concerts

Paul McCartney, former Beatle and Kanye West collaborator, will headline the Dover, Delaware music festival in June.

The Silver Spring native who graduated from Towson University in 2008 with degrees in acting and electronic media and film, is the ringmaster for "The Xperiment," a daily comedic varietyshow premiering 5 p.m. March 2 on BET.

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After taking a hiatus last year, the All Good Music Festival returns to West Virginia July 9-11, according to the festival's media director, Dave Weissman.

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Marin Alsop led the Baltimore Symphony in a 10th anniversary concert at the orchestra's second home.

Cabaret entertainment arrived last week at The Shop in Cape St. Claire, a multi-tasking beauty shop by day that becomes a cozy coffee shop and entertainment center by night.

To help the bottom line and expand its reach, Baltimore Symphony got a second home outside Washington a decade ago. So far, so good, people in both places say.

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, led by Marin Alsop, delivered a persuasive account of Mahler's Third.

Amy Syversen, the band director at Dayton Oaks Elementary School, is excited about the wonderful winter concerts the band performed in January.

The 13th annual Reservoir High School pops concert is coming up on Friday Jan. 30.

But while sitcom fame and money are wonderful things, the 55-year-old actor's heart has always been in the theater, specifically musical theater, he said.

What started as a fundraiser for the Wilde Lake High School Band Boosters has evolved into much more over the last 11 years.

Gunther Herbig leads the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in a superb account of Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 on a program with a Mozart piano concerto featuring Alon Goldstein.

Carroll County String Project is partnering with Brightview Westminster Ridge to bring noontime concerts there.

When Angie Johnson and Angie Kennard were high school students at Mount de Sales Academy in Catonsville, they dreamt of someday meeting members of their favorite musical group 1980s boy band New Kids on the Block.

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Pianist Shai Wosner likes to seek out connections between Schubert and contemporary composers, which he will do in a concert with the Parker Quartet in Annapolis

Momenta String Quartet performs for the Candlelight Concert Series on Saturday, Jan. 10, at 8 p.m. at Howard Community College's Smith Theatre.

If we distilled the Baltimore music scene's year to one video clip, the result would be Future Islands' network TV debut on "The Late Show with David Letterman" in March.

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New Year's Eve is America's biggest party, and Brian Bourne is set to keep Baltimore's celebration going strong.

South Carroll Instrumental Boosters plan Dec. 13 benefit concert at SCHS to celebrate the holidays

Westminster United Methodist Church will host a Christmas concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14.

Freedom Area Ringers to present concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14, at Springfield Presbyterian Church in Sykesville

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Cellist Steven Isserlis offered an all-sonata program for Shriver Hall Concert Series; pianist Christopher O'Riley played rock songs and Rachmaninoff at the Gordon Center.

If you are looking for some outstanding concerts to attend in the next few weeks, Towson High School's music program will be performing on several occasions, both at the school and in the community.

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Classical pianist Christopher O'Riley likes to add his arrangements of Radiohead, Elliott Smith and more to his programs, as he will do in a Gordon Center recital.