I wrote a few months ago about starting off the “concert season” strong with two great shows, and we ended it strong this fall as well. Although with nothing in between… First up were two concerts a mere three days apart in August at Merriweather Post Pavilion: Keane and Barenaked Ladies. There was a pretty [...]
Summer is still a month away, but we’re already getting an early start on concerts for this year! Back at the tail end of April, we headed down to College Park for Art Attack XXVII. Art Attack is an annual event/concert at the University of Maryland, though I only went once or twice. Hmm. Either [...]
This weekend, the two of us went into DC to see The Phenomenal Handclap Band play at the Rock & Roll Hotel. Neither of us had heard of the band before, but our friend Verena likes them and knew that we would too, so she invited us to go check it out. THEY WERE AWESOME! [...]
It’s summertime, so the bands are touring, and the DC area often seems to be a popular stop. We recently took in a couple of summer concerts as part of a Christmas gift to my friend Fitz. The first show we went to was Green Day, who came to the Verizon Center in DC to [...]
As you may know, Shelley and I are both members of the Columbia Concert Band, a local community band here in Maryland. Our director mentioned at rehearsal this week that he has started posting videos of the band on YouTube. At the moment, there are eight videos there, all from our Winter Concert last December. [...]
On Sunday, Shelley and I went into DC for the “We Are One” Inaugural Celebration kickoff concert at the Lincoln Memorial. With crowds in the millions expected on Inauguration Day, all the travel difficulties that will come with having that many people in one place, and being on the weekend instead of having to take [...]
