Sound Off Live!, Baltimore’s “Battle of the Bands” returns to showcase emerging bands from the Delaware, Maryland and Virginia region on Wednesday, October 19 and Thursday, October 20 from 6-10pm at the Hard Rock Café in Baltimore. The winning bands selected from Sound Off Live! will perform at Light City Baltimore, (March 31-April 8, 2017) Artscape, (July 21-23, 2017) or the Baltimore Book Festival (September 22-24, 2017). Over the two nights, eighteen bands have fifteen minutes to perform three songs in front of an audience and a panel of judges. A part of Free Fall Baltimore, the event is free and open to the public. Sound Off Live! is produced by the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts.