June 5, 2024
Quey Percussion Duo
For nearly 20 years, Quey [“Kway”] Percussion Duo has dazzled audiences worldwide with its unmistakable style that blends traditions of contemporary, cross-cultural, classical and popular music to create colorful sound worlds that often place focus on interlocking counterpoint and musical multitasking. The duo’s presentations have a reputation for elevating the basic acts of striking, shaking and scraping into a blast...
June 5, 2024
Tisza Ensemble
Tisza Ensemble was formed in 1982 by a group of dancers in Maryland interested in the Hungarian táncház movement. Táncház — literally "dance house" — is a Hungarian folk dance social event. The táncház movement—a modern revival of Hungarian traditional dance and music — began in the early 1970s and forms an active part of Hungarian culture, both at home...
June 5, 2024
UMES Steppers
The University of Maryland Eastern Shore has several chapters of Greek Letter Organizations (National Pan-Hellenic Council), along with Non-Greek Social Fellowships (Council of Independent Organizations) on campus who are committed to serving their community and uplifting the students of their historically Black university. UMES's active Greek organizations include Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.; Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.; Delta Sigma...
June 5, 2024
Dan + Claudia Zanes with Tyree Austin
Grammy award-winner Dan Zanes and vocalist/music therapist Claudia Zanes have been sharing their love of community and social music making in concerts large and small across the country. It was in their hometown of Baltimore that they recently met Tyree Austin, when the three happened to be performing on the same night at a local men’s shelter. The connection was...
June 5, 2024
Great American Indian Dancers
The Great American Indian Dancers have performed in festivals, concert halls and stages in five continents. Originally based in the Heart of Indian Country in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the group has performed for heads of state, multicultural audiences and children. Its performances feature live music, dance and storytelling from diverse tribes from throughout the United States. The Great American Indian...
June 5, 2024
Mid Shore Voices United
Mid Shore Voices United is a group of enthusiastic singers from several different religious denominations covering an enormous amount of territory throughout Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania. The choir was founded in November 2023, when the Covenant Gospel Choir, Friends For Christ, and the Second Generation Community Chorus of Federalsburg, Maryland, came together to participate in a benefit for a local...
August 8, 2023
Noah Mitchel
Noah Mitchel is a vocalist, theater performer, Yiddish music performer and culture worker living in Baltimore. Mitchel has performed theater with Congress for Jewish Culture, Jewish Plays Project, Imagination Stage and IN Series, as well as at the 11th Annual Adrienne Cooper Dreaming in Yiddish Concert. He has also sung Yiddish at Creative Alliance, Baltimore Center Stage and other Baltimore...
August 8, 2023
Lydia and Emily Martin
The Martin sisters of Boyds, Maryland – Lydia (banjo, guitar, piano) and Emily (mandolin, tenor banjo) – bring a variety of traditional Irish and old-time repertoire to the stage. They have performed across the Atlantic and the United States, also teaching workshops and playing for dances. Emily's daughter, Elora Paul-Martin (flute, guitar), is a third-generation member of the Martin Family...
