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

Unified Jazz Ensemble
2023-04-04 19:00 - 21:30, 2023-04-11 19:00 - 21:30, 2023-04-18 19:00 - 21:30, 2023-04-25 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.

Dave Chappell & Friends
2023-04-05 17:00 - 19:00, 2023-04-19 17:00 - 19:00, 2023-04-26 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | 49 West – The Front Room, 49 West St., Annapolis, MD, 21401, United States
Jimmy Jacobs, Rurik Reshetiloff & more!

Jeff Antoniuk Quartet
2023-04-06 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Halifax) | MD
Jeff Antoniuk – tenor sax
John Lee – guitar
Blake Meister – bass
Frank Russo – drums
See you at one of the hippest little listening rooms in the DMV!

Rick Whitehead Trio
2023-04-07 20:00 - 22:30 (America/Halifax) | MD
John Previti on bass, Rick Whitehead on guitar and Bruce Swaim on tenor sax

John Jensen
2023-04-08 17:00 - 19:00, 2023-04-15 17:00 - 19:00, 2023-04-22 17:00 - 19:00, 2023-04-29 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Halifax) | MD

Bob Boguslaw
2023-04-08 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Halifax) | MD

2nd Monday Songwriters Showcase with guest host Tony Denikos and guests Ruthie Logsdon & Billy Coulter
2023-04-10 19:30 - 22:30 (America/Halifax) | MD
Special guest host Tony Denikos will be joined with guests Ruthie Logsdon and Billy Coulter playing.

Pam Godfrey Classical Duo
2023-04-12 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Halifax) | MD
Join us for classical night every 2nd Wednesday of the month.

Dave Chappell Trio
2023-04-14 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Halifax) | MD
David Chappell,John Previti,
With Grammy Winner Joe Maher!
Call for reservations
410 626 9796

Dean Rosenthal’s 4 Piece Racket
2023-04-15 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Halifax) | MD
Dean Rosenthal’s 4piece racket
Please call for reservations at 410-626-9796 because space is limited.
We hope you can join us!!
Dean Rosenthal along w/ Jimmy Jacobs & Rurik Reshetiloff, Leslie Webber & Roy Dunshee

Wordsmith- A Showing of Poems
2023-04-16 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Halifax) | MD

The Befuddlers
2023-04-16 16:00 - 19:00 UTC | 49 West – The Front Room, 49 West St., Annapolis, MD, 21401, United States
Come on down to 49west – Larry and i’ll be singing & playing and hanging out in one of our favorite local places.. there is all kinds of good stuff going there besides this music we’re promoting. amazing artwork, food and drinks, people. No cover, just walk on in, seat yourself. – we’re in the front room.
Jenn Byrne is the foundation of the group, playing the upright bass, and doing the Lion’s share of the singing. Jenn has an enigmatic and versitile voice, which is capable of a wide variety of styles. In addition to The Befuddlers Jenn can be seen around town with her other group, the Hypnotic Panties. She also has a band with her brother Jeremy, and father Pete which is called Crosstown.
Larry Byrne is a multi-instumentalist and singer, and lays down the rhythm on acoustic guitar with The Befuddlers. Larry sits on the board of AMFM, a charity organization for musicians based in Annapolis. He can be seen playing with many local groups at AMFM fundraisers. Larry also plays with the local funk group, Higher Hands, playing the keyboards and supplying left hand bass. He also loves to join the Hypnotic Panties whenever possible!
Pete Reichwein is the father of Jenn, and the Dobro player in the group. Pete has been a fixture in the Bluegrass community for decades, but is also an extremely diverse musician with a good knowledge of many different styles of music.
No Cover Charge

