Spring is finally here and so is our next show on SUNDAY, April 21, at the Arbutus Volunteer Department Fire Hall in Arbutus from 9 am – 3 pm. Admission is FREE and FREE parking! All our great vendors will be there with tons of fun music items.
Don’t forget to support your local record store on RECORD SHOW DAY, Saturday, April 20 right before our show!
Krissy and Janet had all their Irish going on at last month’s show!
Here are some great finds awaiting you at the show!
One of our wonderful longtime vendors, Dave, has a wonderful collection of 70s blacklight posters! Get your groovy on!
Fall is around the corner but there is still a lot of summer left! Our next show is Sunday, August 20, 9 am -3 pm at the Arbutus Volunteer Fire Department. Always free admission and plenty of free parking! I hear there will be tons pf great vendors with lots of wonderful finds and great deals. So may cool finds—check them out below!
Here is a cool jazz cover borrowing art from the great Art Nouveau artist, Alphonse Mucha. That movement influence lots of art in the 70s from jazz covers to film titles. Just check out the opening credits for the film “Duel at Diablo” that also has a great Neal Hefti score.
Another great film score – and film. Henry Mancini’s “The Pink Panther”!
Usher in summer with some cool tunes and music deals for hot, summer days! Join us for a special 4th Sunday, Memorial Day weekend show, MAY 28! The hours are 9 am – 3 pm and ADMISSION is always FREE! Plenty of FREE parking! Bring family and tell your friends and spend part of you holiday weekend with us!
We were sorry to hear about the passing of a true legend, a fierce survivor, Queen of Soul, Tina Turner. She is truly was the best!
Last month, we had another great visit from Lonesome Dave Fisher and his trio, including his very talented son. They performed three sets of music, entertaining everyone in attendance. The show was packed with great vendors and shoppers alike, along with some interesting finds!
Spring is finally here! Deals will be blooming SUNDAY, April 16, at the Arbutus Volunteer Department Fire Hall in Arbutus from 9 am – 3 pm. Admission is FREE and parking is FREE! All our great vendors will be there with tons of fun music items.
Last month’s show was a great success and Janet and Chrissy were still in the St. Patty’s spirit putting on the green!
It’s always great to welcome new vendors and especially the younger generation that discover and carry on the love of classic music. Alex (with his gal) is an Eastern Shore native and got into collecting records while living in Seattle around 2013-14. His friend worked at Easy Street Records, one of the great records stores in the area, and that’s how he got hooked! He’s glad to be back in Maryland and is living in Ellicott City. He said her will be doing more shows!
A whole selection of great Dolly Parton albums – SIGNED!
In the spirit of spring and Easter we found some classic, favorite bunnies (and some cool cats and a dog!)
Here are some other great finds from last month (yes you can still find a record player–or two!)
It’s hard to believe it is our final show of 2022 on Sunday, December 18 —just in time for holiday shopping for Christmas and also the first day of Hanukkah! Celebrate the season with us while looking for wonderful music gifts! We are open from 9 am to 3 pm and admission and parking are always FREE!
Lots of exciting things from last month’s show! First we had a special treat of LIVE music from “Lonesome” Dave Fisher, his very talented son Gus (he’s only 12 and starting playing guitar only two years ago) on guitar, and his bass player Brad, with three mini-sets at 10 am 11 am, and 12 noon. (He also performs at the iconic The Horse You Came In On Saloon in Fell’s Point.) Dave plays “Real 1950s-Styled Rockabilly Music.” He also had some of his music, T-shirts, buttons, and stickers for sale.
Dave is not only talented but a really nice guy! He came from Colorado during the pandemic and they discovered a wonderful house in Baltimore. They love the weird, fun, and creative vibe of Baltimore and he says that everyone here is really friendly (we like to hear that!) Dave gives lessons at the School of Rock here and also teaches guitar, ukulele, and pre-school music classes at the Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School in Pikesville. He’s working on a recording project in December. We welcome him and his family and wish him all the best and success with his music here in Baltimore!
We also have our 2023 schedule available so pick up a flyer at the show!
Finally, below are some of the great holiday music across all genres you can find for gifts. See you at the show!
We are back with our show on Sunday, SEPTEMBER 18! Join us at the Arbutus Volunteer Fire Department Hall from 9 am – 3 pm. NO admission and plenty of FREE parking! Last month’s show was amazing and the most vendors since the pandemic. (A little secret is that you can come as early as 7:30 am and perhaps snag some super special finds -sshhh).
Sadly we just lost one of greats— jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis, 87, who successfully crossed over to pop success with “The In Crowd” which was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. A fabulous live recording was done locally in DC at the Bohemian Caverns. He received the 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Award. Lewis was also a mentor to Maurice White who was in Lewis’ trio. He would later go out on his own to form another legendary band, Earth, Wind, and Fire, which clearly had a jazz influence in their music and made them one of the most successful bands ever.
