Right on Rhythm Roots
& Bluesletter 7/5/2007
Looking Down the Road
THE FUTURE IS WHERE It's
AT!
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Saturday, July
14 Potomac Jazz
& Seafood Festival
St. Clement's Island
Museum 38370 Point Breeze Rd Colton's Point,
MD 301-769-2222
Relax riverside on the lawn of the St. Clement's Island Museum to the sounds of three
dynamic jazz groups and indulge in the best seafood Southern Maryland has to
offer! Admission provides entry to the festival, admission to the museum and a
complimentary water taxi ride to historic St. Clement's Island, Birthplace of
Maryland (weather permitting). Come early! Food and beverages must be purchased
separately by the vendors provided. No coolers please. Bring your favorite lawn
chair or blanket. Parking is by donation to a local youth group, the Sea
Scouts.
This event is presented by the Friends of the St. Clement's Island
and Piney Point Museums. This annual fundraiser supports educational and
cultural programs, projects and exhibits of the museum.
No coolers, pets, or
large umbrellas will be allowed on the festival grounds.
Gate opens at 2 pm.
4 pm The Mike Stephens Project
A native Philadelphian, Mike Stephens grew up in
the heart of West Philly. Music was always a part of Mike's life and during his
stint in the U. S. Air Force, he honed his musical skills while touring with
several musical ensembles and won several instrumental and solo awards.
After
his military service, Mike settled in the Washington, D.C. area, connecting with
local musicians and soon formed his own band, MSP (Michael Stephens
Project). A popular choice in many venues and events in this region,
Mike returns to the Potomac Jazz & Seafood Festival after an unforgettable
performance in 2002.
6 pm Visions of Jazz
VOJ will take you on an
improvisational musical journey with its richness and diversity, that will
magically transform you into a true lover of JAZZ. You will feel their
vibe, spirit, and true flavor in the tradition of jazz. VOJ will provide a
musical taste of Ginseng - a pure energy and power boost. Sit back,
relax (or groove, if you wish) and enjoy this performance of VOJ.
8
pm Eric Darius
At 24, Eric
Darius is a phenom. His sophomore CD "Just Getting Started" is the perfect title
for this young man who is destined to reach the stars.
The CD showcases
Eric's writing talent as well as his incredible mastery of the saxophone. With a
little help from heavy hitters like Brian Culbertson, Euge
Groove and infamous Smooth Jazz producer and guitarist Paul
Brown, this CD is a must for every jazz lover.
Eric most recently
played at the Cotton Club in Tokyo,
Japan and the Capital Jazz Fest at Meriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD and has
a busy summer schedule playing at venues across the nation
Enjoy an array
of seafood specialties offered by:
Lenny’s Restaurant
Bear Creek Barbecue
Circle “C” Oyster Ranch
Crab cakes! Oysters! Shrimp! There's even a
land-lubber menu! To complement your food choice, there will be a refreshing
choice of beverages. Must be 21 to order beer, wine, or frozen alcohol
specialties. If you drink, DON'T DRIVE!
Your after dinner choices
include hand-dipped ice cream, shakes, sundaes, and banana splits.
No coolers
allowed.
(The cost of the ticket does not include food.)
$35 in
advance/$40 at the gate
Museum Members $30 (by phone or mail)
Children
12 and under are FREE
Only 800 tickets are available. A pre-sale sell
out will eliminate tickets available at the gate. Order early or call
ahead!
ONLINE TICKET ORDERS (available after 6/1/06): To order your
tickets on-line click here. (There is a small service charge on all
e-tickets)
BY PHONE: To order your tickets by telephone using a MasterCard or
Visa, call
St. Clement’s Island – Potomac River Museum at 301-769-2222. Pick
up tickets at Will Call area in the cardholder’s name the day of the
festival. Tickets will be processed through the museum store (Crab Claw
Gift Shop). No refunds or exchanges.
Ticket holders must pick up a
wrist band at the gate. Anyone not wearing an event wrist band will be
escorted off the property by Security.
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Bruce & Bobby Brothers in
Blues
Bruce Ewan & Bobby
Radcliff are doing two shows together this month:
July 19th at Silver Spring
Swings 7 to 9PM on Ellsworth Drive, between Ga. Ave & Fenton
Street FREE!!!
July 22 at
ArtScape/Baltimore as "Los
Blues Hermanos": Bobby Radliff & Bruce Ewan Festival Stage 2PM to
3PM. FREE!!!
Sunday July 15
Baltimore Blues Society Annual Members Meeting & No
Cover Blues Party Membership Drive
FlatFoot Sam & The Educated
Fools (and special guests!)
