Music in the Stacks- Concert Series

Free monthly concert series, a spin-off of the popular Music in the Stacks concerts. On the 4thThursday of the month, there will be a different local band or solo artist playing their music in the library's Fireside Room.  

This month's concert features Virgil Brown.

Neal Virgil Brown is a storyteller, through song and the written word. There are plenty of Neals and Neils in the music business, so he goes by his middle name, Virgil. Virgil got his start playing guitar as a kid in a family who all sang and played an instrument of some kind. In his young life he worked as a logger, a fisherman, a radio disc-jockey & newsman, and as a taxi driver on the mean streets of Vancouver. All the while he was writing his own songs and performing them in coffee houses and nightclubs. Eventually Virgil was based out of Seattle where for many years, he was on the road playing whatever music he could get paid to play. In the 1980's he toured the far-east with a rock-n-roll band called The 57s, and in the 1990's it was Europe, with stops in Amsterdam, Prague, Berlin and Munich. As an encore, he spent a couple of decades being a father and working as a coffee roaster. He has spent the last few years writing, recording, and drifting. He found his way to the warm sunny desert, and the time to look back. He’s written and recorded a collection of new songs, and a series of short stories that chronicle his reckless youth.