Concert Series:

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.
ericlowentrust@lownav.com

HARD TRAVELERS

Thursday, August 7th

Tickets $20.00

"The Hard Travelers are well known for giving a very lively and engaging performance, and for leaving their audiences feeling good about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness!  They are a bunch of good ol' boys having a good ol' time sharing songs about everyday life experiences about everyday folks."

Maureen Harrigan of MoFolk Productions

For more than 30 years The Travelers have continued to delight audiences from DC to Japan.  The Hard Travelers began playing together in 1958. Original members were Kenn Roberts, Buddy Renfro and Mike Ritter.  During  their 30+ years of performing some changes have occurred.  Eighteen years ago The Travelers added a fourth member, Mack Bailey.   Since that time Mike Ritter retired and Buddy Renfro lost his fight with Cancer in May, 1998.   Within the past fifteen years they have added three stunning instrumentalists, Mike Munford. Jon Glik and Ira Gitlin.
From their beginning to today,  they have been the opening act at The Cellar Door in Washington, DC, toured all over the USA from The Kerrville Folk Festival to Grossinger's in NY, Azalea Festival in NC, The Wheeler Opera House in Aspen Colorado and a goodwill tour in Taiwan. The Travelers are dedicated to finding ways to use their music as a vehicle to make a difference in the world.  In 1988 they produced the first "Hard Travelers and Friends Concert" to raise funds for Cystic Fibrosis.  Now an annual event, The Travelers have been joined by such renowned artists as Emmylou Harris, Alabama, Kathy Mattea, John Denver, Kenny Rogers, Alan Jackson, Martina McBride and Reba McEntire, to name a few.  They have raised over eleven (11) million dollars for various charities, with their main focus on finding a cure for Cystic Fibrosis.
Musically they have evolved from Pure Folk to Folk-Bluegrass to Folk-Country, and now have a unique quality of their own. Much of their music is self-composed, but you can always count on a familiar tune from one of the many performers who have influenced their work.  A mixture of varied voices blending into tight harmonies along with guitars, banjo, mandolin, acoustic bass and fiddle, The Hard Travelers are a truly unique act with an avid following of friends and devotees.

http://www.mackbailey.com/hard_travelers.htm

BILL STAINES

Thursday, August 14th

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 forth 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.

Interspersed between original songs, Bill also includes songs ranging from traditional folk tunes to more contemporary country ballads and delights in having the audience participate in many of the numbers. He may even do a yodeling tune or two- having won the National Yodeling Championship in 1975 at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Kerrville Texas.

A number of Bill's songs have been recorded by other artists including, Peter, Paul, & Mary, Makem and Clancy, Nanci Griffith, Mason Williams, The Highwaymen, Glen Yarborough, Jerry Jeff Walker, Grandpa Jones, Priscilla Herdman and others. Bill has recorded twenty-two of his own albums, fifteen of which are still in print. Additionally, Bill's songs have been published in four songbooks, If I Were A Word, Then I'd Be A Song, River, Music To Me, The Songs of Bill Staines, and All God's Critters Got A Place In The Choir. Two of the books contain nearly one hundred of Bill's songs.

Radio and TV appearances have included A Prairie Home Companion, Mountain Stage, The Good Evening Show and a host of local programs on PBS and network TV. Bill continues to drive over 65,000 miles a year, doing what he loves, bringing music to people. http://www.acousticmusic.com/staines/

ELLIS PAUL

Thursday, August 28th

Tickets $20.00

A singer songwriter is only as good as the times he reflects. In times like these, when so many nuts are running the show, it's comforting to know that Ellis Paul is actually holding our sanity on his own stage! Wise, tender, brilliant and biting, Ellis is one of our best human compasses, marking in melodies and poems where we've been and where we might go if we so choose to. Personally Ellis, I'm goin' where you're goin'! --Nora Guthrie (Woody Guthrie's daughter)

Ellis Paul is one of the leading voices in American songwriting. He was a principle leader in the wave of singer/songwriters that emerged from the Boston folk scene, creating a movement that revitalized the national acoustic circuit with an urban, literate, folk pop style that helped renew interest in the genre in the 1990's.

His charismatic, personally authentic performance style has influenced a generation of artists away from the artifice of pop, and closer towards the realness of folk. Though he remains among the most pop-friendly of today's singer-songwriters - his songs regularly appear in hit movie and TV soundtracks - he has bridged the gulf between the modern folk sound and the populist traditions of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger more successfully than perhaps any of his songwriting peers.
An increasingly topical humanism informed his work. Like Guthrie a half-century before, Paul displayed a humble genius for putting the most divisive issues of his day into starkly personal and emotional terms. "She loves a girl," he sang. "What are you going to do if you love her, too?"