BBS Meeting
4:00-5:30 Music from 6pm—?
The
annual members meeting is held to elect the governing board for the coming year,
discuss future plans, present volunteer opportunities, meet and greet the
officers and current board members.
Public Invited! Bring
Your Friends!
Door Prizes, Food & Drink Specials Available
Easy to
find, Just off 695, Plenty of Parking, Full Menu
Covered
Pavilion/Stage Dance Floor Indoor/Outdoor
Seating
Fishhead Cantina 4802
Benson Ave, Arbutus, MD 21227 www.Fishheadcantina.com
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Art For Artscape -- No Money for God's sake
IT'S FREE!!!
Artscape Baltimore Friday July 20-Sunday July
22
Friday July 20, 2007
12:00 noon Young People's Dance
Festival Langsdale Auditorium
1:30 Sam 'O & The Band University of
Baltimore Stage
2:00 Electric Junk Band Langsdale Auditorium
3:00
Walker and Jay Langsdale Auditorium
4:00 Duncan Moore Langsdale
Auditorium
4:00 The Players Main Stage
4:30 Arena Players Youth theatre
Presentation - "A Tribute to Musical Theater"Theatre Project
4:30
Damsels University of Baltimore Stage
5:00 Santa Dads Next World
Minstrels Langsdale Auditorium
5:00 Our Cultural Heritage Stilt Dancers w/
Harbor Nights Steel Band Outside Lyric Opera House
5:30 Gordon Chambers Main
Stage
5:30 The Bridge Festival Stage
6:00 Soul'd Out University of
Baltimore Stage
66:00 Rueda by Dance in Time Productions / Latin Dance
Outside Lyric Opera House
6:00 Chris Pumphrey Langsdale
Auditorium
6:00 Ndinga DJ Culture Stage
6:30 New Life Fellowship Theatre
Project
6:30 Martin Sexton Festival Stage
7:00 Nuttin'
But Stringz Main Stage
7:00 Brian Sikawa Langsdale
Auditorium
7:00 Culkin School of Irish Dance Outside Lyric Opera
House
7:00 Terry Thompson DJ Culture Stage
7:30 Elikeh
Band University of Baltimore Stage
8:00 Sham El Sheik Egyptian Dance
Outside Lyric Opera House
8:00 Peter Blasser Langsdale
Auditorium
8:00 Tittsworth DJ Culture Stage
8:30 The Isley
Brothers Main Stage
8:30 Los Lonely Boys
Festival Stage
8:30 Spoken Word NightTheatre Project
9:00 June Star
University of Baltimore Stage
9:00 Daniel Conrad Langsdale
Auditorium
9:00 Karizma DJ Culture Stage
Saturday July 21,
2007
10:00 AM Dance Master Class with Ron Brown Evidence Dance Company Lyric
Opera House
12:00 noon Dance Master Class - Poppin' Lockin & Breakin'
with Booda Monk Lyric Opera House
12:00 noon Adamacadam & Mr. Chips DJ
Culture Stage
12:00 noon Bonnie Jones & Andrew Hyleck Langsdale
Auditorium
12:00 noon Billie Holiday Vocal Competition - Semi-finalists
Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
12:00 noon Cab Calloway Vocal Competition -
Semi-finalists Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
12:00 noon Deanna Dove University of
Baltimore Stage
12:30 noon Matt Wigler Festival Stage
12:30 According to
Ancients Theatre Project
1:00 Soaring Eagle Dance Troupe / Native American
Dance Outside Lyric Opera House
1:00 Prem Raja Mahat Langsdale
Auditorium
1:30 Love Craft Main Stage
2:00 The Crawdaddies Festival
Stage
2:00 Wes Tucker & The Skillets University of Baltimore
Stage
2:00 The Baltimore Opera Company - under the direction of James Harp,
presents She Never Lost a Passenger, an opera about the life and accomplishments
of Harriet Tubman. The Brown Center
2:00 John Dierker & Will
RedmanI Langsdale Auditorium
2:00 Asian American Art Center / Korean
Dance Outside Lyric Opera House
2:00 Dance Master Class with Kwame Opare from
"Stomp" - the Broadway Musical Lyric Opera House
2:30 Uncle Jesse DJ Culture
Stage
2:30 Quest Theatre Project
3:00 Marcell & The Truth Main
Stage
3:00 Latin American Folkloric Group Outside Lyric Opera House
3:00
Kate Porter & Russell Kotcher Langsdale Auditorium
3:30 Kirsten
Thien University of Baltimore Stage
3:30 Far From Earth Festival
Stage
344:00 The Baltimore Opera Company The Brown Center
4:00 Ronald K.
