Alex Lacquement and Luke Chohany have been co-leading the Baltimore Bluegrass Jam for four years together. The jam is held every other Tuesday at the Five and Dime Ale House in the Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore. It is great community gathering of both musicians who come to play and jam as well as people who come to take part in the gathering and enjoy the music.
Five and Dime Ale House 901 W 36th St, Baltimore, MD 21211
The jam is an open jam and everyone instrumentalist and vocalist of all skill levels. We play from 7:00 to 10:30pm every other Tuesday.
Upcoming Jams:
4/21 (postponed)
5/5 (TBD), 5/19
6/2, 6/16, 6/30,
7/14, 7,28
Here's a list of songs and tunes that are regularly played at the jams.
Songs (suggested keys) *start with this one
*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)
Dear Old Dixie
Don’t Think Twice (G)
Down in the Mine (G)
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 Travle 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
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 (E)
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 (G)
Lost All my Money (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
On and On (G)
Pretty Fair Maid
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)
Single Girl
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 Hear (C)
Troubles (D minor)
Uncle Pen (A)
Used To Be (E)
Wagon Wheel (A)
Wallflower
Walls of Time (B)
White Freight Liner Blues
Who Will Sing For Me (Bb)
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
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
Jerusalem Ridge (A minor)
Minor Swing (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
Five and Dime Ale House 901 W 36th St, Baltimore, MD 21211
The jam is an open jam and everyone instrumentalist and vocalist of all skill levels. We play from 7:00 to 10:30pm every other Tuesday.
Upcoming Jams:
4/21 (postponed)
5/5 (TBD), 5/19
6/2, 6/16, 6/30,
7/14, 7,28
Here's a list of songs and tunes that are regularly played at the jams.
Songs (suggested keys) *start with this one
*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)
Dear Old Dixie
Don’t Think Twice (G)
Down in the Mine (G)
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 Travle 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
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 (E)
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 (G)
Lost All my Money (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
On and On (G)
Pretty Fair Maid
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)
Single Girl
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 Hear (C)
Troubles (D minor)
Uncle Pen (A)
Used To Be (E)
Wagon Wheel (A)
Wallflower
Walls of Time (B)
White Freight Liner Blues
Who Will Sing For Me (Bb)
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
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
Jerusalem Ridge (A minor)
Minor Swing (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