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Axios
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Pride, music and art pack Richmond's weekend
The weekend is almost here. Check out what's happening in town. Thursday 🤘 Innsbrook After Hours is back, baby — only now as After Hours Innsbrook with a Tribute Thursdays series. This week, it's Face 2 Face, a tribute to Elton John and Billy Joel. 6pm. Tickets start at $27.60. Friday 🪩 Common House is throwing a Pride Prom in celebration of Pride Month. 8-11pm. Free for members, $20 for nonmembers. 🖼️ It's the First Friday in June, so walk on over to the Arts District for First Fridays Art Walk. 5-11pm. Free. 🏰 Take The Valentine's History of Scott's Addition Walking Tour, which apparently has "perhaps Richmond's best selection of Art Deco and Moderne commercial architecture." 3-4:30pm. $20 for nonmembers. Saturday 📚 There's a Pride Book Fair over at Shelf Life Books in Carytown. 6-8pm and again on Sunday, 5-7pm. Free. ⚱️ RVA Clay Tour has some self-guided tours of local studios and their work. 10am-5pm, and Sunday, noon-4pm. Free. 💅 Richmond Makers Market is popping off at Basic City Beer Co. in Manchester with a all local queer makers and vendors, plus a drag show and "Queereoke." Noon-6pm. Free. 🎨 Family Day at VMFA celebrates Art of Africa: Mali with performances and entertainment, plus art activities for kids. 11am-3pm. Free. 🎸 Rocker Rick Springfield takes the stage at Allianz Amphitheater at Riverfront for what's now the new grand opening concert. 7pm. Tickets start at $30.
Axios
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Richmond summer concerts go big
After three years of effort, Richmond's highly anticipated Allianz Amphitheater at Riverfront finally opens to the public next week. Why it matters: Allianz's arrival solidifies what's shaping up to be Richmond's hottest summer concert season in recent memory. The big picture: If you haven't been paying attention, Richmond's summer concert scene — which was already pretty stellar — has been steadily getting even better in recent years. Since 2021, Richmond has landed Iron Blossom and Live Loud, the not-Friday Cheers Brown's Island concert series from the Broadberry Entertainment Group. Meanwhile, After Hours, the series formerly known as Innsbrook After Hours, moved to a bigger space at Meadow Event Park in Doswell and Groovin' in the Garden at Lewis Ginter returned after a decade-long hiatus. Those series joined long-running favorites like Friday Cheers, Richmond Jazz Festival, Flowers After 5, Music at Maymont and at least a dozen other hyper-local summertime shows. But the biggest and most exciting new outdoor music venue for Richmond in decades is the Allianz Amphitheater. State of play: Since the earliest plans for the 7,500-seat venue were shared in 2022, the Charlottesville-based team behind the amphitheater has promised it would bring around 30 major acts to RVA a year. The amphitheater's ability to draw those big names looked iffy when the first slate of artists was announced late last year (no offense, Dwight Yoakam, Styx and "Weird Al" Yankovic). But here we are, three years and two name changes later, on the eve of the June 6 opening (hey there, Kansas) and it looks like the amphitheater delivered. At least for its opening year. The must-see shows coming to Allianz this year include: Dave Matthews Band (July 15 & 16) Riley Green (Aug. 2), Mumford & Sons (Aug. 5), Neil Young (Aug. 10) and Simple Plan (Aug. 26) James Taylor (Sept. 1), Leon Bridges (Sept. 6) and Widespread Panic (Sept 12 & 13) Plus, Boyz II Men (June 19), Jason Isbell (July 19), The Head and The Heart (Aug. 1), Richmond rockers Lamb of God with GWAR (July 24) and Alison Krauss (Aug. 29). Meanwhile, Live Loud is bringing the The Flaming Lips and Modest Mouse (Aug. 3) and Sierra Ferrell (Sept. 9) to Brown's.
