So, the work week’s over and you’d love to sit back and hear some music? If you live in Greene, Madison or northern Albemarle counties, there’s something new to try.

The Oratorio Society of Virginia will present Giuseppe Verdi’s “Requiem” at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the Martin Luther King Jr. Performing Arts Center.

“We fit sort of nowhere musically, but we play everywhere,” Azar said with a chuckle. “We play blues festivals. We toured with Bob Seger.”

Earlier this year, local guitar wiz Joe Lawlor was down in New Orleans working his main job as Dave Matthews Band’s live recording engineer, while the group was making its upcoming album, “Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King.”

Growing up may be getting old, but building new audiences certainly isn’t.

At Graves’ Mountain, experiment succeeded

She came north from Boones Mill. He came south from Maryland.

Buck Altice lived in Waynesboro when Hurricane Camille hit. The Augusta County town had a fair amount of bad weather, but nothing compared to the 30-inches of rain that made the mountains move in neighboring Nelson County

“My favorite song I like to play is ‘What This World Needs,’ ’’ guitarist Juan DeVevo said.

Most will agree that what has defined Heart throughout the years, and ensured its international success, has been Ann Wilson’s incomparable voice and her sister’s impassioned guitar playing.

“We make every concert a special occasion,” says drummer John Spagnolo.

The Dexateens have been plugging along for the past decade as underground Southern garage rock phenoms.

Several hundred new seats have been released for tonight’s concert by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at the John Paul Jones Arena.

Gaither, team hang onto that family feeling

“It’s like the Pro Bowl, it really is.”

Bak N Da Day will bring music from the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s to the Carysbrook Performing Arts Center stage at 8 p.m. Saturday.

Christ Episcopal Church in Gordonsville will be the place to hear bluegrass and country music and raise funds to help the Prospect Heights Middle School Destination Imagination team travel to the Global Finals in Knoxville, Tenn.

Now fans have a chance to win those seats and help fight hunger at the same time.

Tickets will go on sale to the Paramount’s Star Circle members at 10 a.m. Friday and to all Paramount members at 10 a.m. May 1.

Even with the subtle sadness of missing member LeRoi Moore, who died from complications after an ATV accident last summer, this is a band that relishes playing live

The Dave Matthews Band rocks the JPJ.

Don’t hit that snooze button. You want to get to work early today so you can finish up in time for Fridays After Five.

Trees on fire many not sound very eco-friendly, but the sounds of Trees on Fire (the band) is a perfect fit for Saturday’s Eco-Fair.

DMB members still retain that common touch

To write her latest studio album, last year’s “Another Country,” Tift Merritt left the United States and holed up in a Paris flat with a piano and a guitar. The time spent alone yielded some of her most reflective and poignant tunes.

The Charlottesville Municipal Band is starting its 87th concert season with its traditional Dogwood Festival Concert, which begins at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the V. Earl Dickinson Building at Piedmont Virginia Community College.

With a few foot taps from Phil Lesh, the Dead launched into the first song of a three-hour night.

Big fun at night of The Dead

Gravity Lounge closure forces several acts to relocate.

Maybe you know them as the Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet, or the Tiptons Saxophone Quartet. Most of the time, folks call them the Tiptons.