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Saturday March 16, 2019 | 8:30 pm

LEYYA TAWIL-MIKE KHOURY/JAMAL MOORE

  TAWIL & KHOURY is the duo of Leyya Mona Tawil and Mike Khoury.  They work with sound and movement practices, and are community leaders in the field of Arab Experimentalism. Tawil & Khoury operate within the diaspora; narrating identity on their own terms. They began collaborating in Detroit in 2006, and have since toured […]

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Wednesday April 10, 2019 | 8:30 pm

And/In with Carey/Fucile/Gardner/Purdy

And / In ‘And / In’ is a Berlin-based duo of HBF and KLN creating music with objects, text, and vibrations. Shadows and light, audible and inaudible movement, air, liquids, and solids. They conduct musical investigations of objects, bodies, agents, sounds, actions, text and silence. Objects and/in silence. Text and/in sound. Reading and/in actions. A […]

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Monday April 01, 2019 | 8:30 pm

Neil Feather and Kristen Toedtman | April Camlin, Jessica Keyes and Dave Benham

Neil Feather and Kristen Toedtman play a series of improvised short pieces, some with text drawn from Feather, Toedtman and Blaster Al Ackerman and played on violin, voice and invented instruments.  The duo come together steeped in more than a decade of friendship, collaboration and joke telling. From this groundwork of good humor, they stand […]

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Monday March 18, 2019 | 8:45 pm

Carl Stone · AMI · Tom Boram

Transcend your St. Patrick’s Day hangover with three intrepid sound makers, each with a highly developed and personal vocabulary crossing paths this unforgettable Monday. Carl Stone, a pioneer of live computer music and a highly absorbing composer, will be making his Red Room debut (apparently he has been waiting for years for this moment!) and […]

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Sunday March 10, 2019 | 7:30 pm

Volunteer’s Collective, Sunday March 10th

You are cordially invited to come play free music! Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective. It’s a free session of experimental and improvised music. In this cordial, informal setting, we focus on listening and collaboration. Players of all skill levels participate. Try out a new technique or new instrument in a non-judgmental setting. Meet new and veteran improvisers. […]

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Thursday February 14, 2019 | 8:30 pm

You’re It!: Puglionesi, Shaltout, Amos, and Shlon

You’re It!: Puglionesi, Shaltout, Amos, and Shlon Join the Red Room for an evening of spoken word, video, performance, sound, and music with Alicia Puglionesi, Marina Shaltout, Rachel Amos, and Katie Schlon. Alicia Puglionesi is a writer, historian, and Baltimore resident who studies questions of faith and doubt, orthodoxy and marginality that underpin the field […]

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Monday February 04, 2019 | 7:30 pm

Monday, Volunteers’ Collective, February 4, 2019

You are cordially invited to come play free music! Note: This month moved from Sunday to Monday. Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective. It’s a free session of experimental and improvised music. In this cordial, informal setting, we focus on listening and collaboration. Players of all skill levels participate. Try out a new technique or new instrument in […]

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Wednesday February 27, 2019 | 8:00 pm

Utsav Lal, Hindustani classical piano · Enayat Hossain Khan, tabla

The Red Room and Space 2640 welcome Utsav Lal, Hindustani classical pianist, with tabla maestro Enayet Hossain Khan joining him as a special guest. Note that this event is not at the Red Room but at St. Johns United Methodist Church (AKA Space 2640 AKA 2640 Space) at 2640 Saint Paul St., Baltimore, MD 21218. […]

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Saturday February 02, 2019 | 8:30 pm

Laetitia Sonami · Bonnie Jones · Christopher DeLaurenti

The Red Room, in collaboration with the Peabody Institute’s Arthur Friedheim Library’s Hacking Harmony event, are pleased as punch to host legendary San Francisco sound artist Laetitia Sonami, a fascinating if little-heard figure making her Baltimore debut! During her Baltimore residency, Sonami will be presenting concerts and workshops at the Peabody Library, Centre Street Performance Studio […]

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Saturday February 09, 2019 | 8:30 pm

Ear Fatigue & Coy Fish

Ear Fatigue and Coy Fish and mid-winter howls. Ear Fatigue‘s patented FORMANT CANONS are set to obliterate for their debut performance. Jimmy Joe Roche and Samuel Burt celebrate Sam’s birthday with a blowout set of inhuman utterances and bestial conjuring. Jimmy will play electronics and vocals. Sam will play the daxophone through a talk box. […]

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Saturday January 19, 2019 | 8:30 pm

JIM RYAN-NICK FRANCIS///// DAVE SEWELSON-WILLIAM PARKER-STEVE SWELL

NIK FRANCIS / JIM RYAN DUO DAVE SEWELSON QUARTET FEATURING WILLIAM PARKER & STEVE SWELL with Nik Francis (drum kit) PLUS A FREE JAM CLOSER FEATURING MYSTERY PLAYERS & THE RED ROOM, BALTIMORE SATURDAY 1.19.19 8:30 PM $10 THE RED ROOM • 425 E 31st Street, Baltimore, MD 21218 Dave Sewelson settled into the East […]

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Friday January 11, 2019 | 8:30 pm

BAD LUCK// GILGORE,PUMPHREY,DIEKER,KUHL

Please welcome the incredible and inimitable duo from Seattle, BAD LUCK, to this great town of Baltimore. Local support by Jamal Moore and Jarrett Gilgore/John Dierker/Chris Pumphrey/Mike Kuhl BAD LUCK (Seattle WA) performs in another cosmos from most bands. With more than a decade of collaboration, Neil Welch (saxophone + live electronics) and Christopher Icasiano […]

