49 West - Coffeehouse, Winebar & Gallery / Annapolis, Maryland

Backroom Sessions with Lance Taylor, Ruben Dobbs & Alex Peters
2023-10-02 19:30 - 22:30 (America/Halifax) | MD

Until Yesterday with Gingerwolf
2023-09-30 19:30 - 22:30 (America/Halifax) | MD
Until Yesterday is a local band hailing from Annapolis, Maryland. The band comprises identical twins Jonathan and David, and fellow band members Andrew and Jack. Their musical journey began at a young age, sharing a love for artists such as John Mayer, Coldplay, and Switchfoot, which strongly influenced their adult alternative and rock style. Until Yesterday’s music is known for its captivating storylines and visual elements, drawing inspiration from their early influences. In recent times, they have shifted their sound towards contemporary artists like Valley, The Band CAMINO, Charli Adams, and Nightly. Throughout the past few years, Until Yesterday has steadily released multiple songs, gradually building towards an EP and, ultimately, a full-length album. Their path has been marked by a strong sense of independence, as they actively manage every facet of their music, encompassing songwriting, recording, production, and mixing.

John Jensen
2023-09-30 17:00 - 19:00, 2023-09-23 17:00 - 19:00, 2023-09-16 17:00 - 19:00, 2023-09-09 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Halifax) | MD

Luke Borchelt
2023-09-29 16:00 - 19:00 (America/Halifax) | MD

Shook/ Russo 4 Tet
2023-09-28 20:00 - 22:30 (America/Halifax) | 49 West – The Back Room, 49 West St., Annapolis, MD, 21401, United States
Amy Shook – acoustic bass
Pat Shook – tenor saxophone
Frank Russo – drums
Jonathan Epley – guitar
The Shook/Russo 4tet has been performing together since 2005 in the mid-Atlantic region. Their focus has always been to compose and perform their own original music within the jazz idiom, honoring the masters by carrying on the tradition. Be it through blues, swing, bebop, soul jazz, or more modern funk and groove, the group has developed an incredible and unique sound by merging the diverse backgrounds of each of these fine musicians into one voice. The result is a whirlwind of grooves, melodies, and diverse textures that are a true delight to hear. Collectively, the members of the Shook/Russo 5tet have performed extensively throughout the United States, as well as performed in Canada, Mexico, Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean and at festivals such as the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, the Ottawa Jazz Festival, the Stan Getz Jazz Festival, the East Coast Jazz Festival, the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, and the Telluride Jazz Festival, the Wall Street Jazz Festival and the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival to name a few. They currently have two CDs out on Summit Records, and will be releasing a new album later this year, featuring all new music by members of the band.

Cafe Scientifique
2023-09-28 18:00 - 19:15 (America/Halifax) | MD

Dave Chappell & Friends
2023-09-27 17:00 - 19:00, 2023-09-20 17:00 - 19:00, 2023-09-06 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | 49 West – The Front Room, 49 West St., Annapolis, MD, 21401, United States
Dave Chappell, Jimmy Jacobs, Rurik Reshetiloff & more!

Unified Jazz Ensemble
2023-09-26 19:00 - 21:30, 2023-09-19 19:00 - 21:30, 2023-09-12 19:00 - 21:30 UTC | 49 West – The Back Room, 49 West St., Annapolis, MD, 21401, United States
The Unified Jazz Ensemble is a dynamic group of masterful musicians from the USA. This ensemble has years of experience educating and entertaining diverse audiences. This is acoustic jazz, a classic American art form, done to perfection with audience interaction at its best.

Listen For A Cause- hosted by Carly Winter
2023-09-25 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Halifax) | MD
Please call for reservations at 410-626-9796

