The Hot Seats at Bele Chere

They may call themselves “Richmond’s Beloved Absurdist Stringband,” but The Hot Seats also know a thing or two about straight-up acoustic barnstorming. Here’s the group performing their version of “Freight Train Boogie” from their show at the Rock n’ Kiss Stage on Sunday afternoon.

Recalling Bele Cheres past

It was Bele Chere weekend 1990? 1991? … Friday or Saturday afternoon, just around suppertime. Temperature still in the high 80s … The publisher had already half jokingly threatened that anyone who blew off editing weekend might not have a job come Monday. My desk was trapped directly above a kielbasa stand on the street below; there was no air conditioning in that old building…
Former Green Line (Xpress precursor) reporter/editor Andrea Helms remembers how it was

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