Richmond Jazz & Music Festival 2025 Recap: Even More Local Love - Day 2
This year’s two-day Richmond Jazz and Music Festival, at Maymont Park in Richmond, showed the locals, some local love. (Myles Black/ TRS)
by Myles Black | Aug 14, 2025
The Richmond Jazz and Music Festival Day 2
Summertime in Richmond; an abundance of cultural events and weekly outdoor festivals, one of which was the Richmond Jazz and Musical Festival. Over the weekend, Maymont was turned into a cultural hotspot, celebrating Jazz, Blues, and other forms of Black music. You saw your usual Richmond festival fixins, food stands and trucks, a market area for vendors to sell handmade cultural goods, but the main attraction of the festival was the two stages sending out serenading sound waves cultivated by artists such as Legacy Band, Shera Shi AND Ronnie Luxe.
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Some of the headlining artists included T.I., Cee Lo Green and Masego but there was also a great representation of local music at the show. Legacy Band was there, serving classics to move the crowd, along with mixes of some songs from Jill Scott and other cookout classics. They delivered high energy and familiar vibes, with confident cool control over the stage. Delicatessen, but for the ears.
Another local gem, Shera Shi, took the audience on a silky exploration through modern neo soul, making a pit stop near psychedelic rock, infusing the ride with heavy tones of Jazz, R&B and Doowop harmonies — slowing and ending the trip on a soulful ballad of sorts. With melodies that reach back into the early 90s, the bands set flew by (too quick!) due to ease of listening, and undertones of familiarity.
Another local artist that rocked the Virginia is for Lovers stage, was Ronnie Luxe. Her soulful tones echoed through maymont park, reminiscent of Erykah Badu or Jill Scott but with her own specific flavor. She performed some hits off of her recent project, Hermit, did some familiar covers, and provided steady reliable tunes for the crowd to sway to.
Ronnie Luxe on day two with the Richmond jazz band, Control The Room, who plays consistently around the city. (Myles Black/ TRS)
The two stage set up of the event allowed for festival goers to enjoy all the artists, instead of having to choose between the two. The evening was, all in all, full of great music and vibes. As it cooled down, more people came out to enjoy the show — and it did not disappoint. The Richmond Jazz and Music Festival has been going for 15 years, and as it grows and more talent comes to perform in Richmond, we will be looking forward to what next year’s festival offers and if you didn’t get a chance to make it — you can always check out some of the performing artists music on streaming platforms.
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Photos by Myles Black
