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).

Find us on  Bandcamp 

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!

Acoustic Underground

3903 Fauquier Ave - 1:30, 2:30

Indie/Folk Americana

Acoustic Underground is a newly formed band in Richmond, VA. We play an eclectic mix of originals and covers that combine rock, indie, bluegrass, country, pop, and folk influences.

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!

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.

The Last Real Circus

4040 MacArthur Ave - 5:30, 6:30

Southern Indie Rock

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

Get your  Bellevue Porchella merch here . All proceeds go to the Bellevue Civic Association

Thanks for the help with traffic control

Bellevue Porchella Credits

A sincere thanks to the spring committee: Brooke Ullman as founder; Summer Gentry as band mom and coordinator; Jami Bricker as social media coordinator, and Bellevue Civic Assoc. Secretary, Rob McAdams doing logistics and mapping or something; and Johnny Utterback as the designer, including the original Porchella logo. Additional support and thanks: Barry Long, Chris Sterling, Ray Flournoy, Zach Schindler, Don Glazer, RVA Events, SunBelt Rentals, The Bellevue Civic Association that makes these fun events possible, and all the performers. Be sure to thank these wonderful people and associations when you see them.

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

Get your  Bellevue Porchella merch here . All proceeds go to the Bellevue Civic Association

Thanks for the help with traffic control