Bellevue Porchella Saturday, May 15, 2021
A Live Music Walk from 1-7 PM for Bellevue Musicians and Residents. Be safe, wear a mask, and maintain social distance.
Rain Date: Saturday, May 22, 2021
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Support our neighborhood musicians and show your love! Everyone has volunteered their time and talent to make "Porchella" happen. At each home, bands may have open guitar cases or tip buckets, and some may provide donate online platforms such as CashApp, Venmo, or Paypal.
Guardians of the Funky Galaxy
BJ Kocen
Rōōbix Crüe
The Rudiments
Good Question Bluegrass Band
Kozy Cats
Acoustic Underground
Tavernier
The Approach
Wrong Worshippers
Indira & Guppy Jo
The Blue Guitar
Mike Koehler
John Dallas Band
Linden Row
The Haze & Dacey Collective
Rustic Blue
Alex Barret
Sara Arthur and Friends
Rumput
Cheap Comfort
No Anchor
The Ebb
Lazlo
Chino Amobi & Johnny Utterback
The Last Real Circus
Guardians of the Funky Galaxy
1220 Greycourt Ave - 1:00, 2:00
Funk
Tired of singer-songwriters blocking your groove with words? You take James Brown over James Taylor? Getting down instead of sittin’ down? The Guardians of the Funky Galaxy are here to protect you from all that!
We take your favorite songs and shove ‘em in our patented funk machine and spit out some crazy jams. Blast off with our bluesy funk and cruise at high altitude on our soul grooves.
Your guardians include Scott Young on keyboards, Jason Niedenberger on guitar, Aaron Olson on bass, and Dave Coogan on drums. No cover charge for this flight. Special guests to join us mid flight.
BJ Kocen
1213 Westminster Ave. - 1:00, 2:00
Soul Folk
Original Soul folk sounds mixed with choice covers through the ages. BJ will play a fun uplifting acoustic set to brighten your day!
Rōōbix Crüe
3813 Fauquier Ave. - 1:00, 2:00
Alternative/Rock covers
The crusty remnants of the band founded at Holton Elementary as the Neons in 2015 have re-spawned and cling to a dark existence with only 80s-2000s covers sustaining their lives as Bellevue native teens.
The Rudiments
1211 Amherst Ave - 1:00, 2:00
Acoustic Swing
Acoustic trio with mandolin, guitar, and upright bass - blending gypsy jazz, Texas swing, jug band blues, and old-time. Classics and originals.
The Rudiments, a band formed by the original members of Scattered Smothered and Covered, are Brett Edwards (guitar), Ryan Davis (bass), and Chris Hale (mandolin).
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Good Question Bluegrass Band
4021 Monticello St - 1:30, 2:30
Bluegrass
Your feet are tapping as you sing along while the band plays a song about a cabin in the mountains. The vintage acoustic string instruments pick a breakdown and you feel yourself speeding down a winding country road. The singers harmonize on the lyrics of a tragic ballad and a tear comes to your eye. Who is this band? Good Question Bluegrass Band. Plum Cluverius - guitar and vocals. Mike Cluverius - banjo and vocals. John Hoogakker - bass and vocals. Ron White - resophonic guitar and vocals.
Kozy Cats
3811 Fauquier Ave 1:30. 2:30
Soul and Classic Pop
RVA Music Scene Veterans play kool hits from the 20th century. Special guests for Porchella, the Kozy Cats Horns: Neal Bowens and Dave Triplett!
Tavernier
1301 Bellevue Ave - 1:30, 2:30
Blue Grass
Virginia boys making noise in the land of biscuits and banjos. Homegrown roots music with a fun blend of Americana, Bluegrass, and a touch of Southern Funk.
The Approach
1218 Greycourt Ave - 1:30, 2:30
Rock n' Roll
We have been playing together for over a decade and consider ourselves so lucky to be still nestled in the same city. We play rock, grass, folk, originals, and covers. It's an honor to perform on my own front porch!
Wrong Worshippers
3813 Fauquier Ave - 3:00, 4:00
Pop Punk, Dirty Rock, Basement Grunge
Two dudes makin' crazy a$$ noise on a bass, and a drum kit. Playing original tracks off of their soon-to-be-released debut album, Negative Irrational Obsessions. Recorded at Red Amp Audio in December 2020.
