QCMS Student & Teacher Showcase
Come hear and see the student and teachers from Queen City Music Studios show off what they have been working on in their lessons this spring! Queen City Music Studios is a proud sponsor of Staunton Jams.
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Yoga & Sound Healing With Cat
Meditation and cosmic sound healing using quarts sound bowls and other tools.
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The Cry Babies
The Cry Babies are an Americana band made up of local musicians who love to joyfully engage the audience through the songs and stories they share throughout their performance. Their music incorporates beautiful harmonies with a rich bluesey folk sound through original, traditional, and popular songs that will often surprise you as well as warm your heart.
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Blind Peach Band
We're folk rock americana trio, two guitars, one bass guitar, three voices. We're most known for lovely harmonies and humor. We like love songs, sometimes with a side of sarcasm, maybe about a monster, maybe about cats. We've been playing around Staunton for five years now, most often at Redbeard.
JeffMo, Roz, Danimal are Blind Peach Band
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Isabel March
Isabel March is a Virginia based singer - songwriter from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Stylistically, her music can be characterized as "dream folk", pointing to influences like Gregory Alan Isakov, Sufjan Stevens, Jason Isbell and The Avett Brothers. Vocally, Isabel's greatest influence is Billie Holiday, creating a compelling balance of folk and jazz in her compositions.
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The Hot Mamas
The Hot Mamas are sass, spunk, feminist rage and acoustic punk, beautiful harmonies and a junkyard bathtub full of homemade instruments on roller skates. The Queens of the Queen City in Staunton, VA.
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The Loya Brothers
We are three brothers who love to jam and share our mix of acoustic brass covering an eclectic mix of artists and genres!
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Yoga with Molly Jenkins & Music by Bristol Of New York
I will be offering a Yoga Nidra practice which is similar to a guided meditation. Here we will tap into our parasympathetic nervous system to help us relieve stress, anxiety, and allow our mind and body to rest while we are awake.
I have been a Valley Resident since 2008 but have always lived in the State of Virginia. I am a certified Yoga Instructor and Reiki healer. I have been a teaching yoga for over 2 years at Phoenix Fitness and Yoga, but have been a student for over 15 years. Yoga and meditation caused a profound positive shift in my life during the pandemic. It was then and, my passion for teaching, that started my new career as a yoga instructor and a healer. I look forward to helping others find ways to relax, destress, and move through with whatever life throws our way.
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Valerie McQueen
Unhurried and authentic, singer-songwriter Valerie McQueen uses her voice as an instrument to tell life’s stories. A little bit folk, sometimes country, Valerie chronicles a life shaped by seasons through melody and rhythm, sharing experiences that we can all relate to.
Influenced by strong female voices like Gillian Welch and Allison Krauss, Valerie marries her powerful voice, acoustic guitar and purposeful lyrics to create songs that embody the stories she’s telling.
Valerie released her 11 song solo-album titled “Speckled Moon” in August 2023. She also released two singles, August and Fly, in the beginning of 2023 and both are available on streaming platforms. She is currently performing around the Shenandoah Valley with her band members, October Thomas, Steve Sutton, Joel Kenney, & John Allietta.
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PBJ Acoustic
We play cool music…well, we think so anyway. PBJ Acoustic offers an eclectic and unexpected mix of covers spanning the decades.
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Red Miller and Farm House Blues
Our music has been described as "like the Allman Brothers covering the Grateful Dead with a Little Feat beat"
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Sarah White & The New Band
Born and raised in the two Virginias, Sarah White’s musical style is as familiar as it is hard to define - not quite country, not quite rock, not quite folk - but a little bit like all of the above. A chameleon-like performer with ever changing line-ups, White has grown into a talented songwriter with a sizable body of poignant, catchy, and moving songs.
White started her career in the late 90’s with two albums of mysterious, lo-fi, experimental folk-rock on the popular Jagjaguwar label. Her 1997 debut All My Skies Are Blue, was a collection of 4-track recordings pressed straight to CD. In 2000 she released her first studio album, the stunningly original Bluebird which The San Francisco Bay Guardian described as:
“A delicately bare and pretty album that ensures the singer-songwriter a place in the company of Cat Power’s Chan Marshall and Edith Frost. Yep, that good.”
“Sarah’s music kills me, beautifully from the ground up, no plastic.” — Dave Matthews
Sarah performs solo and with the band and wields a well-worn Jumbo Gibson acoustic. She has performed with Merle Haggard, Justin Townes Earle, Earl Scruggs, Will Oldham, Dave Matthews Band Caravan and was once named Best Songwriter in her hometown of Charlottesville, Va.
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Anmara
Annabeth is the ethereal force behind Anmara, a project merging organic synth-pop, dreamy ambient folk, and “post new-age” into sonic catharsis. Echoing strains of Enya and Florence & The Machine, she invites us on a journey of emotional exploration and beckons us not just to listen, but to dive deep and fall in love with life anew.
Inspired by both inner and outer landscapes, her latest album, 'Make Belief', offers riveting escapist fantasies. She is currently self-producing a concept album called "New the Old" (with the help of her loyal patrons) which seeks to heal the rift between humans and nature with a modern twist on ancient ways.
The word Anmara refers to a mystical land made manifest when we cultivate HARMONY- between self, others, and planet. She is developing a set of sounds that range from peaceful and meditative to energized and dance-able in order to take people on a 5-rhythms inspired audio adventure, with the constant invitation to not just consume the music but to become embodied and transformed by it.
At an Anmara concert, prepare to be transported on the wings of whimsy, only to wind up back in the center of your Self.
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The Wilson Springs Hotel
Another genre-defying group whose catalog flows seamlessly through bluegrass country ballads and full blown rock and roll tunes, The Wilson Springs Hotel is one of the best up and coming acts hailing from the state of Virginia at the moment.
With an electrifying live show characterized by heavily improvised jam-heavy instrumentation, each tune from The Wilson Springs Hotel is a sonic adventure you will not want to miss.
“Magnetawan” – The Wilson Springs Hotel
The Milestones
The Milestones were birthed by longtime friends Alex Wandres and CJ Metz in a dingy Baltimore warehouse, where guitars would roar well into the night. As they emerged from that seedy void of a practice space, often as the sun was getting ready to rise, some kind of rugged, raucous, and righteous rock n roll came out with them. Now joined by drummer Devin Ritts and Owen Fuste on bass, the band has refined the rawness of their initial sound and sculpted it into their own brand of infectious indie dance rock, rife with carefully crafted hooks over expansive guitar soundscapes. If you're able to catch them live and witness the charisma that these 4 musicians share while they let loose on stage, you will understand they never lost the explosive energy of those original late night jam sessions - that storm just keeps rollin' on.
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Eli Cook
What do you do when you can play straight blues or Hendrix style hard rock with equal ease and finesse? On the seventh album of his career the phenom from Nelson County, Virginia reins in his inner guitar god and makes his most focused roots blues album yet. High-Dollar Gospel finds Cook showcasing his acoustic mojo and the result is the most satisfying record of his career. — by Joe McSpadden
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14 Lbs
14 £bs, a band from Staunton Va. that seamlessly blends punk, blues, midwest emo, and even a little metal for a captivating musical experience with a raw, yet polished independent vibe. With a setlist full of original and energetic tracks they are always ready to rock the stage and get people moving their feet!
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