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The Sounds of Summer:
2007 Summer Concert Series is Underway!
“You know it’s summer when the music starts up for the Wednesday evening concerts at the Annapolis Maritime Museum,” says AMM Director Jeff Holland. This summer the Museum will again host the free family summer series, thanks to the support of the City of Annapolis, Arts Council of Anne Arundel County, Boatyard Bar & Grill, Eastport Business Association, Sarles Boatyard and Marina, Sandy Spring Bank, Wild Goose Brewery, Womanship - the Sailing School for Women, and the Arc of Anne Arundel County.
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Wednesday Evenings at the Park
Each Wednesday talented performers from throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed will sing songs of the sea and of the Chesapeake Bay with free family concerts at 7 p.m. at Cap’n Herbie Sadler Park on the Annapolis Maritime Museum grounds. The audience brings lawn chairs and picnic blankets to this waterside park for an evening’s entertainment with the expanse of the Chesapeake Bay as a backdrop. For those who don’t bring their own refreshments, AMM volunteers serve beverages from the deck of the oyster-tonger Miss Lonesome, a permanent land-based exhibit of a traditional Chesapeake Bay deadrise workboat.Lunchtime at City Dock
The concerts are offered again, free, every Thursday at noon throughout the summer at City Dock. Musicians perform aboard a traditional Chesapeake Bay skipjack Lydia D berthed at the Market House pier. Visitors can bring their own seating or sit on the park benches around the Alex Haley Memorial, and enjoy free concerts by regionally renowned musicians singing songs about the Chesapeake Bay.The concert series has won an award for best Heritage Event by Four Rivers, the Heritage Area of Annapolis, London Town and South County, and one concert was featured on the NBC Today Show. The series has garnered enormous press coverage in local and regional media.
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Music to Save the Bay
The Annapolis Maritime Museum founded the Chesapeake Music Institute (CMI) in 2004 to gather, preserve and present music about the Bay to encourage stewardship of the Bay. “After all, any place worth singing about is a place worth preserving,” notes Museum Director Jeff Holland. This program constitutes a major portion of the Museum’s outreach efforts.
The CMI’s mission is to research and document traditional songs about the Bay as well as to encourage contemporary musical artists to create a whole new body of work inspired by the Bay. CMI has produced a CD album entitled Thomas Point Light: a compendium of music inspired by the Chesapeake Bay and the Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse. More than 1,000 copies have been sold. The album comprises songs that have appeared on individual artists’ CDs (each artist donated the use of the recordings) as well as original pieces, including the three-part Thomas Point Suite, composed by Randy Neilson. The artists featured on the album have performed at the Museum’s summer concert series.
