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The dark Sunday. We all know it. That first one back in standard time.  It’s a very rainy day-after-Halloween, and the Ravens lost a tough one to the Steelers to top it off. The gloom descends. To bury one’s head in a pile of blues as we stare down the barrel of another cold dark winter?  | Read more>> Read More

Common Ground on the Hill started in Westminster in 1994 as a summer festival of American roots music. In recent years Common Ground’s offerings have been expanded to include summer music camps, workshops, and year-round concerts in Westminster and Baltimore. Organizations that present American roots music rarely include jazz, oddly enough, so I was pleasantly surprised when Common Ground announced that it was sponsoring jazz at two of six venues in downtown Westminster on July 7th, with Celtic, blues and “alt-grass” bands at the other four locations. | Read more>> Read More