All Mighty Senators w/ EZE Jackson
2025-12-31 19:00 - 2026-01-01 00:00 UTC | Ottobar, 2549 N Howard St, Baltimore, Maryland, 21218
AN ALL MIGHTY NEW YEARS EVE AT OTTOBAR!All Mighty Senators

Eze Jackson
and more TBA
18+
Individual and Couple tickets available!

METAL MONDAY! 21+
2025-12-29 21:00 - 23:30, 2025-12-22 21:00 - 23:30 | Ottobar, 2549 N Howard St, Baltimore, Maryland, 21218
Upstairs @ Ottobar
Metal Monday! ALL METAL ALL NIGHT!

Ricky Wise Trio @ The Admirals Cup
2025-12-29 19:30 - 2025-12-30 00:00, 2025-12-22 19:30 - 2025-12-23 00:00 | The Admirals Cup, 1647 Thames St, Baltimore, Maryland, 21231
The Ricky Wise Trio: Energetic and Dynamic Rock & Soul Music (feat. Ricky Wise, drums, vox; James O’Connell, guitar, vox; and Jeff Reed, bass, vox) Come join the journey with the music you’ve loved, and the music we’ll introduce you to.
www.rickylovesyou.com

Gina DeLuca's ART POP UP
2025-12-29 18:00 - 22:00, 2025-12-22 18:00 - 22:00 | Cat’s Eye Pub, 1730 Thames St, Baltimore, Maryland, 21231
Every Mon in Dec featuring local art including Gina DeLuca jewlery Paintings Cards bookmarks and more

Ryan Laham w/ Jules Riser Band
2025-12-27 20:00 - 2025-12-28 00:00 | Emerald Tavern, 8300 Harford Rd, Parkville, MD, 21234

NEVER NEVER
2025-12-27 20:00 - 23:00 | Fallston Barrell House, 2403 Belair Rd, Fallston, Maryland, 21047
Spike, Erik, Kajun, and Ricky will show up to throw down your favorite classic rock with all the energy and intensity of the rock shows you remember growing up! Plenty of Zeppelin to go ‘round!

Making Waves at The Bourbon Mill
2025-12-27 19:00 - 23:00 | The Bourbon Mill, 4797 York Rd, New Oxford, Pennsylvania, 17350
Come Party with Making Waves!

OLD EASTERN, THE GREAT HEIGHTS BAND, GIJI, BOND & BENTLEY
2025-12-27 17:00 - 23:00 | Ottobar, 2549 N Howard St, Baltimore, Maryland, 21218

Ricky Wise's Monthly Mayhem!!!
2025-12-26 21:00 - 2025-12-27 01:00 | Cat’s Eye Pub, 1730 Thames St, Baltimore, Maryland, 21231
The fourth Friday every other month with a different group each month!

Jimmie’s Chicken Shack Holidaze Show
2025-12-26 20:00 - 22:00 | Rams Head On Stage, 33 West St, Annapolis, Maryland, 21401
Jimmie’s Chicken Shack formed in 1993. J.C.S. blends rock, funk, metal with elements of ska and reggae to create their own unique sound they call “Muttrock”. The band released two tapes and two cds on their own label, Fowl Records, from 1993-1995. The band then signed to Elton John’s Rocket Records in 1996 and released their major-label debut, “Pushing The Salmanilla Envelope” in 1997 and started touring nationally and internationally. Their single High became a staple on rock radio around the world, reaching number 10 on the Billboard Active Rock chart. The video for High was the first digital video ever aired on MTV. In 1999 they released Bring Your Own Stereo on Island/DefJam records. Their single Do Right crossed over to multiple radio formats and reached number 8 on the Billboard Alternative chart. The video was a staple on MTV and M2. In 2004 the band released Re.Present on the Koch label. In 2009 they released Fail On Cue on Fowl records. J.C.S. new record called “Seconds” was released on Fowl Records in December 2022. Known for their energetic and eclectic live sets, Jimmie’s Chicken Shack’s line up consists of founding member Jimi Haha on vocals and guitar, Jerome Maffeo on drums, Christian Valiente on bass, Bryan Ewald and Matt Jones on guitar to make the band a 5 piece. J.C.S. celebrated their 30th anniversary in 2023.

Speakers of the House
2025-12-26 18:30 - 21:30 | Racers Cafe, 7732 Harford Rd, Parkville, Maryland, 21234
Speakers of the House is a mash up of 2 of the area’s more popular and diverse bands…….The Almighty Senators and The Junkyard Saints. The band was formed 2 years ago in an effort to play the old school funk, boogaloo and latin that we all listen to.