Brown/Evidence Dance Company Lyric Opera House
4:00 Ilya
Monosov Langsdale Auditorium
4:00 DJ Impulse DJ Culture Stage
4:30
Mobtown Players Theatre Project
4:45 Emily King Main Stage
5:00 J Roddy
Walston and The Business Festival Stage
5:00 Wendy McIntyre University
of Baltimore Stage
5:00 East/West Martial Arts Group Outside Lyric Opera
House
5:00 Lexie Mountain Langsdale Auditorium
5:00 Live Performances
from: Santo Gold DJ Culture Stage
6:00 Ronald K. Brown/Evidence Dance Company
Lyric Opera House
6:00 The Baltimore Opera Company The Brown Center
6:00
Jackie Blake Langsdale Auditorium
6:00 DJ Vadim DJ Culture Stage
6:30
Single Carrot Theatre Theatre Project
6:30 Rob Thorworth
University of Baltimore Stage
6:30 Lupe Fiasco Main Stage
6:30 The
Avett Brothers Festival Stage
7:00 Melissa Moore Langsdale
Auditorium
7:00 Our Cultural Heritage Stilt Dancers Lyric Opera House
7:30
Spiritual South DJ Culture Stage
8:30 Improv NightTheatre
Project
8:30 Keyshia Cole Main Stage
8:30 Old 97's
Festival Stage
8:30 Santa Mamba University of Baltimore Stage
9:00
Scottie B with live performance from Pase Rock Culture Stage
Sunday
July 22, 2007
12:00 noon Shanta feat. DJ Ulken DJ Culture Stage
12:00 noon
Rueda by Dance in Time Productions Outside Lyric Opera House
12:00 noon
Jai Kishor Hindustani Classical Music Langsdale Auditorium
12:00 noon Winner
of the 2006 Billie Holiday Vocal Competition, Georgene Fountain Festival
Stage
12:30 Neenah Taylor University of Baltimore Stage
12:30 Shakespeare
Summer Camp Theatre Project
1:00 Kulu Mele African Dance Company & Coyaba
Dance Theater Lyric Opera House
1:00 Baltimore Islanders Steel Band Main
Stage
1:00 Vattel Cherry Langsdale Auditorium
1:30 Archie
Edwards Barbershop Players Festival Stage
2:00 Opera Vivente - John
Bowen leads Opera Vivente in its presentation of Leonard Bernstein’s work,
Trouble in Tahiti, the story of a married couple’s examination of their long,
and sometimes rocky, relationship.The Brown Center
2:00 Janeila Soul
Afrique University of Baltimore Stage
2:00 Old Songs Ancient Greek Songs
Langsdale Auditorium
2:00 Dubwar (feat. Joe Nice, Dave Q & Jukali) DJ
Culture Stage
2:00 Urban Foli Neo Traditional Drum Ensemble Outside Lyric
Opera House
2:30 Pete Taylor and Friends Theatre Project
2:45
Clarence "Bluesman" Turner Main Stage
3:00 Sankofa Dance
Theater & Kankouran African Dance Company Lyric Opera House
3:00 Billie
Holiday Vocal Competition Winner Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
3:00 Cab Calloway
Vocal Competition Winner Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
3:00 Bobby Radcliff &
Bruce Ewan: Blues Hermanos Latin Blues Festival Stage
3:30 See-I (exile
music) feat. DJs Kid Gusto & Brooksie DJ Culture Stage
3:30 Smooth Play
University of Baltimore Stage
4:00 Elifrey Caribbean Dancers Outside Lyric
Opera House
4:00 Liz King Langsdale Auditorium
4:30 The Kulumba
Collective Theatre Project
4:30 Ryan Shaw Main Stage
4:30 The
Greencards Festival Stage
5:00 The Hint University of Baltimore
Stage
5:00 Opera Vivente The Brown Center
5:00 Shaun Flynn Langsdale
Auditorium
5:00 Urban Foli Neo Traditional Drum Ensemble Outside Lyric Opera
House
5:30 Sabo & Nappy GDJ Culture Stage
6:00 Sankofa Dance Outside
Lyric Opera House
6:00 Samuel Burt Ensemble Langsdale Auditorium
6:30
Return of Comedy Night Theatre Project
6:30 Fools &
Horses University of Baltimore Stage
6:30 Sam Bush
Festival Stage
6:30 Burning Spear Main Stage
7:00
Skodekeh Bouma (The Human BeatBox) Langsdale
Auditorium
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House Concerts at Patuxent Music
409 North Stonestreet
Ave. Rockville MD 301-424-0637
email for reservations
Sunday, July 22 4:30
Rick Franklin & Mike
Baytop CD release!!
