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It happens now and then — I miss stuff, or I get stuff too late for deadline, or stuff wasn’t included in the information I received. In a word — stuff! So let’s fill in some Sunday music blanks.

The Blue Ridge Vineyard, in Eagle Rock, is putting on its 3rd Annual Jazz Festival. I’ve seen sweet-singing Judi Jackson, on summer break from college, happily running around town checking out music, and she’ll be putting on some tunes of her own here on SUNDAY, as special guest of Milberger Section. Also on the bill — Lenny Marcus Trio with Kerry Hurley and The Funk Cousins (No Relation). That’s a nice bill! Admission is $10, or $5 if you’re a designated driver. Bring a Blue Ridge Beverage glass for $2 off admission. A barbecue vendor will be on the grounds, so bring your lawn chairs, blankets, appetites and ears.

J.D. Sutphin of Madrone (and local radio fame) is putting on a show SUNDAY night at Awful Arthur’s downtown. Madrone, SuperBob, Funk Punch and Mohamed Bhana of Electric Chameleon are on the bill. The venue will be taking donations to the Red Cross for Midwest tornado relief and is matching every cash donation up to $500. Very cool. Cover is $5 unless you’re a veteran, then you get in free to the 21 and older show. “It’s going to be an amazing night of fun, glad I have the next day off,” Sutphin wrote.

SUNDAY night at Festival in the Park, Ross Flora returns to town from his new home, Nashville, as sideman to a band called Smoke n Guns. The Music City-based band features another Virginian, Lindsay Bowman, from Danville. Bowman and Alecia Arnall combine for vocals that Flora writes are are “to die for.” The rocking country outfit has “played Texas to the Great Lakes, with stops in Nashville and the Ozarks – in the past two weeks,” Flora wrote. Their set starts at 7 p.m.

Have I mentioned all of these shows happen on SUNDAY? You’ve probably got Monday off, same as Mr. Sutphin, so live it up to some fun music.

David Wax Museum | Courtesy davidwaxmuseum.com

David Wax Museum plays Kirk Avenue Music Hall on May 24, 2013. We spoke with the band’s Suz Slezak last year, before a FloydFest appearance. I didn’t get to give the ‘cast as much love as it deserved at the time, with everything else going on, so here is a worthy rerun.

We talked about how the band got itself into the Newport Folk Festival, where it was a breakout act. Also in the podcast, a discussion of the quijada, a percussion instrument made from a donkey’s jawbone. Slezak counts that as one of her instruments, along with fiddle and vocals.

We stream “Chuchumbe,” a song from the 1760s that the Catholic Church banned in Mexico. All these years later, the song has re-emerged, and it is a big part of David Wax Museum’s gonzo fiesta.

Matuto | Courtesy Vincent Soyez

Tune in t0 101.5 The Valley’s Music Place on your FM dial, or stream the show via 1015tvmp.com. Tuesday Night News starts at 9 p.m.

1. David Wax Museum – Chuchumbe – Everything Is Saved
2. Matuto – Thousand to Three – The Devil & The Diamond
3. Erin Lunsford – Hey James – I Saw The Thread EP
4. Ben Bullington – Appalachian Mnt. Delta Blues – Ben Bullington
5. Yarn – Annie – Almost Home
6. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker – Aquatic Hitchhiker
7. L Shape Lot – Down to Ride – Blackwater Sessions –
8. Corey Hunley – Kid on the Way – Red to the Bone
9. Folk Soul Revival with Brittany Carter – This Ol’ Flame – Prompting the Dapperness
10. The Rootdowns – Boogie In My Room – Songs with Friends
11. Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds – Lasso – Pound of Dirt
12. Dumpstaphunk – Blues

Sara Haze | Courtesy Salem Civic Center

A country comedian will emcee, an up-and-coming country singer and local band Rutledge have been added to the Blue Ridge Music Festival lineup.

Killer Beaz, who sounds like he would fit right in with his buddys the Blue Collar Comedy guys, will emcee the June 1 event at Salem Football Stadium. Sara Haze, who brings a pop approach to country, has just been added to the June 1 event. And Rutledge, a Roanoke country-rock band that has been impressing audiences in the valley, will play the festival VIP after-party, inside Salem Civic Center.

Those acts will join previously announced performers Little Big Town, Hunter Hayes, Charles Esten (he plays Deacon Claybourne on the ABC TV show “Nashville”) Colt Ford, Gloriana, Greg Bates, Will Hoge and The Skip Castro Band.

General admission and reserved seating $40 ($50.80 including online fees) and VIP tickets $99.50 ($110.75 including online fees) are on sale at Salem Civic Center box office, Ticketmaster locations including ticketmaster.com and via 800-745-3000.

Jonathan Scales Fourchestra is just a fantastic band. Here’s a snippet of evidence from the band’s show at Martin’s Downtown last night. Here’s hoping the trio comes back soon.

Nappy Roots | File photo

On the first seven songs of tonight’s show, we play music from bands who played Growler’s American Grill and Venue or Awful Arthur’s Towers over the past few years. Growler’s closed over the weekend. Hear it at 9 p.m. on 101.5 The Valley’s Music Place or 1015tvmp.com.

1. Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, Too Much, Pound of Dirt
2. Big Sam’s Funky Nation – Peace, Love & Understanding – Peace, Love & Understanding
3. Jeff Coffin – TAG – Jeff Coffin & the Mu’tet – LIVE!
4. James McMurtry – Ruby and Carlos – Live in Europe
5. Nappy Roots – Po Folks (Josh One Remix) – Nappy University 2 – Fall Semester
6. Folk Soul Revival – Jawbone Blues – Prompting the Dapperness
7. Soulive – Come Together – Rubber Soulive Live Download
8. Corey Hunley – Kid on the Way – Red to the Bone
9. Daniel McBroom – Catching it all – EP Shadows of a tree
10. Erin Lunsford – Only A Child – I Saw The Thread EP

Nikki Hill | Courtesy Crystal Rolfe

From the opening notes of “Ask Yourself,” the lead cut on the album “Here’s Nikki Hill,” it’s clear that we’re hearing an exciting new voice in roots music. Raw, full and growling (but not gimmicky growing), in control but just on the edge of anger — that’s Nikki Hill‘s vocal style. And it has made an impact overseas already.

“Europeans love American roots music, and thank goodness they do, because somebody has to,” Hill said, laughing, on this podcast. “It’s cool to see people somewhere else really, really appreciating American music so much. I mean, gosh, it makes you appreciate it that much more. And it makes you go home and want to make Americans appreciate it that much more. So it all ties together.”

But Hill thinks her style, and a rocking band that features her husband, guitarist Matt Hill, will translate in the country where it originated.

“We’re seeing that happen, too,” she said. “American roots is really forcing its way … We’re seeing the difference as we’re traveling the states and seeing the response to live music. And it seems like something that people do want to support again, and I’ve got big time faith in it.”

Hear them live at Blue 5 Restaurant on May 17. Read more about Hill next week in Tuesday’s Extra section.

This podcast includes the two opening cuts, “Ask Yourself” and “Her Destination.”

“I just wanted to write two cool rock ‘n’ roll tunes,” Hill said. “I think they’re both just really cool tunes for people to groove to.”

It closes with the soulful meditation, “Hymn for Hard Times,” which features only Hill and her husband’s bluesy, tremelo-soaked guitar.

Nikki Hill is the real deal. And I’m not one to make predictions, but after hearing this stuff, I think she’ll be a big deal,  sooner rather than later.

Micah Davidson

Micah Davidson, a bassist-turned-music-booking-agent, is a big part of the NC Brewers and Music Festival, scheduled for Saturday near Charlotte, N.C. Get show details at Top Tickets.

The Roanoke native talks on this podcast about how he went from being a player in such bands as Dead End Parking to booking bands. It’s a cool story, and it shows that there are more ways than one for a musician to make a living in the life he or she loves.

Plus, we’ll stream music from Davidson’s music life with members of Dead End Parking. “You’ll Never Know” is a song that Davidson says the band learned the night before it was recorded. “Seven Sons” features all the original members of Dead End Parking. Both songs appear on former DEP frontman Nathan Carter’s CD, “Mercy Tree.”

Jonathan Scales Fourchestra, from left: Phill Bronson, Scales, Cody Wright | Photo courtesy Mike Morel

Jonathan Scales Fourchestra plays Martin’s Downtown Bar & Grill on May 15, 2013. Get show details in tomorrow’s Top Tickets, at music.roanoke.com.

Scales, 28, was a sax man who discovered the steel pans when he went to Appalachian State University, in Boone, N.C., to study composition. He was hooked, and in the decade since, he had become a monster steel drummer and composer. On the Fourchestra’s self-titled CD, drummer Phill Bronson and bassist Cody Wright show that they are more than up to the challenges of this music, even co-writing several of the tracks.

Hear conversation and streaming music from the CD — “Specifically,” “Lurkin’ (feat. Howard Levy)” and “Life After D (feat. Victor Wooten).”

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When singer Jerry Wimmer of The Worx closed the Todd Cooper Benefit show at Growler’s on March 17, he said: “Don’t let this be the end. Keep it going!”

Several local acts have taken heed to help Cooper, drummer for The Worx and Mafia Track Suit. When news emerged that Cooper suffers tachycardia — a fast heart rhythm that could be life-threatening — folks were shocked. You know how people say something “couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy”? Well, this guy is too nice for such a thing to happen to him.

His mates in Mafia Track Suit have released their disc “Tiger Blood,” which you can find and download at http://mafiatracksuit.bandcamp.com. Buy it, and all the money goes to help out Cooper. Buy the band’s EP there while you’re at it. Both are good records, though “Tiger Blood” shows real growth, and Cooper’s playing is as rock solid and tasty as it always has been.

The Suit also has songs for sale for the Rock Band platform. Buy them at http://www.rockband.com/songs/artists/Mafia+Track+Suit, and that money goes to Cooper’s recovery fund, too. Chase wrote in an e-mail: “The Rock Band Network and Fairwood Studios (who authored the songs for gaming) both donated to Todd’s benefit show.” Cool.

Over at Schooners, a Roanoke epicenter of do-gooding, Eric Larsen has been hitting up that venue’s weekly open mic attendees, as well.