Todd Marcus Quintet free concert
Todd Marcus – bass clarinet
Warren Wolf – vibraphone
George Colligan – piano
Kris Funn – bass
Eric Kennedy – drums
Todd Marcus – bass clarinet
Warren Wolf – vibraphone
George Colligan – piano
Kris Funn – bass
Eric Kennedy – drums
Richard Dowling’s Great Scott! piano concert features the beloved Scott Joplin piano works used in the 1973 Academy-Award-winning movie The Sting, (including The Entertainer) plus many other dazzling, delightful, and rarely-heard works of Joplin. The program features anAudience Choice selection –– a Joplin work randomly selected by an audience member from the remaining complete Joplin piano repertoire (53 rags, waltzes, marches and cakewalks).
Baltimore’s newest comedy experience lets you start off the weekend right, with friends, laughs, and beer – for only $5.
Every Friday at 7 p.m. kick back with a cold one and join Baltimore Improv Group’s longest-running troupe, Plan B, for a special HAPPY HOUR show. They’ll delight and surprise you while creating scenes, characters – sometimes, even songs – on the spot.
Bring your favorite coworkers, your favorite friends, heck bring your favorite party hat and enjoy yourself as we do the work. You’re off the clock.
Join the America’s Favorite Dragapella® Beautyshop Quartet as they lead us all in resisting these new dark times with laughter, integrity, and heroically high hair in an unforgettable new musical exploring Trumpism, racism, AIDS, extreme macramé, oblong vegetables and, of course, Bette Midler.
Celebrate all things zany, wacky, and silly with a special day of activities dedicated to our limited-time KLUTZ® Amazingly Immature! exhibit.
At Weekend Workers, it’s all about fun as you discover how things work. These engaging activities allow children of all ages to investigate the world around them. On Saturday, August 19, design and race your own car! Cost is included with museum admission.
Come to the Baltimore Visitor Center and join with your friends for arts & crafts with J, our resident artist.
Follow in the footsteps of Baltimore's literary luminaries and discover the elegant brownstone mansions and majestic cultural institutions built by Baltimore's successful 19th century merchants and industrialists. Learn how a neighborhood of scholars, struggling artists and authors, newspaperman, philanthropists and social reformers offered rich opportunities to discuss and debate ideas and open new literary avenues.
The Cherry Hill Arts & Music Festival (CHAMF) is a celebration of the performing and visual arts over the course of a daylong free event. CHAMF gives festival attendees the rare and special opportunity to enjoy live music performances and artist demonstrations, entertain their families with interactive “ARTivities” and learn about the cultural vibrancy of the Cherry Hill community while activating green spaces in Cherry Hill's Reedbird park.
Charmaine Michelle walks in the tradition of Miles Davis while bringing her own style of cool jazz to the band stand. Raised in Northern Virginia, she began her serious study of jazz at the prestigious Peabody Conservatory. She has played with the Dale Corn Big Band, Artists against War, Shannon Gunn and the Bullettes Musicians of Mercy and recently released her own EP "Love Takes Time" which is now playing on radio stations in DC and Baltimore.
Her band includes Charmaine on trumpet, Dniko Evans on sax, Justin Taylor on piano, Jaron Davis on drums and Eddie Hybrk on bass.
Mixing an incisive wit with scathing sarcasm, Greg Fitzsimmons has achieved success as a stand-up, Emmy Award winning writer and host on both radio and TV. Greg is host of The Greg Fitzsimmons Show on SiriusXM’s "Howard 101” and puts out the hugely popular FitzDog Radio podcast twice a week. A regular on @Midnight, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, and The Tonight Show, Greg has been on The Howard Stern Show more than 50 times.
Memphis is set in the places where rock and roll was born in the 1950s: the seedy nightclubs, radio stations and recording studios of the musically-rich Tennessee city. With an original score, it tells the fictional story of DJ Huey Calhoun, a good ole’ local boy with a passion for R&B music and Felicia Farrell, an up-and-coming black singer that he meets one fateful night on Beale Street. Despite the objections of their loved ones (Huey’s close-minded mama and Felicia’s cautious brother, a club owner), they embark on a dangerous affair.
The Chesapeake Region Antique Automobile Club of America will showcase some of their antique, classic, and collector cars. Details at chesapeakeaaca.org.
WHEN Sun, Aug 20 / 10am—2pm
COST Free outdoor event
Mount Vernon began as a country estate for Revolutionary War hero John Eager Howard and grew to be the place to live for Baltimore's rich and famous in the mid-nineteenth century. The Garrett family, owners of the B&O Railroad, the Walters, founders of the Walters Art Museum, and the Thomases, owners of Mercantile Bank, are among the families that built handsome mansions along the four parks that surround the Washington Monument. The recent renovations to the 200-year old Washington Monument are the latest news from the revival of this historic neighborhood over the last decade.
We've added a fun new twist to brunch at Germano's. The mimosas and bloody marys won't be the only thing that could be bottomless at this show! Twisted Knickers Burlesque is back at Germano's Cabaret, performing to the lively New Orleans-inspired sound of jazz band Tongue in Cheek.
Tour the grounds and first floor of historic Tudor Hall, home of Maryland's famous family of Shakespearian actors including Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth. Tour starts at 1:00 pm and lasts about 45 minutes. Located at 17 Tudor Lane, Bel Air, MD 21015. $5.00 cash for those age 13 and older. For more info call 443-619-0008 or email us at [email protected]. For other tour dates go to http://spiritsoftudorhall.blogspot.com
Sephardim (Jews of Spanish or Arabic descent) lived in numerous diverse environments and developed practices that were infused with local flare and distinct from those of the Ashkenazim (Jews of European descent). This talk will discuss wedding traditions followed by different groups of Sephardim in the past, as well as those still practiced today by some communities. The presentation will pay attention to music, dress, and minhagim (customs), and introduce some Ladino (the Sephardic language analogue to Yiddish) proverbs and sayings that relate to this festive occasion.
Learn more about Junius Brutus Booth Sr, father of John Wilkes Booth. Presented by Jim Garrett. He is a life-long Lincoln Assassination and Booth enthusiast, a volunteer at Ford’s Theatre and a tour guide for Washington DC’s Old Town Trolley Tours. He is also a co-author of The Lincoln Assassination: Where Are they Now? and The Flags of Ford’s Theatre. Talk starts at 2:00 pm and lasts about 45 minutes. Located at Tudor Hall, 17 Tudor Lane, Bel Air, MD 21015. $5.00 cash for those age 13 and older.
Jordan Carlos is a stand-up comic and television personality who is best known for his work as a writer and on-air contributor for The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, The Colbert Report, MTV’s Guy Code, Girl Code and Guy Court. He has also appeared on hit series such as HBO’s Girls, Showtime’s The Affair, and Comedy Central’s Broad City. Jordan lives in Brooklyn, NY and continues to perform his insightful and hilarious stand-up comedy in venues across the country.
Every year, we hear from our teachers that one of the barriers in providing quality arts learning is one simple thing: supplies.To get ready for the school year, you can support Baltimore City teachers and students during our School Art Supply Week August 21-25, 2017! We are partnering with the Baltimore Teacher Supply Swap so that teachers can access FREE art supplies year round. Baltimore Teacher Supply Swap equips teachers, schools, and educational programs with classroom supplies.
There are two ways to donate:
Donate Supplies.