Galesville Memorial Hall

The international duo Janie Meneely and Rob van Sante will be travelling from their home in Whitby, England, to perform a concert of Chesapeake Bay folk music with Jefferson Holland to benefit the local environmental group, Annapolis Green. The concert will take place at the Galesville Memorial Hall on Friday, May 6, at 8 p.m. Admission is $20 per person. Advance sale tickets are available at jeffersonholland.com. Beer & wine will be available for purchase for those over 21 years of age. Soft drinks and water will also be served.

Maryland Day Celebration 2020 with the Galesville Heritage Society Join in the Galesville Heritage Society sponsored Maryland Day event. Eric Steinlein, a native Galesvillian, has assembled a display of maritime, hunting, and trapping tools for all to view. Dating back just to the 1950’s/1960’s, these tools are not long past, but curiously, are no longer in use. Eric and Galesville native, Chuck Dixon will be on hand to explain things like, sculling oars, dredges, muskrat traps and a unique “Jerry Rig” that was a hand-pile driver used to put in...

Optional (and always delicious) potluck starts at 5:45pm—bring a dish to share. Dancing goes from 7pm to 10 pm. Janine Smith, will teach and call the dances. Live music is provided by Leah Weiss (fiddle), Gary Wright (guitar), Kate Brett (banjo), and Kevin Enoch (bass). Sit-ins are welcome on fiddle, guitar, banjo, and mandolin.

Optional (and always delicious) potluck starts at 5:45pm—bring a dish to share. Dancing goes from 7pm to 10 pm. Janine Smith, will teach and call the dances. Live music is provided by Leah Weiss (fiddle), Gary Wright (guitar), Kate Brett (banjo), and Kevin Enoch (bass). Sit-ins are welcome on fiddle, guitar, banjo, and mandolin.

Janine Smith will teach and call the dances. Music will be provided by Leah Weiss (fiddle), Gary Wright (guitar), Bill Schmidt (banjo), and Ann Porcella (bass). Sit-ins are welcome on fiddle, guitar, banjo, and mandolin. Optional (and always delicious) potluck starts at 5:45pm—bring a dish to share. The dancing goes from 7pm to 10 pm.

5:45pm - 7:00pm Potluck Dinner (bring a dish to share)  7:00pm - 8:30pm Family-Friendly Dancing  8:30pm - 10:00 pm More Challenging Dancing    LIVE Traditional Appalachian Dance Tunes by Leah Weiss (fiddle), Gary Wright (guitar), & Friends.   Square dances + circle dances + contra dances called by Janine Smith   No partner and no experience necessary. Yes! You can do it!   ALL AGES WELCOME   Adults: $10, Ages 5-17 years $5, Under 5 FREE

Speaker: John M. Colhoun, Historian Mr. Colhoun is directly descended from a number of the Puritan founders of Anne Arundel County and is a 12th generation historian, farmer and owner of Ivy Neck Farm located in Cumberstone. From his talk and photos (never before seen photographs from the Ivy Neck collection) you will learn about the 1843 freeing of the Ivy Neck and Tulip Hill slaves, and the legal complications that had to be over come to allow this to take place. And how his great, great, great grandfather James...

5:45pm - 7:00pm Potluck Dinner (bring a dish to share)  7:00pm - 8:30pm Family-Friendly Dancing  8:30pm - 10:00 pm More Challenging Dancing    LIVE Traditional Appalachian Dance Tunes by Leah Weiss (fiddle), Gary Wright (guitar), & Friends.   Square dances + circle dances + contra dances called by Janine Smith   No partner and no experience necessary. Yes! You can do it!   ALL AGES WELCOME   Adults: $10, Ages 5-17 years $5, Under 5 FREE

The Eastport Oyster Boys will appear with West & Rhode Riverkeeper Jeff Holland at the Galesville Memorial Hall on Saturday, March 3, from 8 to 11 p.m. in their third annual reunion concert to benefit the West and Rhode Rivers. Holland and fellow co-founder Kevin Brooks will reunite for this special show along with current Eastport Oyster Boys Tom Guay, Mike Lange and Andy Fegley.  This special evening will be filled with Oyster Boy classics such as “Miss Lonesome,” “Good Hat, Good Dog, Good Boat” and “Subaquatic Vegetation,” along with...