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Named for an ancient Celtic harvest festival in honor of the Irish god Lugh, patron of the arts, Lúnasa is indeed a gathering of some of the top musical talents in Ireland. Its members have helped form the backbone of some of the greatest Irish groups of the decade.
Reid Anderson’s work as a composer and bass player has helped to define the sound of The Bad Plus since its inception in 2001. Widely considered one of the most significant groups of their time, The Bad Plus has amassed widespread acclaim and created an uncompromising body of work that spans 15 studio albums and countless live performances.
The Bad Plus are widely considered to be one of the most significant groups of their time and Anderson’s prolific work as a composer has defined their sound throughout the years.
His new band with Tina Priceman (Violin) and Gregg Belisle-Chi (Guitar) is based on his long time passion for electronic music. Using analog synths and drum machines Anderson explores the compositional and interactive possibilities of electronic music with live musicians.
The guitarist, composer, ethnomusicologist, and instrument builder Paolo Angeli is associated with traditional Sardinian music. Whatever you want to call it, nobody else is doing it quite like this. Paolo Angeli, the Sardinian sorcerer, manually magics beautiful, multi-layered music from his unique prepared guitar: a hybrid orchestra of an instrument with strings going in all directions, foot-pedal-controlled motorised propellers and hammers to create shimmering drones and bass-lines as he bows, strikes, plucks and strums while producing rhythmic atmospherics by treading on a plastic bag and adjusting tunings on the fly. Electronic effects are utilized but no loops. With this singular instrument he improvises and composes unclassifiable music, suspended between traditional music of Sardinia, free jazz, flamenco, arabic suggestions, post-folk and pre-everything else, and came back in Sardinia with his voice in to the furrows of tradition
Join us, for a St. Patrick's Day celebration with a showcase of Baltimore's award-winning Irish traditional music scene at the Creative Alliance!
Shout the lines, play games, imbibe glamorous drink specials, and win stuff! We’re making Death Becomes her into an interactive movie night. Prizes for the best costumes!
Special Guest Hosts: Betty O'HellNo & Fulla Regrets
Come early to mingle with your hosts, get your game pack, grab a drink, & get the BEST seat!
A limited number of game packs will be available at the door prior to the show. It includes everything you need to “play” the Death Becomes Her Movie Game (which we made up)!
Shout the lines, play games, imbibe glamorous drink specials, and win stuff! We’re making Death Becomes her into an interactive movie night. Prizes for the best costumes!
Special Guest Hosts: Betty O'HellNo & Fulla Regrets
Come early to mingle with your hosts, get your game pack, grab a drink, & get the BEST seat!
A limited number of game packs will be available at the door prior to the show. It includes everything you need to “play” the Death Becomes Her Movie Game (which we made up)!
His sugarcane-sweet melodies, pop-soul hooks and powerful guitar riffs, relinquish a conventional stereotype that exemplifies much of the Latin music landscape. His musical evolution for years was all about searching for the simplicity and soul in Cuban music – taking apart the complex arrangements, mixing it with North American influences, adopting the melodic simplicity of pop music, looking to Cuban folk traditions for inspiration – he’s always exploring, always creating something fresh and new, and always, it seems, getting it just right.
Jeff Parker is recognized as one of contemporary music’s most versatile and innovative electric guitarists and composers. With a prolific output characterized by musical ideas of angularity and logic, he works in a wide variety of mediums - from pop, rock and jazz to new music - using ideas informed by innovations and trends in both popular and experimental forms. He creates works that explore and exploit the contrary relationships between tradition and technology, improvisation and composition, and the familiar and the abstract.
Nicknamed “The Caribbean Patti Smith” by The Guardian, Moonlight Benjamin plays powerful and original music blending Caribbean Vodou melodies and 70s blues rock inspired by Dr John, Alabama Shakes, The Black Keys, and Oumou Sangaré. Creative Alliance presents Moonlight Benjamin’s new performance, Wayo, which is a spellbinding cry of pain showcasing her thundering vocals and lyrical themes on faith, energy, and our connection to the source. These new songs from Haiti’s Vodou priestess delve deep, immersing her philosophical messages in heavy blues rapture; killer riffs; and hand-clapping, foot-stomping percussion.
Hip Hop beats vs Cult Classics! Can I Kick It? screens cult classics and contemporary martial arts/action favorites while DJ 2-Tone Jones live scores the film, scene-by-scene, with a blend of genres such as hip hop, soul, and funk. The Golden Child has reached cult status within the hip hop community, lines from the moving having been sampled by Kanye West and Die Antwoord (themselves children of the 80s) in their songs 'Gone' and 'Enter the Ninja' respectively.
Bia Ferreira is a Brazilian singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and artivist that defines her music as "MMP — Música de Mulher Preta" (Black Woman Music). Her songs are against racism, homophobia and other subjects. Her songs are all about feminism and love. Politics is also a topic.
The Friday night Baltimore Irish Trad Fest concert featuring world-class performers Trian (Liz Carroll, Billy McComiskey, and Daithi Sproule), Steph Geremia, flute; Brendan Dolan, piano; Eliot Grasso, Uilleann pipes; Jim Eagan, fiddle; Sean Earnest, guitar; Sarah Collins, Eamon Sefton, The Mount Clare Connection (Peter Brice, Joanna Clare, and Richard Osban), Catherine Marafino Brice and Megan Downes, dance.
The Baltimore Irish Trad Fest is a celebration of Irish traditional music, with concerts like these as well as sessions, seminars, dances, and workshops with masters of Irish music that happen at multiple venues in Baltimore, MD
Discover the wonders of crankies* by making a box into a storytelling machine! Explore the art of crankie making from concept to creation! Get creative, choosing a subject, storyboarding, and playing to your strengths! Experiment with timing and transitions as you learn the ins and outs of this unique art form. Learn about its origins and modern- day renaissance.
The Saturday night Baltimore Irish Trad Fest concert featuring world-class performers Open the Door for Three (Liz Knowles, Kieran O'Hare, and Pat Broaders), a showcase by The Reel Housewives (Pauline Conneely, Kathleen Conneely, Liz Carroll, Liz Knowles, Eimear Arkins, and Eileen Gannon, Rose Flanagan, Laura Byrne and Donna Long), Sean McComiskey, Catriona Fee, Josh Dukes, Meghan Mette, John Walsh and more.
The Baltimore Irish Trad Fest is a celebration of Irish traditional music, with concerts like these as well as sessions, seminars, dances, and workshops with masters of Irish music that happen at multiple venues in Baltimore, MD
The Baltimore Irish Trad Fest is a celebration of Irish traditional music, with concerts like these as well as sessions, seminars, dances, and workshops with masters of Irish music that happen at multiple venues in Baltimore, MD
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