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4TH ANNUAL TOM TOM FOUNDERS FESTIVAL Apr il 1 3 -1 9 20 1 5 C H ARL OTTESVI L L E, VA
TH E 4 TH ANNU AL TO M TO M FO U NDERS FESTIVAL
is a 501c3 nonprofit that hosts dozens of events every year in Charlottesville,
VA. The Festival’s mission is to empower the founders of creative, civic, and
entrepreneurial ventures by connecting communities and fostering lasting
legacies of creativity.
In 2014, Tom Tom showcased 381 community organizations, facilitated
over $500,000 of seed stage investment, and had an economic impact of
$843,000 on the community of Charlottesville. Tom Tom is sustained by the
generosity of multiple sponsors and diverse public support.
T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 1STAFF NONPROFIT BOARD
Paul Beyer, Director Rick Beyer, R.L. Beyer Custom Homes
Carolyn Zelikow, Assistant Director Blake Hurt, Capital Real Estate
James Cunningham, Music & Production Chip Harding, Albemarle County Sheriff
Daniel Willson, Innovation
Sana Khawaja, Art PROGRAMMING CONTRIBUTORS
Polina Chesnakova, Food Wendy Brown, Community Investment
Alyssa Dizon, Campus Outreach Collaborative
Matt Pamer, Creative Director Chiara Canzi, U.Va. Licensing and Ventures
Renee Shuey, Designer Seth Casana, Whurk Magazine
Andrea Douglas, African American Heritage
INTERNS & KEY VOLUNTEERS Center
Badra Benkreira Alex Euler, Center for Innovative Technologies
Todd Colvin Dale Fickett, RVAWorks
Veronica Correa Dan Freedman, Charlottesville Area
Rob Edwards Community Foundation
Caroline Gibson Gram Slaton, Piedmont Council for the Arts
T HAN K YOU for being part of Tom Tom’s motto is “Found Yourself”. Ed Freeman, U.Va. Darden School of Business
Blake Goodwin
the 4th Annual Tom Tom Founders It’s a Charlottesville tradition that Meghan Kasel Tosha Grantham, Second Street Gallery
Eric Leimkuhler Serena Gruia, The Bridge PAI
Festival. Charlottesville is a town goes all the way back to the Maggie Guggenheimer, Virginia Foundation
Norah McDonald
with an extraordinary past and an Founding Father and Tom Tom Linh Nguyen for the Humanities
Christiana Nguyen Jody Kielbasa, U.Va. Vice Provost for the Arts
exciting future, and in this week of namesake, Thomas Jefferson. Since Emily Pickelhaupt Amanda Poncy, City of Charlottesville
Jefferson’s birth, we’re celebrating initiating Tom Tom in 2012, we Marcus Rasmussen Christine Mahoney, U.Va. Batten School of
Leah Retta Public Policy
founders in business, society, and the have worked with hundreds of Cassidy Savarino Elizabeth Pyle, U.Va. School of Engineering
and Applied Science
arts. Hopefully we’re also inspiring individuals who have this founding Aaku Tamrakar
Anna Tucker Chad Ratliff, Albemarle County Schools
the next generation of founders. spirit. Without them, the Festival Dori Williams Sandy Reisky, Apex Clean Energy
Matthew Slaats, The Bridge PAI
would not exist. So we hope you Jessica Zimmerman
Joyce Smaragdis, U.Va. Batten Institute for
In 2015, our Entrepreneur in take this Festival as an opportunity Entrepreneurship
ADVISORY BOARD M J Toms, U.Va. Batten Institute for
Residence is Alexis Ohanian, to have a great time, be inspired by Special thanks to Susan Payne and Greg Entrepreneurship
cofounder of the website reddit, an the creative energy around you, and Graham for their support of the festival. David Touve, U.Va. McIntire School of
Commerce
online community of millions. Alexis take the leap to found great things. Brevy Cannon, U.Va. Media Relations Juliet Trail, College and Graduate School of
is joined by dozens of remarkable Pete Caramanis, Royer Caramanis Arts & Sciences
McDonough PLC Brian Wheeler, Charlottesville Tomorrow
innovators committed to building Lee Catlin, Albemarle County Todd Wickersty, Storyware
Frank Dubec, GoodSoil Agency
their communities both locally
David Ellis, City of Charlottesville Special thanks to Leadership Charlottesville
and globally. Tom Tom’s Artist in Will Foshay, Felton Group Class of 2016 for making Tom Tom their
Greg Graham, Edgehill Farm signature project:
Residence Mickael Broth served 10 Rick Hamilton, IBM
months in prison for creating public Sharon Krueger, U.Va. Office of the Vice Ed Stockwell, Craig Kotarski, Gretchen
President for Research Kaufman, Garrick Alden, Kathy Del Rosso,
art. He now spearheads Richmond’s Susan Payne, Payne Ross and Associates Laura Lamonic, & Sharon Adelle
Welcoming Walls project, a mural Yours Sincerely, Michael Prichard, WillowTree Apps
series that frames that city as a Paul Beyer Philippe Sommer, U.Va. Batten Institute at the
Darden School
creative canvas. Emma Terry, U.Va. Office of the Provost and
Vice Provost for the Arts
David Touve, U.Va. Galant Center for
Entrepreneurship, McIntire School of
Commerce
Travis Wilburn, Stay Charlottesville
PA G E 2 / T O M T O M F E S T. C O M T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 3ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
BECCA MCCHAREN CLAUDE WAMPLER
McCharen is the founder of avant- Claude Wampler is a New York–
garde fashion line CHROMAT. based multimedia artist, whose
Raised in Lynchburg, VA, this U.Va. work “investigates the boundaries
School of Architecture graduate of spectatorship in the visual and
fuses technical chops with fierce performing arts,” according to
individualism to create unique, ArtForum. Wampler’s work has
larger-than-life pieces for clients shown at Richard Telles Fine Art
like Madonna, Lady Gaga, Nicky in Los Angeles, The Whitney
Minaj, and Beyoncé. Museum in New York, Diverse
Works in Houston, Museum of Art
McCharen is participating in the in Seoul, in Paris at Menagerie de
Art in Virginia Luncheon (p. 25) Verre, in Lisbon at the Gulbenkian
speaking at the Founders Summit Foundation Center of Modern Art,
(p. 27 and offering a workshop on at the Rotterdam Film Festival in the
fashion design (p. 43). Netherlands, and many others.
BECCA IS HOSTED IN PART
BY U.VA. ARTS AND THE Wampler is participating in the
ENTREPRENEURSHIP GROUP Art in Virginia Luncheon (p. 25),
AT U.VA. speaking at the Founders Summit
(p. 27), and performing in Ritual
and Creative Collisions (p. 43).
CLAUDE IS THE RUFFIN
DISTINGUISHED ARTIST IN
RESIDENCE AND IS HOSTED
BY THE COLLEGE AND
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS
AND SCIENCES AT U.VA.
PA G E 4 / T O M T O M F E S T. C O M T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 5ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
MICKAEL BROTH
A lifelong street artist, Mickael Broth
is founder of Richmond’s Welcoming
Walls project, a series of large murals
at the city’s gateways. Broth’s current
style emerged during a 10 month
prison sentence he served for painting
graffiti across the East Coast. “Every
day I still think about it,” Broth told The
Washington Post for his 2012 show
CITY ART BUS
at Artisphere. “It became part of the
Presented in Partnership with Charlottesville Area Transit
way that my brain looks at the world.”
