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Who I'd like to meet: People who are interested in the arts, pop culture, politics, social justice, and building a better community. And people who are fun! And who will send us cookies—yummy cookies.
here's an upcoming music festival featuring some of the best in regional and local music!!! 1st annual fest with funk, reggae, rock, roots, jam, blues and more!
Singer-songwriter David Wilcox will be live in the studio of Radford's WVRU 89.9 FM today as part of a special Thursday afternoon package of The Listening Room.
Thanks for the support. We appreciate it. Hope all the good people in the NRV will make it out to The Lantern on Thursday night where we'll be appearing with local legends My Radio. Cheers! TI
Groova Scape is one hardworking band, writes Tad Dickens of the Roanoke Times (http://blogs. roanoke. com/rtblogs/cutnscratch/about-tad-dickens/). "Groova gets the work because it can live up to its name." Longtime music promoter and sound man Gary Jackson is equally impressed. "They have three or four songs that are as good as any songs that have ever been written," Jackson says of Groova's original music, composed by former Groova bassist Marcus Morris and guitarist/keyboardist Henry Lazenby. Michael Travis of EOTO and String Cheese Incident fame jammed with Groova Scape when the Virginia jam band opened for EOTO in April. Travis said it was the first time in his many years of playing that he had been inclined to jam with an opening band. "You guys rock," Travis said after cooking through a 15 minute version of Power Down, one of the band's originals. Another bassist, Hash, of Thievery Corporation, offered similar praise after jamming with Groova Scape last January. "Those guys are amazingly creative," he said.
In light of the holidays and tight economy, Groova Scape is making one of its originals, The Revolution, available as a free download starting noon Thursday December 18 at its myspace website; http://myspace. com/thegroova
Also make sure to support local music by voting for the bands and musicians of your choice at the Roanoke Times website: http://www. roanoke. com/wb/xp-187369
Groova Scape plays Awful Arthur's Blacksburg Friday at 10 p.m. Vocalist Sally Williams will be on hand to sing another Morris/Lazenby original, Bottle of Red. That song received substantial comment after being aired on WDBJ-7 in September.
Groova Scape will play Christmas night at the Market Street Pub. That show starts at 10.
The band's really big show of the year comes at Martin's Downtown Bar and Grill New Year's Eve when it appears with Half Moon Band and Lazy Man Dub Band for a special night of m
