Labor Day Porch Play!

[Please feel free to tip your performers]

Schedule (subject to change):

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 OLD PARISH HOUSE, 4711 Knox Road, Friday Sept 3, 6- 7:30 pm

The Bele Bele Rhythm Collective is an intergenerational group of women from the DMV area who have come together to form a sisterhood of the drum. The BBRC performs tightly sewn compositions of polyrhythms on West African dun-un and djembe drums, complete with exciting breaks, contagious songs, and dancing. The BBRC performs to celebrate unity and diversity, and to spread the joy and healing power of West African drumming to the community at-large. More at www.Drumlady.com 

BERWYN

 4902 Quebec Street, Sunday, Sept 5, 3-5 PM

ilyAIMY (i love you And I Miss You) is a percussive-acoustic folk-rock animal hailing from Baltimore, MD. Mixing genres from rock to folk to soul to bluegrass, flavours as varied as jazz and hip hop curl through the band’s sound, which includes guitars, electric cello, a bevy of percussion, and lush harmony. Among other accolades, ilyAIMY are multiple winners of the Washington Area Music Association’s “Best Contemporary Folk Group” award. www.ilyaimy.com tip at venmo @ilytips or paypal.me/ilyaimy

HOLLYWOOD

9312 Rhode Island, Sunday September 5, 

4 PM Mike Hummel is an American Studies professor at UMBC and a singer-songwriter by avocation.  Mike has been writing, playing, and singing original music for over 30 years.  He is influenced by the melody, wit, and harmony of the Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel, the political commentary of Pete Seeger, and the passion and poetry of early Cat Stevens.  You can usually see him playing at the Greenbelt Farmer’s Market, College Park Arts Exchange Pop-up concerts, and New Deal Café.  His first full-length CD, Little Miracles, containing 13 original songs is available on Amazon, iTunes and CDBaby.

5:30 pm: Peggy Brennan. Peggy Brennan has been playing folk rock since folk rock was top forty! So even if she’s a boomer, this concert will be fun, danceable, singable, and full of Americana music for the workers’ holiday Labor Day. Her main influences are Beatles, rock-a-bluesy, Indigo Girls, bluegrass, Grateful Dead, and the harmony of diverse people working well together. Acoustic guitar-just-right and a strong lovely voice, you’ll recognize some songs but Peggy Brennan’s originals never fail to amaze. Possibly live-streamed. “Your set was my favorite part of the evening,” -John Kadlecik, Furthur, Jerry Garcia Band, John K Band

HOLLYWOOD

9711 Wichita Ave, Sunday, September 5, 4 pm: 

“A.B.D.”: Jazz standards with trombone, bass, and violin. 

COLLEGE PARK WOODS

9003 Gettysburg Lane, Monday Sept 6:  

CALVERT HILLS

6705 Rhode Island Ave, Saturday, Sept 4, 7 pm

Laundry World, an ever-growing collective, covers an eclectic mix of new and older rock tunes (which we refuse to call “oldies” even though they probably qualify for that by now).