Charlottesville Area Transit has dedicated a soon to be decommissioned 35’ long
Juxtapoz calls his 3 volume exploration
flyer passenger bus for Resident Artist Mickael Broth to paint. Pictured are the initial
of the experience, entitled Gated
renderings, which will tie into Mickael’s other major project, the Garrett Street
Community: Graffiti and Incarceration,
Mural. Catch the art bus on CAT’S free Downtown to U.Va. route in the month of
“highly recommended”.
April.
Broth is leading the painting of
At Tom Tom, this bus will be the home of Poetry on the Trolley (p. 41), departing
Charlottesville’s Free Trolley and the
from Lee Park between 12 and 6pm, Saturday 4/18, and will be stationed at the
mural at Garrett and 6th Street (see
Belmont Block Party (p. 46), Sunday 4/19.
facing). He is also contributing original
art to the Downtown Mall Lamppost
Banners (pp. 8-9). For more street art, GARRET ST MURAL
check out the Graffiti Art Battle (p. 41) This 240’ mural on the corner of Garrett
and 6th street marks the intersection of
MICKAEL IS HOSTED IN PART the Downtown and Belmont neighbors,
BY THE FUND @ CACF and a newly conceived strategic
improvement district for entrepreneurship
and creativity.
PA G E 6 / T O M T O M F E S T. C O M T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 7Adam Disbrow Amy Sherald Andrew Stronge Christine Stoddard
Eileen French Emily Herr Frank Buffalo Hyde Hannah Barefoot
ALL WEEK
DOWNTOWN
BANNER
COMPETITION Hannah Varden Jeffrey Thelin Matt Pamer Mickael Broth
Presented in partnership with Charlottesville Area Transit (CAT) & U.Va Arts
Part of City As Canvas, the Downtown Banner Competition brings 16 original works
of art to the Downtown Mall and to transit shelters throughout Charlottesville.
Vote for your favorite during the week of Tom Tom – thumbnails at right. The winner
will be named Sunday, April 19th at the Belmont Block Party. The artist with the most
votes will win $1,000. The top voted student will win $500.
CAST YOUR VOTE: TOMTOMFEST.COM/VOTE
Renee Shuey Sangyoon Park Sean Raynor Yeni Mao
PA G E 8 / T O M T O M F E S T. C O M T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 9MONDAY FRIDAY NIGHT BLOCK PARTY
5PM - 11PM
FOUNDING CVILLE AND Lee Park, More info, p.36
OPENING CEREMONY
6PM Reception, 7PM Talks SATURDAY
Jefferson School African American
Heritage Center TOM TOM CITY MARKET
More info, p. 14 9AM - 12PM
More info, p.40
TUESDAY
PICNIC DAY CONCERTS, ART, &
NONPROFIT PITCH NIGHT PERFORMANCE
COMPETITION 12PM - 7PM
6PM Reception, 7PM Pitches Lee Park, 2nd Street Gallery,
Jefferson School African American The Haven, Old Metropolitan Hall
Heritage Center More info, p.38
More info, p. 16
ART PERFORMANCE & WORKSHOPS,
WEDNESDAY 2nd Street Gallery, The Haven, Old
Metropolitan Hall
SONGWRITER NIGHT & LENA FAYRE More info, p. 41
6:30PM Doors, 7PM Competition,
8:30PM Concert FELLINI’S #9 JAZZFEST
The Haven, More info, p.17 5PM - 2AM
Fellini’s #9
THURSDAY More info, p.45
U.VA INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR METAL SHOWCASE
AWARDS & CROWDFUNDED PITCH 7PM - 11PM
COMPETITION Champion Brewery
530PM Awards 7PM Reception, More info, p.45
7:30PM Pitches
The Jefferson Theater SUNDAY
More info, p.18
BELMONT BLOCK PARTY
FRIDAY 12PM - 7PM
Belmont BBQ, La Taza, Fitzgeralds Tires
FOUNDERS SUMMIT More info, p.46
8AM Coffee & Registration
9:30AM - 5PM Talks PORCHELLA
5:30PM Galant Challenge 6PM - 10PM
The Paramount Theater Front Porches in Belmont
More info, p.20 More info, p.47
T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 1 1ALL WEEK
FARM TO TABLE
RESTAURANT
WEEK
1 WEEK. 11 RESTAURANTS.
PRIX FIXE MENUS AND SPECIALTY DISHES HIGHLIGHTING
LOCAL FARMERS AND ARTISANS
Featuring these restaruants
Presented in Partnership with Whole Foods Market
BROOKVILLE
C&O RESTAURANT
Named the “Locavore Capital of the World” by Forbes and one of CITIZEN BURGER BAR
the “Tastiest Towns in the South” by Southern Living, Charlottesville THE CLIFTON INN
is surrounded by farms, dairies, breweries, vineyards, and HAMILTONS’ AT FIRST & MAIN
orchards. Within the city limits, butchers, jam makers, bakers, IVY INN
chocolatiers, and all manner of craft food artisans have set up MAS
shop. Take a guided tour through the tastes of Charlottesville with OAKHART SOCIAL
the town’s best chefs. ORZO KITCHEN & WINE BAR
RED PUMP KITCHEN
THE WHISKEY JAR
PA G E 1 2 / T O M T O M F E S T. C O M T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 1 3ROB VAUGHAN / Founder,
Virginia Foundation for the
Humanities
Since its founding in 1974, VFH
has raised over $160,000,000 in
ANDREA DOUGLAS / Founding sponsoring 40,000 humanities programs
Director, African American serving communities large and small
Heritage Center throughout Virginia.
Andrea will share the narrative of the
Jefferson School, from its founding
through the years of segregation and
Massive Resistance, to its transformation
MONDAY
into an innovative center for non-profits
FOUNDING CVILLE
with new models for building and
sustaining community.
AND OPENING
ROBIN FELDER / Founder
Global Cell Solutions and 8
other companies
CEREMONY Robin’s 300 peer-reviewed research
publications and 18 patents have
elicited over $100 million dollars of
Federal grants and private investment.
6PM Reception
7PM Launch of Creative Collisions & Founding Talks BRYNNE POTTER / Cofounder,
Jefferson School African American Heritage Center Maternity Neighborhood
Presented in Partnership with Bank of America Brynne’s work in digital health has
entered the vanguard of those thinking
Founding Cville is a chance to meet the contemporary Founders who about patient empowerment and data
have made Charlottesville what it is today. The Founding Cville project access. Brynne also was integral in
SARA CLAYBORNE / Cofounder,
tells the stories of local architects, entrepreneurs, scientists, and civic the advocacy to modernize Virginia’s
Charlottesville Ballet
leaders who followed their passions and, in the process, created regulatory framework for access to
The Ballet is an academy
projects of lasting impact on our area and society at large. community-based maternity care
a community resource, and a
services, by serving as legislative
performance company that attracts
The launch of Creative Collisions will occur at 7pm with the choosing of liaison to the State’s General Assembly
international dancers. Sara Clayborne
teams and themes. Read about the projects culmination on page 43. for the Virginia Midwives Alliance
cofounded the Ballet in 2007 with Emily
Mott after a career spent teaching,
studying, and performing dance
professionally.
