September 17th + October 1st, 15th, & 29th Jams
at The Green Room
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The legendary Baltimore Bluegrass Jam is happening at The Green Room (in Hampden) on September 17 and October 1, 15 & 29 for some super fun nights of bluegrass music! All are welcome to play along in the jam regardless of skill level or instrument. Even if you don't play, you can come to soak in the scene, listen to the music, enjoy some beverages and get some food to eat.
Come get your heart's desire of fiddle & banjo music at The Green Room. The Green Room's atmosphere is one to behold and soak up! These are gonna be some fun Baltimore Bluegrass Jams. Come hang, pick a few tunes, and be a part of the Baltimore Bluegrass Scene. Baltimore Bluegrass Jam The Green Room // 3600 Hickory Ave, Baltimore, MD 21211 Tuesdays: Sep 17, Oct 1, 15 & 29 7:00-10:00pm 📷by Dorret Oosterhof The jam is an open jam and everyone instrumentalist and vocalist of all skill levels. We play from 7:00 to 10:00pm every Tuesday. Come early at 6:00pm to eat, drink, and hang out! Upcoming Bluegrass Jams: 9.17.2024 - Ryan Rodgers and Bianca Benz "Snowflake Reel" 10.1.2024 - Maddie Witler "Stoney Lonesome" 10.15.2024 - Sam Guthridge 10.29.2024 11.12.2024 11.26.2024 12.10.2024 Past jams in 2024 + "tune of the week" 9.3.2024 - Kagey Parish - "St. Anne's Reel" 8.20.2024 - Sarah Larsen - "Stoney Lonesome" 8.6.2024 - Warren Blair - "Sally Goodin" 7.23.2024 - Sarah Larsen & Danny Stewart - "Goodbye Liza Jane" 7.23.2024 - Sarah Larsen & Danny Stewart - "Goodbye Liza Jane" 7.9.2024 - Sam Guthridge & Dan Klingsberg - "Reuben's Train" 7.1.2024 - Malia Furtado - Wyman Park Dell Jam - (6pm - sunset) 6.25.2024 - Ben Kolakowski & Amy Sens - "Salt Spring" 6.11.2024 - Dan Klingsberg - "Stone's Rag" 5.28.2024 - Mike Munford - "June Apple" 5.14.2024 - Letitia VanSant - "Only The Lonely" 4.30.2024 - Patrick McAvinue - "Red Apple Rag" 4.16.2024 - Alex Berman - "Road to Columbus" 4.2.2024 - Malia Furtado - "Big Sandy River" 3.19.2024 - Ira Gitlin - "Hey, Hey, Hey" 3.5.2024 - Kimber Ludiker - "Won't You Come & Sing for Me 2.20.2024 - Ann Porcella - "Meet Me By the Moonlight" (D) 2.6.2024 - Ryan Rodgers - "Chinquapin Hunting" (D) 1.23.2024 - Sam Guthridge - "Eighth of January" Past jams in 2023 + "tune of the week" 12.12.2023 - Jake Eddy & Daniel Ullom - "Tallahassee" 11.28.2023 - Mike Munford - "Salt Creek" 11.14.2023 - Laura Wortman - "Your Love Is Like a Flower" & "The Birds Were Singing of You" 10.31.2023 - Luke Chohany - "Sweet Georgia Brown" 10.17.2023 - Sam Guthridge - "Hello City Limits" & "Black Diamond" 10.3.2023 - Carrol Swam - "Think of What You've Done" 9.19.2023 - Jon Glik - "Bill Cheatham" 9.5.2023 - Kimber Ludiker "Loneliness & Desperation" 8.22.2023 - Sarah Larsen - "Sally Goodin" 8.8.2023 - Patrick McAvinue - "Tennessee Wagoner" 7.25.2023 - Alex Berman & Ryan Rogers - "Rebecca" & "Salt Spring" 7.11.2023 - Malia Furtado - "Goodbye Liza Jane" 6.27.2023 - Carroll Swam - "Forked Deer" 6.13.2023 - Tony Bonta & Seth Mitchell - "Garfield's Blackberry Blossom" 5.30.2023 - Alex Berman - "New Camptown Races" 5.16.2023 - Shannon Bielski - "Ookpik Waltz" & "Jerusalem Ridge" 5.2.2023 - Ryan Rodgers - "Squirrel Hunters" 4.18.2023 with Jeff Westerinen - "Leather Britches" 4.4.2023 with Maddie Witler - "Red Prairie Dawn" 3.21.2023 with Kagey Parrish - "Leather Britches" + "Will Jesus Wash The Bloodstains From Your Hand" 3.7.2023 - with Jason Hannah - "Blue Night" 2.21.2023 with Bryan McDowell - "Scotland" 2.7.2023 with Mike Munford - "Pike County Breakdown" + "Shuckin' the Corn" 1.10.2023 Past jams in 2022 + "tune of the week" 12.13 with Frank Solivan - "Bluegrass Breakdown" 11.29 with Malia Furtado - "Cattle in the Cane" 11.15 with Sam Guthridge - "Black Jack" + "Loneliness & Desperation" 11.1 with Kimber Ludiker - "Can't You Hear Me Callin'" 10.18 with Bryan McDowell - "Suzanne's Journey" 10.4 with Patrick McAvinue - "Katy Hill" 9.20 with Kimber Ludiker 9.6 with Mike Munford and Malia Furtado |
The Early Country Sing happens once a month on Tuesday before the Baltimore Bluegrass Jams from 6-6:45 PM at the Green Room. Here's the Early Country Sing Spotify playlist.
