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Welcome to Artist Alley,
Washington County Arts Council's electronic newsletter.
We hope this publication will engage you with the arts in your community.
WCAC welcomes your ideas and support as it continues to take the lead in bringing together the community's art organizations to strengthen our region's arts culture.
For artist information, arts events, calls for art, and more visit WCAC's web page...
www.washingtoncountyarts.com.
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The Chroma Factor
Mark Youngblood & BISFA Digital Photography Students
A major part of being a visual artist is recognizing and appreciating the color that exists around us during everyday life. In this show, students and teacher have captured the colors that they see around themselves and transformed them into passionate works of art.
Mark Youngblood is the owner of Youngblood Studios and a professional photographer for over 30 years and has been a photography teacher at Barbara Ingram School for the Arts as an Artist in residence since the opening of the school in 2009. Mr. Youngblood who attended Hagerstown Community College and Shepherd University holds memberships in several professional photography organizations, including being named commercial and portrait photographer of the year in the state of Maryland.
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Meet Mark Youngblood &
BISFA Digital Photography Students
Coffee and Connections
Wednesday, March 30, 2022---- 8:00 am - 9:00 am
Washington County Chamber of Commerce
1 S. Potomac St.,
Hagerstown, MD, 21740
301-739-2015
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Washington County Arts Council, Inc.
announces its summer inaugural
plein air event!
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Opening in April 7, 2022!
Paintings by David Bottini and Artist Students
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The Washington County Arts Council presents “Resilience & Inspiration: Recent Works from HCC Visual Arts Students and Faculty” from March 3, 2022 through April 5, 2022 in the Galleries at the Washington County Arts Council, 34 S Potomac Street, Hagerstown, MD 21740 and online virtually beginning Saturday, March 5, 2022. | |
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The Maryland Citizens for the Arts has extended the deadline to submit a proposal for the Maryland Arts Summit 2022. It will be a PAID an honorarium of $350 (+$150 for any co-presenters) in addition to complimentary admission to the Summit.
Maryland Arts Summit 2022will be held on Thursday and Friday, June 9-10, 2022.
Here's a reminder of our target audiences:
Independent Artists
Arts Organizations
Advocacy
Arts Education
Folk & Traditional Art
Youth Artists & Advocates
Email questions to info@mdarts.org
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Elyssa Kellogg, Still Life with Pears | |
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Hagerstown Community College
hosts
BISFA Senior Student Art Exhibition
Hagerstown Community College is proud to host the visual arts students from Barbara Ingram School of Fine Arts for their Senior Exhibition from Friday, March 18, 2022 through Thursday, March 31, 2022 in the Kepler Center on HCC’s main campus.
The exhibit features drawing, painting, photography, digital works, and sculpture.
The art exhibit is open to the public Monday through Friday, March 18 to 31, 2022 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For more information, contact Margaret Yaukey, visual art program coordinator, 240-500-2221, mayaukey@hagerstowncc.edu.
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Maryland Symphony Orchestra and the Washington County Historical Society welcome you to step back to the age of silent movie music and film on Thursday, March 31, 2022.
The Washington County Historical Society and the Maryland Symphony Orchestra welcome Conductor Rick Benjamin to the Miller House Museum for an enlightened evening of music and film. Artist Rick Benjamin is a leading expert on silent film music and silent film presentation and has conducted for over seven hundred screenings with the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, the Irish National Orchestra (Dublin), Denmark's Aalborg and Aarhus Symfoniorkesters, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Virginia Symphony, Olympia Symphony (Washington State), the Anchorage Symphony (Alaska), Chamber Music Hawaii and now The Maryland Symphony Orchestra. Benjamin curates these popular movie programs from his vast personal collection of original, authentic 1898-1928 film scores and orchestrations.
The doors will open at 5:30pm with light hors d'oeuvres and our featured cocktail of the evening, The Mary Pickford. Mr. Benjamin will begin at 6:00pm.
Tickets are $30.
Date and time:
Thursday, March 31, 2022
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Location
Miller House Museum
135 West Washington Street
Hagerstown, MD 21740
(301) 797-8782
The James and Mary Schurz Foundation sponsor this joint venture of the Maryland Symphony Orchestra and the Washington County Historical Society.
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“WHIMSICALLY YOURS”
Local and regional artists will be staging a pop-up art gallery for the
first two weekends of April 2022 in the
Clock Tower building in Williamsport, MD.
Art in the exhibit will be for sale.
Credit cards accepted, but cash preferred.