PA G E 1 4 / T O M T O M F E S T. C O M T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 1 5TUESDAY
NONPROFIT $30K
PITCH NIGHT
6PM Reception, 7PM Pitches
Jefferson School African American Heritage Center
Presented in Partnership with the Future Fund at the Charlottesville Area
WEDNESDAY
Community Foundation
SONGWRITER
Meet 16 innovative nonprofits, selected ART COMPETITION
from a pool of over 77 applicants. Charlottesville Ballet WITH PERFORMANCE BY LENA FAYRE
The Charlottesville Area Community New City Arts Initiative
Foundation’s Future Fund is hosting its American Shakespeare Center
grantmaking cycle this year as a live, Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative
public pitch night. Music Resource Center
7PM Competition, 830PM Concert
The Haven
Join the Future Fund to vote towards the EDUCATION
Presented in Partnership with 106.1 the Corner and Wild Wolf Brewing
allocation of $30,000 in grant funding. Walker Upper Elementary School
Non-members of the Future Fund may (Books on Bikes)
Celebrating the art of songwriting, this multi-genre showcase will be a high energy
vote for a crowd favorite by donating Big Brothers Big Sisters
showdown between 10 up-and-comers and established songwriters. Performers will receive
$10 per vote. Individuals may buy as Boys and Girls Club of Central VA
feedback from the panel of music industry experts, but ultimately the crowd decides on the
many as 10 votes each. Backpack Buddies
winner!
City of Promise
Community Investment Collaborative
Audience members will buy votes ($5 each / 5 maximum) and choose a favorite for the
PACEM
crowdfunded pool. Other prizes include free studio time and training at White Star Studios
and rehearsal space at Bay 1 Studios. List of participating songwriters on page 56.
ENVIRONMENT
Camp Holiday Trails
The evening will be followed by a special performance from Lena Fayre, an
Local Energy Alliance Program
18 year-old songwriter dubbed by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of
Market Central
“10 Artists You Need to Know.”
Better World Betty
PA G E 1 6 / T O M T O M F E S T. C O M T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 1 7THURSDAY
CROWDFUNDED
PITCH NIGHT
07:30 PM - 09PM
The Jefferson Theater
Presented in Partnership with the Batten Institute at U.Va.’s Darden
School of Business
Celebrate local business at Charlottesville’s 4th annual Crowdfunded Pitch Night, an
evening of camaraderie and entrepreneurship at The Jefferson Theater in Downtown
Charlottesville.
Ten of Charlottesville’s best and brightest businesses will each have 3 minutes to
pitch their products and how they plan to grow. $10 buys a vote (maximum of 5) to
cast for your favorite entrepreneurial plan. At the end of the night, the crowd chosen
winner will opt between the the cash prize, or a coveted spot in Darden’s “Innovation
Laboratory”, which comes with a $5,000 grant and high impact support from
THURSDAY Darden’s faculty and alumni.
U.VA.’S INNOVATOR Another contestant will have an opportunity to join the Community Investment
Collaborative (CIC), a Charlottesville-based program designed to help entrepreneurs
OF THE YEAR from low-income and underserved communities start or expand their businesses.
5:30 - 7PM
The Jefferson Theater
Presented in partnership with U.Va. Licensing & Ventures Group
The highest honor bestowed on University of Virginia innovators, the Edlich-
Henderson Innovator of the Year award recognizes an individual or team whose
research discovery is making a major impact. Award winners receive a $10,000
cash prize and formal recognition at this special awards reception.
PICTURED ABOVE: Robin Felder, 2012 recipient
PA G E 1 8 / T O M T O M F E S T. C O M T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 1 98AM-6PM, FRIDAY, APRIL 17TH
THE PARAMOUNT THEATER
$75 GENERAL, $25 STUDENT
A day of founding narratives from some of the world’s most innovative
entrepreneurs. Talks & panels dive into the startup experience, with insights on
topics like the role of corporations in society, commerce versus creativity, and
how to build big ideas in small towns.
Presented in Partnership with the Batten Institute at U.Va’s Darden School of
Business, Storyware, and Virginia is For Lovers
SCHEDULE
8:00AM REGISTRATION
8:15AM ONE MILLION CUPS
9:30AM OPENING REMARKS
9:45AM TALK: ALEXIS OHANIAN
10:15AM PANEL: SMALL EMPIRES
11:00AM TALK: KIP TINDELL
11:15AM PANEL: CONSCIOUS CAPITALISM
12:00PM LUNCHEONS
2:00PM TALKS: ART AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
3:15PM TALK: PETER ROJAS
3:30PM PANEL: HOW TO LAUNCH A STARTUP
4:15PM TALK: DALE DOUGHERTY
4:30PM PANEL: CAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP BE TAUGHT?
5:15PM CLOSING REMARKS
5:30PM THE GALANT CHALLENGE
T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 2 1FOUNDERS SUMMIT
PANEL: SMALL EMPIRES
How Small Cities Grow Big Ideas
9:45 TALK, 10:15 PANEL
Presented in Partnership with TING Mobile
Towns and cities across the country aspire to be like Silicon Valley and Boulder,
CO – hotbeds for high growth tech startups and income generating innovation. This
panel looks at how small cities and younger entrepreneurial ecosystems can thrive by
embracing their existing identities.
FOUNDERS SUMMIT
ENTREPRENEUR PANELISTS
IN RESIDENCE
AL EXIS OHANIAN
Alexis Ohanian, is Cofounder and Executive Chairman of Reddit, “the front page
of the internet,” a website that gets more than 6 billion pageviews per month. ALEXIS OHANIAN DONNA HARRIS REID SNYDER
Ohanian is a partner at Y Combinator, “Silicon Valley’s startup machine,” and a cofounder of Reddit founder of 1776 publisher of
noted champion of net neutrality. He hosts Small Empires for The Verge, a series Streetwise Media
that examines big ideas coming from unlikely places, and is the author of the Wall
Street Journal best-seller Without Their Permission. According to Slate, this thirty-one
year old U.Va. grad might even be ” solving the United States’ innovation crisis” by
democratizing entrepreneurship.
BOB MOONEY TAREK PERTEW
EVENTS WITH » Founders Summit. Fri 4.17
cofounder of cofounder of
ALEXIS: » Keynote: The Founding Story of Reddit
New Richmond Uncubed
» Panel: Small Empires
Ventures
» Keynote Luncheon at the Downtown Grille
» Conversation: Can you teach entrepreneurship?
» Galant Challenge. Fri. 4.17
» Super Demo. Sat. 4.18 at the Haven
» Wahoowa. Sat. 4.18 at the Old Metropolitan Hall
PA G E 2 2 / T O M T O M F E S T. C O M T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 2 3FOUNDERS
CONSCIOUS
CAPITALISM PANELISTS LUNCHEONS
WITH KIP TINDELL
12 - 2PM
The Founders Luncheons are seven
catered lunches at multiple venues
downtown, offering an opportunity to
step back from the Founders Summit and
dig into ideas and problems with leaders
ED FREEMAN in specific fields.
Professor
Darden School SPEAKERS LUNCHEON / The
Downtown Grille / Presented with
Quantitative Investment Management.