ITZALL Goode Music and SHC Music Presents David Jacobs-Strain and Bob Beach
2023-04-17 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Halifax) | MD
ITZALL Goode Music and SHC Music Presents David Jacobs-Strain and Bob Beach
April 18, 7:30 to 9:30
Advanced Tickets $17: https://DavidJacobsStrain.eventbrite.com
Door $20
If you reserve an advanced ticket, you do not need to call to make a reservation. If you do not buy an advanced ticket, reservations are highly recommended. You can make them by calling 49 West at 410-626-9796.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
ABOUT ARTISTS:
https://davidjacobs-strain.com
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqOsMyCd9ik
“David Jacobs-Strain and Bob Beach blew me away last summer at Swannanoa. As we say at home, they knocked my hat in the creek. I can’t envision the audience that could fail to take to them from the first chord and to the last. Hear them yourself as soon as you can.”
— Tom Paxton
David Jacobs-Strain and Bob Beach sit side-by-side on the stage. A Pogreba guitar, built by the man who built the cannon Hunter S. Thompson was shot out of, sits loosely in David’s hands. Bob adjusts the distance to his 1940’s RCA microphone then leans over the box propped open at his side and grabs 2 harmonicas. They are calm. Poised. The crowd has no idea what they are in for next.
David Jacobs-Strain and Bob Beach are a multigenerational, bicoastal duo who have been performing together since 2010. They currently perform between 70 and 100 shows a year on both the east and west coasts, delighting and bewildering roots music lovers.
David Jacob-Strain is a striking slide guitar player and a song poet from Eugene, Oregon. His deep love of blues and roots music is evident in every one of the songs he writes. He studied masters like Robert Johnson, Taj Mahal, and Jackson Browne, but plays his own sound, his own song, with a virtuosity that is uniquely his. David began playing on street corners and at farmers’ markets as a teenager, and bought his first steel guitar with the quarters he saved up. Before he dropped out of Stanford to play full time, he had already appeared at festivals across the country, often billed as a blues prodigy, but he had to fight to avoid being a novelty act: “I wanted to tell new stories, it just wasn’t enough to relive the feelings in other people’s music.” David Jacobs-Strain has appeared at Merlefest, Telluride Blues Festival, Philadelphia Folk Festival, Hardly Strictly, Bumbershoot, and Blues to Bop in Switzerland. On the road, he’s shared the stage with Lucinda Williams, Boz Scaggs (more than 60 shows), Etta James, The Doobie Brothers, George Thorogood, Robert Earle Keen, Todd Snider, Taj Mahal, Janis Ian, Tommy Emmanuel, Bob Weir, T-Bone Burnett, and Del McCoury.
Bob Beach plays harmonica with calm fierceness. A mouth-harp maestro who swaggers into a solo like The Marlboro Man, then quietly leaves the set while the rest of us wonder what just happened and how such a tiny instrument could possibly sound like that. Bob has been a working professional musician for more than 40 years bringing harmonica, flute, and vocals to a broad scope of genres. A native Philadelphian, Bob relocated to Western PA after high school and worked in bands and musical projects from 1976 to 1997 while based in Pittsburgh. As a sideman, he has recorded or performed with acts such as; Ollabelle, Langhorne Slim, The Avett Brothers, Pat Wictor, Beaucoup Blue, Fruit, and many more. Bob was also a sound engineer at The World Café Live music venue for 15 years. Bob Beach is a working musician who carved out his own career on his own terms, raised a daughter, stayed married 40 years, and is still playing for the love of it. The heart of it. The fun of it.
Together, David and Bob play unrestrained and from the heart. “Have you ever seen anything like this before?” Wait. Just wait until you see them live.

Skribe
2023-04-18 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Halifax) | MD

Jeff Antoniuk’s Monthly Jazz Jam
2023-04-20 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

Deep Cuts-Gage Rhodes,Carly Winter & Emma Myers
2023-04-21 19:00 - 22:00 (America/Halifax) | MD