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Thursday January 24, 2019 | 8:30 pm

Marbles on Tile

Leo Suarez, drum set Jason Charney, modular synthesizer James Young, bassoon   Leo Suarez is on tour promoting his new solo album Marbles on Tile  Marbles on Tile is a collection of improvisations using a solo language that i have been developing for the past year. It’s a 3-point system that utilizes a triangular communication path […]

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Monday January 07, 2019 | 7:30 pm

Volunteers’ Collective, January 7th 2019

You are cordially invited to come play free music! Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective. It’s a free session of experimental and improvised music. In this cordial, informal setting, we focus on listening and collaboration. Players of all skill levels participate. Try out a new technique or new instrument in a non-judgmental setting. Meet new and veteran improvisers. […]

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Monday December 31, 2018 | 8:30 pm

NYE Variety Show! With special guest Bromp Treb!

Bromp Treb (High Zero ’15)! Lexie Mountain (HZ ’06, ’17)! Mecca Lewis! New years baby Israel Patterson! And introducing The Red Room Band! Doors at 8:30, show at 9  

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Thursday December 27, 2018 | 8:30 pm

Nth Annual Dierker Holiday Spectacular

Join us for a night of spectacle and wonder! John Dierker and friends, guaranteed to be a weird, wild night.

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Thursday December 20, 2018 | 8:30 pm

Susan Alcorn & Anna Roberts-Gevalt

Mesmerizing master of the pedal steel, local legend Susan Alcorn joins former Baltimorean (now New Yorker) Anna Roberts-Gevalt, half of ever-more-expansive meta-folk duo Anna & Elizabeth, in a new duo formation. Listen to good listeners! Doors at 8:30, show at 9

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Thursday December 13, 2018 | 8:30 pm

Pod Blotz, Craow, and Clendaniel, Carey & Mostofsky

POD BOLTZ aka Suzy Poling Modern Electronics, Industrial, Sound Art project that is dark in context and bright in texture; mixing electronics, modular synthesis, vox, rhythmic elements, tape manipulation, metals and field recordings. Pod Blotz is artist Suzy Poling’s solo Electronic project, through which they explore posthumanist concepts, performance art, cathartic gestures and otherworldly sound […]

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Monday December 03, 2018 | 7:30 pm

Volunteers’ Collective, Dec. 3th 2018

You are cordially invited to come play free music! Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective. It’s a free session of experimental and improvised music. In this cordial, informal setting, we focus on listening and collaboration. Players of all skill levels participate. Try out a new technique or new instrument in a non-judgmental setting. Meet new and veteran improvisers. […]

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Thursday November 29, 2018 | 8:30 pm

Sandy Ewen · Judith Hamann · Bonnie Jones

Seize the day! Three titans of contemporary music descend upon the Red Room for one unforgettable night–and warm up your ears for the following two unforgettable nights of Diffusion at MICA! Stimulating! Masterful! Australian Red Room stalwart Judith Hamann plays Sarah Hennies‘ “Loss” for humming cellist, New York City’s Sandy Ewen (High Zero NYC 2018) […]

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Friday November 16, 2018 | 7:30 pm

Ghosts of the Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood + Borax/Moore

Ghosts of the Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood!!! Joined by local trio Paul Neidhardt (percussion), Tom Borax (synthesizer/harpsichord) & Jamal Moore (reeds, percussion)   The Special edition of GotHGSB will consist of founding members: David Grollman is a percussionist from NYC who performs freely improvised music. He performs in art galleries, tiki bars, and venues of […]

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Sunday November 04, 2018 | 7:30 pm

Volunteers’ Collective Nov. 4

You are cordially invited to come play free music! Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective. It’s a free session of experimental and improvised music. In this cordial, informal setting, we focus on listening and collaboration. Players of all skill levels participate. Try out a new technique or new instrument in a non-judgmental setting. Meet new and veteran improvisers. […]

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Tuesday November 06, 2018 | 8:30 pm

UHHM · Throwaway · The Witches

An evening of wild sounds awaits you! The Witches are excited to be sharing a triple bill with two fantastic groups, local band U.H.H.M and Throwaway coming all the way from Detroit! U.H.H.M Visit their music at : https://uhhm.bandcamp.com/releases Throwaway Visit their music at: http://www.kirstencareymusic.com/throwaway The Witches Visit us at www.witchtunes.com Doors at 8:30, show at 9

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Wednesday October 24, 2018 | 8:30 pm

Neil Feather ++ Jarrett Gilgore, John Dierker, Chris Pumphrey

Neil Feather ++ Jarrett Gilgore, John Dierker, Chris Pumphrey More details TBA

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Monday October 22, 2018 | 8:30 pm

Panicsville and Jeff Carey with Ben Starkey

Focusing on Psychedelic Experimental Musique Concrète (often with a narrative), Panicsville pushes boundaries and also can push buttons. Live performances now incorporate multi-media, conceptual/technological operations. Panicsville began in St.Louis in 1992, moved to Texas, now resides in Chicago, IL. With a rotating lineup over the years, Andy Ortmann currently fronts Panicsville with various personnel.  Touring […]

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The Red Room is a volunteer-run space in Baltimore dedicated to mind-expanding experimental culture, headquartered at Normals Books and Records.