Parsons Playlists: RVA All Day

Welcome back to Parsons Playlists! Today’s playlist is curated by Music Library associate Melanie and features some music by artists in (and from) Richmond, Virginia (aka RVA).

RVA All Day

An utterly non-comprehensive utterly Richmond-y sort of playlist. Featuring music old and new in MANY genres.

Photo of Richmond, Virginia with James River in foreground

No BS! Brass – “RVA All Day”

Prabir Trio – “Light Up in the Name of Love”

Lucy Dacus – “Brando”

Carbon Leaf – “For Your Violin”

Angelica Garcia – “Karma the Knife”

McKinley Dixon – “Twist My Hair” (feat. Deau Eyes)

Mad Skillz – “VA. in the House”

Strike Anywhere – “I’m Your Opposite Number”

Avail – “Simple Song”

GWAR – “Sick of You”

A New Dawn Fades – “No Experts on Big Things”

Rikki Rakki – “Breaking Skin”

Fighting Gravity – “Mission Bells”

Mighty Joshua – “Rastafari Reign”

Deau Eyes – “Some Do”

Bio Ritmo – “La Verdad”

J. Plunky Branch – “A Revolutionary”

Strawberry Moon – “Down in the Dirt”

Mackenzie Roark – “Rollin’ High, Feelin’ Low”

Butcher Brown – “Lawd Why”

Kenneka Cook – “Don’t Ask Me”

Butcher Brown – “VA Noir”

Here is the whole playlist on YouTube:

And here it is on Spotify:

New CDs added: Fall 2021

New CDs for Fall 2021

Orchestral, Concertos and Chamber Music

Frederic Chopin – Complete Noctures – Jan Lisiecki
Michael Colgrass – Letter from Mozart ; Side by side ; The Schubert Birds

Chopin Nocturnes

Nikolai Medtner – The Complete Piano Sonatas; Forgotten Melodies I, II – Marc-Andre Hamelin
Smyth, Beach and Spain-Dunk – Smyth, Beach and Spain-Dunk: Archaeus String Quartet

Michael Colgrass - Side By Side

Jazz

Kurt Elling – Secrets Are the Best Stories
James Brandon Lewis & Red Lily Quintet – Jesup Wagon
Leyla McCalla – The Capitalist Blues

Mwenso and the Shakes - Emergence

Mwenso and the Shakes – Emergence (The Process of Coming into Being)
Jaco Pastorius – Truth, Liberty, & Soul: Live in NYC: The Complete 1982 NPR Jazz Alive! recording

Jaco Pastorius - Truth, Liberty & Soul

Opera, Opera Excerpts, Choral Music and Art Songs

Aurora Surgit – Ego sum Resurrectio: Gregorian Chant for the Dead
Daron Hagen – Orson Rehearsed: An Operafilm
Franz Liszt – Freudvoll und Leidvoll – Jonas Kaufmann & Helmut Deutsch

Orson Rehearsed

Popular Music

McKinley Dixon – For My Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her
Sarah Jarosz – World on the Ground

McKinley Dixon - For My Mama ...

Leyla McCalla – Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes
Jim Kimo West – More Guitar Stories
Matthew E. White & Lonnie Holley – Broken Mirror A Selfie Reflection

Sarah Jarosz - World on the Ground

World & Folk Music

Gamelan Cudamani – Odalan Bali
Leyla McCalla – A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey
Leyla McCalla – Recorded Live at the 2016 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Leyla McCalla - A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey

Leyla McCalla – Recorded Live at the 2017 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Leyla McCalla – Recorded Live at the 2018 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Various artists – African Tribal Music and Dances: Featuring Music of the Malinke, Baoule and Others

Gamelan Cudamani