Concert Series: The music is BACK at Baldwin's !
All shows start at 8:00 PM, unless otherwise noted. Doors open at 6:30 PM. All ticket sales are final. No refunds or exchanges. $2.00 service charge per ticket on all credit card orders and $1.00 per ticket on cash or checks. Due to limited seating, advance tickets are recommended. Sorry, we do not accept unpaid reservations. The concert room opens for seating at 6:30pm. Due to the nature of this business, shows are subject to change. Please call to confirm, 410-795-1041. Donations are now being accepted for theEric Lowen Trust.
Thursday, June 4 Tickets $17.00 “ With a poet’s voice and a heart tuned to justice, John Flynn’s voice and songs sing for us all.” Scott Sheldon of Sing Out! magazine John sings from the heart. His powerful songs of humanity and hope are deeply rooted in the traditions of Woody Guthrie. From barbed political verse to joyous fun-loving lyrics for kids, John paints vivid, lasting images with words and music drawn from a palate of awareness, irony, humor, and compassion. Songwriter and activist John Flynn calls himself a “hopeful pessimist.” The pessimism comes from an honest clear-eyed assessment of the condition of the world we live in. The hope comes from a deep-rooted faith in the beauty and resilience of the human spirit. In an artist of Flynn’s caliber, the tension inherent in these seemingly contradictory points of view yields the kind of songs that moved Kris Kristofferson to compare Flynn to the best writers he knows, and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott to boast “John Flynn is the John Lennon of the plasma generation!” John began writing professionally in 1980 after graduating from Temple University with a degree in political science. A staff writing contract with Combine Music, and a Billboard Magazine. In the early 90’s, Flynn performed heavily in and around his native Philadelphia where his first self-released CDs began to receive extensive airplay on AAA radio giant, WXPN. His first main stage appearance at the 1995 Philadelphia Folk Festival cemented John’s reputation as a dynamic original contemporary folk artist. Songs that Flynn wrote, for his own four children, became the basis of two highly acclaimed family CDs. He was awarded the American Library Association’s Notable Recording Award. John appears regularly on the Peabody Award-winning children’s radio program “Kid’s Corner” and continues to present extremely popular assemblies and creative-writing workshops. In 2005, Arlo Guthrie invited John to join his post-Katrina “Train to New Orleans Tour.” Arlo says of John, “More than just a good song writer, performer, or guitar player, John Flynn is a friend because he actually does the kinds of things to help make the world a little better.”
SPECIAL TUESDAY CONCERT: Luka Bloom
Tuesday, June 9 Tickets are $30.00 Internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter Luka Bloom released his twelfth album, Eleven Songs, on October 10th 2008 on Big Sky Records.
Maggie Sansone, Celtic Faire Band
Thursday, June 18 Tickets $17.00 A Celtic Trio featuring Maggie Sansone, Karen Ashbrook & Paul Oorts. Hear Celtic music in a dazzling instrumental interplay that is beautiful, evocative and toe-tapping fun. A reunion of three of America’s finest musicians who all are on the Maggie's Music record label ( winner of eight Wammies for record label) ..
Thursday, July 9 Tickets $18.00 Whether in the bomb shelters "Miklats" in Israel or summer camps in Palestine, Human Rights Events, Colleges, Festivals or Venues around the world SONiA is always striving to ‘disappear fear’ and spread her message of Peace. In fall 2007 SONiA released a new CD with her band ‘disappear fear’ to the world (al mundo). “t a n g o" features 13 songs in Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic and English. The music matches the words in poetry about Love, Peace and Equality; themes familiar to SONiA's writing since the creation of ‘disappear fear.’ After releasing three albums on their own disappear fear signed with Warner Chappell Publishing and Rounder Records in 1994 for the release of their self-titled CD. The CD won multiple awards including the GLAAD Award for Best Album, a GLAMA award, and Top Release of the Year by Mix Magazine. The next release, "Seed in the Sahara," was produced by Springsteen's piano player, Roy Bittan and won the GLAMA for best band. In 1998 Rounder released "Almost Chocolate," SONiA's first solo CD. During that year SONiA toured Europe (Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands) and Australia for the first time.. "Me,Too" her 1999 release won Female Artist of the Year at the GLAMAs. "Me,Too" was also later chosen by the HRC (Human Rights Campaign) along with songs by U2 and many others for their compilation CD. "Me,Too" was also chosen by the Philadelphia Folk Festival for their 40th Year Anniversary CD. Following another solo release "Live at the Down Home," SONiA released “No Bomb Is Smart” to rave reviews and a nomination for “Best Contemporary Folk.” She decided it was time to bring back the harmonies which disappear fear has always been known for and added Laura Cerulli on vocals, percussion and drums. SONiA has written several soundtracks for films including the 2006 documentary Autumn’s Harvest directed by Dave Marshall. The film is playing at film festivals around the world. She is currently working on a musical that will be released in 2009 as well as a Blues CD. When not on the road SONiA does commissioned artwork, including paintings and large murals.
