Arts and Culture

We'll keep the New Year's party going with Guillermo Brown, host of WEAA's Fiesta Musical, with Latin songs about the New Year and celebration.

Keith Covington, former owner of the New Haven Lounge, brings us into 2013 with great conversation and some of the best traditional and contemporary jazz music, from Johnny Hartman to Wynton Marsalis.

Florida, host of WEAA's Strictly Hip Hop, visits our studio for a departure from traditional holiday music. We hear hip hop related to the season.

We're joined by the Director of Morgan State University's Choir, Eric Conway for music that embodies the holiday season.

We'll hear crooners, jazz standards, and even a little Cee Lo Green when Milton Dugger, musician and president of Gumption Records, shares some of his favorite holiday music with us.

Happy Boxing Day! We continue our holiday music series with Tom Hall, Music Director of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society.

Conductor Ed Polochick joins us for some good conversation and to share some of his favorite Christmas choral and classical music.

Every year since 1996, the folk ensemble Helicon have joined us to share seasonal music from around the world. They join us once again in the lead up to their 27th annual solstice concert, hapening this Saturday at Goucher College.

We are joined by a Sudanese artist living in Baltimore, Mosno Al-Moseeki, who started an online campaign to bring coverage to the little-reported protests that started in Sudan in the middle of June as a reaction to price increases and austerity measures taken by the Sudanese government.

We discuss the new performance piece "Red Flags." We're joined by the three creators/performers of the piece: spoken-word artist/musician LOVE the poet (aka Michelle Antoinette Nelson), filmmaker/theater director Bashi Rose, and dancer/choreographer Vincent Thomas. "Red Flags" runs at the Arena Players until November 4.

Listen to our conversation with Steven Galloway, author of the award-winning novel, "The Cellist of Sarajevo," a story of a musician in the midst of chaos during the siege of Sarajevo in the mid-1990s.

Staying in the musical groove, we will close out the show with a look at A Tribute to Nina Simone!

We are joined by a Sudanese artist living in Baltimore, Mosno Al-Moseeki, who started an online campaign to bring coverage to the little-reported protests that started in Sudan in the middle of June as a reaction to price increases and austerity measures taken by the Sudanese government.

This month marks what would have been legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie's 100th birthday.

Listen in as actress Melanie Marshall, cast member of Fela!, joins us for an interview.

We're joined today by Billy Cox, Jimi Hendrix's bass player and good friend, to reflect on the human and musical legacy of the legendary guitar player.  Dr.

Join us for a look at the legacy of singer, songwriter, and pianist Nina Simone.  This Friday, February 17th, the Creative Alliance hosts an evening of music, poetry, spoken word, and more in tribute to Simone.  We're joined by some of the participants in the evening.

Keith Covington started up the New Haven Lounge, one of the best places around to see live jazz, in 1987.  He brought us the gift of great holiday jazz and blues music.

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Helicon join us for an hour of live music in the studio.

The members of Helicon are:

Tom Hall is the Director of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society and Arts & Culture Editor of Maryland Morning.  He joins us to share his favorite holiday music.

It's a Steiner Show tradition to bring some of our Baltimore's best known music lovers and musicians into the studio at the holidays to share their favorite seasonal music.

Today Jon Carney, Concertmaster of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, joins us to share some beautiful pieces of classical music.

Milton Dugger has been producing soul music for fourty years.  In one of the Marc Steiner Show's holiday traditions, he joins us to play some of his favorite tracks and talk about music.  You can find some of the many great albums he's worked on over the years here.

For our last show before Christmas, we're joined by singer Lea Gilmore and conductor Edward Polochick for an hour of holiday music, cooking, stories, and more!

Lea's Egg Nog Butter Cake

1/2 c. softened butter

2 lg. eggs

1 tsp. vanilla extract

Helicon join us for their 18th annual appearance on the show.  While they're now living in different countries and no longer performing regularly as a band, they reunite each year for a Winter Solstice concert.

The OrchKids join us to share some music and talk about the importance

We're joined this hour by Toure, whose work as an author, journalist, and cultural critic includes fiction, music writing, and essays on a wide variety of topics.  His new book, Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness: What It Means to Be Black Now, contains excerpts from over 100 interviews Toure conducte

Join us for interview with Michael Lawrence, a local filmmaker whose latest project is a documentary called Bach & Friends.  In it, he gathers some of the most renowned musicians of our time to reflect on Bach's legacy and give performances of his music.  There are great classical players, like Joshua Bell, Rich

Join us for a special hour that mingles the history of the civil rights movement, the legacy of African American music, and live jazz piano from Lafayette Gilchrist.  Archivist Stuart Hudgins from the Fell's Point and Federal Hill

Dr. Lester Spence joins us to discuss his new book, Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics.

We're joined this hour by Toure, whose work as an author, journalist, and cultural critic includes fiction, music writing, and essays on a wide variety of topics.  His new book, Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness: What It Means to Be Black Now, contains excerpts from over 100 interviews Toure conducte

The Creative Alliance at the Patterson has two upcoming events focusing on the Middle Passage. Joseph Norman, an artist in residence at the Creative Alliance, has connected four hundred and one black and white paintings to create a massive mural of his own telling of the Middle Passage.

CEM Cultural Correspondent Lea Gilmore joins Marc to discuss recent headlines. She is the founder and director of Umoja Musica, an international music and human rights organization and was chosen by Essence Magazine as one of the 25 Women Shaping the World.

We Shall Overcome.  I Woke Up This Morning With My Mind on Freedom.  Keep Your Eyes on the Prize.  The songs that served as the soundtrack of the Civil Rights Movement were more than just entertainment.  They were organizing tools that inspired and mobilized participants, and helped with outreach outside of the movement.

Woody Guthrie's birthday is tomorrow, July 14th.  He would have been 99.  Joining us to discuss his legacy are playwright Michael Patrick F. Smith, musician Caleb Stine, and Creative Alliance Program Director Megan Hamilton.  Michael's play, Woody Guthrie Dreams, premiered at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore in 2004.

Chuck Brown, the legendary Godfather of Go-Go from Washington, DC is known for hits like "Busting Loose" and "I Need Some Money."  You'll have a chance to see him perform live here in Baltimore this Saturday at 3pm on the Highway to Nowhere, at the intersection of Franklin and Gilmor Streets in West Baltimore, as part of ROOTS Fest 2011.