Drumsticks and Baseball Bats

Drumsticks and baseball bats – these events are perfect for music lovers and sports fanatics! There’s music for all ears this weekend – Jazz, Rock, Blues, and Soul! The Wheels of Soul 2015 Summer Tour features the Tedeschi Trucks Band, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, and Doyle Bramhall II at Pier Six Pavilion. Tony Bennet and Lady Gaga perform in D.C. Afro Bop Alliance , D.C. based GRAMMY winners play Maryland Hall in Annapolis for free! The local music lineup at First Sunday Arts Festival is killer! Baltimore Symphony Orchestra gets the Led out! Summertime is primetime for baseball games, an American tradition. Root for your home team as the Orioles and the Delmarva Shorebirds play this weekend.


These event are just A Stone’s Throw Away! Look for this logo in What’s Up? Magazine’s Out and About section. A Stone’s Throw event may not be in your backyard but we think it is just close enough and way cool – so cool in fact, you won’t want to pass it up!

Wheels of Soul 2015 Summer Tour Featuring Tedeschi Trucks Band, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, and Doyle Bramhall II

Pier Six Pavilion, 731 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21202, Saturday, August 1st, 6:30 p.m., $25-75, 410-783-4189, Piersixpavilion.com.
brTedeschi Trucks Band joins forces with modern Soul Legends Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings and acclaimed guitarist Doyle Bramhall II at the Wheels of Soul Tour. Learn more about these incredible musicians below. Plus, enjoy their music videos!
brTedeschi Trucks Band, the 11-member tour de force led by husband-wife duo Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi – has taken its hearty roots-rich musical mix to audiences across the globe has become a proven musical powerhouse in just four years. Driven by Trucks' signature slide-guitar sound and Tedeschi's commanding soulful voice, Tedeschi Trucks Band delivers an electrifying blend of Blues, Soul, Jazz, and Rock that has fans and critics raving. Tedeschi Trucks Band debuted big with its GRAMMY Award-winning Revelator, 2012’s dynamic live follow up, Everybody’s Talkin’ and continued that momentum in 2013 with Made Up Mind bolstering the group’s growing reputation as the preeminent leader in Modern Blues-Rock. With guitarist Derek Trucks’ departure from The Allman Brothers Band now final, the band enters 2015 with full-time dedication allowing more time to write new songs together as an ensemble, many of which will be road-tested throughout the summer shows. Here’s hoping they bring Sharon Jones and Doyle Bramhall II with their musical crews up to perform a colossal jam at the end of this concert. Fingers crossed!

Tedeschi Trucks Band Keep on Growing Live in Boston

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings have been hailed as one of the leading forces in the revival of classic Soul and Funk. The band has traveled the world for more than a decade, blowing minds with their electrifying live performances and their raw, hand-crafted studio recordings. The Brooklyn based 11-piece group delivers sharp, danceable Funk grooves, impassioned singing and sweet Soul hooks that stay in your head for days on end. The group is touring behind its sixth album under the renowned independent Daptone label, 2014’s Give the People What They Want, which was honored with a GRAMMY nomination for Best R&B Album. The prolific power-house and survivor that she is, Sharon Jones has fully recovered from a 2013 cancer diagnosis and bounced back with one of the biggest years of her career, filled with milestone accomplishments and a renewed energy for life. I’ve been lucky enough to experience a Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings performance and highly recommend you check them out. Described by her Kings as a ‘fireball’ their Queen, Miss Sharon Jones may be small in stature but her voice is huge! She blows on the mic as loud as her horn section, singing freely leaving her audience empowered by the music.

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings Stranger to My Happiness



Doyle Bramhall II is rightfully one of the most distinctive vocalists, guitarists, composers and producers in contemporary music. When Doyle was 18, he was recruited by Jimmie Vaughan to play with the Fabulous Thunderbirds. Bramhall II’s reputation blossomed and two years later, he co-founded the Arc Angels with Charlie Sexton and Stevie Ray Vaughan’s rhythm section: Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon. After Bramhall II’s two critically acclaimed solo albums, Eric Clapton then recruited Bramhall II to join him on a full time basis and their association flourished. In addition to Clapton, Bramhall II has been in demand as composer, guitarist, and producer, collaborating with such as artists as Sheryl Crow, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Elton John, Gary Clark Jr., Erykah Badu, Gregg Allman, and many others. Bramhall II is launching the next chapter in an extraordinary musical journey with his much anticipated fourth solo album. It is this editor’s opinion that he is my generation’s guitar god – a little bit of Hendrix, a touch of Stevie Ray Vaughan, and a spot of Clapton may be influences but his guitar style and stellar musicianship is completely Doyle Bramhall II.

Doyle Bramhall II and Smokestack Green Light Girl

The Music of Led Zeppelin Performed by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

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