Belvedere Square at the corner of York Rd. and Belvedere Ave

Being able to just hang out and listen to free music is pretty awesome. But free music at one of the coolest hangouts in Baltimore, Belvedere Square, is even better. Every Friday through August 30th, Summer Sounds at the Square will be live in Belvedere Square, featuring some of the most awesome local artists. The genres of music range from Classic Rock to Reggae and there’s even a Beetles cover band added into the mix. From 6-9pm be sure to head on down to Belvedere Square, on the corner of York Road and Belvedere Avenue for this great event that is in-part sponsored by Loyola University! Plus, Belvedere Square has tons of great shops and restaurants that will for sure keep you entertained. I mean, Atwaters in the Market at Belvedere has milkshakes that you could die for – so obviously even more reason to go.

For more information, visit Belvedere Square’s website.

Patterson Park

Everyone go to Latino Fest! This is not a drill. This event basically combines all my favorite things in life. Latin Music, Latin Food, and dancing. Yeah, I said it, dancing. EBLO (Education Based Latino Outreach) presents this two day festival filled with food, fun, music, and more. This event will also be featuring several local artists. Music and entertainment includes Toby Love, Los Hijos e’ Plena y El Sonero de la Plena, Frankie Vazquez y Los Soneros del Barrio, Herman Olivera, Spanglish, La Firma, DJ Andy and DJ Cacique. The event will also feature a salsa dancing class, dance performances, and an awards ceremony honoring members of the Latino community in Baltimore. Be sure to come celebrate the Latin culture in Baltimore at this exciting event.

For a detailed line up and more information, visit Latino Fest’s website.

Hours of Operation: Monday-Saturday 9am-6pm / Sunday Noon-6pm

1601-03 East North Avenue Baltimore, Maryland 21213

If you haven’t been to the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum yet, you need to make sure you get to it. This museum is extremely unique and culturally dynamic due to its human-like preservation of significant men and women in African American History. The museum offers a unique perspective by also highlighting individuals in African American History whose contributions were great but often go unnoticed in most history lessons. It also offers guided tours for individuals and groups. Admission prices range from $11-13 dollars, with discounts offered to college students and senior citizens. Be sure to check out this culturally unique Baltimore landmark.

For more information, visit the museum’s website.

Baltimore Rowing Club 3301 Waterview Avenue

Calling all kids between 6th and 9th grade! The Baltimore Rowing Club is offering a summer camp from Monday June 24th to Friday July 19th on weekdays from 9am to 1pm. If you’re interesting in rowing competitively in high school, this would be a great opportunity for you. This camp will allow students to row in Olympic-style rowing shells, learn to or improve their swimming ability, and meet new friends with similar interests. The cost per camper is $25, which includes a healthy snack.

For application forms or more information, call (410)913-3733, email judd.anderson23@gmail.com, or visit baltimorerowing.org

1105 W 36th Street Baltimore, MD 21211

Ayo, other Baltimore restaurants, imma let you finish, but Golden West Cafe has the BEST food of all time. At least that’s what Kanye West said, and I’m gonna have to agree with him. But in all seriousness, are you looking for a chill bar and restaurant to hang out at? Do you like live music for a cheap price? Then Golden West Cafe is the place for you. This laid back cafe serves breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert and always has good, unique beer on tap. They have a great collection of vegetarian and vegan food, and culturually unique food and drinks. This cafe can serve anything from your burger to burrito craving. Plus, on various nights throughout the summer, this cafe has events that range from concerts to drag shows! Looking for a quirky, eclectic hangout? Then check out Golden West in Hampden! You won’t regret it!

For a menu and schedule of events, check out Golden West’s website.

On June 10, 2013, Ryan Nisley sat down with Foals drummer Jack Bevin at Rams Head Live for a quick chat about their album, tour and life.

