Archive of past events at The Red Room

Thursday August 28, 2025 | 7:00 pm

High Zero Volunteers Meeting

The 27th Annual High Zero Festival will be held on September 18th – 21st!  Volunteers are needed for:– Picking artists up / dropping artists off at the airport/train station– Selling tickets at the concerts– Ushering at the concerts– Stagehand assistance – Helping with additional artist transportation during festival – Postering around town– HOUSING ARTISTS (please contact Bonnie Lander at lander@highzero.org asap if […]

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Wednesday August 27, 2025 | 8:00 pm

 for-tet & Portraits in Red and Gold

The “for-tet” is a group of improvisers playing compositions by Dave Ballou. Each composition is designed to be the source for creating with no rehearsal. This concert is a pre-release celebration of the group’s upcoming release, Flat Rat on the Shiny Boy Press coming later this year. Dave Ballou- trumpet/compositions John Dierker- bass clarinet Adam Hopkins- acoustic […]

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Sunday August 17, 2025 | 7:00 pm

Volunteers’ Collective

You are cordially invited to come play free music! DELAYED UNTIL JULY 6th, THIS MONTH, due to a Normals bookstore event on the first Sunday. 7:30pm, Free Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective. It’s a free session of experimental and improvised music. In this friendly, informal setting, we focus on listening and […]

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Thursday August 14, 2025 | 8:00 pm

THE MESSAGE

A night of creative music and journey through sound beyond. Transcendence ( Kweku Sumbry, Shakoor Hakeem) feaut. Brandon Woody/////// Mojuba Duo( Jamal Moore, Nik Francis) Transcendence Fearless percussionist Shakoor Hakeem, a prolific up-and-coming talent, has a gift for making experimental, Afro-diasporan, rhythmic improvisational music immediately enjoyable. Hakeem’s unique old soul has him adhering to the […]

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Wednesday August 13, 2025 | 8:00 pm

Charmaine Lee w/ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY LIVE

Chanrmaine Lee, High Zero festival veteran, is coming back to Baltimore to present her solo electronic music. Local support TBA. Charmaine Lee (b. 1991) is an Australian vocalist based in New York whose music spans voice, feedback, and live processing. Her music has been recognized as “extraordinary” by The New Yorker, with additional coverage in […]

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Saturday August 09, 2025 | 8:00 pm

Bettis/Bassett + Leprechaun Catering

More way-out electronics than you could shake a theremin finger at. Come out Baltimore for an old school “banger” of synth noise. Chuck Bettis and Marcia Bassett were both regulars in Bmore, both frequently dropping in to mythic places like the west-side’s Tarantula Hill and the Bank. Now both in NYC and in a duo. […]

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The Red Room is a volunteer-run space in Baltimore dedicated to mind-expanding experimental culture, headquartered at Normals Books and Records.