Shockoe Sessions Live! Rewind

Episode 75: Zarove

October 15th, 2025 | 57 mins 7 secs

concert, live, music, percussion, turkish, world

Zarove is an instrumental trio from Richmond, VA, formed in 2024. Zarove fuses decades of collective experience in Bulgarian and Middle Eastern traditions, avant-garde art music, rock, and improvisation. Traditional Turkish instruments meet electric fret less bass and a hand-crafted drum kit in songs that meld genres, rhythms, and borders.

Episode 74: Brady Heck

October 8th, 2025 | 43 mins 56 secs

band, classic, concert, country, live, music, rock

Brady Heck is just country. No two ways around it, he was just brought into the world that way. He lives it, and you can hear that in his songs. His songs are both clever and conversational, but also deeply sincere and striking. He writes the way he speaks and sings about the world he knows.

Episode 73: Big Fancy

October 1st, 2025 | 54 mins 47 secs

concert, dance, disco, live, music, pop, r and b

Big Fancy, an indie disco band from Richmond, VA, brings a fresh and funky blend of soul and dance that's as timeless on stage as it is over the airwaves. The group of friends behind the sound draws inspiration from neo-soul, R&B, and deep groove to seamlessly intertwine soulful roots, jazz influences, and classic dance vibes.

Episode 72: Kofi Shepsu Quartet

September 24th, 2025 | 57 mins 4 secs

concert, drums, jazz, live, music, piano, richmond, virginia

Kofi Shepsu, came out of the womb drumming. He is an African Percussionist and studied the West African drums for 7 years under the Master Baba Olumide, starting at age 4. He was formally introduced to Jazz and the drum set as a member of the Richmond Youth Jazz Guild under the direction of Ashby Anderson. Kofi received a full scholarship for Berklee College of Music Summer Jazz Workshop with Terri Lyne Carrington. He is a 2017 Young Arts Jazz and Vail Jazz Workshop Finalist. In addition, he was selected in 2017 to attend Berklee College of Music Global Jazz Institute/Newport Jazz Festival. He is a 2018 graduate of Appomattox Regional Governor’s School for the Arts and Technology. Kofi was also awarded a full scholarship to Manhattan School of Music. While there he got to study with master musicians Buster Williams, Kendrick Scott and Marc Cary. He has played with Savion Glover, Alicia Olatuja, Charles Owens, Tim Green, Marc Cary, Benny Benack III, and Julius Rodriguez.

Episode 71: Gull

September 17th, 2025 | 53 mins 15 secs

art, concert, experimental, live, music

Gull is "best described as a drum; a living, breathing drum of flesh on fire that cries out assorted tongues of creatures past and delivers it from a single unique perspective; a communal music broadcast of blood and bile left as an offering on the altar of sound."

Episode 70: The Sunslingers

September 10th, 2025 | 1 hr 32 secs

concert, country, gypsy jazz, live, music, richmond, rock, roots, rva

From the heart of Virginia and packing the heat of the American spirit comes a band that trades bullets for ballads and gun smoke for golden harmonies. The Sunslingers are blazing trails through the Americana landscape with fiddle fire, the rolling thunder of the upright bass, drums to bring the rain, and guitar lines that cut cleaner than a desert horizon.

Episode 69: Afro-Zen Allstars

September 3rd, 2025 | 1 hr 2 mins

african, concert, ethiopian, jazz, live, music, richmond, rva, virginia

Afro-Zen Allstars, Richmond's guardians of global grooves, is a high-energy little big band featuring blazing horns, a driving rhythm section, and inspired instrumental jams.

Episode 68: The Sugar Hollows

August 27th, 2025 | 49 mins 2 secs

alt, concert, live, music, richmond, rock, rva, southern rock, virginia

The Sugar Hollows is “some kind of rock band" from Richmond, VA. The band was formed in 2020 when Mike and Gabe became neighbors in an apartment complex during the nationwide lockdown and heard each other playing music through the walls one day. A few jam sessions here and there quickly became a number of gigs throughout Virginia and North Carolina where the two played covers by the likes of Jim Croce, Brent Cobb, Lord Huron, Kings of Leon, and everything in between.

Episode 67: The Barons

August 20th, 2025 | 50 mins 53 secs

alt rock, concert, music, richmond, rva, virginia

The Barons is a US alternative band comprised of lead singer and guitarist Peyton Alley, drummer Mathes Glymph, lead guitarist Josiah Ragland, and bassist Kirtland Gray. Forming in 2016, the Virginia natives’ repertoire include various sounds ranging from heavy-hitting indie rock to a lighter fair of introspective love songs. The band’s upcoming record "Le Chateau" embodies returning to death in nature and illustrates the contrast of beauty and destruction that lie in The Barons' sound. The Barons have supported some major alternative acts over the past few years such as Judah & The Lion, The Aces, Barns Courtney, and Catfish and the Bottlemen and amassed a large following on the East Coast headlining festivals and venues alike.