8 June
No concerts this weekend, used the down time to do some repairs to the
PA system. We replaced all the voice coils in the horns for the
floor monitors and starting working on some new LED lights.
1 June
Friday was the last of the spring battle of the bands. We have a
full program of bands, at the Southern Maryland Community Center.
Back from a long break Space Lumberjacks took the top spot with the most
number of tickets sold, highest audience and judges vote.
25 May
PJMA took the holiday weekend off, we did indirectly support a Relay for
LIfe concert on Saturday with some gear. Otherwise we took
advantage of the time to fix and upgrade the PJMA Sound System. We
will be announcing the improvements in the coming weeks.
This week we are featuring a new case and cable dog house for the Peavey
32FX Sound Board.
18 May
On Friday PJMA was time multiplexing
with providing DJ services at a Car show and indoors running the
4th Spring Concert at the Southern Community Center in Lusby. All
went well, all ended on time and all had good tunes.
11 May
On Friday and Saturday we held our
Spring Fest featuring a two night line up of bands. Friday night
the we had 3 bands drop out for all good reasons, but we had 3 good
bands that played on. Kids of Survival were the hit of the night.
Saturday was a full night of bands ranging from metal to inde to Punk.
We had the extremes of Riverwinds from NY and Death of Something
Beautiful who sold out all their tickets and were helpful in switching
to the closing slot.
4 May
On Friday PJMA supported a fund raiser
concert with the Patuxent High School Save Tibet Club. The opening
band had to cancel due to illness in the band but the remaining 5 bands
performed a tight event closing at 12:15 AM! The event raised a
nice chunk of change for the club. On Saturday PJMA supported
Ryken High School's after Prom Party at the Charles County Capital Club
House with DJ services. It was a long fun nigh from 1 AM to 4 AM!
A special thanks to DJ Gino supporting the event with funk and R&B
mixes.
27 April
There were no concerts
this past weekend. PJMA worked on coordinating Park Rock and
this website.
20 April
Fri on the surface looked like it was going to go downhill with two band
canceling the last minute, but it was a rocking night with the 3
remaining bands. Once again Blunt Forced Trauma was the winner, but
since they already have secured a spot in the spring finals by winning
part 1, the second place band Pistol Creek Band will be playing
joining the lineup for the spring finals. The Saturday event got
canceled due to to 3 out of the 5 bands having to drop out the last
minute, at least we all communicated and new it was all for a good
reason that we had to cancel the event.
12 April
No concerts this weekend due to the Easter break. A lot of effort
has been instead put on getting the PJMA website updated with all the
summer concerts, and Park Rock Fest and promoting for April events.
6 April
This weekend went by in a blur. On Friday PJMA held the second round of
Spring Battle of the Bands, there was 4 bands that performed with the
winner being Dead on the Dance Floor.
Saturday was our first Spring Concert feature a great lineup of
Christian Bands. We had some special guest from Ignite the Night
who came by to checkout the bands for their free Christian Concert on 20
June at the St. Mary's Fairgrounds call "Ignite the Night"
31 Mar
This past Friday was the start of the Spring Battle of the Bands. We had
4 great bands in the event. Blunt Force Trauma was the
winner. They have been developing a following and get better with
each event. The Pistol Creek Gang did their first event are are
too with time going to be another act that could have a huge following.
24 MarF
PJMA supported the Southern Maryland Youth Day at St. Johns. Our
part was a rock concert featuring Latrica Carr, Failure to Excel and
Upper Deck. We hope to be able to start a quarterly Christian Rock
Concert Series as the result of this successful event.
18 Mar
The Winter Battle of the Bands Finals was held on 13 March. We
have 4 good bands competing. The winner was Blunt Force
Trauma. The won a 4 song demo at Dancin Aliens Productions.
The Judge from DCMetalStation has posted a video of them playing on his
Myspace account. There was a good turn out and a good time by all.
11 Mar
No concerts this weekend, spend the weekend at the Big Easy in New
Orleans
4 Mar
Two great concerts, all good bands, and the winner for the 2008
Battle of the Bands Grand Finals was The Varsity Letter
16 Feb
The 3 round of Winter Battle of the Bands was held on 13 Feb at the Hall
of Fame at Chancellors Run Regional Park. The winner was Eternal
Snow, the came to the event with a new drummer but did very well and
also were able to bring is a good size fan base that helped them win.
10 Feb
No events this past weekend, we did have a Park Rock Committee meeting
on Sunday, see this weeks concert countdown for the details.
3 Feb
Saturday was another good battle of the Bands, Varsity Letter got
the nod for this event with a preshow ticket sales,
27 Jan
PJMA organized part 2 of the Battle of the Bands at the Southern
Community Center in Lusby on Friday 23 Jan. We had one band drop
out, they miss a well attended event. The 4 other bands rocked out
to over 80 fans! It was a very close vote, this winner was NoSum
with Blunt Force Trama just one point behind in second place.
21 Jan
There were no events sponsored by PJMA this past weekend due to the MLK
holiday. However we were lucky to be asked to support a
inauguration ball in Arlington VA and a Go-Go Concert in Silver Spring.
Both events resulted in donations to PJMA that will used to help finance
PJMA events for the future. We have also applied for grants from
the Maryland State Arts Council. We will be getting visit from the
councils at our events during the spring to see how PJMA events work and
benefit the community. If approved the grant would be use for our
late spring and into next years concert programs.
