Old Major

Name: Old Major
Address: 900 S. Carey Street, Baltimore, MD, 21223, US
Telephone: +14438737363
Price range: $$

Old Major is an eclectic and casual bar and event space located in Southwest Baltimore

02/06/2025

We believe reading is more important than ever and welcome you to join our community of readers at Baltimore Silent Book Club this evening, 6:30-8:30 p.m. 📖 Bring any reading material or audiobook with you. We’ll eat, drink, mingle AND read!

Fun fact: February is both I Love to Read Month and National Library Lovers Month. Be sure to support your local branch! 📚

🍽️ OM’s bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m.! Unwind with a meal or drink and let’s hear about your book! 🍸

02/06/2025

Our February listing of events is finally out, and we hope you’ll find an activity to participate in with us!

Tonight we’re holding Baltimore Silent Book Club and screening the documentary, “What Happened, Miss Simone?” (2015). Our bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m.

More highlights:

📖 Literature:
Thu. 2/13 | 6:30 p.m.: Tomorrow Will be Worse: A SciFi/Horror Reading Series from 🔥 Enjoy an excellent lineup of local authors reading their works and also musical performances 🎶

Thu. 2/20 | 6:30 p.m.: Baltimore Silent Book Club. Bring your own book! We’ll eat, drink, mingle AND read 📚

Thu. 2/27 | 6 p.m.: Wretched Reads Horror Book Club. Led by , February’s book is “The Hellbound Heart” by Clive Barker. The discussion will be followed by a screening of horror film, “Hellraiser.”😱

🎬 Screening:
Sat. 2/28 | 6 p.m.: Baltimore Anime Denizens (BAD) Meetup & Screening. BAD returns for a screening of select episodes from “Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer.” We’ll have Japanese-inspired cocktails!🎞️

👅Spanish Language:
Sat. 2/22 | 7 p.m.: Spanish Meet & Speak Language Exchange. Use, practice or improve your Spanish! 🗣️

🏅Friendly Competition
Sat. 2/8 | 7 p.m.: We’re holding Bar Bee—our competitive spelling bee with a lil’ trivia!🐝

Fri. 2/21 | Bingo Night. The Black Yield Institute is hosting a bingo night. Learn more about the organization and win a prize!

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Look out for more events and our activity-packed Smörgåsbord nights (karaoke, movies, sip and paint, board games, darts & reading) 🎯🎲🎨🎤🎥📖

We’re back on March 1 with the always-hilarious Major Laugh Comedy Show from 😂

📧 If you’re interested in holding an event in our space, email us: [email protected]

🚨Note that OM is closed Saturday, February 15.

Wishing you peace and well-being ♥️

02/01/2025

Laughter is good medicine, and Highwire Improv has the prescription! Get your dose of laughs at tonight’s Major Laughs Comedy Show! You’ll enjoy a night of fast-paced comedy games with some of the city’s funniest people. Grab a food and drink, and get ready to have some major laughs!

Old Major’s bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m. 🍴🍷 The show starts after 7 p.m. 🎟️ Tickets: $10 door

You can catch Highwire’s Major Laughs Comedy Show on at Old Major!

Tonight’s lineup!

Brad’s Dad is a hilarious indie improv troupe from Baltimore - they just want to make their (collective) son proud!

are the older sibling of your favorite movie theater candy, but more importantly they are a fantastic short-form improv team!

What is an improv show, exactly?

Improv is live theater created spontaneously by the performers with the inspiration of the audience. Unless noted otherwise, it’s a comedy show, made even more exciting, intriguing, and hilarious by the fact that none of it is pre-scripted! At an improv show you’ll see a wide range of creative and fascinating humans perform a highwire act by making comedy out of thin air! It can take many forms, including short competitive games, slice of life scenes, and full length sitcom or movie style performances!

A Highwire Improv show is truly a once in a lifetime performance, never done before and never to be done again!