Donna Long, Peter Brice, and Samantha Suplee @ 49 West
2023-04-22 20:00 - 22:30 (America/Halifax) | MD
ANNAPOLIS, MD — Donna Long (piano, fiddle), Peter Brice (voice, button accordion), and Samantha Suplee (fiddle) will present a concert of traditional music from Ireland and Irish America, drawing on a repertoire of jigs, reels, 17th-century harp music, and songs from the Age of Revolution. Maryland songs will be included for good measure. The concert will also feature Catherine Brice (step dance) and Kate Spanos (step dance), who will present original and traditional set dances from Irish traditions. 22 April 2023. 8:00 pm. $20. 49 West at 49 West Street, Annapolis, Maryland 21401.
DONNA LONG was born in Los Angeles, California. When she was five years old, she began taking piano lessons with her father, Byron Long, a jazz/classical pianist who instilled in Donna a love for music. As a child, Donna was exposed to many different genres of music, including players from the old and new Jazz eras, Classical, Scottish, Indian, and African.
In 1978, she moved to the Baltimore/Washington, DC area and heard fiddler, Brendan Mulvihill playing Irish music. He inspired her to pick up the fiddle and gave her a solid foundation in style and playing. She then began to accompany him on the piano and now Donna is considered one of the finest pianists playing Irish music. Along with Brendan Mulvihill, she has recorded two duet albums, The Steeplechase and The Morning Dew.
Donna passed her music on to her son Jesse Smith and helped produce his first solo recording entitled The Hurricane. In addition to these recordings Donna can be heard as a guest artist on many recordings backing up other musicians and also on the motion picture soundtrack Out of Ireland . A former member of the internationally acclaimed Irish groupCherish the Ladies , she has recorded five CDs with them. In the year 2000, the Smithsonian Institution asked Donna to represent Irish Music in the series, Piano Traditions celebrating 300 years of the piano. Donna was also commissioned by the Library of Congress in 2001 to write a composition for fiddle and piano. She wrote a slow air called Before the Snow Falls, and a reel to accompany the air called Pandora’s Box. These tunes were performed by Cherish the Ladies and can be found in the Library of Congress. Donna currently teaches Suzuki piano, Irish piano and Irish fiddle in the Baltimore/ Washington, DC area. Her first solo CD, Handprints, was released in June 2003.
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 and colorful design, and a vision for traditional culture as a foundation for an intellectual life. His playing reflects his admiration for Galway accordionists such as Joe Cooley, Kevin Keegan, and Raymond Roland—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 Adare-born accordionist Derek Hickey. 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.
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 $22,000 in awarded grants for Maryland’s Irish traditional music community. A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory Preparatory program, where he studied with Susan Harwood, Peter also holds a BA in Irish Traditional Music and Dance from the University of Limerick.
SAMANTHA SUPLEE is a fiddle player from Washington, D.C. She studied classical and traditional music with Mitch Fanning, Brendan Mulvihill, and Brian Conway, and has performed at the Embassy of Ireland in Washington, D.C., the Millenium Stage at the Kennedy Center, NYU’s Glucksman Irish House, the Penn Mar Irish Festival, and the Maryland Irish Festival, among others. In 2011, she competed in the All Ireland Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Cavan, Ireland. She is a regular guest with the New Century American Irish-Arts Company, and enjoys playing at various sessions in Annapolis and Washington, D.C

Stef Scaggiari with Mark Russell
2023-04-23 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Halifax) | MD

Swampcandy Presents: Uncouth Junction- W/ Rahsaan & Brian Forte
2023-04-24 19:00 - 22:00 (America/Halifax) | MD
Call 410.626.9796 to reserve seats. The fourth Monday of every month Swampcandy hosts 2 artists this month we have Rahsaan “Wordslave” Eldridge, a singer-songwriter, percussionist, poet, and five time author. He’s the lead singer and co-founder of the funk-soul band Honest Lee Soul. Word has over two decades of performance experience and loves to rock a crowd! We also have Brian Forte. He is an excellent story teller/songwriter and can be found playing with Mixed Business doing mostly cover material so this is a great chance to see him play something rare. Ruben Dobbs (Swampcandy) Hosts the night and plays a set as well. It’s a great hang and it’s all ages.

