MATT GENTRY | The Roanoke Times
After the Darius Rucker show last night at Virginia Tech, I wandered over to The Lantern, to see The Bridge, a really good band from Baltimore. Roanoke Times nrv photog Matt Gentry had told me earlier that day that the band was traveling with a painter's collaborative, VORCAN.
It reminded me of my long-ago daze in Hollywood, Calif., at Musicians Institute. Back then, Tommy Chong of Cheech y Chong fame had a regular gig at a club out there. It was called Painters and Players. Chong, a guitarist, and his band would play, and painters would be onstage painting. I never had time to go check it out, and I always regretted that. So, here was something similar, and I wasn't going to miss it.
Turned out to be fairly interesting -- The Bridge was awesome, by the way. And Matt shot a good pic, which you can see here. Here's his description:
>1.28.09... Vort Man, a member of the art group VORCAN, paints on stage during the live music of the band "The Bridge," at the Lantern, downtown Blacksburg, on Wednesday night. The painters, Vort Man and Chris Cank, painted a collaborative piece during the group's first set. The artists tour mainly along the East Coast and sell completed works to support themselves and their art. Cank and Man started painting together at Pennsylvania State University. After they left the university, they reunited and started to paint together full time.
