What’s Booming RVA: New Spirits Museum and Corny Musical
Boomer’s top 5 picks for the week ahead
Legendary musician, corny new musical, moving dance performance, Shalom Farm festival, and a presentation from the new virtual Virginia Spirits Museum. “What’s Booming RVA: New Spirits Museum and More.”
Jim Messina
Oct. 24, 8 to 10 p.m., at The Tin Pan, Richmond
The musician’s legacy of musical genius spans five decades, three super groups, a vibrant solo career, and scores of producing and engineering credits. Think Buffalo Springfield, Poco, and Loggins & Messina.
Step Afrika!
Oct. 26, pre-show artist talk at 6:30 p.m., performance at 7:30 p.m., at Carpenter Center, Dominion Energy Center, Richmond
The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence. The story of African American migrants moving from the rural South to the industrial North to escape Jim Crow, racial oppression, and lynchings in the early 1900s. Inspired by Lawrence’s 60-panel painting, “The Migration Series” (1940-41), the dance uses the images, color palette, and motifs in the series to tell the story through rhythms and movement.
‘Shucked’
Oct. 29 to Nov. 3 at Altria Theatre, Richmond
Broadway in Richmond presents the Tony Award®–winning musical comedy. Featuring a book by Tony Award winner Robert Horn (“Tootsie”), a score by the Grammy Award–winning songwriting team of Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally (Kacey Musgraves’ “Follow Your Arrow”), and directed by Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien (“Hairspray”), this corn-fed, corn-bred American musical is sure to satisfy your appetite for great musical theater.
Shalom Farms Harvest Festival
Oct. 30, 4 to 7 p.m., at Northside Farm, Richmond
Shalom Farms opens its urban farm for family-style meal, fire pits and s’mores, live music, farm tours, hot cocoa and cider, cash bar, raffle, and more.
Spirits Museum: “James River Ghosts” Virtual Lecture
Oct. 30, 5:45 to 6:30, online
The Williamsburg-based SPIRITS Museum dives into the museum’s current virtual exhibition, “America’s First Distillers and The James River.” Learn how archaeology has given insight into colonial life along the James, including lives lost in creating the riverside settlements where America’s first distillers practiced.
Check websites for more details, including prices and registration requirements.
More of What’s Booming in Richmond besides …
Food and more fun to fill your plate
Boomer’s featured flavor of the week:
Follow the Richmond Mimosa Trail
And more to throw on your calendar:
- MORE EVENTS from October 24 to 31, plus announcements and road trips – COMING SOON
- Lots of future Richmond happenings
PHOTO CAPTION OF FEATURE IMAGE, TOP: Ashley D. Kelley and Grey Henson in the Original Broadway Cast of ‘SHUCKED’ – by Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman.