Indira & Guppy Jo
1517 Greycourt Ave - 3:00, 4:00
Indie-folk/Pop
Indira & Guppy Jo foster a unique combination of wanderlust and home that speaks to the strong sense of place, purpose, and principle of its members. Their music is haunting, happy, and hip.
Indira & Guppy Jo was born in Ohio and has collected the landscape in music bolstered by their cross-country moves and their global experience. Poetic and poignant, snappy and sophisticated, their sound is the kind you carry with you, the live performance you never miss.
The Blue Guitar
4117 Crestwood Rd. - 3:00, 4:00
Instrumental popular jazz, rock, and pop hits
“The Blue Guitar” plays instrumental versions of classic favorites from a wide variety of genres in unique arrangements – everything from The Beatles to Miles Davis, Van Morrison to Percy Sledge!
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Mike Koehler
4003 Fauquier Ave - 3:00, 4:00
Americana folk/rock
Northside acoustic singer-songwriter who likes to write and play music for family, friends, and gigs around town.
John Dallas Band
4017 Mount Vernon St - 3:30, 4:30
Classic rock, blues
RVA classic rock and blues band playing covers & originals
Linden Row
CANCELLED
The Haze & Dacey Collective
1504 Greycourt Ave - 3:30, 4:30
Twangy Folk Punk
This will be Haze & Dacey's full 5-piece band, fresh out of the studio, playing some of Haze's original songs from their recently recorded, soon to be released full-length album, "Letters from Gilead." They'll also rock Bellevue with covers from Patty Griffin, Joni Mitchell, The Monkees, The Ramones, and you never know who else.
Rustic Blue
4112 Crestwood Rd - 3:30, 4:30
Popular rock music from the 70's to today, done acoustically.
Alex Barret
1228 Stanhope Ave - 5:00, 6:00
Funk Jam/Loops
A bass player who recently acquired a Boss RC-505 loop station, midi keyboard, and electric guitar, Alex Barrett creates improvisational and experimental funk music with his loop station and a few instruments.
Sara Arthur and Friends
1407 Claremont Ave - 5:00, 6:00
Porch Music
Original tunes mixing old-school pop, jazz, country, folk, and rock
Rumput
3867 Fauquier Ave - 5:00, 6:00
Acoustic/Traditional
Javanese-style String band. Rumput plays keroncong (a string-band tradition from Indonesia) and explores parallel threads from other traditions, especially old-time string-band music of the United States and British Isles, and Indonesian gamelan.
Cheap Comfort
1238 Westminster Ave - 5:00, 6:00
Alt/Folk
Soul soothing acoustic Comfort. We come packin' eclectic folk rock covers and hit-home originals. Kick your shoes off and chillax with us! Featuring Rene Carillo, Amy Henderson & Chris Markunas
No Anchor
4014 Newport Dr - 5:00, 6:00
Folk Rock and classic rock
No Anchor was featured at Stir Crazy in 2018 and 2019 performing rock from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. No Anchor played Porchella in 2020 under the name David's Acoustic Debut.
The Ebb
3863 Fauquier Ave - 5:30, 6:30
Indie Rock
Female-led indie rock
Lazlo
1220 Stanhope Ave - 5:30, 6:30
The Rock
Four Northside Dads Committing acts of Rockism and shamelessly play covers.
Chino Amobi & Johnny Utterback
1217 Warren Ave - 5:30, 6:30
Electronic/Experimental
Chino Amobi and Johnny Utterback are artists and musicians who have collaborated for almost a decade in a variety of media, mostly within sound and video. They have performed together around the Richmond area, most notably at the Red Bull Music Festival in 2017. Their music lies in the realm of electronica, with a range of ambiance to abrasive sound design and club deconstructions.
As you walk around, please respect our community by wearing a mask, and don't leave trash. If we do this right, we can do it for a long time.
Support our Bellevue Merchants: Once Upon a Vine, Stir Crazy, Demi's, One Three Guitar, The Mill, Mí Jalisco, Dot's Back Inn, Northside Grill, Nicola Flora, Nuttalls, Morsels, Zorbas, Early Bird Biscuit Co., and Little House Grocery
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