UMBC's Department of Music presents the Jubilee Singers and the UMBC Gospel Choir under the direction of Janice Jackson.
Tickets are free, but reservations will be required. Ticket information will be announced.
Zora's Room
December Theme: Anywhere But Home For The Holidays
Date: Saturday, December 7th
Time: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Location: 1201 W Mt. Royal Ave., Baltimore, MD 21217
Senior adjunct lecturer Tim Jenkins directs the concert featuring diverse styles of jazz, including classic big band swing, bebop, Latin, funk, jazz-rock, and classic blues.
Come enjoy a night of fast-paced comedy games with some of the city's funniest people! Grab a drink, some food, a great seat and get ready to have some major laughs!
The Lineup!
K&H is a wildly impressive, experienced, and energetic improv duo comprised of Heather Moyer (H) and Kathryn Carlsen (K)!
Improv Jeoparty is the fast-paced primetime comedy gameshow taking Baltimore by storm! Why answer trivia questions when you can do impressions, jokes, and improv scenes?!
Join us on Sunday, December 8, 2024, beginning at noon and 2:30 for Charm City’s most charming event. For 39 years, residents of the Union Square neighborhood of Baltimore City have welcomed visitors into their historic homes for tours, homemade cookies and holiday cheer.
UMBC's Department of Music presents UMBC Jazz in Concert, featuring the Jazz Guitar Ensemble, the Jazz Small Groups, and the Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Tom Baldwin, Tom Lagana, and Matthew Belzer.
Admission is free, and tickets are not required.
McDaniel College’s Gospel Choir performs traditional and contemporary gospel music with surprise selections, under the direction of senior adjunct lecturer Shelley Ensor.
One hundred years before Mozart and Beethoven, Vienna’s music scene was already on fire with stylus phantasticus, a genre combining Italian drama and Northern European formal complexity. ACRONYM, an “outstanding young early-music string ensemble” (The New Yorker), presents a feast of musical delights in the band’s Baltimore debut. ACRONYM’s 11 members perform on strings, violas da gamba, theorbo, and keyboards, bringing “gutsy, fresh explorations” (Early Music America) to these rare treasures.
PROGRAM:
Giovanni Valentini - Sonata a5 in C major
Columbia Pro Cantare presents December 8 Concert of Handel’s Messiah
On Sunday, December 8, 2024, at 7:30 pm, Columbia Pro Cantare will present its annual performance of Handel’s Messiah at the Jim Rouse Theatre in Columbia. Joining the chorus and Festival Orchestra under the direction of Laura Lee Fischer will be renowned guest soloists soprano Amy Van Voekel, mezzo MaryAnn McCormick, tenor Daniel Reid, baritone Kenneth Overton, and Henry Lowe on positive organ. A talk on Handel’s masterpiece will precede the concert at 6:30 pm, and there will be a post-concert reception.
Event: 22st Annual Autism Conference: Innovations in Autism Care and Education
Live Sessions: December 10, 2024
Registration for on demand access to all sessions available through 2/28/2025
CEUs Available (ASHA, Social Work, OT, BACB)
Join the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance along with representatives from the Maryland State Arts Council, Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, The Peale and Baltimore Office of Promotion and The Arts.
Learn more and ask questions about grants available to individual artists in the Baltimore Region, including:
Grants for Artists, Baker Artist Awards, Sondheim Prize, Rubys Artist Project Grants, Grit Fund, Creativity Grants, Touring Artist Grants, and more!
HYBRID IN-PERSON AND ONLINE PROGRAM
FROM THE PRESENT: Contemporary Art from Serbia
Vesela Sretenović, independent curator and scholar
Reception 1 - 1:30 pm
An die Musik Live is excited to present a new monthly series featuring Charlie Reichert Powell and New River!
New River weaves, molds objects, plants gardens. The trio's sound and approach is born from Charlie's love for structuring improvisation, puzzles, repetition, and the outdoors, and is nestled somewhere between John Coltrane, Tom Waits, and Ryoji Ikeda. Their debut album releases in late 2024.
Charlie Reichert Powell - guitar/compositions
Aidan Taylor - bass
Koleby Royston - drums
From IN Series
RIGOLETTO
by G. Verdi
new English text by Bari Biern
December 11 & 12
Voted as audience choice for IN Series’ 2019-20 season, this circus version of RIGOLETTO, complete with a circus band and bawdy new text by Bari Biern, became a victim of COVID-19, but before that, victim to 19th-century censors that found its exploration of the misdeeds of the powerful too dangerous for the public eye.
A one-man play…with a cast of seven, and two new scenes! Award-winning journalist Dan Rodricks brings to stage some of the many fascinating people he’s encountered while writing more than 6,000 columns over 44 years for The Baltimore Sun.
Capture the Magic...Create a New Holiday Tradition at the new outdoor Maryland Holiday Light Spectacular - see over a million beautiful lights and dozens of holiday displays on a half-mile walking trail. See larger than life holiday scenes, wonderful music throughout and oversized snow globes. There will be magical interactive wand elements throughout the event, Children's Activities, a Moon Bounce a Holiday Village complete with Boutiques, Shops and Rotating Food Trucks and so much more!
Introducing a fully improvised musical decided by the crowd's vote!
Look behind the scenes of our fictional "musical writing workshop". Guided by a group of "famous" composers and writers, Musicals: The Musical takes several of your mismatched genre and character suggestions and transforms into a huge opening musical numbers. Every lyric, melody, ensemble dance number, and even piano accompaniment is created on the fly.
You, our audience of "producers", vote for which one gets "produced" by the end of the show!
Audacy is celebrating the upcoming holiday season with the return of Mix 106.5’s 'Deck The Hall Ball' concert starring Teddy Swims, The Fray, and Dasha for an unforgettable night of good tunes and electrifying performances. Tickets are on sale now, starting at only $60! Get yours today and be part of the hottest show this winter.
Ducky Dynamo presents COME THRU THURSDAYS
2nd Thursdays upstairs in Ottobar, join Ducky as she spins the jams while you dance and drink and play pool and watch what's on the big screen and party and vibe!
What does it sound like in there???? Idk. Expect some Baltimore Club at some point of course buuuuuuuuut expect EVERYTHING. WE POLYJAMOROUS so as long as asses is shaking and feets is two stepping, we in the zone.
21+. Upstairs. Free as frick. 2nd Thursday of every month.
Get ready for a true variety comedy show that is sure to get you laughing, clapping, out of your seat, and possibly on stage yourself! Blue Cavell-Allette, Desi Rawlerson, and Tashika Campbell are your hosts and producers, and your party MCs - there will be music, jokes, comedy games, interviews, sitcom tropes, audience participation, and non-stop laughs. They also bring their friends along for some surprise guest appearances!