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Creative Alliance at the Patterson

An artform born and raised here in good ol’ Bawlmore, Screen Painting is celebrating its 100th birthday (hey, that’s 10 times more than us!). To celebrate this unique and beautiful art form, the film The Screen Painters will be shown at the Creative Alliance at the Patterson. In short, homeowners would commission screen painters to create intricate designs on the doors of local homes so that passersby could not see in. Following the film will be a discussion with cinematographer Richard Chilsom and other scholars. The film is $12 dollars and will also feature the premiere of the film Little Castles – a film on Baltimore’s Formstone. Be sure to join the Creative Alliance again on Saturday, June 22nd for a tour of the Painted Screens of East Baltimore, costings $35. This event, unique to Baltimore, is one you certainly do not want to miss.

For more information, visit the Creative Alliance’s website.

Mount Vernon Neighborhood and Druid Hill Park

Looking to attend a giant, exciting, and diverse celebration? Friday June 14th to Sunday June 16th will be Baltimore’s Pride Celebration. This annual gathering aims to honor and celebrate the growing diversity of the Baltimore community and state of Maryland. This three-day festival will include a parade, block party, and various musical performances, among other things. The events don’t stop during the day, however, as various clubs host exciting parties to keep the celebration going. Think you’re queen enough? Then strap on your highest pair of heels, and join in this weekend of non-stop entertainment.

For a detailed schedule and additional information, visit the Baltimore Pride website.

WLOY had the honor of welcoming a delegation of community radio broadcasters from Bangladesh yesterday.  Radio Jhenuk, Radio Padma, and Radio Mahananda operators along with a Senior Assistant Secretary from the Ministry of Information spent 2 hours in the station talking about community radio projects created by WLOY and the Baltimore Community Radio Coalition.  We discussed the evolution of our Both Feet In radio program and the creation of the Word on the Street newspaper resulting from it.  Simone Shook, co-founder of our What Happens Next? children’s radio program spoke about the goals and outcomes of the program, and we shared some of the children’s work.  Evon Hewitt, who worked with us to develop Dallas Nicholas Elementary School’s radio program. WDNR, described the success with children, and how the program was established.  John Devecka, Operations Manager of WLOY, described the evolution of the many community programs we run, including the Middle Grades Partnership summer radio boot camps, Roland Park Middle School Radio Plays, and more.  We think it went pretty well since when we finished they wanted to know how to send students to Loyola to study in the radio station!  We look forward to more program coordination with the US Department of State, and the International Visitor Leadership Programs.

We sent our visitors away with a gift bag of 4 WLOY programs on individual CDs, a copy of the latest Loyola magazine, the latest issue of Word on the Street.  They promise to stay in touch and let us know how they are doing as well.  We look forward to keeping track of them!

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Odd places that bands reference WLOY online

Television Hill has posted all the songs we recorded with them during their 2006 In Studio performance!

The band AM noted that we were spinning their Future Sons & Daughters album.

Rain the Shining have a 2005 interview on their blog site.

Our In Studio recording of Wzt Hearts even got airplay on other stations!!

Tim Tilghman, host of WLOY’s Radio RockonTour (Tuesdays noon-2pm), met up with Denny Laine (bassist for The Moody Blues, Wings, Ginger Baker’s Air Force and more) at his concert with The Cryers in Harrisburg, PA on Saturday May 18, 2013.  Denny sang the Moody Blues first big hit “Go Now”, not a bad career opening act!

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Walter Parks, solo artist, guitarist for the now-late Richie Havens, leader of Swamp Cabbage, and all around nice guy stopped by the station finally. We’ve only been trying to make that happen for 4 years… It seemed that something always came up when we tried to make it work so when we finally got the stars to align, I wasn’t going to let him leave after a few questions. Fortunately Walter (and his lovely wife Margo) stuck around for over an hour playing and talking.

Walter pulled out his rare Guild guitar (serial number 1) for “The Lid” from the first Cabbage album, then did the unreleased debut of an instrumental “Sugarhouse” which may finally be released this summer. Finally he pulled out the acoustic and played a great version of the Allman Brothers “Little Martha” which also appears on the latest Swamp Cabbage CD by the full electric trio.

