concerts
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"Great Performances," the PBS showcase of American performing arts, came to town for the "Star-Spangled Spectacular" concert at Pier Six Saturday night and showed how to make great, live television. -
- The Westminster High School marching band will host The USBands Invitational Gold Show Sept. 20.
- On Tuesday her acrobatic gymnastics crew, AcroArmy, was scheduled to compete as one of the final 12 teams on the NBC prime time television show "America's Got Talent." Three of the 18 AcroArmy team members reign from the Baltimore area: Twenty-year-old Emily Ruppert of Arbutus, 18-year-old Chrissy Antoniades of Sykesville and 15-year-old Hannah Silverman of Clarksville.
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- The Columbia Orchestra's upcoming 37th season promises to bring a range of classical music to the Jim Rouse Theatre at Wilde Lake.
- Concert Hall, Dance Cube coexist with English, archaeology classes
- Ballet Theatre of Maryland artistic director of Dianna Cuatto has a lot to celebrate with the upcoming start of the company's 36th season in October.
- The season for summer festivals may be drawing to a close, but the fall promises at least three more chances to catch a major show in Harford County.
- A glance at Chesapeake Arts Center's upcoming schedule indicates an exciting season beginning in September, with entertainment to attract audiences of diverse tastes for music, theater and star attractions.
- Musicians will sing and strum and play the harmonica in Annapolis Thursday night to raise funds — and awareness — for Lyme disease.
- Candlelight Concert Society is gearing up for its 42nd season of presenting classical music in Howard County. Its season-opening concert qualifies as a prestigious event on the 2014-2015 cultural calendar. The pianist Menahem Pressler gives a recital on Saturday, Oct. 18, at 8 p.m., in Howard Community College's Smith Theatre.
- Classical artists moved by 'Rite of Spring,' Beethoven's Fifth (no, really)
- Visitors to the 34th annual Havre de Grace Seafood Festival had an opportunity to travel back to the 1970s Friday night with a live show from the classic rock hitmakers Three Dog Night.
- Promoters of a traveling music festival have banned a number of items including bright, decorative, chunky bracelets known as "kandi," which is popular among electronic dance music fans but some say is linked to the drug culture.
- Band camp traditions drills to water balloons
- In the wake of deaths linked to electronic dance music events, attendees at Baltimore's first Moonrise Festival said the shows themselves should not be scapegoated.
- Thousands of people are expected to descend on Havre de Grace this weekend for the 34th annual Havre de Grace Seafood Festival to take in a variety of seafood, crafts and live music from nationally-known groups.
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- There will be music in the air and water in the background for the Columbia Lakefront Summer Concert Series' upcoming free programs: the Columbia Concert Band on Sunday, Aug. 10, at 6:30 p.m., and the Columbia Jazz Band on Wednesday, Aug. 13, at 8 p.m.
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- Virgin Mobile FreeFest, arguably the area's most prominent music festival for the past eight years, will not take place this year, according to Jayne Wallace of Virgin Mobile USA.
- Billy Joel brings humor and hits to Nationals Park
- 'Video Games Live' gives the symphonic treatment to music from 'Pac-Man,' 'Beyond Good & Evil' and everything in between.
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- Looking for a free summer activity? Try one of Ellicott City's free outdoor summer concert series — Sunset Serenades, Dorsey's Search Village Center, Traveling Bands and the new Turf Valley Towne Square.
- Songwriter to perform his hits and some of his piano concerto
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- When you think of rock music you probably don't think about "Super Mario Bros." or "Space Invaders." To our surprise and probably yours too, a sub-culture of video game rock bands? A thing.
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