Clock Tower Art Gallery Pop-Up
25 N. Conococheague Street
Williamsport, MD.
Apr. 1, 2, 3 and Apr. 7, 8, 9. 2022
Hours: Fridays and Saturdays 10 am-4 pm, Sundays 12pm-4pm.
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Culture & Cocktails: Firefighting in Hagerstown
Friday, April 8 at 6:00 PM
Member Admission: $10
General Admission: $15
Zoom: $5
Join us for a think, a drink, and light hors d’oeuvres
Going all the way back to 1791, Hagerstown has an extensive firefighting history. On Friday, April 8th, join us in welcoming guest speaker and author Justin Mayhew for an exploration into Hagerstown’s firefighting history! This month’s featured cocktail will be: The Fire Engine! Made with vodka, lemon-lime soda, and grenadine, this specialty cocktail won’t put out a fire, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t delicious!
Culture & Cocktails 2022 has been made possible by the generous support of
The James and Mary Schurz Foundation.
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Miller House Museum
135 West Washington Street
Hagerstown, MD 21740
(301) 797-8782
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The Washington County Playhouse Dinner Theater is holding Auditions for Disney’s Descendants the Musical on Thursday, April 21, 2022. Sign-in begins at 5:30pm. Auditions begin at 6:00pm. Auditions will be held at The Playhouse which is located at 44 North Potomac Street, Rear in the heart of Hagerstown's Arts and Entertainment District and City Center.
Changes are afoot in the kingdom of Auradon! Here, all of Disney’s favorite heroes and heroines are living in peace, happily ever after. Meanwhile, the evil villains and troubled sidekicks have been banished to the Isle of the Lost, where they are stripped of their magic and powers. Ben, the beloved son of King Beast and Belle, is about to be crowned as King of Auradon when he has a radical idea. He decides to invite four trouble-making offspring of the most wicked villains to take their places as students at Auradon Prep. Mal, Evie, Jay and Carlos--the children of Maleficent, Grimhilde, Jafar, and Cruella De Vil--come to Auradon with an evil plan of their own. They have been tasked with stealing the Fairy Godmother’s magic wand and restoring their parents to power. However, will they go through with the plan? Or do they have the potential to learn to be good?
Based on the popular Disney Channel Original Movies, Disney’s Descendants: The Musical features the hit songs from the films.
This production will be directed by Shawn R. Martin with choreography by Shannen Banzhoff. A music director is to be determined. All roles are open. Must be 14+ to audition. Please prepare 16 bars of a song in the style of the show. You may also be asked to learn/sing a song from Disney’s Descendants, so familiarity with the Disney Channel Original Movie soundtracks is highly encouraged, but not required. Be prepared to perform cold readings from the script. There will be a dance audition, so please bring or wear clothes and shoes that you can move in and that show our choreographer how you move.
All performers will be paid a per-performance stipend. Additionally, those cast will be given the opportunity to join the restaurant service staff (if legally eligible and following training) where they may earn gratuities.
Performance Dates (all performances in the afternoon): June 18, July 2, 16, 30, August 6, & 13. Possibly performances to be added on July 24, 31, August 7, & 14 depending on cast availability and audience demand.
Mack's Theatricals, LLC dba
The Washington County Playhouse Dinner Theater
44 North Potomac Street, Rear
Hagerstown, MD 21740
301-739-7469 (Theater)
www.washingtoncountyplayhouse.com
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Contact Audrey Vargason at 301-790-3500 or Contact Email: ajv@mdtheatre.org
Our Box Office Location is:
21 South Potomac Street
Hagerstown, MD 21740
The Maryland Theatre Box Office Hours
Monday-Friday 11:00 AM - 4:30 PM
The Box Office is Open 1 Hour Prior to Showtimes
Contact Our Box Office 301-790-2000
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The Washington County
Playhouse Dinner Theater
is proud to present
their first
MainStage play of 2022
Neil Simon’s Last of the
Red Hot Lovers!
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The Washington County Playhouse Dinner Theater is proud to present their first MainStage play of 2022, Neil Simon’s Last of the Red Hot Lovers! This MainStage comedy opened March 18, 2022 at The Playhouse.
Middle-aged and married, overworked and overweight, Barney Cashman (Shawn R. Martin) wants to join the sexual revolution before it's too late and arranges three seductions: the first, Elaine Navazio (Charlemagne McNeil), proves to be a foul-mouthed bundle of neuroses; Bobbi Michele (Megan Siebeneichen) is next, a 20-ish actress who's too kooky by half; and finally comes Jeanette Fisher (Jess Edwards) in September, a gloomy, depressed housewife who happens to be married to Barney's best friend.