About Highwire Improv:

is a nonprofit organization with a mission is to steward a community of artists committed to growth, collaboration, joy, and justice — in Baltimore and around the world—through improvisational theater. Learn more at https://www.highwireimprov.com

01/30/2025

🚨Join us for the Inaugural Wretched Reads Horror Book Club! 😱

Tonight, local horror filmmaker and co-founder Oli T. will lead a discussion on George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” (1945) 🐖They will explore the eerie and unsettling elements within this classic beast fable. Whether you read it in the past or are interested in reading it, we encourage you to attend and participate! 👋

🍽️ Bar + kitchen open at 6 p.m.—come early for food and drinks!
📚 Discussion starts at 7:30 p.m.
📖 We have copies available for sale, if you are interested

Ever wondered about our name? Yes, it is inspired by Animal Farm (which resonated with me even in middle school)! Old Major is a nod to the neighborhood, our building’s past as a well-known cop bar, and my love for dystopian literature and films. Seven years in, it is still our most frequently asked question! 🐗📚

🔪 Next up: Mark your calendar for Feb. 27, when Oli will guide us through Clive Barker’s “The Hellbound Heart”🔥

01/23/2025

If you believe reading is fundamental, we invite you to read with us tonight at Baltimore Silent Book Club at ! 📚 You are free to bring any literature with you in any format—audiobooks, periodicals, e-readers, etc. are cool with us 👍 Join us for an evening of eating, drinking, mingling AND, of course, reading 👋

🍴OM’s bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m. Get in early to grab your seat and a meal or drink (N/A options available)🥃

🎬 🄰🄻🅂🄾 🅃🄾🄽🄸🄶🄷🅃 …
We’re screening director Michael Radford’s dystopian film, “1984” (1984) based on George Orwell’s classic novel, “Nineteen Eighty-Four.” The film begins after 7:30 p.m.—be sure to order a meal or drink to get your golden pass for the film.

About the film

A man loses his identity while living under a repressive regime. Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country’s leaders in a charitable light. His trysts with Julia provide his only measure of enjoyment, but lawmakers frown on the relationship—and in this closely monitored society, there is no escape from Big Brother.

#1984

01/20/2025

🔥We’re heating up your Friday night with an epic birthday performance from local vocalist Jade Etienne (.eti)! 🎉🎂

🎤Jade is putting on a funk, R&B and disco show! She’ll be joined by an incredible lineup of Baltimore’s most talented artists, including: Indra Carpio-Pretel, Leo Zurita, Koleby Royston, Aidan Taylor, Jack Nelson, Ethan Bailey-Gould & Sarah Kent 🎶

Come out to celebrate Jade and show love for local talent 🪩💃🏽🎉

🗓️ Friday, January 24
🕕 Doors + kitchen open at 6 p.m. | Show starts at 8 p.m.
🍹Grab some food and drinks before and during the show. Special cocktails in honor of the birthday gal will be available!

01/18/2025

Got some anime fandom in you? OM is thrilled to welcome the Baltimore Anime Denizens (BAD) to our space for a new monthly anime meet up and screening series 🎉

On Saturday, January 18, the group will gather at 6 p.m. to enjoy food and drinks and discuss Japanese culture, including anime, manga, live-action film, tv, art, and more. The screening begins at 7:30 p.m. Be sure to get your golden pass at the bar for admission to the screening room upstairs⭐️

Our bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m., and we will have Japanese-inspired cocktails for the event🍹

BAD will show select episodes of classic neo-noir space western Cowboy Bebop (カウボーイビバップ) directed by Shinichirō Watanabe. Cowboy Bebop centers on the adventures of a group of bounty hunters who travel around the solar system chasing criminals, unraveling their dark and mysterious pasts throughout their journey 🚀

🇯🇵The screening will be in Japanese with English subtitles.

👉Future BAD screenings will take place on at OM👈

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01/16/2025

If you are in the mood for a movie, literature or language-learning, OM will feature all of these tonight! Our bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m. You are welcome to hang out with us in the bar or enjoy a meal or drinks before your chosen activity🍷🍽️

🎤 6:30 p.m.: Read the Room. OM’s prose and poetry open mic is for anyone who wants to read aloud any written material that they find moving, thought-provoking or soul-stirring. Don’t be shy—we encourage you to not just attend the event but to be a reader.

📝 6:30 p.m.: Write Night! This meetup is for writers of all levels of aspiration and achievement. We invite you to network and bring your writing projects! We’ll have some prompts if you need inspiration.

👅7 p.m.: Spanish Meet & Speak Language Exchange. Come use, practice or improve your Spanish!

