Shockoe Sessions Live! Rewind
The Audio Only Version of Shockoe Sessions Live!
Displaying all 8 Episode of Shockoe Sessions Live! Rewind with the tag “live”.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.