"I feel like I'm more a part of a community now than just a songwriter singing about my own struggles and the struggles of the friends I see around me," Paul says of his career today. "Maybe that's the difference between being a singer-songwriter and being a folk musician, that transition into more of a community sense of writing. "

At the same time, Paul remains the most mainstream-friendly folk songwriter to emerge from Boston since Tom Rush. Between 1993 and 2004, he won an unprecedented 13 Boston Music Awards, and his songs were heard on hit TV shows Ed and MTV's Real World; and in the soundtracks of several Farrelly Brothers films, including "Me, Myself, & Irene," starring Jim Carrey, and "Shallow Hal," with Jack Black and Gwyneth Paltrow. Director Peter Farrelly has called Paul "a national treasure."

It would be easy - perhaps even advisable - to become complacent after succeeding so remarkably at all the things he set out to do. But there is a restlessness in Paul these days, a vibrant, glowing spirit of artistic adventure. Success to him is not a prize to clutch and protect, but an open door to a wider journey.

"There are differences between the me now and the me I was in the early '90s," he says quietly. "I have a reliable fan base that keeps a roof over my head, for which I'm so thankful. And I think they're also willing and forgiving enough for me to go through any evolution I choose, as long as the core of what I do is honest, and that I continue to write songs and stories about the things I see around me.

"I need to keep feeling refreshed. I've been down the Ellis Paul rabbit-hole, you know, and now I'm looking around and trying to learn new things, experience other people's music and stories. I have no idea where I'm headed, but I think it'll make me a broader artist. "

That sounds like a very safe bet. http://www.ellispaul.com

Pete Morton

Laura Byrne Egan  & Donna Long

Thursday, September 4th

Tickets $16.00

  Laura Byrne Egan (Irish flute and pennywhistle) is one of a handful of musicians to successfully cross over to Irish music from another discipline. A native of Vermont, Laura began studying classical flute at age 9 and went on to graduate from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in 1995. Shortly afterwards, she decided to devote her musical career to Irish music, learning from the masters, making countless trips to Ireland and she quickly became a mainstay in Baltimore's vibrant Irish music scene. In 1999 Laura won the U.S. Eastern Fleadh Championship in NY and since then has played at countless festivals, ceilis and concerts. In 2005 Laura released her first solo album ‘Tune for the Road’ which received great reviews and radio play across the U.S. and in Ireland.  A recent review in Irish Music Magazine reported: "it's astonishing to see the extent of her fluency and grasp of the Irish traditional flute style.”  Laura can also be heard on the late Eva Cassidy compilation remix recording ‘Wonderful World.’  She performs regularly with accordion great, Billy McComiskey, world renowned pianist and fiddler Donna Long, and guitarist and singer (and husband) Pat Egan as a member of ‘The Hedge Band,’ with Maggie Sansone's Celtic Holiday Concerts and with fiddler Jim Eagan. Laura was a 2007 MD State Arts Council grant recipient, teaches Irish flute at Goucher College and founded and directs the Baltimore Irish Arts Center. www.laurabyrne.com
     Donna Long (vocals, piano & Irish fiddle): At the age of five  Donna Long began taking piano lessons with her father, Byron Long, a jazz/classical pianist who instilled in Donna a love for music. As a child, Donna was exposed to many different genres of music, including players from the old and new Jazz eras, Classical, Scottish, Indian, and African.  In 1978, she moved to the Baltimore and heard fiddler, Brendan Mulvihill playing Irish music. He inspired her to pick up the fiddle and gave her a solid foundation in style and playing. As a former member of the internationally acclaimed Irish group Cherish the Ladies, the Smithsonian Institution asked Donna to represent Irish Music in the series, Piano Traditions celebrating 300 years of the piano. Donna was also commissioned by the Library of Congress in to write a composition for fiddle and piano. www.donnalongpiano.com
     Pete Morton is a bard in the old tradition and a songwriter with a truly contemporary edge at the same time! He has a wealth of great songs and a charismatic stage presence. With his lyrical ability he is fast becoming known as 'the singer of hope' with such songs as 'Another Train', 'Six Billion Eccentrics', 'Further' and 'The Shepherds Song'. His shows have been described as dynamic, fun-loving and approachable... singing from the heart, he tells compelling stories of the human condition.  Pete began his musical career as a busker on the streets of Europe before beginning to play indoors at folk clubs back home in England. He constantly tours around the globe so go and catch him on his travels... his songs and performances are a joy! www.petemorton.com

