Enjoy viewing a variety of decorated golf umbrellas outlining Lake Kittamaqundi near the boat dock. Using golf umbrellas as canvases, community members and groups created 60 colorful works of art inspired by the theme Bringing Unity to CommUNITY through the Sounds of Music. Designed to enhance unity and positivity throughout the community, the show entries […]

Join KidzArt as part of the Free LakeFest Weekend presented by the Merriweather Arts and Culture Center in collaboration with the Columbia Festival of the Arts, June 20-22, 2025, at the Downtown Columbia Lakefront. Children are invited to explore the visual arts with “artrageously” fun projects led by KidzArt, Howard County’s celebrated advocates of child […]

Founded in 2015, the Patuxent Jazz Band operates under the Columbia Bands, Inc. (CBI) umbrella, and was formed to provide an outlet for community members to play in a jazz ensemble. See them perform as part of the Free LakeFest Weekend presented by the Merriweather Arts and Culture Center in collaboration with the Columbia Festival […]

The New York Times calls Birckhead “One of the most riveting young improvisers in New York.” The Baltimore native’s talent earned him the honor of performing and touring with legendary artists including Lauryn Hill, Nas, Wale, Eric Benet, Larry Graham, George Duke and many more. See them perform as part of the Free LakeFest Weekend, […]

Baltimore’s Black Cherry Puppet Theater has for 45 years built a community of artists exploring and presenting the art of the puppet. Not only does it showcase performances by some of the finest puppeteers anywhere, the touring troupe also presents award winning puppet shows across the Mid-Atlantic Region. This is a show not to be […]

This Wisconsin based Soul-pop R&B group, found themselves playing music together in a very unconventional way. They were all neighbors, each one living alone on one floor of a five-story flat. Cake baking is a shared passion of the five-member group, but in the sugar shortages early in the 2020 pandemic, they found themselves so […]

The Glenelg Jazz Ensemble has received more than 60 awards over the last 20 years, including the highest rating at the Maryland State Jazz Festival. Many national and regional jazz artists have shared the stage with the Ensemble, including Maynard Ferguson, The Count Basie Orchestra, Frank Foster, Carl Fischer, Chris Vadala, and Deanna Bogart. See […]

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Bring your supper, spread your blanket and set up lawn chairs. As the fireflies begin to flicker under the trees and in the tall grasses around the property at the Howard County Conservancy, listen to musician and storyteller Bill Wellington perform traditional folk music on fiddle, banjo and guitar. Registration required. $12 per car. Photo […]

Bring the whole family to this FREE concert in the Courtyard at The Other Barn. We’ll have food trucks, activities, and of course LIVE MUSIC! Bring your own seating (lawn chairs, blankets, etc.). The concert will be held rain or shine (moving inside The Other Barn if we have inclement weather). Need more info? Visit […]

Brothers Malcolm and Umoja use their violins to interpret reggae classics, American pop songs, and their own creations, accompanied by a DJ and a drummer at Color Burst Park, Merriweather District, Downtown Columbia

An ensemble132 quintet will present a new chamber music version of Igor Stravinsky’s Petrushka as well as Johannes Brahms’ timeless Piano Quintet in Glen Mar Church’s Spirit Center, 4701 New Cut Road, Ellicott City. This event is free. Ensemble132 is a world-class collective of chamber musicians of the highest caliber with the shared mission of […]