Thursday, July 16 Tickets $17.00 Long before there was a computer on every desk, Seamus Kennedy was providing "interactive entertainment" to delighted audiences from one end of the country to another. He is quick with a quip and likes nothing better than to discover someone in the audience who is similarly inclined. He makes it all seem so effortless that it is easy to miss that he is a superb instrumentalist with an apparently infinite repertoire. The depth of his musicality allows him to tailor his show to the audience before him, whether it be children, families or adults. Originally from Belfast in Northern Ireland, Seamus sings the music of his native land with emotion born of knowing its history firsthand. But he is far from simply a singer of Celtic songs. Fast-paced humor is very much a part of what Seamus does, whether he's telling a series of rapid-fire jokes or launching into a lyrical parody. He will segue seamlessly from an Irish ballad about a dying town to a rollicking reel and then move into American music, equally at home with folk, pop, country or traditional. Throughout it all, he is having such a grand time that you can't help but want to join in. (...a wonderfully entertaining Irishman with a happy-to-see-you smile that could light up the sky...a captivating performance.” ~ Anchorage Times. Toby’s new CD 'Hand Picked' made the Folk DJ 'Top Albums' Charts for 3 consecutive months, is the most added CD in the Roots Americana Charts and over 160 radio stations are now playing it nationwide. www.mcnote.com/seamus/index.html
SPECIAL SUNDAY CONCERT:
July 26 Start time: 7:00 p.m. Tickets $30 "Rare artist...strong poetry, complex melodies, clever wit." SingOut! It has always seemed as if there were two Cheryl Wheelers, with fans of the New England songwriter relishing watching the two tussle for control of the mic. There is poet-Cheryl, writer of some of the prettiest, most alluring and intelligent ballads on the modern folk scene. And there is her evil twin, comic-Cheryl, a militant trend defier and savagely funny social critic. The result is a delightful contrast between poet and comic. Poet-Cheryl writes achingly honest songs of love and loss. Contrasting the prosaic landscapes of her native small-town America with the hopelessly rootless life of the traveling performer, she touches the common chords with any who feel the tug between our busy, clamorous times and the timeless longing for simplicity and silence. Her deceptively plain-spun songs have been hits for such main-stream stars as Suzy Bogguss (Aces) and Dan Seals (Addicted), and have been recorded by everyone from Bette Midler, Maura O’Connell, and Peter Paul and Mary; to Juice Newton and Garth Brooks. Comic-Cheryl comes on like Groucho-in-a-housecoat; a fiercely everyday woman with a barbed-wire tongue. Shredding the mores of our gossipy, greedy, trend-obsessed culture, Wheeler always aims enough darts at herself to never seem sanctimonious. Wheeler was born in the small town of Timonium, Maryland. The wistful rural vistas she glimpses so poignantly through her fleeting windshield really do represent the deep pull of place she feels in her wandering life. With the possible exception of Greg Brown, no modern songwriter comes to mind who can write as convincingly about the sheer, simple-hearted joy of a nice day; whether a warm spring one spent driving down southern back roads, or a chilly gray one spent thinking properly dark thoughts at a bayside hotel. Where others seek the startling image, the ‘Big Event,’ Wheeler wraps her songs around the familiar image, the shared event. When it’s comic-Cheryl’s turn, the poet simply turns over the mic and allows the comic to be displayed in her native habitat: the stage. Wheeler can comically lampoon modern culture while thoughtfully teasing herself and the audience. As the two forces smooth their conflict, taking their separate turns and melding into the same artistic vision, Wheeler emerges as a gifted and openhearted songwriter approaching the sure summit of her craft. Audience members’ abilities to find their own lives reflected in the sweet spaces of her songs reveals an artist comfortably wearing the austere genius that defines folk music’s best traditions.. More confidently and beautifully than ever before, she proves that the poet and the comic are one and the same.