🎬 7:30 p.m.: Small Doll Productions’ Film Screening of “Little Otik (Monster horror, dark comedy | 2000). A childless couple passes off an anthropomorphous tree stump as their baby, but things get out of hand when the monstrosity comes to life and demands to be fed.

01/13/2025

Who let the Bahamians out?! 🇧🇸 The Bahamas-born OM sisters send huge thanks to BAAWMAR (the Bahamian American Association of the Washington, DC & Mid-Atlantic Region, Inc.) for holding their New Year Social in our space on Saturday! 🎉

We were delighted to host the group again for a fun, convivial evening with lively Rake & Scrape music, tropical cocktails and food (including Yoli’s conch salad) 🥥🍹🐚

BAAWMAR, among other things, engages directly and often with Bahamians and friends of The Bahamas in the DMV 🌺 Seeing the group has made us even more excited for our upcoming trip to Nassau!✈️🌴🌊

Much love, BAAWMAR, and all the best for a happy 2025! ♥️

01/13/2025

Who let the Bahamians out?! 🇧🇸 The Bahamas-born OM sisters send huge thanks to (the Bahamian American Association of the Washington, DC & Mid-Atlantic Region, Inc.) for holding their New Year Social in our space on Saturday! 🎉

We were delighted to host the group again for a fun, convivial evening with lively Rake & Scrape music, tropical cocktails and food (including Yoli’s conch salad) 🥥🍹🐚

BAAWMAR, among other things, engages directly and often with Bahamians and friends of The Bahamas in the DMV 🌺 Seeing the group has made us even more excited for our upcoming trip to Nassau!✈️🌴🌊

Much love, BAAWMAR, and all the best for a happy 2025! ♥️

01/09/2025

Reading is the habit we hope you will never break in 2025 or beyond! Whether you are an avid reader or you strive to increase your reading, we invite you to join us at 6:30 p.m. for Baltimore Silent Book Club (). 📚If you are a first-timer, it is easy to attend—just bring your own book and meet us at 👋We’ll eat, drink, mingle AND read!

🍴OM’s bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m. Arrive early to get a seat and a meal or drink. If you are participating in Dry January, plenty of N/A beverage options are available🧉

🎬 𝘼𝙡𝙨𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜…
In recognition of Baltimore City’s continued drop in homicides over the past two years—which outpaces the decrease in the U.S. as a whole—we are screening the Academy Award-nominated documentary film, “The Body Politic,” released in 2024. Seating is at 7:30 p.m.—enjoy a meal or drink before heading upstairs.

About the film
The Body Politic is a harbinger of hope in a country plagued by gun violence. In Baltimore, Brandon Scott, an idealistic young leader with an ambitious plan to stop chronic violence, is elected mayor. Throughout his first year in office, we follow him as he fights powerful political forces to save lives in Baltimore and reveal a pathway toward healing for the nation.

01/04/2025

The OM team wishes you a very happy, healthy and positive 2025! We’re back from our holiday break and are looking forward to this month’s events and seeing new and old faces at the bar! 🍹🍴

Tonight is the Major Laughs Comedy Show from ! Our bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m., and the show will take place upstairs at 7 p.m. Tickets are available in our bio link and at the door 🎟️

More highlights:

🎬 Screening:
Sat. 1/18 | 6 p.m.: Baltimore Anime Denizens (BAD) Meetup & Screening. OM is excited to welcome BAD to our space to hang out and enjoy “Cowboy Bebop” (highlighting Ein & Ed episodes). Japanese cocktails will be featured in the bar!🎞️

📖 Literature:
Thu. 1/9 & 1/23 | 6:30 p.m.: Got new reading goals? Baltimore Silent Book Club is back on schedule. Bring your own book! We’ll eat, drink, mingle AND read 📚

Thu. 1/16 | 6:30 p.m.: Read the Room. Our prose and poetry open mic 🎤

Thu. 1/16 | 6:30 p.m.: Write Night! This meetup is for writers of all levels of aspiration and achievement 📝

Thu. 1/30 | 6 p.m.: Wretched Reads Horror Book Club. Led by , January’s book is “Animal Farm” by George Orwell. Oli Turner will discuss the horror elements of this timeless satirical novella 😱

🎵Music:
Fri. 1/24 | 8 p.m.: Jade Etienne and a host of other local musical talent will perform R&B, funk & disco 🎹

