Can’t wait to play with old friends, who it has been way too long to make music with, for this special night at Rhizome DC. Awesome triple bill, come on down!
7:00pm Simone Baron Trio
8:00pm Aaron Irwin Trio
9:00pm Dave Ballou For-tet
Dave Ballou - trumpet, compositions
John Dierker - reeds
Adam Hopkins - bass
Mike Kuhl - drums
Very excited to be guested on a few songs with Laura Ann Singh and the Rosette String Quartet. Laura Ann commissioned a bunch of great arrangements of a bunch of great songs for this project. Opening set at 8:00pm, and we play at 8:45pm.
Laura Ann Singh - voice
Ellen Cockerham Riccio - violin
Treesa Gold - violin
Kimberly Ryan - viola
Steph Barrett - cello
Marlysse Simmons - keyboard
Adam Hopkins - bass
Richmond is very lucky to have the incredible flutist Nicole Mitchell close by, and playing concerts in town. We are so excited to present her at The Basement with a first-time quartet. Advance tickets recommended, and can be purchased via THIS LINK. Doors at 7pm, music at 8pm, $20.
Nicole Mitchell - flute
Noah Campbell - saxophone
Adam Hopkins - bass
Scott Clark - drums
Super awesome new band led by Laura Ann Singh premieres at OOYH Records @ Artspace Second Mondays. Marlysse Simmons plays the first set solo, can’t miss! Doors at 7:30pm, $10 cover.
Laura Ann Singh - vocals, compositions
John Lilley - saxophone
Bob Miller - trumpet
Adam Hopkins - bass
Scott Clark - drums
Details from the Kennedy Center
Tomeka Reid - cello, compositions
Laura Ann Singh - voice
Saîs Kamalidiin - flute
Brian Settles - saxophone
Taylor Ho Bynum - cornet
Kalia Vandever - trombone
Stephanie Griffin - viola
Adam Hopkins - bass
Mikel Patrick Avery - drums
Hailed as a "New Jazz Power Source," (The New York Times) Chicago-based cellist and composer Tomeka Reid has emerged as one of the most original and versatile musicians in the international jazz and improvised music community over the last decade.
In her most ambitious project to date, and her first since being announced as a 2022 MacArthur Fellow, she will debut the Tomeka Reid Stringtet—a 16-member improvising chamber orchestra that brings together the musical communities of New York City, Chicago and beyond. The ensemble will be conducted by Taylor Ho Bynum, Director of the Coast Jazz Orchestra at Dartmouth.
Details + Tickets: hop.dartmouth.edu/events/tomeka-reid-0
Super pumped to have School Work playing the Gallery 5 fourth Friday jazz series for the first time. We’ll be doing two sets, the first featuring avant garde jazz repertoire featuring vocals, and the second set instrumentals. This is one of the best rooms in Richmond to play, can’t wait to present this music!
School Work is:
Adam Hopkins - bass, arrangements
Laura Ann Singh - vocals
JC Kuhl - reeds
John Lilley - alto saxophone
Bob Miller - trumpet
Scott Clark - drums
Scott Clark’s new Landscape Quartet opening for the legend Tim Berne, and his trio with Tom Rainey and Gregg Belisle-Chi. Doors at 7pm, music starts at 8pm. Advance tickets recommended.
Scott Clark - drums, compositions
Laura Ann Singh - voice
Bob Miller - trumpet
Adam Hopkins - bass
First concert for this new lineup playing the music of Phil Murphy. Amazing songs, and I’m excited to be a part of it! Space is limited at Artspace and this will sell out, so be sure to grab an advance ticket if you’d like to be there.