EDUCATING TOMORROW’S
FOUNDERS SUMMIT FOUNDERS / The Downtown Grill
/ Presented with the Curry School of
KEYNOTE: KIP TINDELL JEFFREY CHERRY
Education.
11AM Talk, 11:15 Panel SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN
Executive Director
Presented in Partnership with Virginia Business Magazine VIRGINIA / Hamiltons’ / Presented
Conscious Venture Lab
with Social Entrepreneurship @ U.Va.
Kip Tindell is founder of The Container Store which generates nearly $800 million
in revenue and is the nation’s leading retailer of storage and organization products. VIRGINIA’S NATIONAL
This March, The Container Store celebrated its sixteenth year on Fortune’s List of 100 ECONOMIC IDENTITY / The
Best Companies to Work For. Tindell is the incoming chairman of the National Retail Downtown Grille / Presented with
Federation. the Arlington Economic Development
Authority.
ADRIAN KEEVIL
PANEL: CONSCIOUS Founder
PlusTick Partners
ENTREPRENEURS IN FOOD:
EATING LOCAL EVERYDAY /
CAPITALISM Brookville / Presented with Whole
Foods Market
11:15 AM WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN
HEALTH, TECH, & DESIGN / Zocalo
Conscious Capitalism is a business philosophy that builds on the foundations of
/ Presented with Scitent and The Ivy
capitalism: voluntary exchange, entrepreneurship, competition, freedom to trade, and
Group
the rule of law, with a renewed emphasis on serving the interests of all stakeholders—
customers, employees, investors, communities, suppliers, and the environment. RAJ SISODIA
VIRGINIA’S NATIONAL ART
Professor of Global Business
IDENTITY / 2nd Street Gallery
Babson College
PA G E 2 4 / T O M T O M F E S T. C O M T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 2 5FOUNDERS SUMMIT LIGHTNING TALKS ON ART AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP 2PM Presented in Partnership with the Office of the Provost and Vice Provost for the Arts at U.Va. and the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at U.Va. How do you build a business around a creative vision? What do tensions between art and commerce mean in practical terms? Founders in creative industries talk about their own experience navigating these questions. DAVE FREY GEOFFREY TRUMP BECCA MCCHAREN CLAUDE WAMPLER founder of the tour director for the Dave founder of CHROMAT Ruffin Distinguished Lockn’ Music Festival Matthews Band The avant-garde fashion line CHROMAT Artist in Residence Dave has brought artists such as creates larger-than-life pieces for Phish and Wilco to Charlottesville’s boundary-testing stars like Madonna, backyard with Lockn’. Frey is also Lady Gaga, and Nicky Minaj. The the cofounder of Silent Partner Lynchburg native and U.Va. Architecture Management, which steers The grad is a Forbes 30 under 30: Art Ramones estate, and cofounder of & Style” pick for “People Who Are the legendary H.O.R.D.E. Fest, a Reinventing the World in 2014.” touring jamathon that ruled the 90s summer circuit. PA G E 2 6 / T O M T O M F E S T. C O M T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 2 7
FOUNDERS SUMMIT
PANEL: HOW TO
LAUNCH A STARTUP
3:30PM
How To Launch a Startup offers practical tips and 20/20 hindsight on how to build a
business from scratch. Learn about everything from how not to do press launches to
strategies for managing equity.
FOUNDERS SUMMIT PANELISTS
ENTREPRENEUR-
IN-RESIDENCE
PETER ROJAS
PETER ROJAS VANESSA HURST ADAM HEALEY
3:15 TALK, 3:30 PANEL
Gizmodo, Engadget, Girl Develop It, Borrowed & Blue
and now AOL CodeMontage,
Peter Rojas is the cofounder of Gizmodo and of Engadget, two of the web’s most
Developers for Good
influential tech blogs, both of which Rojas launched before he was 30. Rojas is
currently the VP of Strategy for AOL and the Director of AOL Alpha. You can also
catch Peter at Super Demo on Saturday (p. 44).
EVENTS » Founders Summit. Fri 4/17
WITH PETER: • Keynote: The Founding Story of Engadget
• Panel: How to Launch a Startup
• Keynote Luncheon at the Downtown Grille STEPHANIE NGUYEN JOSH GUTTMAN
• Conversation: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught? Landmark SoftBank
» Super Demo. Sat. 4/18 at The Haven
PA G E 2 8 / T O M T O M F E S T. C O M T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 2 9PANEL: CAN
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
BE TAUGHT?
4:30PM
Colleges and schools across the country are racing to develop entrepreneurship
programs, reigniting an age-old question about nature and nurture in the context of
entrepreneurial qualities. Research in entrepreneurial curricula has advanced by leaps
and bounds, and can help young founders avoid common pitfalls, from writing better
budgets to recovering more rapidly from failure. Some entrepreneurs though argue
that the only way to learn entrepreneurship is by doing, and that education can stifle
young founders’ appetites for risk and innovation.
FOUNDERS SUMMIT
This conversation brings the speakers back on stage to consider a scenario: If your
ENTREPRENEUR- son or daughter wanted to drop out of college to pursue a startup, what would you
counsel them to do?
IN-RESIDENCE
DALE DOUGHERTY PANELISTS
4:15 TALK, 4:30 PANEL
Presented in Partnership with U.Va.’s School of Engineering and Applied
Science and the Albemarle County School System
Dale Dougherty is the founder and CEO of Make Magazine and Maker Faire, as
well as a cofounder of O’Reilly Media, TED presenter, and W hite House guest. The BECCA MCCHAREN JEFF CHERRY ED FREEMAN
Maker Movement celebrates America’s identity as a nation of garage workshop
geniuses by connecting innovators and supporting STEM education (Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Math) in schools. The Maker Faire franchise is a series
of enormous, World’s Fair-style expos of creativity in engineering, programming, and
science that take place all across the world, from Istanbul to Detroit.
PETER ROJAS ALEXIS OHANIAN DAVE FREY
EVENTS » T ouring the Albemarle County School System. Thursday, 4/16
WITH DALE: » Founders Summit. Friday, 4/17
• Keynote: The Founding Story of the Maker Faire
• Educating Tomorrow’s Founders at the Downtown Grille
• Conversation: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?
» Super Demo. Saturday, 4/18 at The Haven
» Genius Hour. Sunday, 4/19 at the Belmont Block Party
DALE DOUGHERTY VANESSA HURST DONNA HARRIS
PA G E 3 0 / T O M T O M F E S T. C O M T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 3 1FOUNDERS SUMMIT GALANT CHALLENGE FREE, PUBLIC 5:30PM Presented in Partnership with the Galant Center for Entrepreneurship at the McIntire School of Commerce Learn about emerging U.Va. entrepreneurs and support Wahoo businesses. Engage with U.Va. students and alumni in a live angel funding round with investors from across the region. This is not a pitch competition or business model exercise. Over half a million dollars in seed stage investment was offered to new ventures through this program in 2014. PA G E 3 2 / T O M T O M F E S T. C O M T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 3 3
Tom Tom hosts 6 block parties over the weekend of April 17 - 19.
These large, outdoor gatherings with live music, local food & drink,
art, and performance offer locals, students, and visitors an opportunity
to experience Charlottesville and engage with their community in new
ways.
