The Hargrove

24/10/2023

The Hargrove is searching for performers for the 2024 season! Anyone interested should send us a message with a description of the type of music you create, and a link to a recording.

06/08/2023

LOVATARAXX at The Hargrove

06/08/2023

Jason Sloan performing at The Hargrove !

30/06/2023

July 15th! Abram Wolfe Mamet returns to the The Hargrove, this time with WARP DUO. We also welcome back Walsh Kunkel, and his etherial sounds. 7:30 doors, 8-10 music!

14/04/2023

Come to the The Hargrove 7pm tomorrow (Saturday 4/15) to hear New River! Gwenyth Aggeler is the opener!

Gwenyth Aggeler

09/04/2023

Next Saturday April 15th at 7pm Charlie Reichert Powell returns to the Hargrove with New River! Send the The Hargrove a private message to RSVP.

31/12/2022

The Hargrove is seeking performers for its Spring 2023 season. We are a small Baltimore-based venue in Charles Village that features local classical, jazz, and experimental music. We're also seeking poets for a potential poetry night. If you're interested, please message us with your proposal!

13/11/2022

Last Friday was an awesome show at The Hargrove ! Derrick Michaels returned with some probing, soul searching improvisations for solo tenor sax. Then a ear blowing performance by the mandolin, violin, and double bass trio Astroturf Noise ! Imagine some charming old American folk tunes getting smashed to smitherines, and then walking through the fragments. And then getting processed through multiple samplers and speakers... and out pops a children's choir! This is the sort of music we love to hear at the Hargrove.

14/10/2022

This Tuesday we were honored to host the Civitasilos Quintet at The Hargrove. This group came all the way from Florida to perform a concert of 100% new music. Their largest work was a premiere by Baltimore composer and math teacher Elliott Grabill.
More composers should write for reed quintet. It's a quickly growing genre in contemporary classical music. It features a diverse pallet of wind instruments, all with one thing in common: they use a wooden reed. In addition to clarinet, saxophone, and oboe, this group also brought a bass clarinet, an English horn, and an E flat clarinet along for the ride. Thank you Steve for your generous gift of an alto clarinet to the group.

11/10/2022

At 7:30pm tonight, the Civitasolis Quintet will perform new music for reed quintet at the The Hargrove, 2225 Hargrove St., Baltimore MD 21218. The show will also be livestreamed. Click below:

The Civitasolis Quintet plays new music for reed quinetet by Biedenbender, Deemer, and Grabill, 7:30 on October 11, 2022 at the Hargrove.David BiedenbenderRe...

02/10/2022

What an awesome show last night! Free improvisation, courtesy of Cutting Ceremony (feat. Abram Mamet, Tracy Lisk, and Pete Dennis) and Yellow Dwelling (feat
Derrick Michaels & Erin Connelly)! Then everyone got together for a group jam.

01/10/2022

Excited about the Derrick Michaels / Abe Mamet show tonight? We've still got some open seats, tell your friends to email [email protected] to find out the address of the Hargrove. Doors open at 7, downbeat at 7:30. BYOB.

23/09/2022

We are excited to welcome Derrick Michaels and Abram Wolfe Mamet to the Hargrove next Saturday on Saturday, October 1. Here's some more information about Cutting Ceremony, Abram's improvised music trio. The members are:

Pete Dennis (they/he), a musician, improviser, composer, visual artist, and teacher. Living in West Philadelphia, Dennis is inspired by their beautiful community and the future. Other ever present inspirations include William Parker, the works of Octavia E. Butler, their partner Abigail, and the knowledge that all vibrations carry the potential to transmit the truths of life and death. Dennis’s recorded creations are released using the project name Search for the Infinite Light and include but are not limited to: Killing a Dixie Hummingbird (2019), World’s End Welcoming Committee (2021), and pastē (2022). They believe that sound is the foundation of healing and would like to acknowledge all master improvisers of the past, present, and future.

Tracy Lisk (she/her), a percussionist who mainly performs on drum set, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ms. Lisk’s history as a painter and background in Brazilian percussion inform the substance of her improvisations which contain references to rhythmic structures while maintaining a fluid, suspended continuity. She has collaborated with William Parker, saxophonist Gary Hassay, Andrea Pensado, dancer Ryuzo Fukuhara (JP, SI), and Mia Zabelka (AU), cellist Helena Espvall (PT), among others.

Abe Mamet (he/him), a French horn player from Denver, Colorado and living in Mt. Rainier, MD. Abe's main artistic motive as a composer and instrumentalist is to use considered composition and rigorously practiced improvisation to more honestly ground himself, his fellow musicians, and his audiences within the spaces they occupy daily. Abe is further interested in expanding the use of the French horn in groove-oriented improvised music (aligned with and informed by jazz/creative music/BAM), and expanding the technical and theoretical limitations of that instrument.

18/09/2022

Walsh Kunkel at the Hargrove last night, improvising an ethereal shoe gazing fantasia, with a middle section that exploring a world of noise. It was a great warmup to Charlie Reichert Powell and New River's set-- performed a set of playful, dissonant jazz numbers that appealed to sophisticated jazz snobs and MICA hipsters alike.

10/04/2022

Pennsylvania Dutch, a foreign language spoken just 50 miles away in the next county over, was a German dialect but since coming to America has meandered far beyond its Germanic offshoot. Yesterday Laura Snyderman and I learned to sing the strange vowels, consonant clusters, ornate compound words.

19/01/2022

Here we come, ready or not! We are Baltimore's newest emerging non-profit music venue! We'll be hosting four events this year in our intimate space, which fits 40. This includes performances of new music (classical and jazz), as well as lectures and listening sessions of interesting, challenging music. All concerts are RSVP only, so be sure to follow us to learn more.

19/01/2022

19/01/2022