Come out and join sensational blues men
Rick Franklin & Mike Baytop as they celebrate the release
of their new Patuxent album - "Searching for
Frank"
Admission: $20.00 - includes CD!
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Tuesday, July 31 7:30 pm
Casey
Driscoll (Texas Swing fiddle)
From Nashville, Tennessee,
Casey Driscoll will be performing tunes he recently recorded
for an upcoming Patuxent Album. Casey is accompanied by guitarist
Jonathan Grisham.
Admission: $15.00
*****
Sunday - August 19 Angelica
Grim - great bluegrass !!!!!!
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Upcoming Hungry for Music Benefits
Wednesday, July 18 Eric Balkey, Chuck Brodsky, and
John McCutcheon Strathmore Summer Concert
Series
FREE - bring a music instrument to
donate
www.strathmore.org
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Friday July 20
Strathmore Presents an All-Star Tribute to the late jazz vocalist and educator Ronnie
Wells on Friday, July 20, 2007 at 8 p.m. at the Music Center at
Strathmore. All tickets are $15.
A unique evening celebrating the life of one of
D.C.' s most dedicated jazz performers and educators with performances
by over 30 local jazz musicians and vocalists
Strathmore presents
an For more information or to purchase tickets, call (301) 581-5100 or
visit www.strathmore.org
The performers for the tribute include Ronnie' s
husband Ron Elliston, piano; stepson Timo
Elliston, piano; Ron Kearns, alto sax; Paul
Carr, tenor sax; John Jensen, trombone; Chris
Grasso, piano; Paul Wingo, guitar; Janine
Gilbert-Carter, vocals; Harold Mann, drums;
Bhagwan Khalsa, bass; Wes Biles, bass;
Cheryl Mann, vocals; Kim Mills, vocals;
Jazz Academy Jazz Orchestra; MC and WPFW DJ Faunee Williams; MC and
WPFW DJ Candy
Shannon; and 2006 Fish Middleton Jazz
Scholarship winner Grace Kelly, saxophone &
vocals. The jazz repertoire will be interspersed with brief commentary by
former students and friends of Ronnie Wells. Proceeds
from CD sales will benefit the Fish Middleton Jazz
Scholarship Fund.
"We're especially honored to present a
memorial concert to Ronnie Wells. Even as she battled
lung cancer earlier this year, she continued to act as a mentor in Strathmore's
Artist in Residence program and helped resurrect a portion of the East Coast Jazz Festival at Strathmore in
February. Her death in March was a tremendous loss for D.C.'s closely-knit
Jazz community. When her friends come together on July 20, we will
celebrate her incredible spirit and her intense dedication to performance and
education," said Eliot Pfanstiehl, President &
CEO, Strathmore.
Ronnie Wells was a widely acclaimed jazz
singer and educator. Tragically, she passed away in March 2007 at the age
of 64 after a battle with lung cancer. From the early 1980s, Ms. Wells served as
Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland's Department of Music. She
also created the Fish Middleton Jazz Scholarship
Fund (FMJS) to support emerging Jazz artists, facilitated
in-school programs on Jazz History and produced the Annual East Coast Jazz Festival.
Strathmore, a 24-year
old established arts presenter and cultural destination, nurtures art, artists
and community through creative and diverse programming of the highest quality
and is home to the Music Center at Strathmore, a 1,976-seat concert hall and
education complex. The Music Center at Strathmore, located at 5301
Tuckerman Lane in North Bethesda, MD, is immediately adjacent to the
Grosvenor-Strathmore station on Metro's Red Line and a half-mile from the
Capital Beltway. For those attending a ticketed performance at the Music
Center at Strathmore, parking in the Metro garage is complimentary with your
ticket. For further information or tickets, call (301) 581-5100 or visit
www.strathmore.org.
Strathmore is supported in part by grants
from the Maryland State Arts Council and the Arts and Humanities Council of
Montgomery County.
Strathmore Presents
Music Center at Strathmore
5301
Tuckerman Lane North Bethesda, MD 20852
Tickets: $15
(301) 581-5100
or www.strathmore.org
Media partner: WPFW 89.3
FM
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Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival
2007 Lineup Announced
August 4th & 5th Sandy
Point State Park, Annapolis, MD
TICKETS ON SALE NOW AT
TICKETMASTER!! GREAT EARLY BIRD SPECIAL AVAILABLE!
Please visit
www.bayblues.org for all of the festival details.