BLOCK PARTIES
Friday Night Block Party at Lee Park
Saturday Picnic Day at Lee Park
Saturday Jazzfest at Fellini’s #9
Saturday Metal Showcase at Champion Brewery
Sunday Belmont Block Party
Sunday Porchella Front Porch Fest
CRAFT BEER
New Belgium & Wild Wolf Beer Gardens
FOOD TRUCKS
A Taste of Home Southern Cooking
barefoot bucha
Bavarian Chef
Blue Ridge Pizza Co.
Carpe Donut
Got Dumplings
Kona Ice
Little Manila
Pantheon Pops
Smojo Smoothies & Juice
South Fork Food Truck
The Pie Guy
Two Brothers Southwestern Grill
WINE AND CIDER
Early Mountain Vineyards
Woodchuck Hard Cider
PA G E 3 4 / T O M T O M F E S T. C O M T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 3 5FRIDAY
BLOCK PARTY
5PM / Lee Park
Presented in Partnership with C-Ville Weekly
FEATURING MUSIC FROM:
One of Tom Tom’s signature events: thousands of people out on a spring night,
diverse bands and performances, food trucks ringing Cville’s central park, and a
LORD NELSON
New Belgium Brewing craft beer garden throughout it all.
DAMANI HARRISON OF BEETNIX
THE FUNK ARK WITH MEMBERS
OF THIEVERY CORPORATION
BOSLEY
PA G E 3 6 / T O M T O M F E S T. C O M T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 3 7SATURDAY
PICNIC DAY
12PM-7PM
LEE PARK CONCERT SERIES
9AM-7PM / Lee Park
Presented in Partnership with the Newsplex BOURBON BARREL CONGRESS
Events at City Market, Second Street Gallery, The Haven, Old SALLY ROSE MUSIC
Metropolitan Hall CHAMOMILE AND WHISKEY
STABLE ROOTS
A Saturday party with live music and tons of art from across the state. Bluegrass SUN-DRIED OPOSSUM
bands and craft beer are the backdrop for an art fair, an inventions expo, and local THE SOUTHERN BELLES
food workshops. Pack your picnic basket at the Farmer’s Market, then head over! ELBY BRASS
Picnic Day is free and open to the public.
PA G E 3 8 / T O M T O M F E S T. C O M T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 3 9FOOD
SATURDAY
FARM TO TABLE EXPO
Presented in Partnership with Whole Foods Market
ART MORE
B U I LD YOUR PICNIC B A S K ET
9AM / City Market
CRAFTS ART
Stop by Tom Tom’s tent on Saturday morning to pick up a Tom Tom tote bag
INSTALLATIONS EVENTS
containing a Build Your Picnic Basket menu. With this menu as your guide, tour
the market and curate your own 100% locally-sourced Picnic Basket, discovering
FINE ART &
exclusive goodies and deals. Then stroll over to Lee Park and enjoy your treats at
Tom Tom’s Picnic Day. COMPETITIONS
A R T S H O WC ASE S POE TRY ON
I R ON CHEF 1 2 -7 P M AT LE E PARK , FRE E TH E TROLLE Y
11AM / City Market 12-6PM
Departing from Lee Park
The Iron Chef City Market Competition challenges contestants to come up with a F L E AVI L L E SH OWC ASE S AT FREE
dish that is 100% locally-sourced. Ten contestants will each have a $30 budget, 30 Fleaville is an open air LE E PARK
minutes to shop, and 30 minutes to cook up a set of tastings for a panel of local food market for local creativity, Student Art Showcase
celebs. The winner will take home $250. ranging from upcycled with Charlottesville YOGA ART
furniture and vintage City Schools. Whurk GROOV E S
houseware to handmade Magazine statewide 3PM
D OW NT OW N CHIL I S HOWD OWN toys, crafts, and original art showcase. Virginia Second Street Gallery
11AM / Main Street Arena / $10 works of fine art. Come Living’s Made in Virginia $12 at the door
see over 35 vendors! Showcase
Red Shoe Cville will be hosting the first ever completely local Blind Beer Battle,
alongside a unique chili competition, featuring local restaurants and incredible home GRAFFI TI ART
cooks all working hard to win your votes for People’s Chili Champion. There will also P O P U P PARK I NG SPAC E S BATTLE
be a kids zone, photo booth by MoxBox, and a silent disco. Playful urbanism reimagines seven public parking 12-8PM
spaces as stages, art installations and environmental Belmont Bridge.
amenities. Coordinated by the AIA of Central Virginia, Artists from across the
participants include: Building Goodness, Computers For state battle it out. Crowd
Kids, Habitat For Humanity of Greater Charlottesville, voting at Champion
Light House Studio, Live Arts, Music Resource Center, Brewery, 6:30PM
P.B. and J. Fund FREE
PA G E 4 0 / T O M T O M F E S T. C O M T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 4 1BECCA MCCHAREN FASHION WORKSHOP
1PM / Old Metropolitan Hall
$15 at the door, Free for Founder Summit Attendees
A primer on creative designs and approaches, featuring photography, video and
designs from past CHROMAT shows. Free for Founders Summit attendees (bring your
lanyard).
EMERGENCE I: CREATIVE COLLISIONS
4PM / The Haven
$5 for both Emergence Performances and Reception
Co-created by The UVa College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
and The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative
What emerges when scientists, artists, and entrepreneurs collide? Dedicated to
“Visioning the Future,” the project will challenge three teams to create a performance
piece around one of three areas: Health & Education, Race & Identity, Environment
& Sustainability. After a week of research, experimentation, and expression, Creative
Collisions will culminate at The Haven in a series of 20-minute performances.
Participants include: Claude Wampler, Mary Carroll-Hackett, Sigrid Eilertson, Katie
Schetlick, Miller Susen, Rob Richmond, Matthew Slaats, Will May, Cassandra Fraser,
Matt Trowbridge, Mark White, Bernard Hankins, Alexis Chaet, Tim Miano, and
Adrash Ramakrishan.
SATURDAY
EMERGENCE II: RITUAL
ART & MUSIC 6PM / The Haven
WITH THE COLLEGE Ticketed
Resident Artist Claude Wampler works at the intersection of media, performance,
Presented in Partnership with the U.Va College and Graduate School of sculpture, and spectatorship. Join her and the ISPIP Art Collective for an interactive
Arts & Sciences performance piece, the result of a semester long peer collaboration. “Ritual”
will transform The Haven into an immersive space, fostering a unique audience
WORDS AND MUSIC experience blurring lines between the live and the mediated
12PM / Second Street Gallery
FREE
U.Va.’s Creative Writing MFA Program and McIntire Department of Music team up to Reception by the U.Va College And Graduate School Of Arts & Sciences
present Words & Music, a noon performance featuring innovative collaborations by 7Pm At The Haven
graduate students of poetry, fiction, and music composition.
PA G E 4 2 / T O M T O M F E S T. C O M T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 4 3SATURDAY
INTERACTIVE
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
CIC SHOWCASE SUPER DEMO
9AM / City Market 1PM / The Haven
For the third year in a row, Community
Investment Collaborative (CIC) will host
Presented by the Entrepreneurship
Group at U.Va.
