6/28: Eleanor Murray, The Woolly Moon, Bobby E. Lee & The Sympathizers, Will Ryerson @ Annex 4W

6/24: Benefit for Baltimore Free Farm

On Friday the Dead Whale Ramblers will be playing alongside Calliope of the Future, Doom Trumpet, Little Band of Sailors and Thank You Rosekind at the Hamilton Arts Collective. The show is serving as a benefit for the Baltimore Free Farm, so you better be there with all your friends to show support!

Friday, June 24th
Hamilton Arts Collective
5440 Harford Road
Baltimore, MD
Doors @ 6:30pm
$5-10

The Baltimore Free Farm is a non-profit organization that promotes urban agriculture, sustainability and permaculture through the use and creation of green spaces. The farm provides ethically produced food to local residents, educational programs and entertainment that helps strengthen the community.







Rebel Angels (Live) by Little Band of Sailors

6/18: Baltimore String Felons CD Release Show!!

This Saturday, June 18th the Baltimore String Felons will be taking their collective Appalachian-Folktastic talents to the Ash Street Warehouse for their latest CD release! The String Felons are currently one of the best bands when it comes to creating that timeless-mountain sound. Playing alongside the String Felons will be Baltimore's beatboxing legend, the one and only Bow Legged Gorilla!!  This is a show (and a CD) not to be missed!

Ash Street Warehouse

3510 Ash Street, 

Baltimore, MD

6/18: Rhymes With Opera presents: Criminal Intent

This Saturday, June 18th our unconventional opera friends, Rhymes With Opera, will be teaming up with the West End String Quartet at The Windup Space for a showing of Criminal Intent: a triple bill of crime operas and questionable morals.

Here is a bit of info on the program:

Baltimore composer David Smooke’s Criminal Element, composed for Rhymes With Opera and the West End String Quartet, is an experimental journey through the mind of the French rogue trader Jerome Kerviel, who nearly brought down the entire European financial system in 2008. The composer describes the new nonopera composed in a fabricated language as “exploring the possibilities of sound in order to consider issues of class and how minor errors can lead to dire consequences.”


In addition to the new work by Smooke, Rhymes With Opera and the West End String Quartet will perform short operas by composers George Lam (Boston) and Ryan Jesperson (Hartford). Lam’s thrilling mystery Someone Anyone holds us breathless as we follow a prostitute held hostage by her client, and Jesperson’s Orphée Reduxbeautifully re-imagines the Orpheus myth in 1980s New York. In addition, the West End String quartet will perform an opening set including works by Kyle Gann, Alfred Schnittke and Ruby Fulton.

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Saturday, June 18th Doors @ 6pm | The Windup Space

12 W. North Ave., Baltimore, MD 21201

$10/$5 Students

*Party for Friends of RWO after the show!*

RWO and WESQ will also be making stops in Brooklyn, NY on Friday, June 17th, Hartford, CT on Friday, June 24th and Boston, MA on Saturday, June 24th. 

If you're into Facebook you can say you're going to attend here and like RWO here. 

New track from Noah Kain "In The Night"

Check out Noah Kain's latest track "In The Night." The track was recorded by Danny Kamps of Omoo Omoo at Annex 4W during late May and early June. The song reflects on a road trip across America and according to Danny the song has a "rustic folk sound reminiscent of Neil Young." I just asked him that since I didn't know how to describe the song. Download that jam and let us know what you think!

6/9: The Shivers, American Folklore, Great Tap Root, Andy Abelow

Awesome show happening Thursday night at the Metro Gallery featuring The Shivers from NYC as well as local favorites American Folkore, Great Tap Root and Andy Abelow.

You can download The Shivers' new track "Love Is In The Air" here.

FolkYOU!

For those of you that missed out on the folktivities at FolkYOU! here are some photos and a little recap of what went down. 

The day portion of the festival opened with a surprise set from Marlon Battard of Pittsburgh followed by sets from Copper Canyons (members of Infinite Honey,) Boat Water, Her Fantastic Cats, Tired Talk, Barrage Band Orchestra, Sea Couch, Imagine Nation, The Homeless People and The Owls Go (Secret Mountains.)

Later on in the evening the Annex was graced with amazing sets from Armida Lowe, Spencer Compton, The Woolly Moon, Ignorant (Mr. Moccasin,) Bean, Noah Kain, Andy Abelow, MacGregor Burns, Great Tap Root, Omoo Omoo, American Folklore and closed with some late night jams brought to us by Brendan Sullivan. 

There was also a variety of artwork on display that included works by Kristi Allen, Holly Kent Payne, Ben Lorber, Kelsey Jo Mae Gocio, Lindsay Ann Bottos, Andy Abelow, Katie Joy Villegas, Alex Layne, Amanda Dorsey, Lindsay Eckenrode, Emily Peters and Jared T. Fischer. 

Thanks to all the bands, artists and people who made it out. We were able to raise a significant amount of money for the Baltimore Free School!! If you have any interest in taking or teaching a class at the Free School you can find out more information here.