This year’s
lineup:
Main Stage
Saturday
10:55 Patty
Reese (Singing of the National Anthem)
11:00 The Chesapeake Bay Blues Band w/ The Nighthawks,
Dean Rosenthal, Paul Reed Smith, Jim Jacobs, and Ron Holloway
12:10
Howard and the White Boys
1:15 Otis Taylor
Band
2:25 The Chicago Rhythm and Blues Kings w/ Cash
McCall and Eddie King
3:45 Rod Piazza and the Mighty
Flyers
5:15 John Kay and Steppenwolf
7:00 Aretha
Franklin
Sunday
11:00 Shemekia
Copeland
12:15 The Bernard Allison Band
1:30 The
Legendary Rhythm and Blues Revue featuring The Tommy Castro Band, Magic Dick and
Deanna Bogart
3:00 Three Dog Night
4:30 Robert Randolph and
The Family Band
6:15 Buddy
Guy
North Stage
Saturday
Park House Jam - Press
Tent
12:00 Joanna
Cotton
1:00 Nadine Rae
2:00 Johnny and
The Headhunters
3:15 Patty Reese w/ Dave Chappell
4:45
Clarence Bluesman Turner
Sunday
12:00 Junkyard
Saints
1:15 Deb
Callahan
2:30 Catfish Hodge
4:00
Melanie
Mason
Tickets on sale now through Ticketmaster (www.ticketmaster.com
or call 800-551-SEAT)
VIP Packages available by visiting our website at
www.bayblues.org
Parking will be
available at the Naval Academy Stadium and on the Eastern Shore at Kent Island
High School.
Complete event details are listed on our website at www.bayblues.org
Festival Info: This is a
family event; all ages are welcome. Children under 10 free with
adult.
Tickets go on sale now through Ticketmaster with early bird specials
available.
A limited number of VIP packages are available through Chesapeake
Bay Events at www.Bayblues.org
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Sunday August 12 7:30
GREAT DOUBLE BILL!!
(Too Bad it's not in the Bandstand)
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
& The Nighthawks
Birchmere In the
Music Hall
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August 18, Noon - 10pm
15th Annual Hot August Blues
Festival
Oregon Ridge
Park, Cockeysville, MD
Hot August
Blues is proud to announce a record six bands will perform at
this year's festival!
Dickey Betts & Great Southern
Joan Osborne
Eric
Lindell
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Charles "Big Daddy" Stallings
Blues
Therapy
Tickets can be purchased online or via mail. Mail order
instructions below.
For online sales go to our home page and lick on the link
or by going to
:
http://www.etix.com/ticket/online/venueSearch.jsp?venue_id=2953&cobrand=hotaugustblues
Ticket
prices as follows:
May 1-31: $25
June - August: $30
Gate: $40
Mail
Order instructions:
All orders should be sent in a #10 sized envelope, which
is a regular, business-sized envelope.
Include a #10 self-addressed, stamped
envelope (with the regular 41 cent stamp, or a 65 cent stamp for 8 tickets and
more.
Include a 3 x 5 index card with your full name, return address, area
code, phone number, email address, and the number of tickets you are
ordering.
Include a check or money order made out to "Hot August Blues" for
the correct amount of tickets you are ordering.
Mail to:
Hot August
Blues - Tickets
P.O. Box 517
Phoenix, MD 21131
Children 12 and
under are FREE!
No food, cans, bottles or coolers.
No re-entry
No
tailgating
No pets
Gates open at
noon
Can't find your ROOTS? Connect
with them here - get out there and listen to live music
It's time for the greater DC
Regional ROOTS Network
There is overlap in coverage among these
and that's not a bad thing. ROOTS do that. They overlap.
The Right on Rhythm
schedule pages for blues/ROOTS and otherwise excellent things
to see/do/hear
WAMU's
Mary Cliff been reading a who's where list on her
Traditions radio show on Saturday nights for over 30 years. She now has
a web site that shows this comprehensive list. For
folk/traditional/blues/bluegrass etc. ROOTS with a heavy
emphasis on the Folk Traditions
The DC Bluegrass Union web site
now sports a comprehensive regional listing of all the Bluegrass events so for
your Bluegrass ROOTS
Scott Mitchell's
Fool's Night Out Web Site (named after a Phil
Wiggins' song) providing a great variety of various roots things to
see/do & hear http://www.foolsnightout.com/
Thanks to all of you!
Support live local music cause these
are all the blues you would just hate to lose and remember:
Whether
you are dancing
Whether you are playing
Whatever you are doing
It doesn't matter what you do as long as you hit
the beat
or
It Just Doesn't Matter What You Do As
Long As You're RIGHT ON RHYTHM!
Wayne Kahn
® © Right on
Rhythm