Archive of past events at The Red Room

Friday May 08, 2026 | 8:00 pm

Reona (Tokyo) + Chuck Bettis Duo w/Schmidt/Borax Duo

Tap dancing and metal percussionist Reona visits Baltimore from Tokyo!!! A rare opportunity to see/hear this unique and amazing performer! In duet with Bmore friend/HZero alum Chuck Bettis on electronics. Opening the evening will be the occasional duo of locals Tom Borax and M C Schmidt. Borax is “dusting off” the tap shoes used 2 […]

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Wednesday May 06, 2026 | 8:00 pm

Caroline Davis & Dustin Carlson

Local Openers Jon Birkholz, John Dierker & Mike Kuhl! Caroline Davis (sax/electronics) & Dustin Carlson (guitar) ! caroline davis Alive with nurturing visions of simple sonic offerings to morph our present situation, Caroline Davis’ main reason for playing music is to connect with others, beckoning new vistas among curious listeners. Her musical journey began in […]

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Sunday May 03, 2026 | 8:00 pm

Volunteers’ Collective May 2026

You are cordially invited to come play free music! Free event7:30pm doors, 8:00pm start (note: 1/2 hour later than normal) Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective, a free, open music workshop for the community. In this friendly, informal setting, we focus on listening, collaboration, and experimentation through non-idiomatic improvised music . Players […]

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Thursday April 23, 2026 | 8:00 pm

Henna Chou & Joshua Thomsom, w/ Bao Nguyen, Sera Fleishman trio

Henna Chou is a sound artist whose work explores the confluence of environmental listening, experimental practice, and socio-political inquiry. Drawing from the textures and rhythms of the natural and industrial world, their work engages with sound as both material and message—foregrounding issues of ecology, displacement, and collective memory. Joshua Thomson is an alto saxophonist, composer, […]

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Saturday April 18, 2026 | 8:00 pm

BENEATH THE SURFACE

TOBY SUMMERFIELD/////DAOURE DIONGUE/////ADAM HOLOFCENER A NIGHT OF CELESTIAL JOURNEYS INTO THE BEYOND TOBY SUMMERFEILD Bassist, Guitarist, Pedal SteelerComposer, Collaborator,ImproviserToby Summerfield (1978) hasworked in creative music for 30years. Operating in a space whererock music, minimalism, songcraft,improvising, atmosphere andemotion coexist.“This solo practice was born in theloneliness of the pandemic, byreflecting on vocabulary andtechnique I have developed tointeract […]

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Monday April 13, 2026 | 8:00 pm

Subwoofer Duo + Voicehandler

Amazing evening of music bringing together DC’s Alma Laprida’s new project using exclusively subwoofers (w/Bryce Hackford) and the duo Voicehandler (High Zero Alum Danishta Rivero and percussionist Jacob Felix Heule). Voicehandler plays intuitive, incantatory music grounded in the most primitive and somatic instruments — the voice and percussion — juxtaposed with contemporary, disembodied electronics. The […]

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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.