Fidos After 5: Ramona & The Holy Smokes
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Relax on Thursday evenings mid-May through October at Flowers After 5, our live music series featuring a diverse mix of local and regional acts held in the Grace Arents Garden, adjacent to historic Bloemendaal House. In partnership with the Richmond SPCA, leashed dogs are welcome!
Outside food and drink are not allowed to be brought into the Garden. A food and beverage bar will be on-site, to the right of the stage.
Based in Central Virginia and with family roots in South Texas, Ramona and the Holy Smokes represent a new generation of honky tonk music. With powerful female vocals that cover an emotional range from determined to comic to vulnerable, and a talented backing band steeped in classic country and western styles of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, the band exhibits a “clarity and sincerity that bring Patsy Cline to mind” (Nashville Scene, 2025). Fronted by Ramona Martinez, whose songwriting has earned her recognition from Wide Open Country as one of the “15 Latino Artists Shaping Country Music,” this Charlottesville, Virginia-based band is rooted in the traditional sounds of country music but unafraid of pushing boundaries and highlighting the connections across border cultures.
Included in regular Garden admission; free for members.
https://www.lewisginter.org/event/fidos-after-5ramona-the-holy-smokes/
Outside food and drink are not allowed to be brought into the Garden. A food and beverage bar will be on-site, to the right of the stage.
Based in Central Virginia and with family roots in South Texas, Ramona and the Holy Smokes represent a new generation of honky tonk music. With powerful female vocals that cover an emotional range from determined to comic to vulnerable, and a talented backing band steeped in classic country and western styles of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, the band exhibits a “clarity and sincerity that bring Patsy Cline to mind” (Nashville Scene, 2025). Fronted by Ramona Martinez, whose songwriting has earned her recognition from Wide Open Country as one of the “15 Latino Artists Shaping Country Music,” this Charlottesville, Virginia-based band is rooted in the traditional sounds of country music but unafraid of pushing boundaries and highlighting the connections across border cultures.
Included in regular Garden admission; free for members.
https://www.lewisginter.org/event/fidos-after-5ramona-the-holy-smokes/
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1800 Lakeside Ave, Richmond, VA, United States, Virginia 23228, 1800 Lakeside Ave, Henrico, VA 23228-4700, United States, Lakeside
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