Venture Richmond concert series Friday Cheers, held at Brown's Island, turns 40 this season. The first concert is this Friday, May 2 featuring Chaparelle with Jack Wharff and the Tobacco Flats.

Cheers' resilience across 11 years and 11 seasons is largely thanks to the charismatic cast — playing a myriad of beer-slingers, waitresses, and barflies — whom the creative team routinely ...