Crab pickers demonstrate their art at the Chesapeake Folk Festival
“Treasures of the Bay…Hidden in Plain Sight” is the theme for this Saturday’s Chesapeake Folk Festival at the Maritime Museum in St Michaels; and if you only attend one festival this summer, this should be it. It is a celebration of all thing local. Attendees can listen to live music; eat regional foods; bob for peaches; create an eel pot; mend a gill net; learn about Chesapeake Native Americans, and even help make a multi-media sculpture project.
If you’re looking to escape the heat and humidity, the Academy Art Museum’s Mark Leithauser: Nature and Illusion exhibition opens Saturday and runs through the end of September. Graphic artist turned painter, his work is surrealist in nature. His day job is Senior Curator and Chief of Design for the National Gallery of Art in D.C.
Fans of classic big band music should park their chairs on Harrison Street in Easton Saturday around 6:45 pm for the Annapolis Junction Big Band Concert. This 17 piece band will play hits by Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Count Basie…
And looking ahead- been to a jousting tournament lately? St Joseph’s in Cordova is Wednesday, August 1. Take the kids and have a hearty lunch of barbecued chicken and country ham while watching Maryland’s official state sport.
St Joseph’s in Cordova is holding their annual Jousting Tournament and Horse Show on Wednesday, August 1.
Saturday, July 28 – 10 am to 5 pm: Chesapeake Folk Festival at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Free to CBMM members, active military families, children five and under. Tickets $15 for adults, $12 for seniors, $6 children from 6-17. 213 N. Talbot Street, St Michaels, MD 21663. 410-745-2916.
Sat, July 28 – 7 pm: Annapolis Junction Big Band on Harrison Street Bring your own camp/folding chair. Children and dancing encouraged. In case of rain, Avalon Theatre will host performance. FREE. 410-822-7299
Mark Leithauser, Brushwork, 1993, Oil on panel, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Saturday, July 28 – Sept. 30: Mark Leithauser: Nature and Illusion Exhibition at the Academy Art Museum (Members Reception, Friday, July 27, 5:30-7:30pm) 106 South St. Easton, MD 21601. 410 822 ARTS
Wednesday, August 1 – 9 am to mid afternoon: St Joseph’s Jousting Tournament and Horse Show 9am horse show; 11:30am dinner; 1pm jousting tournament. St. Joseph’s Church, 30300 Chapel Station Dr., Cordova, MD 21625. 410-822-6915
(A test of skill and horsemanship where riders pass through a series of arches, attempting to spear three dangling rings and present them to the judges. There are three regulation rides for three rings, allowing a knight or maid to capture nine rings for a perfect score. Ring diameters range from one and three quarters inches for novices to one inch for professional jousters.)
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