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Gangstagrass at the Academy Center of the Arts | Warehouse
Gangstagrass at the Academy Center of the Arts | Warehouse
Suppose, just suppose, you could take a little of everything that’s great about this country and distill it. It’s creativity, it’s ingenuity, it’s the strength of the struggles of so many of it’s people – indigenous, enslaved, or otherwise. And then take that distilled energy and creativity and transform it to a musical form. What would you say if someone […]
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Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn
Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn
Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn, “the king and queen of the banjo” (Paste Magazine), have a musical partnership like no other. Béla Fleck is a fifteen-time Grammy Award winner who has taken the instrument across multiple genres, and Abigail Washburn a singer-songwriter and clawhammer banjo player who re-radicalized it by combining it with Far East culture and sounds. The two […]
Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn
Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn
Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn, “the king and queen of the banjo” (Paste Magazine), have a musical partnership like no other. Béla Fleck is a fifteen-time Grammy Award winner who has taken the instrument across multiple genres, and Abigail Washburn a singer-songwriter and clawhammer banjo player who re-radicalized it by combining it with Far East culture and sounds. The two […]
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Clay Festival 2024
Clay Festival 2024
The Academy Center of the Arts proudly presents the Academy Clay Festival on Saturday, October 12, 2024. Potters, sculptors, wheel throwers, and hand builders from all across the Piedmont Region and Eastern Shore will gather in Central Virginia along the James River to sell and showcase their work for this one-day show. Participating vendors will also be given the opportunity […]
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Vacation Manor
Vacation Manor
Join Vacation Manor live at The Academy’s Warehouse Theater on November 1st, 2024, with special guests, Rhineland and Nolen Durham! Vacation Manor is an indie-rock duo based out of Lynchburg, Virginia, consisting of Nathan Towles (guitar, vocals) and Cole Young (drums). The band formed in the fall of 2014 after their first show, a battle of the bands at the […]
HYPROV: Improv under Hypnosis Starring Colin Mochrie & Asad Mecci
HYPROV: Improv under Hypnosis Starring Colin Mochrie & Asad Mecci
Hyprov’s 90-minute live show combines hypnosis and improv. First, World Renowned Hypnotist Asad Mecci welcomes 20 volunteers on stage to be hypnotized. The most receptive to hypnosis then join Colin Mochrie (Whose Line is it, Anyway?) to improvise the rest of the show, while hypnotized. In the hands of two experts, and solely crafted from the volunteers’ uninhibited, unconscious minds […]
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The Magic of Bill Blagg: LIVE!
The Magic of Bill Blagg: LIVE!
The Magic of Bill Blagg LIVE! is a national touring full production show that is filled with grand-scale illusions, jaw-dropping magic, hilarious comedy and audience participation. It’s best described as a Las Vegas style show that’s fun for the whole family! You’ll see people will float in mid-air while others vanish in the blink of an eye! Over 90 minutes […]