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We All Got the Blues

But no festival in 2019

Kathy Knotts

You will have to turn elsewhere to get the blues next spring. Chesapeake Bay Events announced that its signature event, the Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival will not grace the shores of Sandy Point State Park in 2019 — but will return in 2020.

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– by Kathy Knotts – 10/4/18

Twist and Stout

Beer and wine come to Quiet Waters

Shelby Conrad

As you enter Quiet Waters Park, you’ll see welcome signs, trail signs, pavilion signs and signs prohibiting alcohol. If you want to have your wedding in the park, you’ll have to get the liquor license yourself. Other festivals and parades in the park have always been dry — until now.

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– by Shelby Conrad – 9/20/18

Brad Paisley Fan Gets Special Surprise

Guitar hero lives up to his billing

Kathy Knotts

Nine-year-old Jeffrey Allen of St. Mary’s County has had a passion for music since birth, says his mom Kimberly Allen. Specifically the music of country music star Brad Paisley. “He went to his first concert at the age of three to see Brad Paisley perform in Baltimore,” Kimberly says. “He likes to make signs for concerts, where we may be closer to the stage.”

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– by Kathy Knotts – 8/30/18

Motown Under Moonlight

Live from Jefferson Patterson Park, it’s Motown Under Moonlight!

Shelby Conrad

A Motown tribute grooves its way into Chesapeake Country on September 8. The Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum will host a soulful homage to Motown legends like Gladys Knight & The Pips, Martha and the Vandellas, Marvin Gaye, Smokey and the Miracles, Stevie Wonder and The Temptations.

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– by Shelby Conrad – 8/29/18

Keeping the Blues Alive

Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival honored for its commitment to the music

Kathy Knotts

Every year, the Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival donates its sizable profits to charity. And every year, fans of the music return to the shores of Chesapeake Bay at Sandy Point State Park for the festival that features strong lineups and standout performers. So it comes as no surprise that the popular festival was recently awarded the Keeping the Blues Alive Award from the Blues Foundation based in Memphis, Tennessee.

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– by Kathy Knotts – 2/15/18

A Fantastic Woman

A woman tries to pick up the pieces of her life in this wonderful drama

Diana Beechener

Marina (Daniela Vega: The Guest) is enjoying her birthday until boyfriend Orlando (Francisco Reyes: Neruda) has an aneurysm. She rushes him to the hospital, where he dies. And her nightmare begins.

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– by Diana Beechener – 2/15/18

Singing Struggle and Victory

Annapolis hears two powerful local African American choruses in one weekend

Sandra Olivetti Martin

The civil rights movement raised its courage and renewed its hope on the music of faith that sustained black America through slavery, Jim Crow and oppression. The national Martin Luther King Jr. holiday makes this a weekend to hear that music loud and clear. Two local African American choruses sing in Annapolis this weekend, both at St. John’s College.

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– by Sandra Olivetti Martin – 1/11/18

You Should Be Dancing at Jefferson Patterson Park

Could it be 40 years ago? Yes, it’s been four long decades since John Travolta’s sinuous moves in Saturday Night Fever made a generation believe we could dance our cares away. You can revisit those heady nights of disco dancing this Saturday, September 9, when the tribute band the New York Bee Gees reprises the band that set the sound tone for the 1977 movie.

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– by – 9/6/17

Local Boys Make the Big Time — But Still Come Home to Play

The Brothers Osborne on Nashville, Merle Haggard and growing up in South County

Audrey Broomfield and Kathy Knotts

Once upon a time, when the Brothers Osborne were just kids in Deale playing with their dad, you didn’t have to go farther than your local watering hole to hear them. Now they’re big time, chronicled in Rolling Stone and celebrated as Country Music Association’s Vocal Duo of the Year. Last year’s Dirt Rich tour sold out across America and Canada.

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– by Audrey Broomfield and Kathy Knotts – 8/24/17

What’s Not to Like?

Where’s there’s music and wine, there will be dancing

Rick Hogue

“I woke up and said, I can do this,” Onyx Linthicum reports of the morning he conceived the Southern Maryland Wine, Jazz, Rhythm & Blues and Funk Festival. The D.C. native and self-help writer imagined a country event where folks could get their groove on while diverse local and national artists brought cool music to offset the August heat.

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– by Rick Hogue – 8/17/17

We All Got the Blues

Twist and Stout

Brad Paisley Fan Gets Special Surprise

Motown Under Moonlight

Keeping the Blues Alive

A Fantastic Woman

Singing Struggle and Victory

You Should Be Dancing at Jefferson Patterson Park

Local Boys Make the Big Time — But Still Come Home to Play

What’s Not to Like?

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