PETER BRICE, CATRIÓNA FEE, & INNOCENT SMITH
2023-09-23 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Halifax) | MD
PETER BRICE, CATRIÓNA FEE, & INNOCENT SMITH
Peter Brice (voice, button accordion), Catrióna Fee (concertina), and Innocent Smith (flute) will present a concert of traditional music from Ireland and Irish America, drawing on a repertoire of 18th and 19th century dance music. Maryland songs will be included for good measure. The concert will also feature Keira Noonan (fiddle, step dance) and Claire Noonan (button accordion, step dance). Saturday, 23 September 2023. 8:00 pm. $20. 49 West at 49 West Street, Annapolis, Maryland 21401. See www.newcenturyirisharts.com/brice-fee-smith
PETER BRICE sings old songs in a traditional style, and plays Irish traditional music on the button accordion. A native Annapolitan and an exponent of Baltimore, Maryland’s Irish traditional music community, Peter’s work blends singing and musicianship with musicology and history, humor, colorful design, and a vision for traditional culture as a foundation for an intellectual life.
A lifelong singer, Peter has married a repertoire of American historical songs with a wide-ranging English-language style that he gleaned from his mentors Dónal Maguire, Louisa Jo Killen, and Lisa Null, as well as from members of his family.
His playing reflects his admiration for Galway accordionists such as Joe Cooley and Kevin Keegan—a style into which he was initiated by Brooklyn-born accordionist and National Heritage Fellow Billy McComiskey. He advanced his playing under the tutelage of Derek Hickey from Adare, County Limerick.
The core of Peter’s public work is the collection and revival of traditional music from Maryland, to which end, even as a teenager, he was rescuing orally-transmitted songs from local people who were born in the early 20th century. He has collected and collated the compositions of Billy McComiskey, and is continuously collecting Irish and American traditional music in Baltimore and Anne Arundel County.
He is a former vice-chair of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann’s O’Neill-Malcom Branch in Washington, D.C. and a past co-coordinator of the Washington Folk Festival. He founded the Baltimore Singers Club with singers Andy O’Brien and Pat Egan to promote traditional singing in Maryland, and was a founding member of the Old Bay Ceili Band. With singers Lisa Null and Judy Cook, he created a project—Yankee Frolics—to revive traditional songs about the War of 1812 for the bicentennial of that conflict.
In 2014, he and his mentor Billy McComiskey were recognized by the Maryland State Arts Council as a traditional arts master-apprentice pair. He received the Maryland Traditions Apprenticeship Award again in 2019 with singer Lisa Null. He has independently written over $32,000 in awarded grants for Maryland’s Irish traditional music community. A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory Preparatory program, Peter also holds a BA in Irish Traditional Music and Dance from the University of Limerick. He has served the New Century American Irish-Arts Company as its executive director since its inception in 2011.
CATRIÓNA FEE is a concertina player from Cold Spring, New York who is currently based in Washington, D.C. She is a triplet, the sister of Mairead Fee and Angela Fee, who play the flute and the fiddle respectively. Having two other musicians in the house had a profound impact on her playing, leading her to emphasize the importance of playing in a group rather than focusing solely on solo playing. She got her start on the concertina with Ann Dylan, and greatly benefitted from the local music scene in Cold Spring. Catrióna studied concertina with Lexie Boatright and Patty Furlong, and her style is also influenced heavily by the playing of Caitlín Nic Gabhann and Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh.
Catrióna is a multiple Mid Atlantic Fleadh champion on the concertina and has competed several times in the All Ireland Fleadh. As a youth she played in ceili band and grupa cheoil competitions in the US and Ireland with the Pearl River School of Irish Music.
Catrióna has taught concertina at the Catskills Irish Arts Week and and to individuals of all ages. She also had the privilege of teaching the concertina to and recording with Steve Martin for the first season of the hit TV show ‘Only Murders in the Building.’
INNOCENT SMITH is a Dominican friar and a flute player based in Washington, DC. He began playing the flute as a teenager and had the opportunity to study with the flute players John Creaven and Mike Rafferty from County Galway and to play frequently with Kevin Henry and Albert Neary from County Mayo. Innocent studied music and philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, theology at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC, and did a doctorate in liturgical studies at the University of Regensburg in Germany.
Peter Brice
Executive Director
The New Century American Irish-Arts Company
newcenturyirisharts.com
M: 410 693 0147
E: peterbrice@newcenturyirisharts.com
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Jen Schimpf
2023-09-22 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Halifax) | MD
Playing in the Front Room for Happy Hour!

Jazz Wire Jam Session
2023-09-21 19:30 - 22:30 (America/Halifax) | MD
Jeff Antoniuk’s Monthly JazzWire Jam Session
7:30 pm – 10:30 pm ($10 cover)
One of the top jazz jam sessions in the DC/MD/VA area is right here at 49 West! Hosted by jazz education legend Jeff Antoniuk, and sponsored by JazzWire (www.JazzWire.net), this is friendly, welcoming and swinging good time. Adult amateurs and semi-pros, high school students and hot shot college players all converge on the 3rd Thursday of the month to share their stuff.
The first set (7:30pm) features one of Jeff Antoniuk’s Jazz Band Masterclass (www.JazzBandMasterclass.com) groups in concert. From 8:30pm on, they are the house band for the jam session. Come one, come all, and tell your friends. There isn’t a more fun night out this month! Cover $10

