The artist formerly known as Chet Faker, aka Nick Murphy, paired with the opening act Beacon at the 9:30 Club Wednesday evening. Nick Murphy is touring his new album Run Fast Sleep Naked. This is his first album since changing his moniker to his real name.
The Middle Kids and Local Natives packed the 9:30 Club on Monday for the first of two sold-out concerts. The vibe was infectious. The music was loud. There was plenty of Edgar Allen Poe on tap.
Frenship made acquaintances with the 9:30 club Thursday night. They just released their debut album Vacation and are bringing it on tour.
It has been 10 years since Passion Pit’s debut breakthrough LP Manners was officially released. To celebrate the occasion the sythpop group decided to head out on a special one month anniversary tour which came to a magnificent end right here in our nations capital.
Brian Ganz is just past the halfway mark in his quest to perform all of Chopins 250 works on piano. Tonight’s edition titled Chopin: Recollections of Home will feature songs for voice and piano, original Polish poetry, and a song for an unaccompanied singer performed by mezzo-soprano Magdalena Wor.
On the first Friday following Halloween the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presented The Nightmare Before Christmas Live at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. Tim Burton’s Gothic Halloween Christmas classic was brought to life with a Movie and Music presentation.
The BSO along with soloist Freddy Kempf performed at The Music Center at Strathmore Saturday night for a concerto of Nordic favorites. It featured Sibelius’s Finlandia, Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto, and Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 4 “The Inextinguishable.” They were lead by conductor Rune Bergmann.
Greta Van Fleet has been hailed by Sir Elton John as “the best rock and roll I’ve heard in 20 f**king years.” It’s no wonder each one of Greta Van Fleet’s 2018 tour dates have sold out in advance. They also made an April 13th appearance at Coachella. Tonight they crashed Rams Head Live in Baltimore and were joined with Dorothy.
Gov’t Mule (or Mule as fans like to refer to them as) graced the stage of the Hippodrome last Saturday night in Baltimore. Lead by The Allman Brothers Band guitarist Warren Hayes. The psychedelic blues Southern rock ensemble has been dishing out serotonin since the mid-nineties. They were joined by Black Stone Cherry.
A crumbling RFK stadium provided the backdrop to a much more delightful scene this St. Patrick’s Day. The lot eight parking lot. Throngs of people wearing green bowler hats, shiny plastic beads and green and white striped knee-highs steadily marched across the asphalt seeing the world through four leaf clover tinted glasses. On a cloudy day just past high noon on the grounds of RFK Shamrock Fest was about to begin.
