Ronn McFarlane and Carolyn Surrick
Mar
24
6:00 PM18:00

Ronn McFarlane and Carolyn Surrick

Lute and Viola da Gamba

World-Class Musical Adventures

Black Iris Social Club - 321 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA, USA

Tickets available here.

GRAMMY-nominated lutenist Ronn McFarlane is joined by Viola da Gamba champion Carolyn Surrick for an evening full of joy and innovation. Ronn and Carolyn take these ancient instruments and place them in a timeless context that captivates and entertains their audience. Complimentary, Celtic-inspired hors d'ouvres complete the evening's immersive sensory experience. Doors, food and beverage service at 6:00pm, music 6:30-7:45pm.

Sponsored by Fanfare Studio of Richmond VA.

Both of the distinguished artists have been champions of their respective instruments for decades, immersing themselves in various forms of folk and chamber music. Renaissance and Baroque music appears alongside traditional Celtic and Swedish folk tunes, 19th and 20th century compositions, and original compositions from each of them. Individually, the artists have been awarded, acclaimed, and celebrated - now finally, they have become musical partners in an extraordinary journey. Ronn and Carolyn's musicianship is impeccable, the ease with which they play together is stunning, and their music making is a joy to behold.

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Classical Incarnations
Feb
18
7:00 PM19:00

Classical Incarnations

Join Classical Revolution RVA for our monthly classical variety show featuring your favorite local performers at Brambly Park Winery!

Doors open at 6:30pm, music starts at 7:00pm!

This event is free and open to all ages! A $5.00 donation is encouraged. Come for dinner to enjoy Bari's Sunday prix fixe menu ($20 per person) and stay for the show. A fun and affordable night out in Scott's Addition.

We're looking forward to seeing you there!

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Classical Incarnations
Jan
21
7:00 PM19:00

Classical Incarnations

Join Classical Revolution RVA for our monthly classical variety show featuring your favorite local performers at Brambly Park Winery!

Doors open at 6:30pm, music starts at 7:00pm!

This event is free and open to all ages! A $5.00 donation is encouraged.

We're looking forward to seeing you there!

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Richmond's Own
Jan
20
8:00 PM20:00

Richmond's Own

Experience an evening of local classical music with compositions by Classical Revolution RVA's Featured Composers, Krystal Folkestad and Ned Haskins, and a performance by Commonwealth Concert Opera.

Aimed at integrating classical music with Richmond's local community and art scene, Classical Revolution RVA (CRRVA) presents an evening of contemporary and classical music! Join us for a night of new music by CRRVA's Featured Composers, Krystal Folkestad and Ned Haskins. The music of Krystal and Ned is beautiful, thought provoking, and engaging!

Closing out the evening will be a performance of the Commonwealth Concert Opera! Dedicated to creating more opportunities for young and seasoned singers in Richmond and throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Commonwealth Concert Opera performs great and varied works at a professional standard.

$15

Doors: 7:00pm

Music: 8:00 - 10:45PM

21+ / 16+ must be accompanied by an adult

General admission. Arrive early for the best seats.

Tickets available here.

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Classical Incarnations
Dec
17
7:00 PM19:00

Classical Incarnations

Join us for our classical music variety show at Gallery5 (200 W Marshall St) on the third Sunday of every month! Come out to see your favorite local musicians perform their passion projects.

Doors at 6:30 pm, music at 7 pm.

We’re looking forward to seeing you there!

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Classical Incarnations
Oct
15
7:00 PM19:00

Classical Incarnations

Join us for our classical music variety show at Gallery5 (200 W Marshall St) on the third Sunday of every month! Come out to see your favorite local musicians perform their passion projects.

Doors at 6:30 pm, music at 7 pm.

We’re looking forward to seeing you there!

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2023 Mozart Festival
Oct
7
9:00 AM09:00

2023 Mozart Festival

This year, we are keeping the Mozart Festival fresh and interesting by contextualizing Mozart and bringing cultural perspective to the music, the legacy, and the man himself. We are continuing our commitment to quality programming by featuring experts and musicians from the Richmond area, and expanding our lineup of events to reach even more audience members than ever before!

This free, day-long festival will run from 9 am to 9 pm in Church Hill on Saturday, October 7th.

Our exciting program for the day will include, among many exciting events, a discussion of Mozart’s treatment of African characters by Dr. Allison Smith, Black Opera Research Network; a yoga class featuring Mozart’s music; an interactive children’s event; and, of course, stellar performance by Richmond’s own One Voice Chorus and other members of the CRRVA community!

