RAR Brewing is Coming To Annapolis
I am not sure if you have heard the rumors that Annapolis is about to have a new brewing company, but RaR in Cambridge recently posted this on their Facebook: "It’s official! RaR is coming to West Annapolis We’ll be breaking ground soon on our first taproom/restaurant concept outside of our home base of Cambridge. Looking forward to all kinds of creativity indoors and out We can’t wait to bring some heat. Cheers and THANK YA’LL!!!"
Fado Irish Pub & Restaurant Set to Close
After a 22 year run, Fado Irish Pub & Restaurant in Annapolis on Upper West Street is set to close their doors for good on October 30th. The restaurant posted the news on their Facebook Page on Thursday, thanking their customers and staff for all of the support and love through the years. A new, locally owned tenant SeaSalt in planning to open in that location Spring 2022.
Mid-Atlantic Symphony, Musicians’ Union Agree on 3-Year Contract
Reinforcing its status as one of the nation’s leading professional regional orchestras, the Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra and the Musicians’ Association of Metropolitan Baltimore have agreed to a new three-year contract.
“Musicians aspire to play with a union orchestra because of the high quality of performances and the opportunity to share the stage with other first-rate musicians,” said Mid-Atlantic Symphony Board President Jeffrey Parker. “This contract, the first in the MSO’s 24-year history, reflects the efforts of Music Director Julien Benichou to elevate the quality of our musicians and validates our status as the only professional orchestra serving southern Delaware and Maryland’s Eastern Shore.”
“The committee is extremely pleased that management believed that a collective bargaining agreement would further the artistic growth of the orchestra and that musicians unanimously supported the ratification,” said Luis Engelke, who serves as Vice President of the Musicians’ Association of Metropolitan Baltimore, Local 40-543, American Federation of Musicians and was instrumental in organizing the musicians and negotiating the contract. “This was a collegial and collaborative venture.”
The contract agreement came just days before the Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra opens its 2021-2022 season, with performances on September 23 at 7:30 PM at Easton High School in Easton, MD; on Saturday, September 25 at 7:30 PM at Cape Henlopen High School in Lewes, DE; and on Sunday, September 26 at 3 PM at the Performing Arts Center in Ocean City, MD.