 7″. 3 from Lonesome Crowded West. 2 from Moon & Antartica. 1 from Everywhere and His Nasty Parlor Tricks.

    Also my first MM show. I left thoroughly impressed. Lots of energy. Very tight performance. I would say it was a great show. Shy of epic though. And no worries on the hipster ridicule. I too am a little late to the party. As an added bonus…we got some great pics from the one and only Tom Daly. Review should be in the next hour or so.

  6. 30 Jun 2008 at 1:06 pm6Brian said:

    as someone who didn’t even get an invite to the party, i’m still waiting to hear/curious what the party’s all about…. ;-)

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