The show is preceded by Dinner featuring Dinner Rolls, Soup or Salad, Dinner, Dessert, and Coffee, Tea, and Iced Tea. A Full-Service Cash Bar is available. Bar tab and gratuity not included. Children under age 5 not admitted.
Neil Simon’s Last of the Red Hot Lovers plays April 22-May 1, 2022 on Friday and Saturday evenings at 6PM and select Sunday matinees at 1PM.
The Washington County Playhouse is located at 44 North Potomac Street, Rear. Since 1985, The Playhouse has been entertaining guests in the heart of Hagerstown's Arts and Entertainment District and City Center.
Tickets (includes dinner and show) cost $59.50 for Adults, $53.50 for Active Military and First Responders, and $49.50 for children (5-12). Tickets can be purchased at www.washingtoncountyplayhouse.com or by calling (301)739-7469.
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Coloring the Street invites artists to join as a contributing chalk artist at this year's Coloring the Street chalk art festival hosted by Main Street Middletown on Saturday, April 23, 2022 from 10:00am-3:00pm.
This fabulous event will be held in beautiful, historic downtown Middletown, Maryland. The event is set to feature street yoga, live music, a themed and juried art competition, children’s process art and entertainment, wine tastings and more. Artists are encouraged to enjoy all that the event has to offer!
Coloring the Street is looking for both professional artists and keen amateurs to share their talents and experience with the town’s visitors and competition artists. All participating artists will receive a box of high-quality chalk pastels, a professional print and digital image of their work and complimentary refreshments throughout the day.
From the applicants, Coloring the Street will select a limited number of compensated Featured Artists. Featured Artists’ squares will be sponsored. Featured artists are obligated to include the sponsor’s name in 6-inch-tall letters on the bottom of their art square. Artists are encouraged to add their sponsor's name to their square as soon as they start. Artists can change or embellish it later if needed. Artists will be provided a 10’x10’ space in which an 8’x8’ piece of unique chalk art should be produced. This is a rain or shine event. In the event of rain Coloring the Street will attempt to provide as much cover as possible but artists should be prepared for all weather conditions.
Coloring the Street welcomes submissions from all levels of experience - to FILL the streets with all kinds of chalk art! Please feel free to contact Gretchen Gawler, gretchengawler@gmail.com, with any questions or concerns.
Please submit applications via the Main Street Middletown website at: https://mainstreetmiddletown.org/event/coloring-the-street/.
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The Allegany Arts Council and Schoolhouse Quilters Guild, Inc. are pleased to announce a partnership to host the first-ever 2022 Schoolhouse Quilt Show & Competition to take place June 3-5, 2022, at the Allegany County Fairgrounds in Cumberland, Maryland. This national competition builds on more than three decades of successful regional shows conducted by the Schoolhouse Quilters Guild, Inc., and seeks to broaden the competition to include talented artists from across the nation, offering more than $5000 in prizes. The three-day event includes a workshop series, appraisals, a vendor marketplace, concessions and much more.
Entries for the 2022 Schoolhouse Quilt Show & Competition are currently being accepted. The deadline to enter is April 30, 2022. For more information, or to enter, click below.
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Shippensburg Band presents the
100th Anniversary Concert
The Shippensburg Band is proud to celebrate their 100th Anniversary with a concert featuring the talents of local musicians of all ages performing music selections spanning the history of the band.
The concert is scheduled for Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 2:30 p.m. at the Church of the Brethren, 253 E. Garfield Street, Shippensburg. Admission and parking are free; donations accepted (the Shippensburg Band is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization)
Since 1922, the Shippensburg Band has been a not-for-profit, all volunteer organization benefiting the Borough of Shippensburg and its neighboring communities. A variety of pieces from the Band’s library is presented at every concert, including marches, classical transcriptions, patriotic tunes, Broadway show tunes, folk music, contemporary works, light opera, and hits from the big band era. The concerts are popular, often due to the patriotic appeal of the music and performance and the variety of styles that are presented.
The Shippensburg Band has gathered many individuals from the Shippensburg, PA, and surrounding communities to make music and share it with others. It is a dynamic group of young and old from all walks of life. The band has survived over the years because of good leadership, the dedication of its members, and excellent community support. We continue to return to the community our quality entertainment enjoyed by people of all ages.