Thursday, July 30 Tickets $17.00 "You haven't lived until you've seen Toby Walker in concert. He's not just a master guitarist, but a consummate entertainer. " John Platt - WFUV Toby Walker is a unique, accomplished fingerstyle guitar virtuoso adept at blues, rags and hot country picking, coaxing more out of a guitar than anyone can imagine, but the originality doesn't end there. He is also a skilled singer and songwriter who draws inspiration from traditional and contemporary music. Toby’s passion for the blues and other traditional America music sent him into the deep south where he tracked down old time musicians of an earlier era, learning directly at the feet of Etta Baker, Jack Owens and many others. He shares this music and the stories of his travels in each of his performances. Toby takes this foundation and creates something uniquely his own and has been eagerly received in concert halls, festivals, schools and coffeehouses throughout the U.S., England and Europe. His songs can make you shake with laughter or, bring a tear to your eye. Among Toby’s credits are teaching in the schools for Carnegie Hall, instructing guitar at Jorma Kaukonen’s Fur Peace Ranch in Ohio and winning the prestigious International Blues Challenge Award in Memphis. He has twice been featured in the New York Times and has appeared on the Main stage at the famous Philadelphia Folk Festival.
Thursday, August 6 Tickets $16.00 "It's really rare that I receive a CD that I can honestly say doesn't have a weak track. With Bob Sima's Pour it On, I can say that. This is one first class, "feel good" recording, and it is extremely infectious. This is one that I'll play over and over and over. It's upbeat, groovy, warm, comfortable and ultra listenable. And the star of this production is Sima's voice. He's just got one of those perfectly accessible sets of pipes that will please everyone." Christy Claxton - Stave Magazine Bob Sima literally burst onto the singer-songwriter scene after taking hiatus from his band Stereopool, a highly successful acoustic power trio, from Annapolis, MD. Stereopool has made a name for themselves in the local and regional scene for their brand of energetic, evocative acoustic power folk music. They shared the stage with NRBQ, Eddie from Ohio, Ari Hest and many local legends and landed a UK distribution deal with Smart Choice Music (Kathleen Edwards, John Prine, Lyle Lovett) and were featured on the Smart Choice Sampler which landed them in Maverick Magazine. November 2006, Bob released his first solo release entitled Pour It On. Produced by David Weber in Bloomington, Indiana (Krista Detor, Carrie Newcomer) was quickly named "CD OF THE YEAR" by the former Westside Café. Pour It On is an amazing collection of songs captured "in the moment" with a very live feel. It features Krista Detor and Jason Wilbur (John Prine, Todd Snider, Iris Dement). Bob's song "Amazed By You" has landed him in the top 1% of all time in the Acoustic Genre at garageband.com. He has also reached #2 ALL-Time in Male Vocals (Acoustic). His music has won awards from Songwriteruniverse.com, has been webcasted, podcasted and beamed through satellite radio waves. Bob has played many of the top venues in the mid Atlantic including Rams Head OnStage, IOTA, World Café Live, Fletchers, The Cellar Stage, Columbia Lakefront Concert Series, Dewey Beach Music Conference and the National Folk Alliance Festival and Conference, Falcon Ridge Folk Festival and the Susquehanna Music and Arts Festival. Bob is also a highly sought after house concert player and has played dozens of house concerts all across the country. Bob also hosts and books a singer songwriter in the round at the Austin Grill in Rockville, MD.