S ATUR DAY
N I GHT PA R TIE S
an entrepreneur showcase at Tom Tom Modeled after Y Combinator’s famous
Fest. Meet over 25 of the newest home- demo days, select groups from schools
grown Charlottesville area businesses. At across the East Coast present projects
the showcase, you’ll be able to sample in tech and entrepreneurship. A panel
and buy products, learn about great
services and give new entrepreneurs
of judges, including Alexis Ohanian,
cofounder of reddit and partner in FELLINIS #9 METAL
feedback about their businesses. Y Combinator, Peter Rojas, current JAZZFEST SHOWCASE
VP of AOL and founder of Gizmodo 5PM-2AM 7PM - 11PM
and Engadget, Dale Dougherty, Presented by Fellini’s #9 Presented by Champion Brewery
founder of Maker Faire, and Vanessa FREE FREE
Hurst, founder of Girl Develop It and
CodeMontage, will award a $3,000 A New Orleans flavored street party Metal heavyweights celebrate the debut
prize. Presentations and judging at The closes down 2nd Street to traffic for an of Champion Brewery’s Black IPA Collab
Haven will be followed by a reception at eclectic night of performance from: with Ramming Speed!
Old Metropolitan Hall.
HOUND DOG HILL STRING BAND IRON REAGAN
WAHOOWA GRIFF'S ROOM BAND RAMMING SPEED
6PM / Old Metropolitan Hall LISA MCQUEEN JAZZ TRIO THE GLORIOUS GONE
Launched by HackCville, Wahoowa APPLE BUTTER SOUL OCCULTIST
is a nationwide network and event VEXINE
series for entrepreneurial U.Va. alumni SOUL TRANSIT AUTHORITY Stop in early to check out the results
and students. Wahoowa launched in IAN GILLIAM AND THE FIREKINGS of the Graffiti Battle.
the summer of 2014 and has since LARISSA & THE LUSIONISTICS
held events in cities across the U.S.,
including San Francisco, New York, and
Washington, D.C. This annual gathering,
held during the Tom Tom Founders
Festival, brings the entire network back
together for an evening of drinks and
conversation. All U.Va. students, faculty,
and alumni are welcome to attend.
T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 4 5PORCHELLA
FRONT PORCH
CONCERT SERIES
6PM - 10PM
As the sun sets, a series of acoustic front
porch concerts and jam sessions winds
down Goodman, Graves, and Monticello in
historic Belmont, and on MAS Tapas’ patio,
the neighborhood’s unofficial “front porch”.
Aaron Gilmartin
Ambiguous Trousers
Anatomy of Frank
Annabeth and the Larkspurs
Front Porch House Band
Gold Top Ramblers
Hopeless Pyromantics
SUNDAY
Michael Coleman
BELMONT Rick Olivarez Trio
Sarah Lynna and the Misfit Toys
BLOCK PARTY Tara Mills & Jimmy Stelling
We Are Star Children
12PM - 7PM
Downtown Belmont BLOCK
FREE
PARTY
Sunday’s Belmont Block Party
in Charlottesville’s most eclectic
BANDS
neighborhood stretches from The Bridge
PAI to MAS, closing Downtown Belmont WILL OVERMAN BAND
to traffic for the day. There will be local ADRIAN DUKE
food, handmade awesomeness, craft CHICKENHEAD BLUES BAND
THE NORTHERNERS
beer, demos, and more. Stop by early to
GALLATIN CANYON
help repaint the street mandala. MATT HORN AND FRIENDS
PA G E 4 6 / T O M T O M F E S T. C O M T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 4 7GENIUS HOUR STUDENT
INNOVATORS
Presented in Partnership with the School of Engineering
and Albemarle County Schools. Genius Hour is
an event for “makers” of all-ages. It’s a celebration
of tech enthusiasts, crafters, educators, tinkerers,
hobbyists, engineers, artists, and students. It’s your
chance to exhibit your own projects as well as explore
other designs from across the spectrum of science,
engineering, art, performance, and craft.
REPAINTING THE BELMONT
MANDALA
Join us at the intersection of Monticello and Hinton as the
Belmont Mandala gets a fresh coat of paint. In 2014,
neighborhood stalwart, Brian Wimer, kicked the process
off by shepherding it through the approval process. This
year, Wine and Design Charlottesville, children, and
volunteers will assemble in the morning to spruce it up.
FLEAVILLE ART & VINTAGE MARKET
SUNDAY
ART & ACTIVITIES OPEN HEART YOGA
Free yoga, kids events, snacks, and other activities.
PUBLIC ART BIKE RIDE
Departs from Downtown Belmont at 12PM.
This safe, kid-friendly jaunt will begin in Belmont and
includes a “scavenger hunt” of the new murals, banners,
and other works of art that have emerged during
the week of Tom Tom. Presented in Partnership with
Charlottesville Bike Ped.
PA G E 4 8 / T O M T O M F E S T. C O M T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 4 9ALL WEEK
ALL WEEK FRIDAY
FARM TO TABLE RESTAURANT WEEK AT MULITPLE VENUES 8AM-5PM FOUNDERS SUMMIT AT THE PARAMOUNT THEATER
DETAILS ON PAGE 12
8:00AM Registration
CITY AS CANVAS ART INSTALLATION SERIES
8:15AM One Million Cups
9:30AM Opening Remarks
MONDAY
MONDAY
9:45AM
10:15AM
11:00AM
Talk: Alexis Ohanian
Panel: Small Empires
Talk: Kip Tindell
11:15AM Panel: Conscious Capitalism
6:00 RECEPTION | 7:00 PRESENTATION 12:00PM Luncheons
FOUNDING CVILLE - NARRATIVES 2:00PM Talks: Art And Entrepreneurship
AT THE JEFFERSON SCHOOL CITY CENTER 3:15PM Talk: Peter Rojas
3:30PM Panel: How To Launch A Startup
TUESDAYTUESDAY
4:15PM Talk: Dale Dougherty
4:30PM Panel: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?