The Shippensburg Town Band, currently directed by Carl Sponenberg, rehearses on Tuesday nights between 8:00 PM and 9:30 PM in the Shippensburg Area Senior High School Band Room. Anyone who plays a band instrument is invited to come to a rehearsal and join the band.
More information is available at www.shipband.org
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Join the Maryland Symphony Orchestra for
“Cheers to 40 Years!”
One of Washington Counties most anticipated events, the Maryland Symphony Orchestra’s 2022 40th Anniversary Gala will take place on Saturday May 7th at the historic Maryland Theatre. Featuring “The Firebird: Music of Stravinsky, Pierne & Franck”, the MSO Gala will be unlike any other in our region offering an evening of incredible experience with world-class music.
Guests will enjoy cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, fun photo opportunities and the ability to bid on unique auction packages before heading upstairs to the Maryland Theatre Ballroom for a delicious spring inspired dinner. After dinner, guests will attend the performance by the MSO and return after the concert to the Ballroom for the After-Party Experience featuring a 40th Anniversary toast, additional photo opportunities, dessert, live music by the Dixie Power Trio and dancing.
For more information, please contact Emily Christine Socks, Director of Development, at 410.610.7548 or esocks@marylandsymphony.org
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The Western Maryland City Ballet Company & The City Ballet School presents
Alice In Wonderland
Sunday, May 15, 2022 ---3:00 PM
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See Alice in Wonderland as you’ve never seen it before! Alice’s adventure down the rabbit hole features classical and contemporary choreography set to music by Sergei Prokofiev. City Ballet presents this exciting fantasy ballet with a full cast, dazzling costume design, and theatrical magic to delight an audience of all ages. | |
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Contact Audrey Vargason at 301-790-3500 or Contact Email: ajv@mdtheatre.org
Our Box Office Location is:
21 South Potomac Street
Hagerstown, MD 21740
The Maryland Theatre Box Office Hours
Monday-Friday 11:00 AM - 4:30 PM
The Box Office is Open 1 Hour Prior to Showtimes
Contact Our Box Office 301-790-2000
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Authentic Community Theatre presents
Madagascar Jr.
At the Maryland Theatre
Saturday, June 4, 2022 at 7:00 PM
Sunday, June 5, 2022 at 2:00 PM
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Join Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe, Gloria the hip hip Hippo and, of course, those hilarious, plotting penguins as they bound onto your stage in the musical adventure of a lifetime. Based on the smash DreamWorks animated motion picture, Madagascar – A Musical Adventure JR. follows all of your favorite crack-a-lackin’ friends as they escape from their home in New York’s Central Park Zoo and find themselves on an unexpected journey to the madcap world of King Julien’s Madagascar.
Alex the lion is the king of the urban jungle, the main attraction at New York's Central Park Zoo. He and his best friends — Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo — have spent their whole lives in blissful captivity before an admiring public and with regular meals provided for them. Not content to leave well enough alone, Marty lets his curiosity get the better of him and makes his escape — with the help of some prodigious penguins — to explore the world.
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Contact Audrey Vargason at 301-790-3500 or Contact Email: ajv@mdtheatre.org
Our Box Office Location is:
21 South Potomac Street
Hagerstown, MD 21740
The Maryland Theatre Box Office Hours
Monday-Friday 11:00 AM - 4:30 PM
The Box Office is Open 1 Hour Prior to Showtimes
Contact Our Box Office 301-790-2000
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The Maryland Theatre presents Trace Adkins
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
7:00 PM
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Pre-Sale Tickets are Available Online
Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 11:00 AM
Pre-Sale Code
HONKY
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Pre-sale ends Friday, April 1, 2022 at 10:00 AM
Tickets go on sale to the general public on
Friday, April 1, 2022 at 11:00 AM
About the Show...
In his 25-year career in Country music, Trace Adkins has sold over 11 MILLION albums, charted over 20 singles, earned numerous awards and GRAMMY nominations, and garnered over TWO BILLION streams. A Grand Ole Opry member for nearly two decades, the Louisiana native is known for dynamic baritone and fiery, always-memorable live performances, and has expanded his Country career to include film and TV acting. He broke out in 1996 with the debut album, DREAMIN’ OUT LOUD, cracking the Top 5 of Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart with “Every Light In the House Is On” and following with the #1 smash, “This Ain’t (No Thinkin’ Thing).” Since then, Adkins has pioneered a mix of classic Country minded traditionalism and adventurous, good-natured showmanship, breaking open new avenues in modern Country through fun-filled hits like “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk” and “Hillbilly Bone” (with Blake Shelton). He’ll celebrate the silver anniversary of his album debut in 2021 with THE WAY I WANNA GO, doing exactly what he always has – mixing pure-Country reverence with standout collaborations featuring Blake Shelton, Melissa Etheridge, Snoop Dogg, Stevie Wonder on harmonica and more. Adkins’ newest single “Where The Country Girls At” (featuring Luke Bryan and Pitbull) is available everywhere now.