Bethany Yarrow & Rufus Cappadocia

Thursday, September 11th

Tickets $18.00

“Unbelievable!” is the word most used by audiences when first hearing Bethany & Rufus, whose cello and voice duo breaks new musical ground, sliding with seamless ease between groove, jazz and a gritty, unvarnished approach to traditional folk music.
  As the daughter of folk legend Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary, Bethany absorbed much of this music through osmosis in her early childhood. Her born-to-perform stage presence, mesmerizing voice and deep knowledge of the material allow her to turn these songs inside out, finding a vibrant inner pulse that resonates with an “in the blood” authenticity that used to characterize the music of decades past, but is all too rare in today’s music scene. Bethany and Rufus first met in 1999 at a friend’s late night gig at the Knitting Factory in New York City. The two of them began experimenting with old folk songs as a lark, but quickly realized that the unadorned cello and voice combined with the rooted power of these old chants was a starkly beautiful sound that defied the words “folk music” as we know it and reached across musical genres and generations.
   After years of experimentation and practice Rufus now plays a self designed Five String Electric Cello that extends the bass range of the cello and through amplification expands the tonal possibilities of the instrument. Rufus has made a career of going where few cellists have gone before. He has appeared on CDs with Ross Daly, Kif, David Fiuczynski, The Paradox Trio, Odetta, Michael Blake, and Tamalalou. Rufus has also performed with Kasse Mady, Aretha Franklin, The Black Rock Coalition, Esma, Theodossi Spassoff, Seamus Egan, Eileen Eivers, Cheick-Tidiane Seck, Vernon Reid, and many more.
   This fresh approach to folk music also brought rave reviews to Rock Island, the CD that Bethany released in 2003 under her own name. Rock Island features the traditional slave lullabies and prison songs that lie at the core of the American musical vernacular, yet re-imagined, she says, as "a kind of electronic pop that I called deep folk music." Blending an edgy contemporary style with banjos, dulcimers, harmonicas, slide guitars, gospel choirs, and some sampled voices of the great blues singers, Bethany charted a unique musical terrain that Bethany and Rufus continue to explore in ways far outside of any conventional music box. www.bethanyyarrow.com

     PIERCE PETTIS

Thursday, October 16th

Tickets $20.00
    

JAMES LEE STANLEY
    

  

Thursday, October 30th

Tickets $17.00

 

BROOKS WILLIAMS

   Thursday, November 13th

Tickets $17.00

MAC WALTER

CD RELEASE CONCERT

 Thursday, December 4th

SPECIAL SUNDAY HOLIDAY CONCERT

HARD TRAVELERS

Sunday, December 7

Tickets $22.00

"The Hard Travelers are well known for giving a very lively and engaging performance, and for leaving their audiences feeling good about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness!  They are a bunch of good ol' boys having a good ol' time sharing songs about everyday life experiences about everyday folks."

Maureen Harrigan of MoFolk Productions

For more than 30 years The Travelers have continued to delight audiences from DC to Japan.  The Hard Travelers began playing together in 1958. Original members were Kenn Roberts, Buddy Renfro and Mike Ritter.  During  their 30+ years of performing some changes have occurred.  Eighteen years ago The Travelers added a fourth member, Mack Bailey.   Since that time Mike Ritter retired and Buddy Renfro lost his fight with Cancer in May, 1998.   Within the past fifteen years they have added three stunning instrumentalists, Mike Munford. Jon Glik and Ira Gitlin.
From their beginning to today,  they have been the opening act at The Cellar Door in Washington, DC, toured all over the USA from The Kerrville Folk Festival to Grossinger's in NY, Azalea Festival in NC, The Wheeler Opera House in Aspen Colorado and a goodwill tour in Taiwan. The Travelers are dedicated to finding ways to use their music as a vehicle to make a difference in the world.  In 1988 they produced the first "Hard Travelers and Friends Concert" to raise funds for Cystic Fibrosis.  Now an annual event, The Travelers have been joined by such renowned artists as Emmylou Harris, Alabama, Kathy Mattea, John Denver, Kenny Rogers, Alan Jackson, Martina McBride and Reba McEntire, to name a few.  They have raised over eleven (11) million dollars for various charities, with their main focus on finding a cure for Cystic Fibrosis.
Musically they have evolved from Pure Folk to Folk-Bluegrass to Folk-Country, and now have a unique quality of their own. Much of their music is self-composed, but you can always count on a familiar tune from one of the many performers who have influenced their work.  A mixture of varied voices blending into tight harmonies along with guitars, banjo, mandolin, acoustic bass and fiddle, The Hard Travelers are a truly unique act with an avid following of friends and devotees.

http://www.mackbailey.com/hard_travelers.htm

CONNEMARA

Join us for this Holiday Tradition!

Thursday, December 18th

Tickets $20.00

Reserve your tickets early - this is always a sell-out!

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—LOOKING AHEAD—

AUGUST (28) Ellis Paul, tickets are $20

SEPTEMBER (4) Pete Morton with Laura Byrne Egan and Donna Long

SEPTEMBER (11) Bethany Yarrow & Rufus Cappadocia, tickets are $20

OCTOBER (16) Pierce Pettis

OCTOBER (30) James Lee Stanley

NOVEMBER (13) Brooks Williams

DECEMBER (4) Mac Walter CD Release Concert

DECEMBER (7) Hard Travelers - SPECIAL SUNDAY CONCERT

DECEMBER (18) Connemara Christmas - JOIN US FOR THIS HOLIDAY TRADITION!

More shows being added all the time - www.uptownconcerts.com

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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 and dining at 6:30 P.M. Due to the nature of this business shows are subject to change. Please call Baldwin’s to confirm, 410-795-1041.

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

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ROBIN HOOD

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)

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CINDERELLA

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)

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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

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)

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RUMPLESTILTSKIN

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)

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PETER PAN

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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