👅Spanish Language:
Thu. 1/16 | 7 p.m.: Spanish Meet & Speak Language Exchange. Come use, practice or improve your Spanish! 🗣️

Thu. 1/30 | 7 p.m.: Cine en Español. Screening of “La Nana (The Maid),” the award winning 2009 Chilean comedy-drama film 📽️
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Keep an eye out for addiional events and our activity-packed Smörgåsbord nights (karaoke, movies, sip and paint, board games, darts & reading) 🎯🎲🎨🎤🎥📖

📧 If you’re interested in holding an event in our space, email us: [email protected]

🚨Note that OM is closed Saturday, January 25.

Be well this month and always ♥️

12/20/2024

🚨TONIGHT on ! Join and the Bmore Horror Club for the final horror movie screening of the year at OM! We’re watching quirky holiday horror classic, “Gremlins.” Come dressed in an ugly holiday sweater and try one of the night’s movie-inspired cocktails! 🎄🥂

🍴🍺OM’s bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m.! Get your golden movie pass with a purchase of food or drink (non-alcoholic options are available). Mingle with other horror movie fans before the 8 p.m. screening. Feel free to pre-game with karaoke and board games, too.

🎬 About the film:

Monster horror, dark comedy | 1984

A young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.

12/19/2024

Tonight is the final Baltimore Silent Book Club for 2024! 📚🥹Join us after 6:30 p.m. Bring any reading material with you and join us for an evening of eating, drinking, mingling AND reading! 👋 Thank you to everyone who has attended a meeting in 2024 🙏 It has been wonderful meeting so many people who love reading books and bonding over them ♥️

🗓️ Got reading goals for the new year? Our next book club gathering is Thursday, January 9, 2025!

🎥 After 7 p.m., we’re screening newly released action/thriller, “Carry-On.” Plot: A young airline security guard is blackmailed by a mysterious passenger who threatens to smuggle a dangerous package onto a plane on Christmas Eve ✈️🎄📦

OM’s bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m.! Get your evening started with a tasty drink and meal🍴🍹

12/12/2024

‘Tis the season to be reading! December is National Read a New Book Month📚 We’d love to see your new books tonight at Baltimore Silent Book Club after 6:30 this evening. Bring any reading material with you and experience an evening of eating, drinking, mingling AND reading! 👋

Next Thursday, 12/19, is our last book club gathering in 2024! We invite you to bring a book to swap 📖

🎥 If you enjoy holiday movies, we are screening the 2013 romantic-comedy, “The Best Man Holiday” after 7 p.m. in our Red Room🎄💋

OM’s bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m.! Enjoy a delicious drink and meal while you are here🍴🍸

12/07/2024

TONIGHT: Don’t miss Highwire Improv’s final Major Laughs Comedy Show of 2024 at 7 p.m. You’ll enjoy a night of fast-paced comedy games with some of the city’s funniest people! OM’s bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m. Arrive early to enjoy food and drinks 🥃🍴

🎟️ The show starts after 7 p.m. Tickets are available in advance online (link in bio) and also at the door.

At an improv show you’ll see a wide range of creative and fascinating humans perform a highwire act by making comedy out of thin air! A Highwire Improv show is truly a once in a lifetime performance, never done before and never to be done again!

Here’s the lineup:

😆K&H is a wildly impressive, experienced and energetic improv duo comprised of Heather Moyer (H) and Kathryn Carlsen (K)!

😆 is the fast-paced primetime comedy gameshow taking Baltimore by storm! Why answer trivia questions when you can do impressions, jokes and improv scenes?!

About Highwire Improv:

Highwire Improv’s mission is to steward a community of artists committed to growth, collaboration, joy and justice—in Baltimore and around the world—through improvisational theater. Learn more at https://www.highwireimprov.com

12/05/2024

Bundle up and join us for Baltimore Silent Book Club at 6:30 p.m.! 📚 You’ll enjoy a heated room but without any heated discussions 😊 Bring any reading material with you, and join us for food, drinks, mingling and reading at 👋

OM’s bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m. Warm yourself up with a hot meal♨️

12/05/2024

Our December is packed with fun activities, including improv comedy, music shows and a horror night market! OM’s bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m. on event days—come to eat, drink and hang out downstairs🍻