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Contact Audrey Vargason at 301-790-3500 or Contact Email: ajv@mdtheatre.org
Our Box Office Location is:
21 South Potomac Street
Hagerstown, MD 21740
The Maryland Theatre Box Office Hours
Monday-Friday 11:00 AM - 4:30 PM
The Box Office is Open 1 Hour Prior to Showtimes
Contact Our Box Office 301-790-2000
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The Maryland Theatre presents
The Lettermen
Original Date Friday, March 4, 2022
This show has been postponed to Sunday, June 12, 2022
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For more than 50 years, The Lettermen-- Donovan Tea, Bobby Poynton, and Rob Gulack, each of whom are entertainers in their own right—have kept the meaning of harmony alive with their soft, romantic, harmonic blend of music which is as popular with their fans today as it was in 1961 when they recorded their first hit, “The Way You Look Tonight”. Though musical tastes have changed over the years, The Lettermen legacy continues. Harmony will always endure the true test of time—just as The Lettermen have stood the test of time. | |
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Contact Audrey Vargason at 301-790-3500 or Contact Email: ajv@mdtheatre.org
Our Box Office Location is:
21 South Potomac Street
Hagerstown, MD 21740
The Maryland Theatre Box Office Hours
Monday-Friday 11:00 AM - 4:30 PM
The Box Office is Open 1 Hour Prior to Showtimes
Contact Our Box Office 301-790-2000
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Summer Concert Series
Presented by Big Cork Vineyards and The Maryland Theatre
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Tickets can be purchased in person at The Maryland Theatre Box Office,
by phone at 301-790-2000, or mdtheatre.org
The Maryland Theatre Box Office
is Open to the Public Monday- Friday 11:00 AM to 4:30 PM.
Ticketing services provided by Ticketmaster!
There will be no package offer each show will be sold individually.
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Yellow Brick Road- A Tribute to Elton John
Saturday, May 28, 2022, at 7:00 PM
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About the Show...
Yellow Brick Road, A Tribute to Elton John, from Augusta Maine, is a full concert tribute, complete with an incredible light show and sound system.
Every detail of an actual Elton John concert is presented in such a way that will have Elton John fans screaming for more!
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Absolute Queen- A Tribute to Queen
Saturday, June 25, 2022, at 7:00 PM
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About the Show...
Absolute Queen has spent hundreds of hours in the studio studying Queen's many layered harmony vocals and instrumentation to bring you the most authentic sounding Queen Live experience. The show is more than just a Queen Tribute band, the music and stage production will blow you away!
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The Landsharks- A Tribute to Jimmy Buffet
Saturday, July 30, 2022, at 7:00 PM
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About the Show...
The Landsharks perform a Jimmy Buffett Tribute Show at concerts all around the world and have played with Jimmy Buffett in Key West and at Margaritaville. A Landsharks concert is fun and interactive and the Landsharks top it off with great musicianship. The Landsharks play regularly at Parrothead events, Trop Rock concerts, festivals, corporate events, and on cruises.
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Contact Audrey Vargason at 301-790-3500 or Contact Email: ajv@mdtheatre.org
Our Box Office Location is:
21 South Potomac Street
Hagerstown, MD 21740
The Maryland Theatre Box Office Hours
Monday-Friday 11:00 AM - 4:30 PM
The Box Office is Open 1 Hour Prior to Showtimes
Contact Our Box Office 301-790-2000
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When visiting the Washington County Arts Council Gallery,
masks are required to be worn over the mouth and nose
by visitors and staff, regardless of vaccination status.
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The Washington County Arts Council, Inc. is funded by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC), an agency of the Department of Business & Economic Development. | |
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The Washington County Arts Council is a proud member of
County Arts Agencies of Maryland,
Maryland Citizens for the Arts, and Americans for the Arts
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The WCAC facility is wheelchair accessible! | |
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Thank you for providing your email address to the
Washington County Arts Council. Your information was obtained from
at least one of the following methods: signing our guest book,
becoming a member, donating, entering a contest, or exhibiting with us.
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