In a little more than a decade of performing original music around the world, Kevin So has earned the respect of his fellow musicians, won over members of press and radio (the Boston Globe, WFUV, and many more), and has built a loyal fan base across the United States. With the sky still the limit, he has spent more than 15 years giving free rein to his musical imagination. Born and raised in the greater Boston area, So channeled an early passion for singing into the start of a career with his 1990 appearance on the nationally syndicated Fox TV show “Big Break” hosted by Natalie Cole. In 1994, So toured the country as a member of a cover band. When not playing keyboards and singing on stage with the group, he spent a considerable amount of time in hotel rooms listening to the recordings of early Bob Dylan and the Delta blues of Robert Johnson. By 1995, So had quit the band and became a regular face on the open-mic circuit in Cambridge. His strong musicianship and natural showmanship as a solo singer/songwriter caught the attention of Boston Globe pop critic Steve Morse — who wrote that Kevin was “unusually talented.” The next year, Kevin took to the interstates for his first taste of touring as a solo act. At the prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas, Austin Chronicle music writer took notice, saying that So was “the big discovery who put holes back into the music.” The release of Kevin’s first full length album, Pendulum, in 1996 signaled the arrival of a top-flight storyteller who kept his every blues, folk and pop stylistic flourish in the service of his melodically rich music. In the summer of 2007, Kevin was the proud recipient of the "Overall Excellence Award" (Outstanding Music & Lyrics) for his work in "VICTOR WOO: THE AVERAGE ASIAN AMERICAN," a musical loosely based on his life. It debuted in August at the 2007 New York International Fringe Festival to packed houses. The release of So’s A Brighter Day saw Kevin on the road once again throughout 2007 and 2008, both as bandleader and as a solo act, opening for Keb’ Mo’ on several occasions. Always making new friends, So continues to tour the country at a vigorous clip. His latest effort Best Foot Forward finds Kevin So going back to his acoustic folk/blues roots. Recorded and mixed by long time friend and collaborator Steve Rapson in just three days, this next album gives his fans and friends what they’ve witnessed live and have been requesting for a long time – acoustic guitar and vocal.
Thursday, August 13 Tickets $17.00 "Any new song that can live comfortably beside the well-worn songs of folk tradition has a good chance of surviving the test of time. Such, we believe, are the songs of Bill Staines" Charles "Sandy" Paton, Folk Legacy Records Anyone not familiar with the music of Bill Staines is in for a special treat. For over thirty-five years, Bill has traveled back and forth across North America, singing his songs and delighting audiences at festivals, folksong societies, colleges, concerts, clubs and coffeehouses. A New England native, Bill became involved with the Boston- Cambridge folk scene in the early 1960's and, for a time, emceed the Sunday hootenanny at the renowned Club 47 in Cambridge. Bill quickly became a popular performer in the Boston area. In 1971, after one of his performances, a reviewer for The Phoenix stated that Bill was "simply Boston's best performer." A decade later, both in 1980 and 1981, the annual Reader's Poll of The Boston Globe selected him as a “favorite performer.” In 1991, Bill entered his fourth decade as a folk performer with an international reputation as an artist. Singing mostly his own songs, he has become one of the most popular singers on the folk music circuit today and averages around 200 concert dates a year. Bill weaves a magical blend of wit and gentle humor into his performances, and as one reviewer wrote, "He has a sense of timing to match the best stand-up comic." His music is a slice of Americana, reflecting with the same ease, his feelings about the prairie people of the Midwest or the adventurers of the Yukon.
Thursday, August 20 Tickets $17.00 Beth Patterson, a Lafayette, Louisiana native, was born in a swamp. Described by viewers as “a cross between a cobra and a puppy,” multi-instrumentalist Beth Patterson is foremost a player of the eight and ten-stringed Irish bouzoukis. Known for her razor wit and musical versatility, her performances are chock-full of drive, savage energy, and passion, laced with humor and rapport with her listeners, dishing out an eclectic repertoire of original and traditional songs. She integrates her quirky, progressive sound with Celtic music and other ethnic styles, resulting in her own sound she dubs “SWAP” (Songwriter/World/Acoustic/Progressive). This musical mongrel began her career in her early teens as a classical oboist and a Cajun bass player but not truly belonging to any of these, set out to create her own niche when she was adopted by a stray bouzouki. After moving to New Orleans, she began to play the