Bluegrass on the Bay featuring The High & Wides

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Join the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum on Saturday, July 26, from 5:30-9pm for Bluegrass on the Bay featuring The High & Wides with opening act The Folk Villains.

This inaugural concert event on CBMM’s waterfront campus invites you to bring lawn chairs, blankets, and picnic baskets to enjoy an evening of Eastern Shore bluegrass at the historic Tolchester Beach Bandstand. The doors open at 5pm before The Folk Villains take the stage at 5:30pm leading into the headlining performance from The High and Wides.

Food vendors, including Gather and Grill BBQ, and a beer truck will be on site. Guests are also welcome to bring their own food and non-alcoholic beverages to the concert, which will be held rain or shine.

Tickets can be purchased in advance online or at the door. Please note that the concert will be ticketed separately from CBMM general admission on Saturday, July 26. Admission is set at $25 for adults, $24 for seniors (65+) and students (17+), $14 for active and retired military members, and $6 for children ages 6-to-17, with all children 5-and-younger admitted free.

CBMM members receive discounted pricing to Bluegrass on the Bay and other events throughout the year. Adult members receive $5 off their concert tickets, and all children of members (17-and-younger) receive free admission. To support CBMM’s mission as a member and discover all the terrific benefits of membership, visit cbmm.org/memberships or contact Membership Services Coordinator Debbie Ruzicka at 410-745-4991 or druzicka@cbmm.org.

For safety reasons, non-service dogs must be kept home during CBMM’s events, including Bluegrass on the Bay.

About the High & Wides: The High & Wides play string band music from an alternate timeline, one where Bill Monroe’s “Rocky Road Blues” made him an international superstar and the rock’n’roll revolution was led by fiddlers and banjo players. With roots in urban Baltimore and the rural Delmarva peninsula, they draw on bluegrass backgrounds and weave in influences from new wave to old time to make music that defies boundaries while evoking the era when country, bluegrass, western swing, and early rock’n’roll mingled freely. They have three albums: 2018’s “Lifted” (named for the gear theft that forced the band to re-record the completed album from scratch) and 2019’s “Seven True Stories” feature the band’s strong songwriting and arranging, and 2022’s “Blood: Family Harmony Classics” highlights their roots with covers of songs by groups such as the Kershaw Brothers, Maddox Brothers & Rose, and the Carter Family.

About The Folk Villains: The Folk Villains are three siblings, who grew up adoring their dad’s band, The Folk Heroes. Now, armed with a banjo, two violins, two mandolins, a bass, a bodhran, a cello, spoons, various percussion, and our voices, the trio honors that family folk tradition, enrich it by incorporating an ever-expanding variety of folk music genres, and infuse it with their own Villainous style.

Bluegrass on the Bay featuring The High & Wides
Date/Time: Saturday, July 26, 5:30-9pm (Doors open at 5pm)
Where: Tolchester Beach Bandstand on CBMM’s campus

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