Songwriter Showcase at Cult Classic w/ Sweet Leda, Callum, Kavoossi, Wordslave, and Joe Greene
2025-12-26 18:00 - 22:00 | Cult Classic Brewing Company, 1169 Shopping Center Rd, Stevensonville, Maryland, 21666
Sooo Sweet Leda adores their longtime buddy Joe Greene from LA. He is coming home for the holidays so they decided they must plan a show together! And they must invite some of their very favorite Maryland songwriters. They’ll take turns sharing songs and stories. They’ll do a little jamming too. Join us for an intimate night of beautiful tunes and tales!
Reserved Seats are $25 per person
Get here early, Cult Classic has 15+ beers on tap brewed in house, a full kitchen with from-scratch pizza, hand-pattied burgers and fresh-never-frozen jumbo wings, and a FULL BAR to get you through this most epic of evenings.
Doors at 6:00PM
Show starts at 7:00PM
• If you have accessibility or special accommodation issues, please alert our staff at the door
• 5 minutes before showtime, any unchecked tickets may be made available to our standby list
• Cult Classic shows are all ages unless otherwise noted.
• Pups are allowed on our patio, but not within the building.
All sales are final. We don’t offer refunds or exchanges unless a show is cancelled. Please keep in mind that support acts and set times are subject to change at any time.

Tom Fogarty
2025-12-26 18:00 - 21:00 | Liquidity Aleworks, 8 N Main St, Mt Airy, MD, 21771

1223 MAYHEM!
2025-12-23 19:00 - 2025-12-24 00:00 | Upstairs @ Ottobar, 2549 N Howard St, Baltimore, MD, 21218
It’s a show! It’s a party! It’s the eve before Christmas Eve Antifa Holiday
Spectacular Blowout! Also known as…
1223 MAYHEM!
A portion of the door will be donated to charity!
Featuring:
• A.S.S. UNPLUGGED (Musical Idiots)
• Daphne London (Musical Comedy)
• Blister Freak Circus: The Tube (Musical Madness)
• Umar Khan (Non-Musical Standup Comedy)
• DJ Skizz Cyzyk (Musical spinning vinyl novelty and holiday records)
Also:
• 16mm Films compliments of Bob Wagner
• And…“Surprise” Guests

A Very Jerry Christmas w/ Cris Jacobs & Friends
2025-12-21 19:00 - 23:00, 2025-12-20 19:00 - 23:00 | The 8×10, 10 E Cross St, Baltimore, MD, 21230
An Annual Tradtiion at the 8×10. A Very Jerry Christmas with Cris Jacobs & Friends featuring Mookie Siegel, Dave Markowitz

Songwriter Night at The Room at Cedar Grove with Paul Cullen and Joe Greene
2025-12-21 16:30 - 22:00 | The Room at Cedar Grove, 32882 Cedar Grove Rd, Lewes, DE, 19958
Songwriter night! All three solo/duo acts will share songs and the stories behind them. The songwriters are Julie from Sweet Leda, Paul Cullen (owner of the venue), and Joe Greene from Los Angeles. The ticket includes your multi-course meal! Drinks and gratuity are separate. Doors at 4:30, show is 5:30 to 7

A Christmas Carol for Edgar Allan Poe
2025-12-21 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-12-20 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-12-20 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-12-19 20:00 - 22:00 | Motor House Theater, 120 West North Ave, Baltimore, MD, 21201
TWELVE SHOWS ONLY
Nominated for a “Saturday Visiter” Award from the International Edgar Allan Poe Festival!
Run time: Approximately 95 minutes, plus one 10-minute intermission.
What if “A Christmas Carol” was written about America’s greatest writer of horror and suspense?
That’s the idea behind “A Christmas Carol for Edgar Allan Poe.” This brand-new play was commissioned by The National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre and written by Zac Pensol — both past winners of The International Edgar Allan Poe Festival “Saturday Visiter” Award.
The show is just what it sounds like: A mashup of the life of Edgar Allan Poe and the structure of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” It tells Poe’s story up to the last days of his beloved wife Virginia Clemm – and the lessons he learned about love and happiness one fateful December night. It’s a new spin on a timeless classic, and it’s bound to be a new Baltimore holiday tradition.

