Community Calendar

Join us on Sunday 21 September at 3:30 pm when Pro Musica Rara presents The Musical Life of Thomas Jefferson. The concert will take place at Grace United Methodist Church, 5407 N Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21210. Free parking and handicapped accessible.

This program of music from Thomas Jefferson’s library is directed by Christoph Hammer, one of the most distinguished and versatile musicians in the field of early music today. The concert features Christoph Hammer, harpsichord, and Rufus Müller, tenor; with Cynthia Roberts, violin; and Phoebe Carrai, cello.

Jefferson avidly played the violin accompanied by his wife and two daughters on the piano and harpsichord. He is quoted as saying: “music is the favorite passion of my soul.” The selections on today’s program primarily come from composers represented in the Jefferson family music library, including pieces that Thomas Jefferson himself may have played or at least owned copies of the published scores.

Pro Musica Rara, Baltimore's “premier early music ensemble”, is a period instrument chamber music ensemble performing baroque, classical, and early romantic repertoire. There will be a pre-concert presentation at 2:30.

For program details and to purchase tickets, please see https://www.promusicarara.org/concerts-2025-2026. Tickets are $10 for students and $35 for adults. They will also be available at the door.

Pride of Baltimore II to Host 2nd Annual Sailabration
A Festival Celebrating the Lives of Sailors and Art of Tattooing

Discover the allure of being a sailor on the high seas and the fascination of tattooing. Check out the 2nd Annual Pride of Baltimore II’s Sailabration, taking place on Saturday, September 27, 2025 from 11 a.m.- 4 p.m. on Fells Point Broadway Pier, featuring live music, tours aboard the Pride of Baltimore II, tattoo demonstrations, living history programs, family-friendly activities and rum tastings. Enjoy performances by the Fort McHenry Fife and Drum Corps, The Marching Elite and Ship’s Company Chanteymen as they provide nautical music from the 1700s and 1800s. There will also be a musical finale by Shelby Blondell as well as exhibitors and grog. For more information, call 410-539-1151 or visit https://pride2.org/event/sailabration-2025.

Every first Friday of the month from June 6 through October 3, 2025, join Maryland Opera for an evening of favorites from Opera, Broadway, and beyond. Enjoy a glass of wine and a tasty meal from a local food truck as you sit on the lawn at Boordy Vineyards and experience opera in the great outdoors with the idyllic backdrop of of the sunset behind the performers.

*July's concert is on JULY 11, not July 4 due to the Independence Day holiday.

Quintets by Shostakovich, Gershwin and Ravel, plus a Piano Duo by Price

Shostakovich: Piano Quintet. Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (piano and string quintet). Ravel: Mother Goose Suite. (string quintet). Price: Fantasy in G minor for Violin and Piano

Join us on Saturday, October 18th for a costume party and a "Hocus Pocus" watch party!
"Hocus Pocus" stars Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy. It follows a villainous comedic trio of witches who are inadvertently resurrected by a teenage boy in Salem, Massachusetts on Halloween night.
Costume party starts at 5:30.
Costume judging before the movie.

FREE admission.
Food and drink available.
Movie starts at dusk.

Grab your chairs and blankets, and we'll see you there!
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NOTE: If bad weather is forecasted, we will make the call by 4pm if we need to cancel

Celebrate the majesty of Baroque music with Bach’s joyful Cantata 182, “Himmelskönig, sei willkommen,” a vibrant work originally composed for Palm Sunday. Paired with the elegant and ever-popular Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, featuring the famous Badinerie, this concert showcases Bach at his most festive and lyrical. Join us for an afternoon of uplifting sacred music and instrumental brilliance.