We’re kicking off Thursday (12/5) with Baltimore Silent Book Club, Read the Room open mic, Write Night! and Spanish Meet & Speak Language Exchange 😅 Don’t worry—we have space for all 👌

December highlights:

🎬Film
Fri. 12/6 | 7:30 p.m. Small Doll Productions Film Collective is screening 1983 horror flick, “Curtains.” Arts and crafts will take place at 6 p.m. (supplies provided)🖍️✂️

Fri. 12/20 | 8 p.m.: Bmore Horror Club Meetup & Movie Screening. returns to watch the ‘80s classic “Gremlins.” Wear an ugly sweater!

😂 Comedy
Sat. 12/7 | 7 p.m.: will hold its final Major Laughs Comedy Show of the year! Tix in bio.

📖 Literature
Thu. 12/12 & 12/19 | 6:30 p.m.: More Baltimore Silent Book Club meetings. Bring your own book! We’ll eat, drink, mingle AND read 📚

🎵Music:
Fri. 12/13 | 7:30 p.m.: Chynatown is bringing a trombone and sultry, R&B sounds to OM’s Red Room stage ($10 students; $15 others).

Sat. 12/14 | 8 p.m.: The Mike Kuhl Trio (jazz) and WESTVIRGINIA (hip hop) will put on a 🔥 show ($10 students; $15 others).

🎉Holiday Festivities
Sat. 12/7 | 3:30 p.m.: OM was added to the 2024 Ugly Sweater crawl 🐷 We’ll have food and drink specials for attendees. A winner will be named at participating businesses.

Sat. 12/14 | 6 p.m.: Small Doll’s Krampusmarkt Holiday Horror Night Market. Get unique gifts and goodies from Baltimore artists and creators. A contest for best Krampus costume and a raffle will held🏆

Sat. 12/21 | 7 p.m.: Blackout’s Flyest + Ugliest Christmas Sweater Party. Attendees will enjoy a DJ, games and sweater contests 🎄

Don’t miss our activity-rich Smörgåsbord nights and additional movie nights 🎯🎲🎨🎤🎥

📧 If you’re interested in holding an event in our space, email us: [email protected]

🚨Note that OM is closed Dec. 25-Jan. 4. Enjoy the holidays, if you celebrate.

We wish you a joyful season! 😌Be well ♥️

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900 S. Carey Street
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+14438737363

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http://oldmajorbaltimore.com/

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Whether you are an ordinary or extraordinary singer, karaoke is for everyone! We’re singing karaoke every Friday night in May, starting at 7 p.m. 🎤 Come by and sing your favorite tunes! There is a two-item minimum for participants 🍹🍗 👉OM’s bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m.👈 #karaoke #baltimorekaraoke #karaokenight #karaoketime #fridaykaraoke #karaokebar #baltimoreevents #baltimorebars #singalong #iykyk

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The OM team has been really fortunate to welcome many of Baltimore’s young, driven and talented artists into our space! We send big props and kudos to @mydreamsisvivid (Jalen Boston) who held “A Vivid Night: Exploring the Soundscapes of the Net” to celebrate the release of their excellent new album “A Vivid World Vol. 1: The Net” (available on all streaming platforms). Aside from being such a pleasure to work with, Jalen brought a beautiful vibe and crowd to our space. We also send big thanks to the other event participants: host @chelseamonae and performer @kenzocole_ 🔥 If you believe in “supporting local”, please check each of these artists out! They are out and about in the city✨ #baltimoreevents #baltimoreshows #baltimoremusic #baltimoreart #tinyconcerts #tinystage #houseshow #radbaltimore #morethanjustabar #indiemusic #baltimoremusicscene #baltimoremusician #hiddengem #doingus #iykyk

Does anyone know how to get the weekend to move in slow motion? 😅 Happy Friday! Let’s kick off the weekend with more silly (or serious) karaoke, starting at 7 p.m. tonight🎤Come sing that song you KNOW you were born to sing🔥 OM’s bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m. Karaoke is free with purchase of food/drink (two-item minimum)🍛🍹 #baltimorekaraoke #karaoke #barkaraoke #fridaynightkaraoke #karaokenight #baltimoreevents #bmorekaraoke #singing #sing #singalong #karaoketime #baltimoreeventspace

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