Tag: Performing Arts
The Annapolis Music Scene Coming To Life
The Annapolis music scene will be rocking and rolling next weekend at the first ever Silopanna Music Festival. This one day festival will be held at the Anne Arundel County Fairgrounds and will feature three stages and more than 20 bands. Two weeks ago highlighted some of the national talent that will be at the [...]
Ticket Sales For ‘Love Letters’ Underway
Ticket sales are under way for performances of the “Love Letters,” a Pulitzer Prize nominated play cast with Anne Arundel Community College administrators as a scholarship fundraiser tied to the college’s 50thAnniversary celebration. The play by A.R. Gurney will showcase a different set of actors for the Sept. 9, 10 and 11 performances in the [...]
Casting Call: Children’s Theatre Of Annapolis
Children ages 8 – 18 are invited to audition for Children’s Theatre of Annapolis’s fall production A Tribute to Roald Dahl: The Witches by Roald Dahl and adapted by David Wood. The show will also include a presentation of Dahl’s “The Enormous Crocodile.” The auditions will be held on Saturday, August 27, 10 – 1 [...]
Duran Duran Coming To DC – Tickets On Sale Now
Duran Duran are thrilled to announce their North American fall tour, set to kick off September 23rd in Everett, WA and will include a show at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington DC on October 16th. After a brief run of intimate album release shows this past Spring, the band will return to this side of the pond for [...]
Jeff Dunham Coming To Patriot Center In November
The man whose standup concerts rule the comedy world, Jeff Dunham, announces a full slate of shows through March 2012 that offers his millions of fans brand new laughs and hilarious additions to his famed troupe of sidekicks. In the coming months, concertgoers will meet two new Dunham characters: Achmed Junior, the not-as-equally skeletal son [...]
Annapolis Chorale To Perform 9/11 Remembrance Concerts
On Sunday, September 11, Live Arts Maryland Music Director J. Ernest Green will conduct two free concerts to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The Annapolis Chorale and Annapolis Chamber Orchestra will perform WA Mozart’s “Requiem” to honor those lost that day. This is the same piece the Chorale performed on the first [...]
Rock Out And Help The Chesapeake Bay
$1 From Every Ticket Donated To Chesapeake Bay Trust Rams Head Promotions, organizers of the Silopanna Music Festival, today announced a partnership with the Annapolis-based Chesapeake Bay Trust, a nonprofit, grant-making organization that funds projects and programs to restore the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers. Silopanna Fest, which will take place August 27 at the [...]
Silopanna Music Festival Announces Set Times
Silopanna Music Festival set times were announced earlier this week for the inaugural festival, which features a full day of the best new music on three stages. The fun will begin at 11:30 am at the Anne Arundel County Fairgrounds on August 27th, 2011 with some of today’s most popular music acts headlining including Matt [...]
Encore Chorale Announces Fall Season
Calling all former high school and college choristers, church, synagogue and community choral singers! Come experience a rehearsal with the dynamic Encore Chorale conducted by Jeanne Kelly, past conductor of the United States Naval Academy Women’s Glee Club, Georgetown University Concert Choir and Senior Singers’ Chorales of the Levine School of Music. Singers improve their [...]
Taylor Swift At The Verizon Center
<–Please share these awesome photos with your friends on facebook, your followers on twitter and the googleverse. Just click the icons to the left! Last night, Eye On Annapolis had photographer Kevin Carroll at the first of two sold-out Taylor Swift shows. Swift and her Speak Now World Tour 2011 played at the Verizon Center [...]
Who The Hell Is Fitz And The Tantrums?
<–Please share this post with your friends on facebook and followers on twitter. Hey, and why not toss out some Google love too? Just click the icons to the left! Thanks for clicking! This is another of our highlights of the various artists that will be appearing at the Silopanna Music Festival on August 27th [...]
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings To Perform At Silopanna
<–Please share this post with your friends on facebook and followers on twitter. Hey, and why not toss out some Google love too? Just click the icons to the left! Thanks for clicking! This is another of our highlights of the various artists that will be appearing at the Silopanna Music Festival on August 27th [...]
Symphony’s Season Opener Commemorates 9/11 Ten Year Anniversary
When Joan Stillinger of Riva heard about this concert she said, “What a nice thing for an orchestra to do! This is one not to be missed”. The Londontowne Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Anna Binneweg, will open its Champions & Heroes season with a special concert on the actual date of the [...]
Trombone Shorty To Play Silopanna Music Festival
<–Please share this post (and Shorty’s music) with your friends on facebook and followers on twitter. Hey, and why not toss out some Google love too? Just click the icons to the left! Thanks for clicking! Throughout the next few weeks we will be highlighting the various artists that will be appearing at the Silopanna [...]
Warped Tour Slide Show
<–to share this post with your friends on facebook, followers on twitter, or to just give it some google love, please click the icons to the left. Due to some technical sever issues, we were not able to publish our photos from the Van’s Warped Tour 2011 on Wednesday as planned. We will be posting [...]
Pyrates Royale Take Galesville–Again
In keeping with their tendency to invade humble seaport towns, the Pyrates Royale have set their sights on the hamlet of Galesville for an evening of musical mayhem. The rowdy group of nautical merrymakers will occupy the Galesville Memorial Hall on Saturday, August 6 from 8-10 p.m. for a Sea Dog Days concert of revelry, [...]
Eye On Annapolis Gets Warped
Tomorrow, Eye On Annapolis will be covering the Vans Warped Tour 2011 at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia! We will have several photographers and will be live tweeting from the all day festival. Be sure to follow us and look for the #VWT hashtag to follow us complete with commentary and live photos! Tickets [...]
‘Hairspray’ Up Next At Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre
The Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre’s 2011 season continues with “Hairspray”, opening August 4th and running Thursdays-Sundays at 8:30pm through September 4th. “Hairspray” is a Broadway musical-comedy phenomenon that inspired a major motion picture and won eight 2003 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Set in 1962 Baltimore, the story follows pleasantly plump Baltimore teen Tracy Turnblad, [...]
Calico Jack At 333 Coffeehouse In August
From pirates to Point Lookout, the music of Calico Jack celebrates the maritime history, characters, and traditions of the Chesapeake Bay. Comprised of veteran performers Janie Meneely (Crab Alley) and Paul DiBlasi (Pyrates Royale), Calico Jack rambles from the raucous ruminations of ne’er-do-well sea captains to more thoughtful ballads about the people who make a [...]
Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre Wins Award
The British Players held their annual Ruby Griffith Awards Ceremony in Annandale, Virginia on Sunday, July 10, 2011. Ruby Griffith Awards honor all-around production excellence by amateur theatre groups in the greater DC metropolitan area. This year, Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre (ASGT) was honored to receive a 2011 Ruby Griffith Award for our 2010 production [...]
First Sunday Arts Festival Heats Up In August
Summer is prime season for visits to Historic Downtown Annapolis. This is the perfect season for farmers markets on City Dock, eating ice cream on Main Street and taking in the First Sunday Arts Festivals and cafes on Calvert and West Streets. The August First Sunday Arts festival is Sunday August 7th from noon to [...]
Broadside Electric To Perform At 333 Coffee House
Hailing from the wilds of Philadelphia, Broadside Electric has been around since the 1990s, jazzing up the traditional folk music scene with lively interpretations of old standards, plus digging up a few gems of their own. But with various players having moved on to other parts of the country, the group’s live full-band performances are [...]
