All posts tagged "the birchmere"
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Trail Blazer
''I thought that I hadn't really lived that much,'' says the 48-year-old legendary punk-rocker Bob Mould about being approached by a publisher in 2001 to...
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Everything’s coming up Bob Mould
He may now call San Francisco home, but Bob Mould still stops in his former D.C. stomping grounds regularly, for the dance party Blowoff and...
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Sheik Appeal
''Musical theater -- it just wasn't my cup of tea,'' says Duncan Sheik. The Tony Award-winning composer of Spring Awakening performed in Oliver! and Annie...
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Queer Ear
Susan Werner trained to be an opera singer, but admits she ''was a little too much of an introvert.'' She wasn't loud enough. Instead, Werner...
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Ashford & Simpson at The Birchmere
The husband-and-wife songwriting duo Ashford & Simpson is still solid — solid as a, well, soul is what this is. And ain’t no mountain or...
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Lizz Wright at The Birchmere
A blues-fired R&B singer with a countrified bent and a gospel and jazz background, New Yorker by way of Georgia Lizz Wright sometimes powers her...
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Lesbian Laughs
In the early '90s, Suzanne Westenhoefer made the rounds of that era's spate of daytime talk shows -- hosted by the likes of Sally Jesse...
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A John Waters Christmas at The Birchmere
An encore performance after last year’s sellout success, legendary Baltimore filmmaker John Waters returns to the Birchmere in his one-man show motivated by a genuine...
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Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison Holiday Show
In 2003, Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison, two married country music singer-songwriters who you may remember as stars in Claritin commercials from a few years...
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Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer at The Birchmere
Sisters Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer perform together in only five cities on this fall’s Side by Side Tour. Area alt-country fans, consider yourselves lucky....
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Cheryl Wheeler at The Birchmere
A natural storyteller with a fantastic sense of humor and spontaneity, Cheryl Wheeler performs many songs in concert that haven’t even been recorded on one...
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Don McLean at The Birchmere
A 2004 inductee into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, Don McLean is still singing about that “American Pie,” so the levy’s clearly not dry. Sunday,...
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Barbara Cook at The Birchmere
Widely considered the foremost interpreter of the American Songbook, the Tony- and Grammy-winning Barbara Cook performs a one-night-only concert at the intimate Birchmere. The original...
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Belly Horror at The Birchmere
Now in its fifth year, the cabaret Belly Horror features performance artists in what is billed as "a sinisterly sensual smorgasbord of belly dance, inspired...
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Paula Poundstone at The Birchmere
Longtime standup comic Paula Poundstone, self-proclaimed “virginish” and “asexual,” is these days usually the funniest person on NPR’s amusing weekend news quiz show Wait Wait"¦Don’t...