ITZALL GOOD AND SHC MUSIC TRIBE PRESENT PETE MANCINI
2023-09-18 19:30 - 22:30 (America/Halifax) | MD
September 18 , 2022, at 7:30 PM
ITZALL GOOD AND SHC MUSIC TRIBE PRESENT PETE MANCINI
Advance Tickets: $17 – PeteMancini.eventbrite.com
Door – $20 – 100% of proceeds to artists.
Seating is limited so please buy tickets in advance OR make a reservation by calling 410-626-9796. If you buy a ticket there is no need to call the venue.
ABOUT PETE:
Website:petemancini.com
V﻿ideos: youtube.com/@petemancini4886
“The NY songwriter Pete Mancini (Acoustic/Electric Guitars/Wurlitzer & Vocals) is an adept storyteller much the same as the late John Prine.” John Apice – Americana Highways
Just as Roger McGuinn, Gram Parsons, and company had done decades earlier, Mancini’s crew crafts a warm, organic sound bearing deep country roots, but still informed by rock & roll.” – NPR
Diversion Records Recording Artist Pete Mancini got his start as the frontman and songwriter of Butchers Blind, a critically acclaimed rock band from NYC. His debut solo album Foothill Freeway explored the Americana influences that were a hallmark of his work with his former band.
In 2018, he released a live EP, Alive in Patchogue. Since signing with Diversion Records, Mancini has released three singles, Pine Box Derby, DUI Blues, and My Hometown. His second full-length album Flying First Class was released in 2019. Mancini’s songs have received glowing reviews and radio airplay around the world, and they continue to win over hearts and minds wherever they are heard.
Over the years, Mancini has opened for acts such as Blues Traveler, Gin Blossoms, Pure Prairie League, Robbie Fulks, James Maddock, Marah, Steve Forbert, Amy Helm, Larry Campbell & Theresa Williams, Jesse Dayton, Kevin Gordon, and Iain Matthews.

Dream Punch
2023-09-17 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Halifax) | MD
Dream Punch are a Maryland based band that weaves texture into song. Their songs are sonic impressionist paintings for your ear lids.

Wordsmith- A Showing of Poems
2023-09-17 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Halifax) | MD

Dean Rosenthal’s 4 Piece Racket
2023-09-16 20:00 - 22:30 (America/Halifax) | MD
Dean Rosenthal’s 4piece racket welcomes back , Our friend, Pete Kanaras(nighthawks,Charlie Owen),Jimmy Jacobs Thomas Fridrich Leslie Webber Mr.Ray 8-10pm

Annapolis Songwriters Festival
2023-09-16 15:00 - 17:00, 2023-09-16 11:00 - 13:00, 2023-09-15 19:00 - 22:00, 2023-09-15 11:00 - 14:00 (America/Halifax) | MD
www.annapolissongwritersfestival.com/tickets

Pam Godfrey Classical Duo
2023-09-13 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Halifax) | MD
Join us for classical night every 2nd Wednesday of the month.

2nd Monday Songwriters Showcase hosted by Angie Miller
2023-09-11 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Halifax) | MD
Angie Miller hosting with special guests Pete Best, Brandon Walker, and Patty Reese. 2nd Monday at 49 West is a monthly concert series featuring local and regional songwriters. It’s a chance to see some great artists up close and personal in the cozy back room of this downtown Annapolis coffeehouse and wine bar. Call 410-626-9796 for reservations. Visit the 49 West website for more info. $15 cover.

Lenny Marcus Trio
2023-09-09 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Halifax) | MD
LENNY MARCUS TRIO
Jazz Times Magazine has described Lenny Marcus’ music as “Infectious!” No wonder, since Lenny worked for many years in New Orleans studying and performing with legends such as Ray Bryant, Ellis Marsalis and Alvin Batiste . He has a strong blues oriented left hand, thanks to Bryant. Lenny possesses a superior melodic imagination and highly developed arranging and orchestration skills that become palpable throughout a diversity of styles-swinging, cool, sophisticated , Jazzified Beethoven masterpieces, Latin, toe- tapping , high energy as well as beautifully contemplative and engaging.
His latest release, Gloria’s Step TOUTED as “ Swinging elegant fun,” has reached #10 on Canadian jazz charts & 34 in the top 50 of USA charts. An earlier release, Sun Ray , a Ray Bryant tribute, was considered to be one the top jazz albums of 2012, and his follow up ‘TONK’ in 2013 was acclaimed by noteable jazz critic Owen Cordle of JazzTimes magazine.
International famed players who have performed and recorded with LMT include Charlie Byrd, Herb Ellis,Frank Foster,Brian Lynch, David “ Fathead “ Newman (Ray Charles tenor) and Jane Powell.
Lenny has performed in three New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest, Spoleto , Barbados and Grenada Jazz festivals in addition to appearing four times in Wash DC at the famed Blues Alley with his trio.
