The Richmond Folk Festival proudly presents All Together Now, a two-part television program celebrating Virginia artists.
This television program, created specifically for the 2020 festival, features new performances from some of Virginia’s most talented artists, along with several of our favorite past performances from the Festival’s Virginia Folklife Stage.
Filmed at Richmond’s Spacebomb Studios in partnership with VPM, viewers will enjoy brand new, 30-minute sets from Butcher Brown feat. J. Plunky Branch, Cora Harvey Armstrong, Jared Pool & Friends, and Kadencia.
CORA HARVEY ARMSTRONG
GOSPEL
KING AND QUEEN COUNTY, VIRGINIA
Gospel artist Cora Harvey Armstrong hasn’t always lived the life she sings about. While she’s been singing and playing piano in churches on Sundays for most of her life, she spent decades drinking, partying, and living a “hellacious life” the other six days a week. Health problems and an abusive relationship compounded her struggle. When her father passed away in 1999, Armstrong rededicated herself to her faith and her music, and has started to earn the recognition that her talent as a singer, songwriter, and pianist deserves.
