Schedule

Common Ground Presents:

The Roots Café Songwriters Series

An Evening of New Songs by Some of the Mid-Atlantic’s Finest Singer-Songwriters.

Sam Nitzberg and Matt Douglass

perform their original songs 

with your singing host, Geoffrey Himes

Friday, July 23, at at 7 p.m.

Common Ground
819 W 36th St.
Baltimore, MD
(410) 235-5533

Admission: $9

Sam Nitzberg

Sam Nitzberg is best known as the founder/leader of the Reactors (aka the Charm City Reactors), a staple in the Baltimore area from 1980 to ’85. The Baltimore Sun declared that the Reactors had “followed the lead of new wave acts like the Clash, the Police and Joe Jackson, who have breathed new life into old rock conventions with the fresh air of reggae." After the Reactors disbanded, Sam spent time as lead singer with the Sway before leaving to form the Odds in order to provide another vehicle for his own songs.  Since the Odds break-up in 1992, Sam has periodically played reunion performances with the original Reactors line up.  This show at the Roots Cafe marks his first solo performance since his early days of busking in different parts of the States and Europe in the mid-70's.

Matt Douglass

Matt Douglass is a singer/songwriter/guitarist from White Hall, who has played a key role in such Maryland bands as Bitter Creek, the Reactors, the Edge, Red Tape, the Blind Dog Blues Band, the Sway and Big Cam & the Lifters. Douglass drew on all those experiences for his debut solo CD, “No Stone Unturned,” in 2002. The follow-up, 2008’s “Big Lucky,” featured 11 distinctive originals in an Americana vein that remind one of both Rodney Crowell and Tom Petty.

UPCOMING SHOWS IN THE ROOTS CAFÉ SONGWRITER SERIES AT COMMON GROUND:

August 20: Jay Filippone & Bob Kannenberg of the Beltways
September 24: Daryl Cline & Janine Wilson
November 19: Woody Lissauer & Bob Friedman
December 10: Annual Roots Café Christmas Show