So I’m going to attempt to end this jerk of a year with five wrap-up posts in five days. Fingers crossed this works. I tend to overwrite these things until they become albatross-y, so I’ll try to keep things snappy, starting with a quick list of links to music writing I did in 2016. Add in weekly contributions to the Off Your Radar newsletter and an August appearance on Sound Gaze and I can definitively say that this is the most blabbing about music I’ve done in a year.
Many thanks — seriously, too many to mention here — to the people I interviewed and the people who made what I wrote sound better and look prettier. Y’all know who you are, and I hope you also know how awesome and appreciated you are. Lots of fun stuff in the works for 2017. Until then…
Featured Off Your Radar weeks:
- #3 — Golden Rules for Golden People by Pretty & Nice
- #29 — Magazine by Jump, Little Children
- #38 — I Love You, Go Easy by Devon Sproule
For Boomer Magazine:
- Jun/Jul — Five Days, One Community at FloydFest 16
For Richmond Navigator online
For River City Magazine
- Jan/Feb — Backstage with Clair Morgan
- Mar/Apr — Bluegrass and Beyond: The Hot Seats and Virginia’s Old-Time Tradition
- May/Jun — A Toast to Outdoor Music: Friday Cheers and Richmond’s Open-air Venues
- Jul/Aug — Paying Tribute: Kelli Strawbridge and Richmond’s Salute to James Brown
- Sept/Oct — A Lasting Impact: Perpetual Groove and the Green Music Scene
- Nov/Dec — Richmond’s Perpetual Motion Machine: Looking Back with Carbon Leaf
For RVA Magazine
For West End’s Best
- Mar/Apr — On the Crooked Road Connecting Country Music History in Southwest Virginia
- Nov/Dec — The West End: Alive with the Sounds of Music
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