circuit, initially intending to do the folksy thing, but accepted gigs of all types left and right because no one told her that they shouldn’t be played on the bouzouki. Beth later fled to Ireland, studying ethnomusicology at University College Cork, where she explored the music of Ireland, West Africa, India, Indonesia, and the Caribbean, and began to experiment with fusions of these world gems with her musical old flames. This finally rendered her with the mind of a prog rocker and the heart of a world music-lover. Beth managed to receive a bachelor’s degree in Music Therapy from Loyola University, New Orleans. She has released four CDs and has received widespread airplay in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and Japan. She has appeared on over ninety recordings (including the soundtrack to the motion picture The One-Eyed King, starring William Baldwin and Armand Assante, and the nationally-charting Change of Habit by her former band The Poor Clares). She’s performed in eleven countries. Over sixty of her original compositions have been recorded, either by herself or by various artists across the US, France, Ireland, and New Zealand. But she claims that she won’t be satisfied until she can start her own “Bethodist” religion (a fellowship that one can join by purchasing one of her CDs and/or bringing a covered dish – but don’t worry about the food - Baldwin’s can take care of that part!) www.littlebluemen.com/beth.asp
Dan Navarro October 8
David Jacob-Strain & Pat Wictor October 15 Garnet Rogers November 12
Thursday, November 19th with John Cronin MAGPIE December 10
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Thursday, December 17th Tickets $20.00 Reserve your tickets early - this is always a sell-out! —LOOKING AHEAD— APRIL (30) Lucy Kaplansky, tickets are $20 MAY (7) Vance Gilbert, tickets are $20 MAY (21) Ellis Paul, tickets are $20 JUNE (4) John Flynn, tickets are $17 JUNE (9) Luka Bloom, tickets are $30 (Tuesday) JUNE (18) Maggie Sansone, Celtic Faire Band JULY (9) SONiA JULY (16) Seamus Kennedy, tickets are $17 JULY (26) Cheryl Wheeler, tickets are $30 (Sunday) JULY (30) Toby Walker, tickets are $17 AUGUST (6) Bob Sima & Kevin So, tickets are $16 AUGUST (13) Bill Staines, tickets are $17 AUGUST (20) Beth Patterson, tickets are $17 OCTOBER (8) Dan Navarro, tickets are $25 OCTOBER (15) David Jacob-Strain & Pat Wictor, tickets are $17 OCTOBER (22) Pierce Pettis NOVEMBER (19) Mac Walter & John Cronin DECEMBER (10) Magpie DECEMBER (17) Connemara, tickets are $20 More shows being added all the time - www.uptownconcerts.com NO FLASH CAMERA, VIDEO, OR AUDIO RECORDING PERMITTED. The music at Baldwin’s Station is brought to you by Uptown Concerts, a nonprofit organization affiliated with the NorthAmerican Folk Alliance and dedicated to the preservation and promotion of folk and traditional music. Neither Baldwin’s Station, nor Joyce R. Sica earn any profits from the music presented by Uptown Concerts at Baldwin’s Station. Your tax deductible donations are very needed. Please mail your donation to Uptown Concerts, PO Box 1503, Randallstown, MD 21133, thank you. Joyce R. Sica 410-922-5210.uptownconcerts@aol.com -- www.uptownconcerts.com | June | July | August | September | October | Here he comes to save the day! It's that woodland avenger, Robin Hood, and his band of merry men. Watch as Robin pillages the purses of Prince John, and wins the heart of the fair princess, Maid Marian. Running Time: 45 minutes Tickets $6.95 for children and adults (children 2 and under are FREE) All Cinderella ever wanted was to be beautiful and glamorous like her 3 wicked step-sisters. Won't she be in for a surprise when she finds out that her Fairy Godmother has a little glamour and glitz in store for a ball that promises to be quite memorable... Running Time: 45 minutes Tickets $6.95 for children and adults (children 2 and under are FREE) Fairies! Clowns! Love! Magic! We're talkin' William Shakespeare's classic tale of a group of traveling actors caught in the middle of a struggle between two sets of lovers and a group of mischievous fairies. Here's magic that even Disney couldn't conjure up! Running Time: 45 minutes Tickets $6.95 for children and adults (children 2 and under are FREE) Rumple-slateskin...Rumple-sampsonite...Rumple-shakespeare...what IS that michievous little bearded fellow's name? Whatever it is, the miller's daughter better figure it out before she's killed by the treacherous king, who is forcing her to weave golden strw. Tough deal, isn't it? Running Time: 45 minutes Tickets $6.95 for children and adults (children 2 and under are FREE) Who wants to sit quietly and hear a boring British lady read an adventurous story of pirates, Indians, and a boy who never grew up? Didn't think so! Come with Peter Pan and Wendy as they live the adventure and travel to Neverland to battle Captain Hook and the pirates of the Jolly Roger. Running Time: 45 minutes Tickets $6.95 for children and adults (children 2 and under are FREE)
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