John Morrison on D’Angelo’s ‘Voodoo’ on World Cafe
D’Angelo helped usher in the neo-soul movement, updating the sounds of 70s R&B for the hip-hop generation, with his debut in 1995. Five years later, he put out Voodoo – an album that musicians like Janelle Monáe and Frank Ocean still draw on today. On the next World Cafe, correspondent John Morrison talks about D’Angelo’s lasting influence as Voodoo turns twenty-five years old.
Encore: The Weather Station on World Cafe
The Weather Station is the musical moniker of Canadian artist Tamara Lindeman. On the next World Cafe, you’ll hear a beautiful performance from The Weather Station and Tamara tells stories about how a toy keyboard, birds and a massive report on climate change inspired her 2021 album, Ignorance. Her new album, Humanhood, comes out at the end of this week.
Hear Together: Three Notch’d Road: The Virginia Baroque Ensemble Valentine’s Program
Three Notch’d Road: The Virginia Baroque Ensemble is a nonprofit based in Charlottesville that seeks to enrich the culture of Central Virginia through historically informed performances that reveal the beauty of early music.
They are presenting the third program of their fourteenth season in Staunton, Crozet, and Charlottesville public concerts on Friday, February 14th; Saturday, February 15th; and Sunday, February 16th. This Valentine’s program, entitled “If Music Be the Food of Love,” will celebrate love in its many forms through a blending of Italian pastoral drama with songs from the British Isles. This program will feature soprano Sheila Dietrich and historical clarinetist Dominic Giardino and include vocal and instrumental chamber music by Vivaldi and Handel and the songs of Henry Purcell.
Hear Together: SCAN “Grace and Glorie” Play
The weekend of January 24th-26th, they’re presenting ‘Grace and Glorie,’ a sentimental comedy by Virginia playwright Tom Ziegler at Victory Hall Theater in Scottsville.
Featuring a cantankerous elderly woman from rural Virginia and her sophisticated hospice worker from NYC, this play tells the story of the ultimate odd couple facing life and death together.
Proceeds support theater performances, programs, arts and nature classes as well as general operations.
Hear Together: BRIMS TRAD: Portraits of Irish & Scottish Traditional Musicians
As part of its 25th Anniversary celebration, Blue Ridge Irish Music School (BRIMS) in Charlottesville is presenting the exhibit TRAD: Portraits of Irish & Scottish Traditional Musicians by photographer Chris Bickford at Piedmont Virginia Community College.
The opening will take place on Friday, January 31st, from 5:00-7:00 p.m. in the Dickinson Theater at PVCC and will feature a live Irish music performance.
The exhibit runs through March 29th.
NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Contest
NPR Music is looking for the next great undiscovered musician to play the Tiny Desk. Could it be you? Submit your song to the 10th annual Tiny Desk Contest by Feb. 10 at npr.org/tinydeskcontest
