Back by popular demand! Join The US Navy Band Commodores Jazz Ensemble live in the Leonardtown Square! Bring a blanket, bring a chair – bring a friend! – and celebrate Armed Services Day listening to big band favorites, jazz classics and swing hits! Weather permitting, the US Navy Band Commodores Jazz Ensemble will be...
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With the addition of The Robert Cray Band as the Saturday closer for the 2016 Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival (CBBF), the lineup is now complete. This will be Robert Cray’s second appearance at CBBF, his first being in 2000. Joe Bonamassa will be closing the festival on Sunday. In just over 40 years Cray...
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Celebrate La Plata, the Annual Spring Festival comes to La Plata Town Hall on Saturday, April 30th from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. This family event will include free activities for children of all ages, live entertainment, craft vendors, delicious food for sale and the La Plata Bed Races. Over 40 craft and business...
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Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center’s popular annual event, Chili In the Garden – Chili Cookoff & Classic Car Show, has been rescheduled for Saturday, October 1, 2016, 9:00am to 3:00pm. The event is typically held in early June, but due to a scheduling conflict, the event has been postponed to October. Chili in...
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On Saturday, September 10, 2016, for the first time in Calvert County, the Friends of Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum (Friends of JPPM) will host a Beatles musical event with the nationally known, Hard Day’s Night, a Beatles tribute band. The fundraising event known as the Affair at Point Farm, A Hard Day’s Night,...
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The College of Southern Maryland’s Annual Latin Music Festival will give area residents a taste of Latin American culture April 15-16 with performances at the La Plata Campus, Fine Arts (FA) Center. At 8 p.m., April 15, CSM’s Latin Ensemble Ritmo Caché director Dr. Stephen Johnson will lead the group in Salsa, Mexican, Afro-Cuban,...
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Celebrate Leonardtown’s 16h Annual Earth Day on the Square, Sunday, April 17, 2016 from 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM in historic downtown Leonardtown and at the picturesque Leonardtown Wharf Park. Environmental and non-profit organizations will be on site to provide information on energy, land and water conservation, recycling, gardening, sustainability, biodiesel fuel and solar...
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Multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated band Goo Goo Dolls will hit the road in July for an extensive summer headlining tour, stopping to perform at the PNC Waterside Pavilion on Friday, August 26. Also on the bill is Collective Soul. The Goo Goo Dolls — made up of vocalist-guitarist John Rzeznik and bassist Robby Takac, will be...
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The much anticipated annual Bluegrass for Hospice is set for Saturday October 22, 2016 at the Flat Iron Farm in Great Mills. To headline the 1 day event this year will be the Willis Family who star in their own TV show on the TLC network each week. They are a strong Tennessee family,...
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The Mechanicsville Optimist Club’s 31st Annual Fantasy Night is scheduled for April 30, 2016 at 6:30 pm LOCATION: A MAZE N PLACE (Located at Bowles Farm, Clements, MD) Don’t miss out on the good food, good music, dancing, good fun, great company and best of all the chance of winning money while raising money...
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On Friday, March 11, Charles County senior citizens and teens from area high schools enjoyed dinner and then danced the night away to big band music at the 25th anniversary of the Charles County Senior Prom. The highlight of the evening was the crowning of the prom king and queen, M., Buck Proctor and...
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Magic, motor oil and moxie will be featured on high school stages this season. Student actors and backstage techs are rehearsing and preparing spring plays and musicals. The following is a list of the productions, as well as ticket information for each high school. St. Charles High School’s theater program will stage “Grease” 7...
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As Joe Bonamassa approaches his 26th year as a professional musician, he continues to blaze a remarkably versatile artistic trail, and amass an authentic, innovative and soulful body of work. Bonamassa’s career began onstage opening for B.B. King in 1989, when he was only 12 years old. Today, he is hailed worldwide as one...
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Award winning Bluegrass band, The Boxcars, will be making a return performance to the American Legion Post 238 in Hughesville, MD on Sunday March 20, 2016. The show starts at 2:00 pm with special guest Josh Grigsby & County Line opening the show. The doors open at Noon and tickets are “still”, the best...
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Sister Sadie, a groundbreaking, 5 member, all-female, super band will be bringing there show to the annual Hollywood Rescue Squad Bluegrass Festival on Saturday April 2, 2016 at the St. Mary’s County Fairgrounds. Gates open at 11 am and the show starts at Noon. Sister Sadie is a straight ahead bluegrass band comprised of...
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When Robert Spates asked the Henry E. Lackey High School orchestra members if they have ever seen an opera, no one spoke up. “Yes, you have,” insisted Spates, the director of strings at Landon School in Bethesda. “‘The Lion King,” he said. “‘Star Wars,’ it’s an opera.” Point taken. The realization that opera could...
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For several years now, Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out have made several appearances to the American Legion Bluegrass Series and have been one the most requested bands to return, not to mention enjoyable – and most awarded groups in the Bluegrass Music industry. Once again, they will be making their annual appearance at...
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With more than 2,000 filled seats, 200 professional voices, professional instrumentalists, and a Grammy-nominated music director—it’s pretty much every singer’s dream. And that dream is now a reality for the members of the McDonough High School Chamber Choir. For five December performances, the 19 students of the Madrigal Lords and Ladies (the Chamber Choir’s...
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Something spooky loomed over rehearsals Jan. 8 for Charles County Public Schools (CCPS) middle school musicians named to the Tri-County Orchestra. The group ¬— made up of violin, cello, bass and viola players from Charles, Calvert and St. Mary’s counties — was practicing “Gauntlet,” a piece by Doug Spata that ratchets up the suspense...
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Who doesn’t love a free concert? Calvert Library has three special gems to offer this winter for a Winter Marches On concert series. Each show is on a Wednesday at 7pm at the Calvert Library Prince Frederick. Kicking off the series on February 10, is the ever popular US Navy Band Country Current. This...
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St. Mary’s County has lost a legend, Charlie Thompson. Charlie was known and loved by everyone especially his bluegrass family and fans, he will be dearly missed. Charles was a lifelong resident of St. Mary’s County, MD, and worked as a Mechanic. He was also a Disc Jockey, Musician, and was a member of the...
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Patuxent Voices, an all-female a cappella group, will perform The Gift, a selection of holiday music to celebrate the Christmas season. Performances are Friday, December 11, 7:30 p.m. at All Saints Church, Sunderland; Saturday, December 12, 7:00 p.m. at Christ Church, Chaptico; and Sunday, December 13, 3:00 p.m. at Trinity Church, St. Mary’s College....
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The College of Southern Maryland has rescheduled its 2015-16 Ward Virts Concert Series with a performance by classical pianist Brian Ganz to 3 p.m., Dec. 13. Ganz’s performance is the second of six in the series, all of which are held at the Prince Frederick Campus, 115 J.W. Williams Road, Prince Frederick in the...
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St. Mary’s College of Maryland Musician-in-Residence Brian Ganz will present his only full length recital of the semester on Tuesday, December 8 at 8pm in the Auerbach Auditorium of St. Mary’s Hall on the college campus. The program will feature works of Frédéric Chopin and will include one work originally written for piano...
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The CMH Foundation’s Christmas Spotlight Music Series will present “The Most Wonderful Time” on Monday,, December 7 at 7: 30 p.m. at St. Nicholas Lutheran Church on Plum Point Road in Huntingtown. Admission is $20 and proceeds will benefit the Sheldon E. Goldberg Center for Breast Care. Doors open at 7 p.m. Register online...
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