Low Cut Connie w/ Kendra Morris
2025-12-20 20:30 - 22:30 | Rams Head On Stage, 33 West St, Annapolis, Maryland, 21401
“This record is all kink and no shame,” says Adam Weiner of ART DEALERS, the tough, sexy and tender new album coming from Low Cut Connie. “With Low Cut Connie, I try to create a safe space for you to just absolutely get your freak on.”
For years now, Low Cut Connie has built its grassroots coalition of oddballs, underdogs, and fun-loving weirdos with songs that celebrate life on the fringes of polite society. The band’s infamously wild, passionate live shows provide a total release – of stress, of inhibition, of shame – working up a primordial rock n roll sweat for fans to get blissfully soaked in. The new album, and its full-length companion film, sizzle with that same cathartic sweat, reminding us that it’s time to get dirty again, and to feel alive. ART DEALERS sits at the intersection of sleazy and soulful – a collection of risky, romantic, life-affirming anthems, all dedicated to you.
“I think rock n roll exists to be a red-blooded, countercultural medium,” says Weiner, who has performed under the Low Cut Connie moniker for over a decade, “You’re supposed to get your hair messed-up.” That imperative comes through in the adults-only tone of songs like the opening “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know,” a sinuous, lurid rocker that sounds like walking through depraved Times Square in 1978 – neon-lit and nasty with a snapping beat. The speedy, fuzzed-up garage-rocker “Whips and Chains” calls out Trump and the current wave of neo-fascism, without ever losing its boogie rhythm section.
But there’s also tenderness behind the curtain here, as on the yearning first single “Are You Gonna Run?” and “Call Out My Name”, which evoke the sweet sad love that punky boys like the New York Dolls and the Ramones used to have for tough girls like the Ronettes and the Shangri-La’s.
The sounds throughout the record comprise a grimy modern urban landscape, a soulful but broken place that Weiner and his band (including rock n roll guitar hero, Will Donnelly, in his 9th year in Low Cut Connie) have been gravitating towards throughout the band’s history. Weiner grew up amid the lawns and strip malls of suburban New Jersey, and his own teen dreams were lit up by the beacon of the big city, where he could shed his skin like so many artists before. “If you think about it, so many great artists who we associate with the city were actually bridge and tunnel people,” Adam said. “Patti Smith, Lou Reed, Springsteen. Debbie Harry, Robert Mapplethorpe. People who came from the burbs had this vision of what they could achieve in the city, what attracted them to this art life, who they could turn into and what impressions they could make – if they could just get there.” ART DEALERS is in many ways a tribute to that feeling at the pumping heart of the city – that enlightened buzz that can come in a packed hothouse of creativity and free expression. Songs like the Grace Jones styled “Take Me to the Place” and the penetrating title song point to all the people who cross those bridges, who choose the art life, who find their liberation on the edges of propriety.
ART DEALERS isn’t constrained by a gender binary, either. “When I’m onstage, I am the freest, most uninhibited version of myself,” Weiner explains. “It’s total freedom of spirit and body. Over the years, that freedom has given me more confidence to write songs from a perspective that isn’t necessarily male. I’ve slowly been walking toward a more gender-fluid voice with Low Cut Connie.” Weiner’s first steady gig at age 21 was as a piano-player in a drag karaoke bar in Manhattan called Pegasus, a seedy place where trans people, gay, straight and otherwise would gather around Weiner’s piano in a benevolent yet fully debauched array. “There are so many songs that came out of that bar for me. Things like ‘Shake It Little Tina [the single off of Low Cut Connie’s Hi Honey album]” But it wasn’t until ART DEALERS that he fully allowed himself to let the gender binary go so completely on songs like the upcoming single “Don’t Get Fresh With Me,” “Wonderful Boy,” and “Sleaze Me On” (with its sweet refrain “Treat me like a modern girl!”). Says Weiner, “I have no idea the gender identity of those songs. And that feels real comfy for me, the ‘not knowing’.”
ART DEALERS goes out to all the outsiders. On the no-fucks-to-give anthem “King of the Jews,” Weiner gets deep in the weeds of his personal and ethnic outsider identity. “There are just so many entry points these days to antisemitism, so my absolute unapologetic full-frontal Jewiness feels more needed now, I guess,” he says. “My Jewiness gives me an outsider perspective and humor that I wouldn’t trade for any goddamn thing, and the minute I start hiding that, I’m dishonoring myself. Shedding shame is a key element of Low Cut Connie.”
Weiner feels like a certain dark prince of rock n roll was a companion to him on this whole album and film project. “I felt like Lou Reed was riding with me the whole time I was making Art Dealers,” he said. “Lou was the toughest motherfucker out there, a subversive Jew like me – but he had a real rock n’roll heart underneath it all.”
ART DEALERS comes on the heels of a few very busy years for Low Cut Connie. During the height of COVID lockdowns, Adam and Low Cut Connie guitarist Will Donnelly did the near-impossible with their “Tough Cookies” live-streaming rock and soul variety shows. Even in a bathrobe, from his South Philly guest bedroom, Adam managed to generate the electricity of a live show – twice a week, no less – earning him the New Yorker’s newly-minted laurel of “Pandemic Person of the Year” in 2020. The broadcasts drew hundreds of thousands of viewers from more than forty countries, who joined previous appreciators like Bruce Springsteen (who invited Weiner backstage on Broadway in 2018) Barack Obama (an early adopter, who included the band on his official Spotify favorites playlist in 2015) and Elton John (who both praised the band from his own concert stage and featured Weiner as a guest, twice, on his satellite radio show) in Low Cut Connie’s de facto fan club.
In the midst of all this, Low Cut Connie also released 2020’s acclaimed PRIVATE LIVES album. The album’s title track finished the year in the top 20 nationally for non-commercial radio and was praised by NPR as “the freak anthem we need right now.” PRIVATE LIVES was praised for the vivid interiority and intimate detail of its songwriting and was included on many best-of-the-year lists that year (Rolling Stone, NPR/Fresh Air, PopMatters, Glide, AllMusic, etc). For that album and ART DEALERS, Weiner sat solo in the producer’s chair.
Further exploring new media, Weiner co-directed (with filmmaker Roy Power) an 80 minute feature film that will premiere late this year as a companion piece to ART DEALERS. The film is a hybrid-genre documentary that combines a stellar run of NYC concerts from 2022 shot at Sony Hall and the Blue Note, as well as 15 years of performance footage and musical and personal misadventures that led up to ART DEALERS. Low Cut Connie released the critically acclaimed LP ART DEALERS in Fall 2023, with a full-length companion film released in theaters across the US in September 2024, and on-demand streaming on Oct 1, 2024.
Ahead of the release of this new album and film, Adam Weiner aka Low Cut Connie explains what motivates him to keep pushing deeper into art life.
“I’m always trying to get back to the heart and soul of things with the intention of my music and my performances,” says Adam. “I don’t know what’s hip. I don’t know what’s in fashion. I don’t know what I’m supposed to be doing to be accepted by whatever’s popular or trending. I have no idea – I don’t care anymore. I just want to turn people on with what I do. The world is a dirty and broken place… we might as well live it the fuck up while we’re here.”

