Richmond, Virginia
and Rock & Roll

"Miami, Florida
Atlanta, Georgia
Raleigh, North Carolina
Washington D.C.
Oh, and Richmond, Virginia too"- from "Night Train" by James Brown, 1962(song originally written by Johhny Hodges and revised by Jimmy Forest)

Check out these links to Richmond, Virginia rock music history

- let us know if you have others to add.

- email Ray at ray44richmond@gmail.com

Elvis Presley in Richmond at the Mosque, 1956 - Here he is inches away from Main St.

Benny's - Richmond's First Punk Club.

First Psychedelic Rock Concert in Richmond (and Virginia) took place 4 W. Broad Street, August 4, 1967.

Richmond, Virginia Garage Rock - "Hey Joe" by the Hazards, 1967.

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Shafer Court, VCU, April 14, 1989.

Neil Young visits Plan 9 Music in Richmond's Carytown, April 16, 2011.

ThroTTle Magazine - 30 Years Later and Counting.

Film of VCU's Monroe Park Campus from ca. 1977 - Over 30 Years Ago.

Rare images of Springsteen in Richmond - Found at this SITE.

Bruce Springsteen and friends, VCU Franklin St. Gym, Richmond - Feb. 14, 1973.

BruceBase - Every Springsteen concert - including all his Richmond shows.

"Oregon Hill" - by the Cowboy Junkies, 1992.

Your Spring Park Trip, Monroe Park concert, April 5, 1970 - 40 years ago.

Garage Rock in Richmond, VA

FunkyVirginia - Bringing You The Soul Of The Commonwealth

WRIR-LP 97.3 FM airs unrepresented music, news and views in order to provide a platform for cultural diversity in Richmond.

Glenn Habel's site of images of Bruce Springsteen in Richmond, VA

50 major players of the local music scene, then and now

Richmond Music Journal

A brief history of 929 West Grace [Twisters, Back Door,...] RVA

WJRB AM 820 - VCU's student run radio, l967-1970s

Great site created by RPI/VCU alum.

"Strive" - Church of God in Christ Youth Choir - Richmond, Virginia, 1976.

Cherry Blossom Music Festival Riot of 1974.

WRIR Presents: RVA Music History Tumblr Site.

'Elvis at 21' Exhibit at VMFA- Includes information about the Kiss at the Mosque

and a new one added Jan 15 2021:

https://richmondmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/music/rare-richmond-records/

Contributors:

Ray Bonis:

Ray worked at VCU Libraries' James Branch Cabell Library from 1989 until 2021. He is the co-author of Virginia Commonwealth University (2006) and Greetings from Richmond (2009) - an architectural history of the city.

Selden Richardson:

Architectural historian and author of Built By Blacks: African American Architecture and Neighborhoods in Richmond, Virginia (2006), The Tri-State Gang in Richmond: Murder and Robbery in the Great Depression. (2012), and Richmond Murder & Mayhem (2023)

On History:

"The dead were and are not. Their place knows them no more and is ours today...The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow."
-- G. M. Trevelyan (1876-1962) from his "Autobiography of an Historian," An Autobiography and Other Essays (1949).

Key Dates in Richmond History
(more to follow)

1737 – William Mayo laid out the original street plan for the town of Richmond on land provided by William Byrd II.

1742 – Chartered as a town

1780 – Virginia’s state capital moved from Williamsburg to Richmond.

1782 – Incorporated as a city.

1788 - Virginia State Capitol building completed.

1860-1865 – Serves as capital of the Confederate States of America.

1910 - Manchester, the city located just south of the James, is consolidated with Richmond.

1949 - Oliver Hill (1907-2007) elected to City Council, first African American since Reconstruction.

1968 - Virginia Commonwealth University created by the merger of the Medical College of Virginia and Richmond Professional Institute.

1977 - Henry Marsh elected as first African American mayor of Richmond.

2009 – Shockoe Examiner founded.

The Shockoe Examiner
Blogging the History of Richmond, Virginia

Sunday, September 28, 2014

Rock Music History in Richmond, VA - Some Links - Send Us More.

'Elvis at 21' Exhibit at VMFA- Includes information about the Kiss at the Mosque

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