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Founder of Baltimore’s first booking agency for acoustic performers. His agency Black River Productions (see bio) represented many local performers. […]

Self-taught guitarist and folk singer beginning as a teenager playing folk, old-time, and blues in the Baltimore area. In the […]

Sound company founded by Paul Rugg, former lead vocalist for rock band Joshua. PA and stage sound system rental company. […]

Lou managed the legendary Atlantic recording artists the Cardinals and the Tilters in the ‘50s. From the ‘60s through the […]

Nelson attended Peabody Conservatory in the early 1940s where he studied the trumpet. In the mid-’40s he assembled his first […]

‘Papa Lou’ Krefetz was a pioneer of R&B music and one of the principles of Atlantic Records. He came to […]

Formed in 1964 as a vehicle to promote the awareness of jazz music. Members of the board had been involved […]

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Jerry Leiber grew up in a West Baltimore neighborhood and attended City College. His […]

Baltimore native, attended Peabody Conservatory eventually becoming a renowned musician and composer for Stan Kenton and Don Ellis’ Orchestras. In […]

Run by Don Turner. Lites, Inc. later became Baltimore Stage Lighting.