On a lighter note, yours truly had the great opportunity of seeing a legendary band in concert this summer—British new wave rockers Duran Duran. On their 40th Anniversary Tour, they made a stop at Merriweather and put on a fabulous show with the uber-talented Nile Rodgers and Chic opening for them (Rodgers produced their album “Notorious.”) Thanks to the fans, Duran will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in November in Los Angeles.
Below are some of the great finds to be had at the show!
Summer is not over yet, so get some cool deals at our next show, Sunday, August 21, 9 am -3 pm at the Arbutus Volunteer Fire Department in Arbutus. Always free admission and plenty of free parking!
Boy, there were there so many different and interesting finds at last month’s show! First up since our wonderful, young Orioles team is doing so well, we came across some cool albums, immortalizing the 1964 pennant race, “Pennant Fever,” an album about the “Earl of Baltimore,” Earl Weaver, and “1970: Year of the Birds,” exciting play-by-play action of the Orioles flight to the World Championship.
Keeping with the sports theme, we found a set of albums about famous Formula One race car drivers of the past, including legendary British driver (Sir) Stirling Moss, American champion Phil Hill, American designer, racing driver, and entrepreneur Carroll Shelby (you can learn more about him and his challenge (as a Ford man) to Ferrari in the film, “Ford vs. Ferrari”), and the colorful Spaniard who drove for Ferrari, The Marquis de Portago.
The debut album by The Runaways in 1976. Joan Jett is on the cover and she was only 16 years old! A steal at $50!
Finally, one of the very few, perhaps the biggest, group to challenge the nearly total dominance of The Beatles in the 1960s, America’s own, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. This rare album (for $400!) pits them in “The International Battle of the Century,” put out by Vee-Jay Records. They were both legendary in their own way!
Here’s one of our favorite dads – Frank with his daughter, Chrissy on Father’s Day at last month’s show!
Thank you for sharing some of Father’s Day with us last month! Our July show is now a regular event for the second year! So beat the July heat and we will see you on Sunday, July 17th! Look for fun, summer tunes to rock your next barbecue or vacation! The show runs 9 am – 3 pm, and as always no admission and FREE, ample parking at the Arbutus Volunteer Fire Department.
Another dad with his son at the show on Father’s Day.
Revealed from our Facebook post—one of our longtime vendors and music guru, Dave Hoffer, holding a poster from November 1970 for a concert at Painter’s Mill—sadly, long-gone. From 1970-71, Dave was the stage manager. The poster was all drawn by hand by Michael Goldberg. Some great acts, early in their career, came through the Painters Mill Music Fair—including Elton John. Also look at the ticket prices back then! It also lists the stores in the Baltimore/DC area where you could buy the tickets like Record and Tape, Time/Peace Boutique and Bum Steer. Groovy!
Here’s another vintage poster from Pennsylvania. Again, look at those ticket prices!
Some very cool, record finds!
A vintage two-side record player!
Time to get some cool tunes and music deals for hot, summer days! It’s a 4th Sunday show, MAY 22! It’s right before the start of summer, Memorial weekend. The hours are 9 am – 3 pm and ADMISSION is always FREE! Plenty of FREE parking! Bring family and tell your friends! The Arbutus Record Show is held at the Arbutus Volunteer Fire Department Hall located at 5200 Southwestern Boulevard in beautiful Arbutus, MD.
We had a wonderful show in April, very busy all through the day and we also had some fun buyers! Carl is a drummer and teacher in the county and told us a great story about Jim Chapin who was Harry Chapin‘s father but also a great musician in his own right! He was a jazz drummer, the author of books about jazz drumming and was posthumously inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2011. He played with some of the great bands led by Woody Herman and Tommy Dorsey. Carl met Jim who offered to mentor one of his students for two hours at his studio on Long Island—and he himself also learned so much from him!
Carl, drummer and teacher, with one of his finds!
Here’s another fun buyer who let us take a photo of his fun T-shirt!
We had a great crowd! See all the great things below we found last month at the show and there will be more at this month’s show.
Janet with Anderson Branch.
Spring is just around the corner and so is our March show! Come by Sunday, March 20 at the Arbutus Volunteer Fire Hall from 9 am – 3 pm. Admission is FREE and parking is FREE! Remember to bring your own food and drink and don’t forget the green. St. Patty’s Day comes before the show but there is still plenty of “gold-en” music to uncover. We will have lots of great vendors and music treasures.
It was a great show in February! You may have noticed a young man taking photos and filming. His name is Anderson Branch. A young Navy man, he made the Arbutus Record show the subject an an assignment for his Photojournalism class at the Defensive Information School, Ft. Meade. You can see his wonderful little film by clicking here! Thank you Anderson!
More to come…
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