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Live Music in the Orchard: LUA Project

Enjoy live music by Lua Project!

Lua is a cultural pollinator, bridging musical styles from different continents and different centuries. They write about contemporary themes, about families, and people and work and loss, but draw on the musical traditions of their own families' past. The music is inspired by Mexican Son, Appalachian song forms, Jewish and Eastern European tonalities, baroque melodic ideas, and Scotch-Irish narrative storytelling approaches. They strive to create a repertoire that constitutes new traditional music that they will be able to pass down to their children to experience, transform, and pass on.Grab a glass and relax the weekend away in musical bliss!

Live Music in the Orchard: The Queen City Porch Swingers

Sip cider and enjoy this duo.

 The sounds of New Orleans comes to central Virginia with The Queen City Porch Swingers. This duo brings the sounds of The Big Easy to life with lush tenor banjo, swinging bass, expressive trumpet and entrancing vocals. Come out and give a listen to some of your favorite old songs you forgot you loved.

Albemarle North Garden Art Benefit

Albemarle CiderWorks would like you to come for an elegant evening to benefit the SARA organization.

40% of ticket sales will go towards supporting the SARA organization along with three local artists: Benita Mayo, Lydia Dodson & Tori Cherry auctioning a piece of art they have donated. You will have the opportunity to view & purchase various pieces of Art throughout the evening, while engaging with the artists as they present their pieces. Hors d’ oeuvres will be served throughout the evening. The dress code is cocktail attire.

Tickets are $30 and may be purchased Here.

Rockfish Wildlife Sanctuary- Meet and Greet Come and Meet the Animal Ambassadors. The Rockfish Wildlife Sanctuary is a nonprofit wildlife rehabilitation organization serving Central Virginia. The Sanctuary cares for over 900 injured and orphaned native animals every year, a number that has been rising annually due to the impacts of climate change and urban expansion throughout Virginia. The organization also has a robust education program featuring their team of ten charming non-releasable education ambassador animals. With a gorgeous indoor facility, dozens of outdoor enclosures nestled across 20 quiet, wooded acres in Nelson County, and a team of 5 licensed wildlife rehabilitators on staff, the Rockfish Wildlife Sanctuary is uniquely poised to provide recuperating wild animals with a natural and safe refuge to call home while they prepare for release back to the wild. 2024 marks the Sanctuary's 20th year serving Virginian wildlife. Visit rockfishwildlifesanctuary.org to learn more about how you can support RWS as it takes flight into the next 20 years!

Live Music in the Orchard: C'ville Jazz Congregation

Join us for jazz & sip some cider.

The C'ville Jazz Congregation is a collective of local musicians that have been playing together since 2005. In their duo configuration you will hear your favorite jazz standards in a new light as they explore the unbound freedoms that only the intimate conversations held in this smaller setting can produce." Join them at Albemarle CiderWorks for an afternoon of great cider and jazz.