Join us following the day’s events at the Poe Museum for an after party with music by Gold Rush and others!

RSVP on Facebook here!

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Listen Local
Sep
24
7:00 PM19:00

Listen Local

Celebrate Richmond’s composers on Sunday, September 24th at Gallery5 (200 W Marshall St)!

We will be featuring pieces by four of the composers who applied to be the 2023-2024 CRRVA Featured Composer: Krystal Folkestad, Ned Haskins, John Winn, and Anthony Burnham.

This free event begins at 7 pm (doors at 6:30 pm) and will culminate in our announcement of the 2023-2024 Featured Composer!

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Classical Incarnations
Sep
17
7:00 PM19:00

Classical Incarnations

Join Classical Revolution RVA for our monthly classical variety show featuring your favorite local performers at Gallery5 (200 W Marshall St)!

Doors open at 6:30pm, music starts at 7:00pm!

This event is free and open to all ages! Donations encouraged.

We're looking forward to seeing you there!

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Classical Incarnations
Aug
20
7:00 PM19:00

Classical Incarnations

Join Classical Revolution RVA for our monthly classical variety show featuring your favorite local performers at Gallery5 (200 W Marshall St)!

Doors open at 6:30pm, music starts at 7:00pm!

This event is free and open to all ages! Donations encouraged.

We're looking forward to seeing you there!

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Classical Incarnations
Jul
16
7:00 PM19:00

Classical Incarnations

Join Classical Revolution RVA for our monthly classical variety show featuring your favorite local performers at Gallery5 (200 W Marshall St)!

Doors open at 6:30pm, music starts at 7:00pm!

This event is free and open to all ages! Donations encouraged.

We're looking forward to seeing you there!

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Classical Incarnations
Jun
18
7:00 PM19:00

Classical Incarnations

Join Classical Revolution RVA for our monthly classical variety show featuring your favorite local performers at Gallery5 (200 W Marshall St)!

Doors open at 6:30pm, music starts at 7:00pm!

This event is free and open to all ages! Donations encouraged.

We're looking forward to seeing you there!

RSVP on Facebook here.

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Classical Incarnations
May
21
7:00 PM19:00

Classical Incarnations

Join Classical Revolution RVA for our monthly classical variety show featuring your favorite local performers at Gallery5 (200 W Marshall St)!

Doors open at 6:30pm, music starts at 7:00pm!

This event is free and open to all ages! Donations encouraged.

We're looking forward to seeing you there!

RSVP on Facebook here.

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April Awareness: Music that Honors Our Planet
Apr
22
6:00 PM18:00

April Awareness: Music that Honors Our Planet

Classical Revolution RVA is partnering with Green Vibes Project for an Earth Day concert featuring music that honors our planet.

The Green Vibes Project is an environmentally friendly organization focused on commissioning new music that explores the environment of the Earth.

This April Awareness Concert will feature Rosette String Quartet, percussionist Chase Banks and Justin McConchie, and flutist, Anamarie Diaz.

Join us on Saturday, April 22 at 6:00pm at 1708 Gallery (319 W. Broad St.)

This event is FREE and open to all ages! Donations Encouraged.

We hope to see you there!

RSVP on Facebook here.

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Classical Incarnations
Apr
16
7:00 PM19:00

Classical Incarnations

Join Classical Revolution RVA for our monthly classical variety show featuring your favorite local performers at Gallery5 (200 W Marshall St)!

Doors open at 6:30pm, music starts at 7:00pm!

This event is free and open to all ages! Donations encouraged.

We're looking forward to seeing you there!

RSVP on Facebook here.

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The Fall of Richmond
Apr
2
7:00 PM19:00

The Fall of Richmond

Join Classical Revolution's 2022 Featured composer, Curt Sydnor, for the public premiere of the chamber symphony, The Fall of Richmond.

The Fall of Richmond evokes the turmoil and exultation which overtook Richmond on April 2-4,1865 as Confederate forces burned and abandoned the city. Composed in Richmond during the protests of 2020, the work is an ode to the US Colored Troops regiment which led the march into Richmond, to President Lincoln’s famous visit the following day, and to the concurrent liberation of Richmond’s enslaved population.

Gallery 5’s stage backdrop and historic walls will be illuminated with projections of Richmond’s ruins (as photographed by Matthew Brady and others) to create an immersive musical-historical environment. Conductor Naima Burrs will lead the nine-piece ensemble comprised of Richmond’s finest classical musicians, including members of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. The program will also include premiers of Sydnor’s Chaconne for violin, bass, and piano and a song setting for chamber ensemble featuring Laura Ann Singh.

