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2nd Grade Violin Debut
From St. Andrew’s School blog:
All St. Andrew’s School students have been learning to play the violin this year. Today, the second grade class showcased their achievements in a small group recital where they performed for an audience that included the 5th grade class, parents, staff, and teachers.
Ms. Ellerbe, our Music teacher, has been teaching the children to play the violin in small groups (up to eight children) twice per week. For today’s recital, she lead each group as they performed, Pizzicato (named for a playing technique that involves plucking the strings of the violin ), Mary Had a Little Lamb, and Hot Cross Buns. Performances by each group were captured and are featured below.
After a very successful debut, the children are now looking forward to performing again at the Spring Concert. The concert will be held in Baldwin Hall on Monday, May 19, from 6:00-7:00 p.m. (it will begin after the Family Association Meeting and Dinner).
There’s also been otter sightings outside the school:
From their Facebook page:
The Otter Closet will sell gently used clothing…but here’s the cool part: proceeds will be divided and half will support our school’s violin program while the other half is donated to Full Circle Grief Center. In addition, students will help run the shop, incorporating their economics lessons into this real-life effort. Everybody benefits!
RIP David Brockie
Practicing The Pipes
Photo taken last week…
Who Wears The Kerosene Hat?
Some neighbors were discussing emergency heating measures and someone mentioned kerosene which reminded me of the band Cracker-
From Wikipedia:
Kerosene Hat is Cracker’s second album, released on August 24, 1993. It reached #1 on Billboard’s Top Heatseekerschart, and #59 on the Billboard 200 album chart. The well-known hit single from this album, “Low”, helped Cracker gain widespread notice.
According to frontman David Lowery, the album’s title comes from the band’s early days in Richmond, Virginia. Lowery lived with Cracker guitarist Johnny Hickman in an old dilapidated house whose only source of heat came from two kerosene heaters. To buy more kerosene meant a cold walk to a nearby gas station, so before he left the house, Lowery would bundle up and put on an old wool hunting cap – hence the “kerosene hat”. “To this day,” says Lowery, “the smell of kerosene reminds me of the poverty and the wistful hope we had for our music.”[2]
As I have mentioned before, David Lowery lived at 239 S. Laurel Street.
As for heating without electric heat pumps, many Hill houses still rely on City natural gas for heating. Many have old fashioned and new fashioned wood stoves. There are also wood pellet stoves.
I keep hoping we will eventually see affordable, efficient, residential hydrogen fuel cells that can easily create electricity with natural gas and store it and solar power for emergency situations.
Vinyl Conflict vs. Steady Sounds Competition For Charity
Get ready to support your neighborhood punk rock record store.
From the Facebook event page:
Here is it folks….get ready to ruuuummmmmble!
It’s the tie breaker of all record store tiebreakers! In a tie, both shops were named best record store by onewayrichmond.com, but we can’t have that can we? We need to help break this tie! Vinyl Conflict Vs. Steady Sounds in a no holds fight to the FINISH!! One for one records spun by each shop and the WINNER WILL BE DETERMINED BY YOU!!
We will have tip jars set up at each deck and each dollar will count as a “vote” to decide the winner. All proceeds will benefit local nonprofit Feed More
One night only Tuesday January 28th at Saison, 10pm to ?
Can’t make it to the event? You can always donate to the shops or to Feed More directly.
From The Camel’s Beers and Banjos Night
RVA Magazine recently reviewed a night at The Camel. Here’s a portion:
Beers and Banjos night features a different band every Friday, typically in the folk music genre. This week the band was Birdseye Speedwell. Birdseye Speedwell is a family band, comprised of Hannah Rucker, her parents (James and Anne Rucker), her aunt (Laura Kinnaman), and her uncle (Bruce Blizard). The family “started playing while living together locally in Oregon Hill,” but this was their first gig together in front of an audience at a venue–not that you’d notice. The band members played an array of instruments: guitars, fiddles, banjo, washboard, a bongo drum, and acabasa.