Lucy Dacus just dropped a new self-directed music video for her latest song “Planting Tomatoes.”
Why it matters: The video was shot entirely in Richmond and features some of the Grammy-winning singer’s favorite local spots, per a news release.
State of play: Dacus released “Planting Tomatoes” as a standalone single in April.
- The song, Dacus’ has said in interviews, is an “ode to the stuff of living,” and “being present,” including by growing things — specifically the Hanover tomatoes the artist grew in her youth in Mechanicsville.
- So perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise that Dacus shot her new video in RVA, home of the Hanover tomato and this weekend’s Hanover Tomato Festival.
Zoom in: The video opens with Dacus in the James (at Pony Pasture, per a news release) and includes scenes of her riding through Hollywood Cemetery, chilling at Dogwood Dell and hanging out at Earthfolk Collective, a local urban homesteading community…