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Erik Nielson is Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of Richmond who has become well known as an expert in the use of rap music as evidence in criminal trials. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] His book Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics, and Guilt in America , with co-author Andrea Dennis, was published in November 2019 and received the Hugh Hefner Foundation ...
In 2018 and 2020 Skillz was an artist-in-residence at the University of Richmond where he taught The Voice of Hip Hop in America. On February 13, 2019, Mayor Levar Stoney declared it to be "Mad Skillz Day" in Richmond, VA to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of Skillz's debut album From Where??? and to recognize his "positive influence on our city."
James "Jim" Bryan Erb (January 25, 1926 – November 11, 2014) was an American composer, arranger, musicologist, and conductor.The founding conductor of the Richmond Symphony Chorus, [1] Erb led that chorus from 1971 to 2007 while also directing chorus activities at the University of Richmond, where he was for a while chair of the music department. [2]
The Pat McGee Band is a rock band from Richmond, Virginia.Formed by frontman Pat McGee, who attended Longwood College in Farmville, Virginia.After a brief stint learning the piano, he started to play the left-handed guitar owned by his brother, Hugh.
Currently working with PGH Live Music, in the summer of 2013, the song "Use Your Language" off of the album, J Roddy Walston and the Business, appeared on the series finale of HBO's comedy television series Eastbound and Down. The instrumental start of the song played as Kenny Powers walked off the set of his show to return home.
The festival was able to bring together a group of musicians with a similar approach to live performance, and thus consolidate fans of the music; hence, a scene was created around the developing genre. After seven successful years, the final H.O.R.D.E. Tour concert took place on September 5, 1998, at Portland Meadows in Portland, Oregon.
The Shenandoah Valley Music Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary of summer concert in 2013 and continues to draw people to the tiny Shenandoah County village of Orkney Springs. Richmond's 929 West Grace Street has housed a punk and rock-oriented club nearly uninterrupted for nearly three decades. Most famously known as Twisters throughout ...
Robert Wickens "Robbin" Thompson (June 16, 1949 – October 10, 2015) [1] was an American singer-songwriter based in Richmond, Virginia.Since 1976 he recorded several albums which included guest appearances by Melissa Manchester, Steve Cropper, Waddy Wachtel, Bruce Hornsby and Ellen McIlwaine, among others.