Here's the songbook for all of the songs sung at this sining jam. The next two songs for the sing on September 3rd will be Short Life of Trouble and Heartaches By the Number. |
| baltimore_bluegrass_jam_-_song_tune_list_2020.pdf |
Here's a list of songs and tunes that are regularly played at the jams.
Songs (suggested keys) *start with these ones
*Roll in my Sweet Baby’s Arms (A)
A Good Woman’s Love
Ain't No Ash Will Burn
Angel Band
Big Spike Hammer
Blackest Crow
*Blue Moon of Kentucky (G)
Blue Ridge Cabin Home
Blue West Virginia Blues (B)
*Bury Me Beneath The Willow
Can't You Hear Me Calling
Catfish John
Come Back to Me Little Darling (G)
Cry Cry Darling
Dark Hollow (G)
Don’t Think Twice (G)
Down in the Mine (G)
Down the Road (A)
Drink Up and Go Home
Faded Love
Freeborn Man
Freight Train (G)
Friend of the Devil (G)
Footprints in The Snow (C)
Glendale Train (G)
Gone Gone Gone
Gotta Travel On (A)
Head over Heels (G)
Hey Good Looking (C)
Howard Hughes Blues (C)
I Just think I’ll stay around (G)
*I Saw The Light (G)
I Wonder Where You Are Tonight
I'll Go Stepping Too (A)
I've Endured (D, G, or A)
*I’ll Fly Away (D)
I’ll Just Pretend (C)
I’ll Just Think I'll Stick Around (G)
I’m Going Back to Old Kentucky (A)
If I Needed You (C)
If I Should Wander Back Tonight
In Moonlight Midnight Moonlight (A)
It Rains Everywhere I Go (D)
Jimmy Brown (G)
Keep on The Sunny Side (G)
Land of The Navajo (E minor / G)
Late Last Night (G)
Little Cabin on Hill (A)
Little Girl of Mine From Tennessee
Lonesome Road Blues (G, A, C, or D)
Long Black Veil
Look Down That Lonesome Road (D)
Long Journey Home // aka "Lost All my Money But a Two Dollar Bill" (G or A)
Mama Tried (D)
Mighty Dark to Travel (A)
Mountain Dew
Nellie Kane (E)
Never ending love (C)
Nine Pound Hammer
Okeechobee wind
Old Homeplace (G or A)
On and On (G)
Pretty Fair Maid
Rain and Snow
Rank Stranger (D)
Rocky Top (A)
Rose of Old Kentucky
Rovin Gambler (A)
Salty Dog (G)
Shady Grove (E minor)
She’s no angel (E)
*Sitting on Top World (C)
Steam Powered Aero-plane (G)
Sweet Fern (F)
Tennessee Waltz (G)
The Fields Have Turned Brown
The Hobo Song
Toy Heart (C)
Uncle Pen (A)
Used To Be (E)
Wallflower
Walls of Time (B)
White Freight Liner Blues
Who Will Sing For Me (D)
Why don’t you tell me so (C)
*Why you been gone so long (G)
*Will The Circle Be Unbroken (G, A or D)
Won't You Sing For Me (D)
Worried Man Blues (E)
You Can Have Her
You Were on My Mind This Morning (A)
Tunes (are always played in these keys)
Key of G
*Big Scioty / Big Sciota
Blackberry Blossom
EMD (Eat My Dust) E minor
Flint Hill Special
Foggy MountainBreakdown
Foggy Mountain Special
Ground Speed
Leather Britches
Limehouse Blues
Randy Lynn Rag
Roanoke
Shuckin the Corn
Temperance Reel
Wheel Hoss
Key of A
Big Mon
Big Sandy River
Bill Cheatum
Cattle in the Cane (A minor)
*Cherokee Shuffle
Clinch Mountain Backstep
Gold Rush
Jerusalem Ridge (A minor)
Sally Goodin
Salt Creek
Salt Spring
Red-haired Boy
Red Prairie Dawn
Road to Columbus
Old Dangerfield
Old Joe Clark
Key of D
*Angeline The Baker
Arkansas Travler
Cuckoo’s Nest
Forked Deer
Liberty
Lonesome Moonlight Waltz (Dmin)
Ragtime Annie
Soldier’s Joy
St. Anne's Reel
Train 45
*Whiskey Before Breakfast
Key of C
Ashland Breakdown
*Billy in the Lowground
East Tennessee Blues
Key of E
Brown County Breakdown
Steel Guitar Rag
Key of Bb
New Camptown Races
Above is a PDF file of this comprehensive list.