Event Dime

FIDOS AFTER 5RAMONA & THE HOLY SMOKES

When:

August 13, 2026 · 5:00 PM

Where:

Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, 1800 Lakeside Avenue, Richmond, VA

Source:

6AM City Richmond – Events

Based in Central Virginia and with family roots in South Texas, Ramona and the Holy Smokes represent a new generation of honky tonk music. With powerful female vocals that cover an emotional range from determined to comic to vulnerable, and a talented backing band steeped in classic country and western styles of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, the band exhibits a “clarity and sincerity that bring Patsy Cline to mind” \(Nashville Scene, 2025\). Fronted by Ramona Martinez, whose songwriting has earne