Artscape, Baltimore City’s free Arts and Music Festival, is this weekend on Mount Royal Avenue, just outside my office. It is an event I eagerly anticipate every year. It is always hot, crowded, and crazy. In my nine or so years attending the festival, I’ve seen some fantastic performances and met some cool people, including my husband.
This year, we are kicking off the adventure on Friday evening at Sue Island Dock Bar, out on the water in Essex for some heavy, steamy crabs and ice cold Miller High Life. James and Lesley are coming into town from Richmond; Kim and Val are taking a night off from new parenthood; and general merriment will ensue.
Also new this year, the Bellevederes (yes, I never tire of self-promotion) are playing on Saturday afternoon at 2:30 at Northscape, just up Charles Street from Artscape proper. It is the Station North Art District’s attempt to capitalize on the overflow from Artscape... show the suburbanites who trek in from outside the beltway once or twice a year that North Avenue is not the Methodone Clinic-having, open air drug market corridor it used to be.
So, get thee to the corner of North and Charles Saturday afternoon, and then join us as we wander on over to Artscape to partake in some good (and not so good) art, good music, and countless varieties of food on sticks – this might be my favorite thing about the whole weekend, an entire food group devoted to whether or not it can be served on a stick. Bon Appetit!
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