amminal // Ward Harrison @ Artspace
Saturday March 9 2024
2833-A Hathaway Rd, Richmond, VA 23225
Doors at 7:00pm, Music at 8:00pm
$10 door (max capacity is 40, advance tickets strongly encouraged)
Beer + Wine available for purchase
amminal is a new group featuring Pippin Barnett on drums, Adam Hopkins on bass, Stephen Williams on guitar and vocals, Bryan Hoffa on guitar, synth, banjo and vocals, and Phil Murphy on guitar and vocals. Phil has been writing songs for the last couple of years that draw from fingerstyle and British folk (Fahey, Fairport Convention, Pentangle), as well as the pop and jazz music he grew up with. In the last fifteen years Phil immersed himself in the musics of the Middle East and North Africa, lived in the Moroccan city of Fez and studied Moroccan Sufi song and poetry. All of these influences combine and intertwine with the sounds produced by the other four amazing musicians in this new lineup to create a sound that one non-existent reviewer described as 'Yacht-Gaze."
Premiere of a new large ensemble by the incredible cellist Tomeka Reid. More soon!
Details + Tickets: walkerart.org
“A New Jazz Power Source . . . a melodic improviser with a natural, flowing sense of song and an experimenter who can create heat and grit with the texture of sound.” —New York Times
Chicago-based cellist, composer, and MacArthur “Genius” Tomeka Reid has emerged as one of today’s most original and versatile musicians in the international jazz and improvised music scene. The Walker presents Reid’s most ambitious project to date—her full Stringtet, a 16-member improvising chamber orchestra that features stellar jazz and classical players such as Mazz Swift, Jason Kao Hwang, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Sylvia Bolognesi, and Tomas Fujiwara, among others, conducted by Taylor Ho Bynum.
Presented in partnership with Liquid Music.
Details coming soon! This is part of the Gallery 5 Fourth Friday jazz series, and doing these with Roger is always a blast. Two sets starting at 7pm, details via the link:
Scott has a new lineup for his latest music, and it is great. Excited to play it live for the first time in a great listening room like Sefton.
ScottClark Quartet:
Scott Clark - drums, compositions
Laura Ann Singh - vocals
Bob Miller - trumpet
Adam Hopkins - bass
HobbyHorse is going to record some music later in February, so we’re taking a set of new compositions for a spin around the block at Artspace before then. Come hang, it’ll be fun! This is part of Out Of Your Head Records Second Mondays @ Artspace. Currently the first set at 8pm is TBA, but it’ll be awesome.
8:00pm TBA
9:00pm Adam Hopkins’ HobbyHorse:
Adam Hopkins - bass, compositions
Bob Miller - trumpet
Scott Clark - drums
Trying out a cool new place in Richmond hosting music, The Basement, with my band School Work. We’ll be playing compositions by the avant-jazz greats of the 60s and beyond, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Andrew Hill, Charles Mingus, and more! We have some new ones to add to the repertoire, so this should be fun. Come support a new spot hosting music so more can happen!
School Work:
JC Kuhl - saxophone
John Lilley - saxophone
Bob Miller - trumpet
Adam Hopkins - bass, arrangements
Scott Clark - drums
This is the album release concert for Curt’s forthcoming Air Ride Equipped, and features a great lineup with Peni Candra Rini, and Au Fromage. Gallery 5 is awesome, come hang and listen!
Curt Sydnor and the Trembling Hand:
Curt Sydnor- keyboards, vocals, compositions
Laura Ann Singh- vocals
JC Kuhl- bass clarinet
Adam Hopkins- bass
Scott Clark- drums
Tickets and additional info HERE.
