OneWayRichmond’s Show Picks 5/31-6/3

by | May 31, 2012 | MUSIC

Thursday, 5/31 John Winn @ Crossroads Coffee (Forest Hill Ave. location) 8pm.


Thursday, 5/31 John Winn @ Crossroads Coffee (Forest Hill Ave. location) 8pm.

Thursday, 5/31 Paleface, Fuzzy Baby @ Balliceaux 10pm. 21+

Thursday, 5/31 Groovin’ in the Garden presents Carbon Leaf @ Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens 6pm. All Ages.

Thursday, 5/31 Galaxy Dynamite @ City Dogs in the Fan 9pm.

Thursday, 5/31 Battlemaster, Horna (pictured above), Kommandant, Bastard Sapling @ Strange Matter 10pm.

Thursday, 5/31 City and Colour (pictured above), David Bazan, Dan Romano @ The National 7pm.

Friday, 6/1 The Pietasters (pictured above), Murphys Kids, The Bastard Suns, Capital 7 @ Kingdom 7pm. All Ages.

Friday, 6/1 The ReVinyls @ Cary St. Café 10pm

Friday, 6/1 Wrenn Mangum’s Elvis/Johnny Cash/Rockabilly Show (photo by Carley Brooks) @ Gus’ 10pm.

Friday, 6/1 Tonic Jane @ Babes of Carytown 8:30pm.

Friday, 6/1 Janet Martin @ Capital Ale House Downtown Music Hall 5pm. (early)

Friday, 6/1 Dave Watkins (photo by Brittany Diliberto), Lost Trail, Arte Povera, Floating Colors @ Globehopper 6pm.

Friday, 6/1 Gallery 5 presents: A night to celebrate feminism and women’s rights in Virginia featuring Pedals On Our Pirate Ships (pictured above), Fire Bison, DJ Lighting’s Girl @ Gallery 5 7pm. (part of First Friday’s art exhibit)

Friday, 6/1 Shylo Flavamix presents Wayne Wonder (pictured above), Christopher Martin @ Canal Club 10pm. 21+

Friday, 6/1 Black Girls (pictured above), Dr. Millionaire (Isaiah & Hovey) @ The Camel 9pm.

Friday, 6/1 Lonnie Liston Smith @ Hippodrome 7pm.

Friday, 6/1 Floating Folk Festival 15th Anniversary featuring Pam McCarthy, Norman Nortledorf, Meade Skelton, Harry Gore, Brooke Saunders, Chuck Kerwath, Chris Branch, Wendy Pace, along with special guests @ Artemis Gallery 6pm.

Friday, 6/1 Antietam 1862 (pictured above), Ravn, Withered, Dominium @ Strange Matter 10pm.

Saturday, 6/2 Strumpet (pictured above), Herro Sugar @ The Camel 5pm. All Ages (early)

Saturday, 6/2 Night Idea, Habitat, Brother Wolf, Houdan the Mystic (pictured above) @ The Camel 9pm.

Saturday, 6/2 Roddy Barnes @ Gay Community Center of Richmond (1407 Sherwood Ave.) 8pm.

Saturday, 6/2 Audio Mass Transit presents Afro Beta “Reggae Massive Edition” Featuring DJ Mikemetic (pictured above) and others @ The Nile 11pm.

Saturday, 6/2 Bermuda Triangles, Sediment Club, Flesh Control, Head Molt, Guerilla Toss, Cash Slave Clique @ Strange Matter 10pm. 18+

Saturday, 6/2 Jennings (pictured above), Rachel Epp, Red Lewis, Dane Ferguson @ Current (Epic Theater/Hat Factory) 10pm.

Saturday, 6/2 Cha Cha’s Cadillac @ Emilio’s in the Fan 10pm.

Saturday, 6/2Ghost Owls (pictured above), Cardinal Compass @ On the Rox 9pm. Free. 21+

Saturday, 6/2 Night Of Honky-tonk Angels III, Benefiting the Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation sponsored by Lifecare Medical Transport, featuring Tammi Kamin Band, April Mae & The June Bugs, Gina Dalmas and the Cow-Tipping Playboys, Molly Conley, The Ones To Blame, Andrea Vaughan & The Dragline @ Canal Club 6pm.

Saturday, 6/2 The Original Wailers (pictured above), Antero @ The National 7pm.

Saturday, 6/2 8th Annual Stone Soul Music & Food Festival featuring Boyz II Men,George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic (pictured above), Ruben Studdard, Tank, Travis Porter, Cash Out, Fabolous, VIC, Byron Cage, Deitrick Haddon, Dorinda Clark-Cole @ Brown’s Island 12pm – 9pm.


Saturday, 6/2 Pike Possum (pictured above), Freedom Hawk, Burley @ Wonderland 9pm.

Sunday, 6/3 Tom Principato @ McCook’s Grille 7pm.

Sunday, 6/3 Jonathan Vassar & the Speckled Bird @ Balliceaux 9pm.

Sunday, 6/3 The Milkstains, Chrome Daddy Disco, The Fooligans, Broken Pony @ The Cellar Door 9pm.

Sunday, 6/3 Larri Branch Agenda (photo by Ash Daniel) @ Commercial Taphouse 9pm.

Sunday, 6/3 DJ Williams Projekt 9 Year Anniversary Celebration @ The Camel 9pm.

Written by John Lewis Morgan/originally appeared at onewayrichmond.com

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