Kendra Morris

With her fourth full-length album of original material, idiosyncratic singer/songwriter Kendra Morris invites you to join her in the DIY kaleidoscope world of Next. Morris’s latest record for Karma Chief strips away the veneers of layered production and slick sounds to create an album that may be Kendra at her most authentic, one in which the creative process is vibrant, beautiful, and messy, buoyed by heart and the imperfectly perfect now.
A concept album in reverse, Next ties Kendra’s cast of characters to a vintage board game in the spirit of Milton Bradley’s finest retro dice-rolling moments. Travel along Next’s block-to-block journey, and this universe reveals itself. You can hear the sonic palette resonate with Morris’s influences and inspirations. Decades of New York sounds and voices bend and blend at the seams of these tracks—a world where the Brill Building and Warhol’s Factory thrive on the same block while Blondie and the Frightnrs explore rocksteady sounds. Doo-wop and boom-bap soundtrack a UHF network’s worth of cut-and-paste stylings, all the while paced by Morris, an artist equally at home behind the lens as she is in front of a microphone.
Kendra Morris and Karma Chief Records invite you to play along with Next, a sonic journey where the roll of the dice means excitement and adventure. It’s Next, complete with 10 tracks and hours of fun for the whole family. Some assembly required. Turntable, CD/cassette player, or streaming service sold separately.

Ed Neenan with The Boombox Saints (Trio)
2025-12-20 19:00 - 22:00 | Ryleigh’s Oyster, 22 W Padonia Rd, Timonium, MD, 21093

Ed Neenan solo
2025-12-20 13:00 - 15:00 | REB Records, 4 N Main St, Bel Air, MD, 21014

Medieval Mystery hosted by The Ivy Bookshop
2025-12-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Mt Vernon United Methodist Church, 2 E Mt Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD, 21202
Performers will grace your noon hour shopping experience with beautiful music during select days in December. Made up of entirely students and alumni of the Peabody Institute right across the street, these performances are sure to be special. Each performance is designed so that you are able to both browse the bookshop and listen at the same time – a true dream for any multitasker during the holiday season. Join us on your lunch break during the week, and bring your family on the weekend!

REMnants
2025-12-19 20:00 - 23:30 | Fallston Barrell House, 2403 Belair Rd, Fallston, Maryland, 21047
A tribute to R.E.M.

Ryan Laham w/ Jules Riser Band
2025-12-19 19:00 - 23:00 | Coakleys, 414 St John St #406, Havre De Grace, MD, 21078