Cafe Scientifique
2023-04-27 18:00 - 19:15 (America/Halifax) | MD
The Annapolis Cafe Scientifique @ 49 West Coffeehouse, Winebar & Gallery
All are welcome, and we are happy to add anyone to the email list. We hope folks will come back in person to 49 West – It’s not Cafe Scientifique without you! You may reserve seats at 49 West by calling 410-626-9796 and asking them to add you to the list for the next Cafe Scientifique event. Note: these events are free. If you are concerned about Covid, feel free to wear a mask, or attend via Zoom (see info below). For more, contact annapoliscafesci@gmail.com
Hello! Two topics in this email:
1. April 27 talk, 6-7:15pm ET: “Trials and Tribulations in Battling Invasive Fishes”, by Joseph Love, Ph.D., Program Manager, Freshwater Fisheries Program, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
About this Talk: Invasive fishes of Chesapeake Bay watershed have presented resource managers and the general public challenges for nearly two decades, with some met with success. When introduced to the Chesapeake Bay watershed, invasive catfishes (blue catfish and flathead catfish) were considered primarily beneficial targets for recreational anglers. That attitude has changed, though, as each species has expanded their range in the watershed, with blue catfish becoming far more abundant and widespread than flathead catfish, but both posing significant threats. These species were joined by a new invasive fish in the early 2000’s when northern snakeheads were discovered in tidal freshwater of Potomac River. Like the invasive catfishes, northern snakehead, thanks to its extraordinary dispersal ability and unwise human assistance, has expanded its range and abundance and now occupies every major river drainage, as well as some lakes and ponds. The massive expansion of invasive fishes has been challenging to deter with regulations and laws, though outreach has been successful in informing the general public as to what these invasive fishes are and the problems they could cause. Additionally, this information when coupled with harvest incentives, has been successful at encouraging people to fish and eat these invasive fishes. Harvest incentives have included prizes from random drawings, prizes during fishing derbies, invasive fish state record awards, and most recently, cash awards for reporting and harvesting tagged fish. As momentum continues to create harvest fisheries for these species, research becomes even more vital to help understand their impacts, and manage public expectations.
Brief Bio: Dr. Joseph Love, a graduate from Mississippi State University and postdoctoral researcher at University of Maryland Eastern Shore, joined the Maryland Department of Natural Resources in 2009. As a program manager for the Freshwater Fisheries Program, he helps to manage largemouth bass fisheries in tidal freshwater and represents the program on the Department’s Invasive Species Matrix Team. He has worked with both northern snakehead and blue catfish, as well helped author state management plans associated with those species and flathead catfish. Currently, he collaborates routinely with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on several projects aimed at harvesting and studying impacts of northern snakeheads.
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Zoom Info for 4/27/23 Talk: If you cannot attend in person, join the Zoom Meeting. Roz Kleffman will be our Zoom host.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87848406572?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 878 4840 6572
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Dial by your location +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)
One tap mobile +13017158592,,87848406572#,,,,*[REDACTED]# US, Wash DC
2) Link to recording from the 3/30/2323 Cafe Sci presentation: “Serendipity in Science: Investigating Malaria Transmission from the Perspective of a Green Alga”,
by William Snell, Ph.D., Cell Biologist, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/kWApJ-VgZ99F8sYpSyzjy-qrZ3LyofmASZcM7-ErysntyPYiOvRL19NV2MXpJBY.a26-f1FvlhbNBltg
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Feel free to contact us with questions and suggestions for speakers, and please forward this email to anyone who might be interested.
Hope to see you in person at 49 West (or online) on Thursday, April 27th at 49 West! Feel free to share this with anyone who might be interested!
Yours in Science,
Tracy Gill, Andy Loftus, Roz Kleffman, and Paul Gruner
Co-hosts of Annapolis Café Scientifique at 49 West

Shook/ Russo 4 Tet
2023-04-27 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.

The Geckos
2023-04-28 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Halifax) | MD
The Geckos Will also be hosting an Evening for Curtis Dalpra on Fri. April 28th