For Virginia music lovers, this one-time event is not to be missed.

The event is FREE and open to all ages! Donations encouraged.

Doors open at 6:40, music starts at 7:00pm.

We hope to see you there!

RSVP on Facebook here.

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Classical Incarnations
Mar
19
7:00 PM19:00

Classical Incarnations

Join Classical Revolution RVA for our monthly classical variety show featuring your favorite local performers at Gallery5!

Doors open at 6:30pm, music starts at 7:00pm!

This event is free and open to all ages! Donations encouraged.

We're looking forward to seeing you there!

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Earthquake Relief Benefit Show
Mar
17
7:30 PM19:30

Earthquake Relief Benefit Show

100% of proceeds from the door from this special event will go directly to @ahbap (a Turkish NGO founded by musician and philanthropist Haluk Levent) and @sams_usa (the Syrian American Medical Society, a US-based humanitarian group). Both organizations are working directly on earthquake relief efforts. 

7:30 - 8:00 pm   Classical Revolution RVA

8:15 - 9:00 pm   Chris Whiteman Trio

9:15 - 10:00 pm Miramar

10:15 - 11 pm    Yeni Nostalji

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/earthquake-relief-benefit-show-with-miramar-trio-yeni-nostalji-and-more-tickets-576243207947

This beautiful poster was designed by Christina Marie. The pattern design on this poster was created by using Turkish kilim symbols that represent happiness, joy, love, family, and abundance, as a way to share our love and hope with all those who have been affected in both Turkey and Syria. The tulip is the National flower of Turkey, included in the pattern for solidarity.

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Classical Incarnations
Feb
19
7:00 PM19:00

Classical Incarnations

Join Classical Revolution RVA for our monthly classical variety show featuring your favorite local performers at Gallery5!

Doors open at 6:30pm, music starts at 7:00pm!

This event is free and open to all ages! Donations encouraged.

We're looking forward to seeing you there!

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Classical Incarnations
Jan
15
7:00 PM19:00

Classical Incarnations

Join Classical Revolution RVA for our monthly classical variety show featuring your favorite local performers at Gallery5!

Doors open at 6:30pm, music starts at 7:00pm!

This event is free and open to all ages! Donations encouraged.

We're looking forward to seeing you there!

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Classical Incarnations
Dec
18
7:00 PM19:00

Classical Incarnations

Join Classical Revolution RVA for our monthly classical variety show featuring your favorite local performers at Gallery5!

Doors open at 6:30pm, music starts at 7:00pm!

This event is free and open to all ages! Donations encouraged.

We're looking forward to seeing you there!

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Classical Incarnations
Nov
20
7:00 PM19:00

Classical Incarnations

Join Classical Revolution RVA for our monthly classical variety show featuring your favorite local performers at First Unitarian Universalist Church (1000 Blanton Avenue)! We will be celebrating CRRVA’s 10th birthday with a special performance of Beethoven’s third piano concerto by Dave Robbins!

Doors open at 6:30pm, music starts at 7:00pm!

This event is free and open to all ages! Donations encouraged.

We're looking forward to seeing you there!

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Mozart Festival
Oct
29
10:00 AM10:00

Mozart Festival

The Mozart Festival is back!! This Halloween season we are going to bring the music of Mozart back to life all over Church Hill! This is a day long free music festival where many of Richmond’s finest classical musicians will provide a beautiful soundtrack to this historic Richmond neighborhood. Do we have lots of live music? Yes. Do we have informative events put on by experts? Yes. Do we have a family fun filled afternoon? Yes, we do! Folks, we got it all! A full day of Mozart from 10am to 7pm in the lovely Church Hill neighborhood. Save the date, get hyped, and make a donation toward the festival here!

10 am: Yoga with Mozart

Location: Align (2509 East Broad Street)

Music by Rosette String Quartet

10 am to 11:45 am: Wolfie Time

Location: Chimborazo Elementary School (3000 E Marshall St)

10 am - 10:45 am - Instrument Petting Zoo, Crafts, Wolfie Selfies

10:45 - 11:10 - Story Time by Anne Regan

11:15 - 11:40 - Student Recital

11:45 am: TJVikings Marching Band

Location: Chimborazo Elementary School (3000 E Marshall St) to Pritchard Brothers Inc. (2720 E Marshall St, Richmond, VA 23223)

