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Local art lovers will have their share of options for community galleries starting Thursday, as the Community College of Carroll County and Carroll County Arts Council open a trio of shows to the public.

Five Play performs a mix of American Songbook standards and show tunes, all performed with a jazzy twist.

The following programs will be offered through Carroll County Public Library. Registration is required only where noted. For more information, call 410-386-

This weekend, Carroll County will honor those who put their lives on the line, with their weekend long Saluting Our Heroes event, held the weekend of September 11.

Steven C. "Bo" Eckard, a member of the music faculty at McDaniel College, where he was senior lecturer of music and founder of the Electric Bass Ensemble, died Aug. 24 of undetermined causes at his Westminster home. He was 58.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Sep 7, 2016

The Week in Review is a quick roundup of links to stories that we wrote and you clicked on this week.

Using the arts to help students achieve

Brothers Osborne, natives of Deale, Maryland, earned two Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday.

By Wesley Case

Aug 31, 2016

Postell creates socially aware, outward-facing music -- a hybrid of singer/songwriter R&B with touches of soul and rap

By Wesley Case

Aug 29, 2016

Lynne Bellinger didn't realize how much she loved ballet until she stopped dancing – risking her career

By Mary Carole McCauley

Aug 29, 2016

Karen Hillsley and Jeff Meyer met at the University of Delaware; they were married in Ellicott City in May.

By John-John Williams IV

Aug 26, 2016

On Saturday, family of former 92Q radio personality DJ Reggie Reg organized a block party to honor the former 92Q radio personality who died of congestive heart failure in February. At the event, a new red street sign was unveiled at 1800 N. Payson St., renaming it "DJ Reggie Reg Way."

By Jessica Anderson

Jul 9, 2016

Deborah Davis, a longtime employee of WYPR public radio station with a passion for theatre, music and equality, died on Dec. 23 at Gilchrist Hospice Care after battling cancer. She was 61.

Kurt Weill's "Street Scene," a blend of opera and musical, will be staged with a Baltimore twist by Peabody Opera Theatre at the Modell-Lyric Performing Arts Center.

The run of "Chicago" at the Hippodrome (now through Sunday) represents a homecoming of sorts for cast member Robin Masella, who plays Liz, the condemned prisoner who shot her husband after he popped his gum one-time-too-many.

By Chris Kaltenbach

Mar 4, 2015

This Saturday in Bel Air presents residents and visitors with a unique opportunity to, in the words of Mayor Robert Reier, "eat a lot of candy in the afternoon and go hear Irish music in the evening."

Laurel senior centers are offering events in March.

Charlotte R. Bohn, who worked for Baltimore Child's magazine as distribution and advertising traffic manager for more than a decade and was also a talented singer and voice coach, died.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Feb 28, 2015

Carroll County Bird Club offers many activities during year, locally and out of the area

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

By Wesley Case

Feb 25, 2015

Aubrey Maurice Murphy, an acclaimed pianist, organist, conductor and vocal coach who had been a fixture on the Baltimore music scene since the 1960s, died.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Feb 20, 2015

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Ed Schrader has worked for years to establish his music, but that doesn't mean setting any kind of parameters for what his brand of humor-infused punk can be.

By Quinn Kelley

Feb 18, 2015

The news reads like it is a good time to be Wale, but during a frank phone conversation last week, the rapper -- who headlines Baltimore Soundstage on Friday -- sounded defeated, unhappy and uncertain about his future in music.

By Wesley Case

Feb 18, 2015

Dan Deacon first heard the term "stress addiction" a few years ago, and the Baltimore-based experimental-pop artist wondered aloud if it applied to his own life. Nearby, the former Ponytail drummer Jeremy Hyman looked back in disbelief.

By Wesley Case

Feb 18, 2015

Vocal artist Patti Austin will pay tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and "a lost tradition" in a Baltimore Symphony Orchestra pops program.

Centennial High School trumpet player Reece Updike and Burleigh Manor Middle School french horn player Keegan McCardell performed at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage in Washington as members of the Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestras.

The Charles Village-based Dan Meyer Choir will perform "Love Songs of the Presidents," based on love letters and poems that presidents wrote to their wives and significant others.

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As Trey Songz released his fifth album, "Chapter V," in August 2012, the R&B singer could feel the genre's boundaries shifting beneath his feet.

By Wesley Case

Feb 11, 2015

Shaina "Shi" Scott got about one hour of sleep before she and her three teammates performed a group rendition of Michael Jackson's "Pretty Young Thing" before a slate of "American Idol" judges, but she pushed through the sleep deprivation to give a successful performance and advance to the next round of the popular televised singing competition.