We recorded it all, well not all because I didn’t start the recording initially…d’oh. Now you can listen just in case you missed it the first time through.

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James C. tells his story. James is highly involved in homeless issues in Baltimore as a member of several groups.

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Mary Beth (Originally aired April 27, 2013)

Mary Beth tells her story.

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Woody Lissauer stopped by to chat and play some of his songs with DJ Chris Sweeney. Just ignore the bonus echo effect on the discussion… Woody routed everything through his pedal systems and it created an interesting effect on their chat. On the plus side the music sounds great!

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Hey, WLOY listeners! It’s our last Top 40 of the year, but don’t let that dissuade you from checking out some of the awesome new adds we have for you, here! Have a great summer, everyone.

	Artist	Album	iTunes	Amazon
40	Thao & The Get Down Stay Down	We The Common
39	Minus The Bear	Infinity Overhead
38	Hammock	Departure Songs
37	Converge	All We Love We Leave Behind
36	Dead Can Dance	Anastasis
35	Boy Friend	Egyptian Wrinkle
34	Liars	WIXIW
33	Hop Along	Get Disowned
32	Andrew Bird	Hands Of Glory
31	Passion Pit	Gossamer
30	The Tallest Man On Earth	There’s No Leaving Now
29	Menomena	Moms
28	Four Tet	Pink
27	Bat For Lashes	The Haunted Man
26	A Fine Frenzy	Pines
25	Jamie Lidell	Jamie Lidell
24	Nowherenauts	Warned You
23	Josh Ritter	The Beast in Its Tracks
22	Lyke Giants	Fires Thieving Time
21	Kavinsky	Outrun
20	The Knife	Shaking the Habitual
19	The Men	New Moon
18	Pinback	Information Retrieved
17	Kalweit and the Spokes	Mulch
16	Local Natives	Hummingbird
15	Yo La Tengo	Fade
14	Lapalux	Nostalchic
13	Justin Timberlake	The 20/20 Experience
12	Frank Turner	Tape Deck Heart
11	Panthu du Prince & the Bell Laboratory	Elements of Light
10	Ra Ra Riot	Beta Love
9	Kate Nash	Girl Talk
8	Mudhoney	Vanishing Point
7	Laura Stevenson	Wheel
6	Youth Lagoon	Wondrous Bughouse
5	Atoms for Peace	Amok
4	Lotte Kestner	The Bluebird of Happiness
3	Frightened Rabbit	Pedestrian Verse
2	James Blake	Overgrown
1	Bonobo	The North Borders

RAMS HEAD LIVE
04.26 Dru Hill
04.27 Several Species – The PINK FLOYD Experience
05.17 Alkaline Trio w. Bayside, Off With Their Heads
06.07 Metric
06.09 Social Distortion w. Cheap Time, Dave Hause
06.10 Foals w. Surfer Blood, Blondfire
06.11 The Vaccines
06.16 Say Anything w. Eisley
06.22 Get The Led Out
06.23 Fitz and the Tantrums
07.12 Mike Pinto, Natural Vibrations and Three Legged Fox w. Nine Mile Roots
07.23 Dawes w. Shovels and Rope
07.26 Xavier Rudd w. Nahko and Medicine for the People

PIER SIX PAVILION
05.03 Foreigner
05.05 Earth Wind and Fire
05.19 ZZ Top w. Ben Miller Band
07.06 Daughtry & 3 Doors Down w. Halestorm, Bad Seed Rising
07.17 Sublime With Rome w. Pennywise
07.20 The Beach Boys
07.24 Steve Miller Band
08.08 Peter Frampton & B.B. King w. Sonny Landreth
08.11 Slightly Stoopid & Atmosphere w. Budos Band
08.13 George Thorogood & Buddy Guy
08.22 The Family Reunion Tour feat. Gladys Knight & the O’Jays
08/23 Styx & REO Speedwagon

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