12 pm: The Hills Are Alive With The Sound of Mozart

Location: Bellevue Elementary School's Harvest Festival (2301 E Grace St)

Music by Sweet Potatoes Music

1:30 pm: Austrian Wine Tasting

Location: Second Bottle Wine (324 N 27th St)

Music by Ninja Strings

2:30 pm: Caffeine, Conniving and Cosi

Location: Riverbend Roastery (2623 E Broad St)

A cast will perform a scene from Mozart's opera Cosi Fan Tutte

3:00 pm: Mozart 101: Mozart’s Starling

Location: Sub Rosa Bakery (620 N 25th St)

Hosts: Timshel Purdum (Virginia C. Ellett Director of Education, Science Museum of Virginia) and Joshua Borths (Virginia Opera Resident Scholar & Development Assistant)

4 pm: Happy Hour with RVA Ensembles

Location: Historic Graveyard at St. John's Church (2401 E Broad St)

Rain Location: Parish Hall

Wine, beer, and food by Brekkie will be available

5:30 pm: Costume Contest

Location: Historic Graveyard at St. John's Church (2401 E Broad St)

Host: Harry Kollatz, Jr.

Prizes: Grand Prize ($100); Most Creative (Reserved table and a bottle of wine at December 20, 2022 Classical Incarnations at Gallery5); Most Musical (Two tickets to performance at Shockoe Sessions Live at In Your Ear Studio on November 15, 2022)

6 pm: Concertos

Location: Historic St. John's Church (2401 E Broad St)

Conductor: Naima Burrs

Presenting Sponsor: RiverFront Investment Group

Festival Sponsors: Linchpin Real Estate and Monument Family Dentistry

Community Sponsors: Greater Richmond School of Music, Four Strings, Fanfare Studio, and The Great Big Everything

Sponsors: Trapezium Brewing Company and Virginia Opera

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Classical Incarnations
Oct
16
7:00 PM19:00

Classical Incarnations

Join Classical Revolution RVA for our monthly classical variety show featuring your favorite local performers at Gallery5!

Doors open at 6:30pm, music starts at 7:00pm!

This event is free and open to all ages! Donations encouraged.

We're looking forward to seeing you there!

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Classical Incarnations
Sep
18
7:00 PM19:00

Classical Incarnations

Join Classical Revolution RVA for our monthly classical variety show featuring your favorite local performers at Gallery5!

Doors open at 6:30pm, music starts at 7:00pm!

This event is free and open to all ages! Donations encouraged.

We're looking forward to seeing you there!

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Classical Incarnations
Aug
21
7:00 PM19:00

Classical Incarnations

Join Classical Revolution RVA for our monthly classical variety show featuring your favorite local performers at Gallery5, starting at 7:00pm! Doors open at 6:30 pm. This event is free, but donations are welcome!

This event features a special performance for audience members 18 and up!

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Classical Incarnations
Jul
17
7:00 PM19:00

Classical Incarnations

Join Classical Revolution RVA for our monthly classical variety show featuring your favorite local performers at Gallery5, starting at 7:00pm! Doors open at 6:30 pm. This event is free, but donations are welcome!

This project was supported in part by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

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Classical Caturday
Jul
2
3:00 PM15:00

Classical Caturday

Classical, kittens, cookies... and coffee... how did we end up here?

1. We know an amazing local cat rescue- Richardson's Rescue, and they have lots of kittens slightly too young for adoption but who need some socializing and human hands to get ready to one day be adopted.

2. July 2nd weekend is Gallery 5's fundraising weekend for the summer!
So we thought we would cram as much amazing music as we could into the weekend, and who else to play to kittens than... Classical Revolutions whose mission is great: bringing classical music to EVERYONE. We asked them if they were up for kittens, and here we are!

3. Iced coffee from worker-owned roastery Afterglow is a must, because this is a daytime event. We will have a bakesale to benefit Gallery 5, with snacks for everyone.

Event is on Saturday, July 2nd from 3pm to 7pm at Gallery 5. Music from 5 pm to 6 pm. Free, all-ages, fully accesible, and fun!

If you'd like to donate to Gallery 5 to encourage more free events involving animal rescue happen in the future, click here to make a donation!

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Classical Incarnations
Jun
19
7:00 PM19:00

Classical Incarnations

Join Classical Revolution RVA for our monthly classical variety show featuring your favorite local performers at Gallery5, starting at 7:00pm! Doors open at 6:30 pm. This event is free, but donations are welcome!

This event features a special performance for audience members 18 and up!

This project was supported in part by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

RSVP on Facebook here.


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