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I’m reposting two separate items I’ve received in the past forty-eight hours that are calls for street performers in Baltimore. I’m excited to see that this trend is beginning to take root in our fair city, and am proud to say that I was way ahead of the curve - what when I was juggling up on the Ave close to a year ago now while snobby people from the county looked down their noses at me!

Station North Music Festival ISO Street Performers

The Station North Music Festival will take place on Saturday, April 25th, starting at 5pm. The event, intended to draw people to the neighborhood, will feature several stages and performances by Big in Japan, Lafayette Gilchrist and Charlie Sayles along with Il Culo, The Neftones, The Water, Point Juncture, The Owls Go, Nate Meyers and The Aces. The festival organizers expect the full lineup will include at least 20 acts from Baltimore and the region.

In additional to free music, local artist Brady Starr will open a new show at Joe Squared. Load of Fun will host Glitterama, an evening of burlesque and variety, and the Echo Gallery at the North Avenue Market will host Brouhaha, an experimental fashion event.

The Music Festival is looking for street performers - including stiltwalkers, jugglers, roving characters and other walkabouts - to join in the revelry. You will receive free food and beverages from Joe Squared in exchange. If the festival generates a profit, performers will receive payment.

If you are interested, please email, text or call James Erny at theernys@yahoo.com or 410 812 6161.

And this one seems to have an originating email address of Hampdenfest@gmail associated with it (I got this as a forward). Hampdenfest, in my opinion, is the better of the two festivals that happen in this neighborhood so this could turn out being a really fun event to be a part of. I’m not sure if I’ll be in Baltimore on this date, but if I am I’ll come join you… Although I think the idea of “organizing” jugglers, buskers, etc is a little bit ridiculous if you’ve ever actually met one - nevermind the logical impossibility of intentionally creating a “random” event… but luckily that’s someone else’s problem to figure out the logistics for!

Charlotte (of Charlotte Elliott Antiques in Hampden) is the organizer for this year’s Hampden Fest in the Fall (saturday, September, 12th). This year she wants to have a lot of “guerilla” street performers randomly wandering through the festival. This is open to creative “off-stage” live performances. - juggling, monologues, theatre, puppets, costumed characters, spontaneous dancing whatever! Think mini BuskerFest (like the one in toronto - http://www.torontobuskerfest.com/). I have mentioned this to some of you, but Charlotte has asked me to help coordinate the street performers and organize the details.

Everything is just in the planning phases so I just wanted to reach out to my creative performing arts friends to see if you guys are interested and wanted to participate. If you are please send me an
e-mail and let me know if you are interested in participating so I can keep you posted. We will be having a meeting within the next couple of weeks. Also please let me know if anyone else you know is interested
or have them contact me.

Also, please note! this is not for bands/acts wanting to perform onstage. That is being organized by Atomic Books.

Oh, and one more thing: not sure if this “official” yet, but I heard that Acoustic Baltimore (organized by the guys at Umbrella Radio) will also be hosting a stage at Honfest in, I think, June. So you might wanna check in with them if that’s your scene. And also check out their bi-weekly events at the Hon Bar.

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