Out Of Your Head Records turns five years old this Fall, so we're having a special version of Second Mondays at Artspace in November (11/13) to celebrate. We're doing three sets for this one, and we'll make it a party. It is also a release concert for our next edition of OOYH Untamed, which is an album featuring Peni Candra Rini, Adam Hopkins, Scott Clark, and Andy McGraw. Included with the price of admission is a download card for that new album. We'll also have Scott Clark - This Darkness CDs + LPs for sale, and it'll be the first time we have the repress of Adam Hopkins' Crickets on LP. The version of Crickets performing at the concert will be playing some material from the 2018 album, as well as some new music. We hope to see you there! Details:
OOYH Records 5th Anniversary Concert @ Artspace Richmond
Monday November 13, 2023
2833-A Hathaway Rd, Richmond, VA 23225
Doors at 7:30pm, Music at 8:00pm
$20 suggested donation (admission includes download card of new album)
Beer + Wine available for purchase
Novmeber 13 Lineup (order of bands TBA soon):
Candra Rini/Hopkins/Clark/McGraw:
Peni Candra Rini - vocals
Adam Hopkins - bass
Scott Clark - drums
Andy McGraw - percussion
Scott Clark's Dawn & Dusk:
Scott Clark - drums, compositions
Laura Ann Singh - vocals
JC Kuhl - reeds
Bob Miller - trumpet
Michael McNeill - piano
Adam Hopkins - bass
Adam Hopkins' Crickets SOUTH:
Adam Hopkins - bass, compositions
JC Kuhl - tenor saxophone
John Lilley - tenor saxophone
Bob Miller - trumpet
Reggie Pace - trombone
Trey Pollard - guitar
Scott Clark - drums
Details coming soon! We’re so excited to be bringing Nicole Mitchell to Richmond to perform in a trio with myself, and Scott Clark. The time will be 6-7pm at University of Richmond.
Nicole Mitchell - flute
Adam Hopkins - bass
Scott Clark - drums
Rare VA Beach performance of Curt Sydnor & The Trembling Hand, opening for the very incredible Deerhoof! Details available via the ticket link.
Curt Sydnor & The Trembling Hand are:
Curt Sydnor - keyboards, compositions
Laura Ann Singh - vocals
JC Kuhl - reeds
Adam Hopkins - bass
Scott Clark - drums
OOYH Records Second Mondays @ Artspace continues! This month features:
8:00pm Tear Ducts
9:00pm Curt Sydnor & The Trembling Hand
Curt Sydnor - keyboards, compositions
Laura Ann Singh - vocals
JC Kuhl - bass clarinet
Adam Hopkins - bass
Scott Clark - drums
We’ll be celebrating the release of Scott’s very special new album Dawn & Dusk on LP + CD at Artspace with the full band, and an opening set by Brian Jones standards group. For those not in Richmond this will be live streamed on Instagram @outofyourheadrecords. Doors at 7:30pm, music starts at 8:00pm. Link to listen and buy the album:
https://scottwclark.bandcamp.com/album/dawn-dusk
Dawn & Dusk is:
Scott Clark - drums/compositions/lyrics
Laura Ann Singh - voice/lyrics
JC Kuhl - reeds
Bob Miller - trumpet
Michael McNeill - piano
Adam Hopkins - bass
Excited to hear Curt’s new work, and also join him and Laura Ann Singh on a few of his great songs that we’ve recorded together. This is a free event, don’t miss!
On Sunday, April 2 Classical Revolution will premier The Fall of Richmond, a new chamber symphony by composer Curt Sydnor which 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 great saxophonist Tony Malaby will be in Richmond as the guest artist at VCU next week. We are going to do a trio show just before that at Minimum Wage. Advance tickets required, link below!
Tony Malaby - reeds
Adam Hopkins - bass
Scott Clark - drums
The first OOYH Records @ Artspace: Second Mondays was awesome in February, so we are going to keep this going monthly. The concert on Monday March 13 is in conjunction with the gallery show 'Jazz' so we're going to play some jazz! We're very excited to be presenting sets by the incredible Richmond bassist and bandleader Michael Hawkins with his band The Brotherhood, as well as Adam Hopkins' School Work. Info below, and please come support so we can keep this series alive!
Doors at 7:30pm, Music at 8:00pm
$15 suggested donation
Beer + Wine available for purchase
8:00pm: Michael Hawkins and the Brotherhood
Lineup TBA
9:00pm: School Work
Laura Ann Singh - voice
John Lilley - alto saxophone
JC Kuhl - tenor saxophone/bass clarinet
Bob Miller - trumpet
Adam Hopkins - bass
Scott Clark - drums
8:00pm Scott Clark presents This Darkness
Scott Clark - drums, percussion, harmonica
https://scottwclark.bandcamp.com/album/this-darkness
***this is the two-year anniversary of Scott's incredible solo drum LP This Darkness. Scott will be performing the full piece and LPs will be available for sale***
9:00pm Adam Hopkins’ HobbyHorse (NEW MUSIC)
Bob Miller - trumpet
Adam Hopkins - bass, compositions
Scott Clark - drums
Adam Hopkins and Scott Clark of Out Of Your Head Records, in conjunction with Artspace Richmond present a music series focused on (but not limited to!) jazz and creative music every SECOND MONDAY. We'll be trying this out for the first time on Monday January 9, 2023.