5:15PM Closing Remarks
5:30PM The Galant Challenge
6:00 RECEPTION | 7:00 PITCHES
NON PROFIT PITCH COMPETITION
AT THE JEFFERSON SCHOOL CITY CENTER 5:30PM GALANT CHALLENGE AT THE PARAMOUNT THEATER
WEDNESDAY
WEDNESDAY
5PM FRIDAY NIGHT BLOCK PARTY AT LEE PARK
FEATURING
DOORS AT 6:30 STARTS AT 7:00:00 PM LORD NELSON | DAMANI HARRISON | BOSLEY | THE FUNK ARC
SONGWRITER COMPETITION AT THE HAVEN
9PM D 'N' B AND THE LUCKLESS BASTARDS AT THE WHISKEY JAR
8:30 PM LENA FAYRE CONCERT AT THE HAVEN
10PM THE JUDY CHOPS AT SOUTH STREET BREWERY
THURSDAY
THURSDAY 11PM GRANDADDY’S GRAVY AT MONO LOCO
5:30PM INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR AWARD
AT THE JEFFERSON THEATER 12AM LARISSA & THE LUSIONISTICS
7:30PM CROWDFUNDED PITCH COMPETITION
AT THE JEFFERSON THEATER
9PM RED AND THE ROMANTICS AT MONO LOCO
10PM MOON AT SOUTH STREET BREWERY
ART MUSIC INNOVATION FOOD
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SATURDAY SCHEDULE
THE CITY MARKET HackCville
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9AM-12PM 9AM-11AM
T O M T O M F E S T. C O M
ALUMNI BRUNCH
-CIC SHOWCASE
10 -CHARITY CARNIVAL
-BUILD YOUR PICNIC BASKET
MAIN STREET ARENA
-IRON CHEF
11 JUDGING AT 11AM 11AM-4PM
DOWNTOWN
CHILI SHOWDOWN
PICNIC DAY MUSIC 2ND STREET ART
GALLERY PROGRAMMING
12 @ LEE PARK @ LEE PARK
12-2PM WORDS 12-7PM
ART & 12 PM - BURBON & MUSIC GRAFFITI ART
BARREL CONGRESS BATTLE at
VINTAGE FAIR THE HAVEN OLD MET HALL
1PM - SALLY ROSE Belmont Bridge
1 BAND 1-2:30PM
featured 1-3PM BECCA MCCHAREN
showcases: 1:40PM FASHION 12-7PM
SUPER POETRY ON THE
MINDS IN MOTION WORKSHOP
- POP-UP DEMO TROLLY
PARKS 2PM - CHAMOMILE 3 - 4:15PM leaving Lee
2 & WHISKEY YOGA ART Park every half
- MADE IN GROOVES hour
VIRGINIA 3PM -
- FLEAVILLE STABLE 1-2PM
3 - CITY SCHOOL ROOTS ALL LEVELS
YOGA WITH
ARTS FAIR THE HAVEN COMMON
- WHURK 4PM - SUN GROUND at
SHOWCASE DRIED 4-6PM McGuffey Park
4 OPPOSSUM CREATIVE COLLISIONS
5PM - JAZZFEST @
5 SOUTHERN
BELLES
FELLINI’S # 9 6:30PM
OLD MET HALL GRAFITTI ART
6PM 5PM - LISA MCQUEEN BATTLE
6PM - ELBY WAHOOWA
CLAUDE WAMPLER JAZZ TRIO Judging
BRASS BAND MIXER
6 “RITUAL” At Champion
6PM - HOUND DOG Brewery
METAL SHOWCASE HILL STRING BAND DOWNTOWN
@ CHAMPION BREWERY
7 7-8PM MUSIC
RECEPTION 7PM - GRIFF’S
featuring
ROOM BAND 7PM - LA
UNICA at The
8 OCCULTIST 8PM - APPLE BUTTER Tin Whistle
THE GLORIOUS GONE
RAMMING SPEED
IRON REAGAN
9 9PM - VEXINE
10 10PM - SOUL TRANSIT 10:30PM
AUTHORITY L.G. & FRIENDS
at The Whiskey
11 11PM - IAN GILLIAM & Jar
THE FIREKINGS
12PM - LARISSA & THE
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9 BELMONT
T O M T O M F E S T. C O M
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10 MANDALA
Community Repainting
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BELMONT BELMONT
12 BELMONT BLOCK
PARTY
PUBLIC ART BIKE TOUR FLEAVILLE
Vintage and
featuring Embarks From and BELMONT BBQ Handmade Vendors
1 Returns to Block Party
THE WILL OVERMAN GENUIS HOUR
BAND Student Innovators and
2 Makers
ADRIAN DUKE
CHICKENHEAD BLUES
3 BAND
THE NORTHERNERS
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MATT HORN
5 GALLATIN CANYON
MAS BELMONT FRONT PORCHES
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AFTER PARTY PORCHELLA, featuring
7 featuring AARON GILMARTIN
RICK OLIVAREZ TRIO AMBIGUOUS TROUSERS
ANATOMY OF FRANK
ANNABETH AND THE LARKSPURS
FRONT PORCH HOUSE BAND
8 GOLD TOP RAMBLERS
HOPELESS PYROMANTICS
MICHAEL COLEMAN
SARAH LYNNA AND THE MISFIT TOYS
9 TARA MILLS & JIMMY STELLING
WE ARE STAR CHILDREN
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MUSIC LINEUP
Lee Park 12pm - 7pm Downtown Belmont, 12pm - 7pm
WED. 4.15 FRI. 4.17 Bourbon Barrell Congress - The Will Overman Band - Fresh -
Progressive Folky Bluegrass American Virginia Folk
Songwriter Competition Lee Park 5pm - 11pm Sally Rose - Doo Wop-inspired Indie Adrian Duke - New Orleans Blues/
at the Haven 7pm - 10pm Lord Nelson - Southern Heartland Rock Rock with Honky Tonk Roots Rock
Greg Ward Damani Harrison - Smart, Instrument- Chamomile and Whiskey - Chickenhead Blues Band - Upbeat
Halayna Aldous heavy Hip Hop Raucous, Funky Americana Rhythm & Blues
Kate Bollinger The Funk Ark - Gritty, Foot-Thumpin' Stable Roots - Groovin Feel-Good The Northernerns - Folked-Up Rock
Kendall Street Company Funk /Afrobeat Reggae N'Roll
Kristen Rae Bowden Bosley - Groovy, Funky Modern Soul Sun-Dried Opossum - Blue Ridge Gallatin Canyon - Good Ole Down-
Kyle Woolard Rock and Roll Music Home Bluegrass
Matthew McAllister Mono Loco 10pm - 1:30am Southern Belles - Psychedelic, Matt Horn - Horn-driven Hip Hop &
Michael Coleman Grandaddy’s Gravy Homegrown Rock & Roll Rock
Nettles South Street Brewery, 10pm Elby Brass - High Energy Horn Heavy
Robin Wynn The Judy Chops Funk Front Porches in Belmont,
Lena Fayre Fellinis #9, 10pm 6pm - 10pm
Jonah Kane-West Trio Second Street Gallery 12pm - 2pm Aaron Gilmartin - Brazilian and
THURS. 4.16 The Whiskey Jar, 10:30PM Words & Music - collaborative Latin-folk energy.
South Street Brewery, 10pm D’n’B and the Luckless Bastards performance pieces Ambiguous Trousers - angelic
MOON voices and rad riffs
Mono Loco 9pm Champion Brewery 7pm - 12pm Anatomy of Frank - post-pop quintet
Red and the Romantics Iron Reagan Front Porch House Band
Fellinis #9, 7pm Ramming Speed Gold Top Ramblers - Acoustic
Michael Elswick Gathering The Glorious Gone Americana Bluegrass
Anyone's Guess Occultist Hopeless Pyromantics - Psychedelic
funk
Fellinis #9, 5pm - 2am Michael Coleman, rhythmic pop-rock
Lisa McQueen Jazz Trio guitar and soulful vocals
Hound Dog Hill String Band - Six Rick Olivarez Trio - gypsy jazz
piece neo-traditional Americana Sarah Lynna and the Misfit Toys -
Griff's Room Band folkrock and a kiss of country blues
Apple Butter Soul - Funky Jazz and R&B Tara Mills & Jimmy Stelling - folk,
Vexine - Sexy, soulful, edgy rock bluegrass, and Americana.
Soul Transit Authority - Classic Soul We Are Star Children - adventure
and R&B pop turned acoustic
Ian Gilliam and the FireKings -
Classic American Roots
Larissa & the Lusionistics
Tin Whistle, 7PM
La Unica, an Irish/Spanish pan-genre
party band
The Whiskey Jar, 10:30PM
L.G. & Friends
PA G E 5 6 / T O M T O M F E S T. C O M T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 5 7THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
In 2013, Tom Tom entered into a presenting partnership with the Univer-
sity of Virginia, under the leadership of the Office of Vice President for
Research.
