New Wednesday Feature

In a continuing effort to improve the BLOG and retain my loyal reader(s), I have decided to institute a new weekly feature --- a what's-happening-this-weekend column. This, of course, means that the reader(s) would have to live at roughly the same Google Earth coordinates as me and share my taste in music and other forms of entertainment. OK, so maybe it's not such a good idea. Well, tough! I'm doing it anyway and we'll see how it goes . . .

Let's start with a link to a nationwide (actually continent-wide) calendar of folk, world and roots music events. That way my out-of-state reader(s) won't feel slighted:

Dirty Linen

And a great local calendar:

The DC Bluegrass Union


My picks for this weekend:

Friday, Feb. 24 ~ The Grandsons ~ Roots Cafe at Seidel's Bowling Center ~ Baltimore ~ (410) 485-5171

Saturday, Feb. 25 ~ Banjer Dan with JB Beverly & The Wayward Drifters, Junkrod Joe & The Cadillac Hearse, Cat Deluxe ~ Frazier's on the Avenue ~ Baltimore ~ (410) 662-4914

So, while we're thinking Roots Cafe, how about some links to a few local (and some not-so-local) venues:

Roots Cafe
The Cellar Stage
Institute of Musical Traditions
Music Center at Strathmore
Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center
Gordon Center for Performing Arts
Common Ground on the Hill

Theater:

Center Stage
Vagabond Players
Fells Point Corner Theater
Everyman Theater
Spotlighters
Theatre Project
Performance Workshop Theater

. . . additional Theater listings

At University of Maryland, College Park:

Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
School of Music
Department of Dance
Department of Theater

Highfalutin:

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Baltimore Opera
Lyric Opera House
France-Merrick Performing Arts Center
Baltimore Museum of Art
Library of Congress

Well, as it turns out, this is more of a list of links than a calendar of events. So, it's interactive! Start clicking. I'll try to refine it next week. Hope you find something you like.