There are not a lot of venues presenting jazz and creative music in Richmond at the moment, and we are hoping this series offers an opportunity for musicians to try out new ideas in a low key and laid-back environment. We're very much hoping for this to be a regularly monthly thing, so please come check it out so we can get some momentum behind it! Scott and Adam will each present music for the first week, and future months will feature some of Richmond's finest. Check back for updated schedule as we get this rolling.
Doors at 7:30pm, Music at 8:00pm
$10 suggested donation
Beer + Wine available for purchase
I’m very excited to have been invited to present an expanded version of School Work for this years Mingus Awareness Project, on a bill with Michael Hawkins and the Brotherhood, and the Doug Richards Orchestra. We have some good fun rep planned for this one! We’ll play first right at 7:30pm. For this event, School Work will be:
Laura Ann Singh - vocals
John Lilley - reeds
JC Kuhl - reeds
Bob Miller - trumpet
Reggie Pace - trombone
Michael McNeill - piano
Adam Hopkins - bass
Scott Clark - drums
Info is available at the Firehouse Theatre website: Mingus Awareness Project
My good friend Josh Sinton will be in Richmond presenting a set of solo baritone saxophone music at Artspace. Scott Clark and I will join him to play as a trio for set two. Hope you can make it!
Josh Sinton - baritone saxophone/compositions
Adam Hopkins - bass
Scott Clark - drums
7:30pm doors // 8:00pm music // $10 suggested donation
Webber/Morris Big Band hasn’t been back to perform at Roulette since recording their debut Both Are True. Very excited to be returning to one of my favorite venues with one of my favorite bands. Full lineup below, and link for tickets and more details right here: Webber/Morris Big Band Pulse @ Roulette
Angela Morris: conductor, tenor saxophone, flute
Anna Webber: conductor, tenor saxophone, flute
Jay Rattman: alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
Caroline Davis: alto saxophone, clarinet
Adam Schneit: tenor saxophone, clarinet
Lisa Parrott: baritone saxophone, bass clarinet
John Lake: trumpet
Jake Henry: trumpet
Adam O’Farrill: trumpet
Kenny Warren: trumpet
Tim Vaughn: trombone
Kalia Vandever: trombone
Jen Baker: trombone
Jennifer Wharton: bass trombone
Patricia Brennan: vibraphone
Dustin Carlson: guitar
Marta Sanchez: piano
Adam Hopkins: bass
Jeff Davis: drums
Some Sunday afternoon music with some of my favorites to play with in Richmond. We’ll be playing a whole bunch of different stuff, come hang!
Bob Miller - trumpet
Michael McNeill - keyboard
Adam Hopkins - bass
Scott Clark - drums
Playing a super fun show in Queens with some of my best friends! CraigOne had the idea to play a bunch of Joe Jackson songs with our longtime band JFMB. It’s been a few years since we’ve played in public, and this should be a blast! Also playing are Double Deuce and Preston Spurlock.
January February Marching Band is:
CraigOne - vocals
TJ Huff - guitar/vocals
Adam Hopkins - bass
Kevin Murray - drums
Super excited to perform with a version of the Scott Clark Quartet for jazz night at Gallery 5! Laura Ann is out of town, so this isn’t exactly Dawn & Dusk (how could it be without her!?) but it should still be a great night of music. Come listen!?
Scott Clark - drums, compositions
JC Kuhl - reeds
Bob Miller - trumpet
Michael McNeill - piano
Adam Hopkins - bass
