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Live at the Lyric: An Evening with Jonathan Richman featuring Tommy Larkin
Venue: Lyric Theatre, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Jonathan Richman
Date: Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Time: 8:00 - 10:00 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost:
Bronze Tickets: $20.00 Silver Tickets: $24.00 Gold Tickets: $27.00 Platinum Tickets: $30.00

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Description:
The Lyric Theatre presents their Live at the Lyric series with Jonathan Richman featuring Tommy Larkin on the drums on Wednesday, October 25, 2023.

"The music we're doing now works well in quiet places like theaters and performing art centers. We still don't use a program or a set list so we don't know what we'll do until we do it. Please do not expect old songs. Many singers my age do a retrospective; this show is not like that. It's mostly stuff made up in the last 3 and 4 years. Some of the songs presented might be in different languages; this is not to be esoteric or clever, it's because the different languages help me express different feelings sometimes. One last thing, my idea of a good show has nothing to do with applause. It's about if all the songs I sang that night were ones that I felt."
- Jonathan Richman

"A singer and songwriter who has stubbornly (and joyfully) followed his muse in a career that began in the early '70s, Jonathan Richman started out as a primitive proto-punk bandleader under the influence of the Velvet Underground who would eventually mature into an acoustic balladeer, and who sang his spare, passionate tunes in Spanish as often as in English. In the middle, Richman was known for his purposefully naive music that reveled in a childlike love of the world around him, emphasized by a voice that was by turns craggy and adenoidal.

As he stepped out as a solo artist in the 1980s, Richman's music retained its simplicity, but he adopted the electric guitar and matured as a writer, producing idiosyncratic but smartly crafted sets of songs.

In the 2000s, Richman's songwriting became more explicitly poetic as he relied more on acoustic instrumentation. Richman continued exploring new musical avenues in the 2010s, experimenting with Latin sounds though his songs remained as sincere and open hearted as the day he first picked up a guitar."
-- AllMusic.com

"Richman is one of America’s most unique and dynamic songwriters..." –- Nashville Scene

Links:

• https://jonathanrichman.bandcamp.com/
• https://www.highroadtouring.com/artists/jonathan-richman/

Tickets range from $20.00-$30.00 depending on your seat placement. Tickets can be purchased online, by phone or in person at The Lyric Box Office.

To purchase tickets online, visit: https://prod5.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=311394~4ab27fc5-7b1f-40ac-9bdb-32c61284f6ac&epguid=538611ae-7d38-4bdf-a9f5-0886a741dee4&showing=311397&.

Live At The Lyric is a semi-annual series of live entertainment events at the Lyric Theatre, including music, family events, comedy, theatre and much more! These events are programmed in-house by The Lyric staff to provide the community with a diverse selection of arts entertainment.

The Lyric Theatre is located at 135 College Avenue in Blacksburg, VA.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.postimg.cc/W4FcKv78/image.png.

For more information, visit: https://www.thelyric.com/event/live-on-stage-jonathan-richman-featuring-tommy-larkins-on-the-drums-live-at-the-lyric/ or https://www.facebook.com/lyric.blacksburg or https://www.instagram.com/thelyrictheatre/ or call 540-951-4771.