Tom Tom aligns with a number of U.Va. priorities and goals: local
engagement and partnering, interdisciplinary collaboration, fostering an
innovation ecosystem that better supports startup businesses, a d creative
projects, and showcasing U.Va. thought leaders. It also conveys how
Charlottesville is a creative and fun place to live, which benefits the entire
community.
Since it’s inception, Tom Tom has featured over 70 U.Va. faculty and
alumni as speakers, and dozens of businesses emerging from faculty and
students.
PRINCIPAL U.Va. PARTNERS
Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business
School of Engineering and Applied Science
College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Office of the Vice President for Research
Curry School of Education
Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy
The Social Entrepreneurship Initiative at U.Va.
Galant Center for Entrepreneurship at the McIntire School of Commerce
Office of the Provost and Vice Provost for Arts at U.Va.
W.L. Lyons Brown III Innovation Laboratory at U.Va.
U.Va. Licensing and Ventures Group
U.Va. ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT
The U.Va. Clubs of Charlottesville & DC
The Jefferson Trust
Wahoowa Entrepreneurs
STUDENT PARTNERS
Entrepreneurship Group at U.Va.
HackCville
Third Year Council
Cavalier Daily
Dozens of CIOs and organizations in volunteering capacities.
PA G E 5 8 / T O M T O M F E S T. C O M T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 5 9The Batten Institute at the Darden
School of Business improves the
world through entrepreneurship and
innovation. The institute’s academic
In 2015, the Tom Tom Founders Festi-
research center advances knowledge
val became the recipient of a $50,000
that addresses real-world challenges
Virginia Tourism Corporation Market-
and shapes Darden’s curriculum. The
ing Leverage Grant, one of the highest
Batten Institute was established with
possible grant awards in the program’s
gifts now totaling over $100 million
highly competitive application process.
from U.Va. alumnus Frank Batten Sr., a
The VTC Marketing Leverage Program
media pioneer, visionary and founder
matches the marketing expenditures of
of The Weather Channel.
organizations across Virginia in order
to draw more tourists to the state. The
VTC chose Tom Tom Founders Festival
based upon the goals of the Festival to
showcase Virginia as a hub for
innovators and creatives and to extend R.L. Beyer Custom Homes sponsors art
the Virginia is for Lovers brand. at Tom Tom Founders Festival. For over
40 years, R.L. Beyer has served
Charlottesville and Albemarle with
distinguished homes of integrity and
beauty. This family run company and
its dedicated employees preserve the
environment with energy efficient build-
New Belgium Brewing Company ing practices.
sponsors block parties throughout
Downtown during Tom Tom. The mak-
ers of Fat Tire Amber Ale and a host of
Belgian-inspired beers, New Belgium
began operations in a tiny Fort Collins
basement in 1991. Today, the third
largest craft brewer in the U.S., New Storyware creates remarkable web,
Belgium is model of progressive pro- mobile, and brand experiences for
grams such as employee ownership, Fortune 500 brands, start-ups, and small
open book management, and a com- businesses. Recently, we have helped
mitment to environmental stewardship. brands such as J.Crew, The Home
Depot, Yahoo, acac, The Scout Guide,
and Starr Hill Brewery on a variety of
digital and brand identity projects. In
addition, through a partnership with
Tumblr, our own products are used by
hundreds of thousands of customers
across the globe.
PA G E 6 0 / T O M T O M F E S T. C O M T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 6 1SIGNATURE SPONSORS
Ting has gotten a fair bit of attention The College provides an excellent liber-
by offering its unique idea for how cell al arts education to more than 10,000
phone service and billing should work. undergraduate students as well as
Now, we’re turning our attention to cra- master’s and doctoral training for over
zy fast fiber Internet access for homes 1,300 graduate students, delivering an
and businesses. We’re starting here in extensive base of intellectual content
Charlottesville. Ultimately, we’re on a and skills to enable our students to
rescue mission to save people from the explore ideas, evaluate critically, draw
corporate stuff they might otherwise reasoned conclusions, and communi-
just kind of accept as normal. cate in a clear, coherent manner.
C-VILLE Weekly is Charlottesville’s The Vice Provost of the Arts at the
leading newspaper. Founded in 1989, University of Virginia serves as chief
it’s been the area’s local source for advisor to the Provost on the arts, work-
informative stories in news, arts, and ing to catalyze artistic creativity and
living for 25 years. C-VILLE Weekly to enhance University Arts programs
reaches 55,000+ readers with 25,000 which provide curricular programs,
weekly copies and a website that student-run initiatives, and professional
averages over 15,000+ visitors per organizations. Our mission is to pro-
week. Readers look to C-VILLE for clear, vide support in the areas of communi-
magazine-quality writing, the best arts cations, development, cross discipline
coverage in town, comprehensive food collaboration, community outreach and
and entertainment listings, and sharp engagement, grants, and programming
design. for the Arts.
The Galant Center for Entrepreneurship Founded in 1836, U.Va’s School of
at the McIntire School of Commerce Engineering and Applied Science is
was founded in 2008 through initial the third oldest engineering school in
funding from Mark E. Galant the U.S. Along with its cutting edge
(McIntire ’80), The Center is dedicated research programs, the School’s under-
to advancing the study and practice of graduate program features courses in
entrepreneurship. Through the Galant entrepreneurship, science, technology,
Center, McIntire will develop innovative & society [STS], ethics, and applied
curricula, engage in significant re- mathematics, all of which provide as a
search, and execute meaningful events. strong foundation for careers in engi-
neering and other professions.
PA G E 6 2 / T O M T O M F E S T. C O M T O M T O M F E S T. C O M / PA G E 6 3SIGNATURE PARTNERS
Informed citizens create better commu- For two decades, we’ve been part
nities. Charlottesville Tomorrow’s goal of the Charlottesville community, pro-
is to inform and engage the public by viding the highest quality all natural,
providing clear, non-partisan informa- organic and local foods to our custom-
tion and research on land use, trans- ers. We maintain the strictest quality
portation, community design and public standards in the industry and have an
education issues with the confidence unshakeable commitment to sustainable
an informed public will make decisions agriculture. Add to that the excitement
that will protect and build upon the and fun we bring to shopping for gro-
distinctive character of the Charlottes- ceries, and you start to get a sense of
ville-Albemarle area. what we’re all about. Oh yeah, we’re
a mission-driven company too.
Virginia Business has been the com-
monwealth’s source for business intelli-
gence since 1986. Its readers include The FUNd @ CACF supports the visual
leading decision makers in business arts and programs dealing with hunger
and government. in Virginia.
CBS19, ABC16, and Fox27 are the Charlottesville Area Transit provides
Charlottesville Newsplex, Where bus service to the greater Charlottes-
Community Counts. Now in its tenth ville area. Riders enjoy safe, clean, and
year, the Newsplex station informs and comfortable service Monday through
educates with five hours of local news Sunday. Most routes operate out of
and shows America’s most popular the Downtown Transit Station at 615
programming from CBS, ABC, and Fox East Water Street. In addition to fixed-
to tens of thousands of viewers and route service, CAT offers a free Trolley
thousands more online each day. Last connecting Downtown to the University
year, Newsplex stations supported 58 of Virginia.
local community organizations and
events.
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