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Music on Monarch Way
Join us each Saturday from 5-7pm, June 21 - Aug 23, for Music on Monarch Way. These free concerts are on the lawn on Monarch Way directly across the street from Old Dominion University and behind Ted Constant Convocation Center. While you're here stop by the restaurants and shops at The University Village. Free concerts, free parking and plenty of fun just bring a blanket and the family.
| Date | Band |
|---|---|
| June 21 | Skip Friel & The Resonators - Alternative Folk/Americana Nominated for Best Acoustic and Best Album 2008 PortFolio Music Awards and 2007 Winner Best International Folk Artist, Toronto Exclusive Magazine. |
| June 28 | Lewis McGehee - Acoustic PortFolio Magazine's Musician Poll has voted McGehee as the top acoustic act for three consecutive years and was recently voted Best Musician. |
| July 5 | Against All Odds - Smooth Jazz This quartet's musical repertoire extends from smooth jazz styles to yester-year's vintage styles with a mix of traditional jazz, fusion, Latin, funk, R&B-along with vocals/choruses sprinkled in as a 'side order' to the main course. Voted Best Jazz Band in 2007 PortFolio Music Awards and was a 2008 nominee. |
| July 12 | Harwell Grice - Bluegrass The Harwell Grice Band is a hard-driving bluegrass band based in Southwest Virginia. They take traditional bluegrass and add amazing songwriting, along with classic two and three part harmonies to create their own progressive style of music. |
| July 19 | Tumbao Salsero - Latin/Salsa This Latin orchestra will keep your feet moving with full Latin percussion and a range of music including Salsa, Merengue, Guaganco, Son Montuno, Jazz, Bomba, Plena and many more. |
| July 26 | Big Wide Grin - Soulfully Acoustic This bi-coastal trio of Elaine Dempsey, Lawrence Lambert & Karl Werne, hailing from California and Virginia, brings diverse backgrounds of experience, music and theater together to form a rich, soulful blend of character and harmony so deep and dynamic, it will move you to an understanding of their name, BIG WIDE GRIN. |
| Aug 2 | Hands Off - Reggae Recently nominated as one the best reggae bands in Virginia, these musicians' roots are deep in reggae, and each member has many years of experience that shape their sound. |
| Aug 9 | Fat Tony Band - Blues, Swing & Everything Fat Tony was voted the Best Blues Band by PortFolio Weekly Music Awards in 2007 and by Ninevolt in 2005. Five musicians create one fun sound of "blues, swing & everything" with stand-up washtub bass, harmonica, saxophone, guitar and drums. |
| Aug 16 | Mercy Creek - Progressive The Washington Post Fairfax Extra......"Mercy Creek can perform folk, harder rock, calypso groove, swinging alt-country, and bluesy gospel. The band makes a mighty noise for just two players. After six years of extensive touring, the duo has been described as "the White Stripes of Americana." Jack and Meg White, watch your back." |
| Aug 23 | John Baldwin & The Original Sinners - Blues Baldwin won the 2006 PortFolio Weekly Best Blues Artist award and his group has opened for Steely Dan, Michael McDonald and Gary US Bonds among others. Baldwin's music has appeared on several episodes of "American Idol." |