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| | John Bullard
April 25, 2026 – 7:30 PM
John Bullard has toured and performed throughout the United States. He has produced three album-length recordings; the most recent, with works by Romantic and Baroque composers, was recorded at the Toronto studios of Canterbury Music, with accompaniment from more than a dozen musicians and an eight-person choir. His recordings have been featured in films including the Dreamworks movie Rise of the Guardians and the award-winning Turkish-German drama The Edge of Heaven. He is the author of Bach for Banjo and Scales and Arpeggios for Classical Banjo, and he has taught classical banjo at workshops and as a faculty member of Cairn University.
Over the course of his performing and recording career, John Bullard has invited audiences to share in a transformative revelation: to experience the artistic marriage of banjo and classical music. “Absolutely enchanting,” writes critic Graham Rickson of the UK-based The Arts Desk. “A musical education and experience that broke genre barriers,” noted Morgan Morrison, program director for the performance space The Barns of Rose Hill.
With qualities evocative of harpsichord and lute, the banjo makes a natural place for itself in particular within the works of Bach and other composers of the Baroque—and Bullard has established a strong repertoire in the music of that period. Yet he continues as well to expand the banjo’s classical reach, with a growing focus on new commissioned work. | Buy tickets |
| | Stephanie Nakasian - Hippie Hoopla Trio
May 2, 2026 – 7:30 PM
Stephanie Nakasian is an exciting, well-seasoned vocalist and master of innovative jazz improvisation, completely authentic with a fresh and vibrant sound all her own. Bringing high energy to every performance, Stephanie enthralls listeners with her pure tones and a flawless delivery, engaging them on a personal level with a love for the music that is playful, electric and spontaneous in story and song.
Stephanie’s original concert revues and composer and singer tributes have been favorites with concert audiences, schools and universities. Her “Great Ladies” revue tracing the development of jazz singing has also been offered as an academic course at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia and at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, where Stephanie is currently on faculty as a vocal instructor and coaches students on jazz phrasing, listening, improvisation and repertoire preparation for performance. She has directed and coached numerous vocal jazz ensembles and is a regular workshop presenter at schools and conferences each year. | Buy tickets |
| | Clayton Fletcher
May 30, 2026 – 7:30 PM
Opening - Tony Villa
Fresh off a leg of shows with Jim Jefferies, Clayton Fletcher is an international headliner based in New York City, with a new special, Middle Child Syndrome (Comedy Dynamics), and book, The ROI of LOL (HarperCollins), which debuted at #1.
Clayton has also been featured on Amazon Prime, Hulu, AXS TV, MSNBC, Fox News Saturday Night, ESPN, and Comcast. He was named ‘Best of the Fest’ at the Stockholm Comedy Festival and can be heard daily on Sirius/XM’s Laugh USA, Blue Collar Comedy, and Jamie Foxx’s Foxxhole stations. | Buy tickets |
| | Larney Starkey &
The Spiritual Seven
June 13, 2026 – 7:30 PM
We are a family group from Virginia that have been singing for 53 years. We are proud to represent and be apart of Virginia’s history as a family group started and presently residing in the state.
We are a part of the Virginia Commission For The Arts. We are known by many as the “Gospel Temptations”
We are happy to release our new Release “Hymn Time with Larnell Starkey & The Spiritual Seven. We took a few of our favorite hymns and put our twist on them. | Buy tickets |
| | Clay Mottley - “James & Joel”
August 15 – 7:30 PM
JT and Billy Joel were mainstays on radio as I grew up. From piano lessons as a kid before switching to guitar, Taylor and Joel wrote so many songs that you felt like you HAD to learn to play if you wanted to be considered a real musician! In fact, “Sweet Baby James” was the first song I taught myself to play on guitar.
But unlike many hit makers, these two prolific songwriters kept getting better with age. Not only were they prolific, their later songs are just as amazing as their early work, making the stories behind these songs all the better.
With “James & Joel,” I take the audience through the stories behind their biggest hits (as well as my favorite deep cuts) from the artists’ own words, and present my take on the timeless classics. | Buy tickets |