13 Jan
On Friday the 9th of Jan we held the First of the 2009 Battle of Bands.
at Chancellors Run Park. We were in for a surprise when arrived to
setup when we found out that none of the e-mails had been received by
the venue coordinator and as a result we did not have a place to hold
our PJMA event. Some quick coordination relocated us to the Hall
of Fame in the center of the park. The event went well, the sound
was good, access for the bands was on solid ground vice grass and mud
and in general we had better access to everything. As a result we
are going to use the Hall of Fame for most of the future events.
The winner of the Battle of the Bands was The Varsity Letter. With
On The Victrola in the second place, these guys came down from Staten
Island and shared their outrageous inde rock tunes.
7 Jan
Happy New Year!!!! Rock on with Good Times.
15 Dec
This weekend finished the 2009 preliminary rounds of the Battle of the
Bands with Part 4 for the fall. By Saturday we were down to just
two bands for the night with 3 cancelations. However we had a
really good turn out of fans. Each band had the option of playing
their sets twice. It was the first show for She Said Sever band,
their second set was their best and the fans voted them the winner.
9 Dec
Two Show this past weekend. Friday was Part Three of the Fall
Battle of the Bands. We has a special Guest "Frankie" who open
with an hour of acoustic music. He as followed by Varsity Letter
and Beating the Legend. Varsity Letter was the winner. On
Saturday we supported an event organized by the Shop Club at Ryken High
School. A great concert featuring Patent Pending and 4 other
group. The Shop Club was big help with setup and take down of the
PA and lighting system. Thanks Shop Club!
4 Dec
Great Turkey weekend. The T'Giving Concert went well, The Baker
Boys covered a wide range of music and the largest selection of
instruments for one band ever! The Goldcure played hard,
played soft, and played 3 encores to the meet the audience demands. They
will be coming back in the spring and we can not wait to have them back
again.
25 Nov
No events this weekend. Working to update the website for 2009 events
and broke out the past events into separate pages for each year from
2003 to 2008.
20 Nov
This weekend proved that Rock Music is alive and appreciated in St
Mary's County. The Winter Battle of the Bands held on Friday had 5
bands competing and a good size audience. The winner was
_____. On Saturday we held a Fall concert at a new venue at the
Good Samaritan Lutheran Church Fellowship hall. Thanks to our
alliance of bands we were able to find replacement Bands for bands that
had to drop off the program. At the event we again had 5 bands
perform and another good size audience of fans. The church
supported the event by selling drinks and bake goods. We are
looking forward to holding monthly events at this new location.
9 Nov
No events this week end, but next week end we have two events, one at
our new location. See the flyer for the fall concerts
19 Oct
This weekend was very busy despite on the surface it looks like nothing
happening. PJMA was at Harvest Fest in Indian Head. It was a
three day event starting on Friday with 2 local bands and the on
Saturday a 10 AM to 10 PM with an all Christian band lineup. We
had 4 bands performing at Boatmans. As a result of all this activity we
has to postpone the Fall Battle of the Bands scheduled for Friday
8 Oct
This past weekend PJMA was contracted to provide PA and music to two
events. Friday's event was a 20 year anniversary of the Lusby
Community Center and Saturday's event was a private birthday party.
All the funds received from the event was donated to the PJMA account to
help sponsor future PJMA events. We have been working with
Boatmans to launch a major promoting campaign, we know there are
lots of people out there looking for entertainment we just need to let
them know it is at Boartmans.
27 Sept
We held our last Summer Battle of the Bands on 19 Sept with Beating The
Legend as the winner. All efforts are now focused on the Summer
Finals on 10 Oct at the Chancellor Run Rec Center. We have
also work hard to take advantage of a generous offer by Mr Boatman to
book musicians for both The Cape (St. Mary's) in Sandgates and Boatman's
Restaurant in Ridge. The challenge is to book groups and
create a hot spot for cutting edge rock in Southern Maryland.
8 Sept
It has been a while since we have had time to update this blog.
There was a lot happening in Aug that prevented getting to the normal
weekly blogs. Park Rock being the biggest consumer of every moment
of spare time. In Aug we held a summer Go-Go and Part 3 of the
Battle of the Bands. At the Go-Go we had over 6 bands! The
Battle of the Bands featured 4 bands with Out of Darkness being the
clear winner. Park Rock started with the shadow of possible rain
but it never happened! We had two days of cranking rock sounds
from 6 stages. The new stage security team did a great job of
keeping the event secure, safe and enjoyable for everyone. We know
we had a great event when everyone it talking about next year's event!
30 July
Our only and big event this weekend was the Summer Fest, We
changed the name to reflect the fact that the event was being held at a
bar. While the venue has been very supportive of PJMA all ages
events, it is obvious that it is not attractive to our all ages
supporters. In the future we will advertise bar type events as Gig
Exchange events. The PJMA events will be those at venues that are
suitable for our all ages crowd.
23 July
This past weekend was not one of the best for our bands. The
Friday show had two bands drop out the last minute. The Saturday
concert was fluid with band changes. As a result we ended early on
both days, but for those that got to the concert the was so good
tunes. A special thanks to Lifted Down and Class Action for
supporting both concerts!
14 July
Another Busy weekend. Friday was a Go-Go show that was supported
by Dollar Bill Promotions. We had over 150 fans grinding to the 7
cranking Go-Go Bands. We took no chances and had lot of security
which ate up all the surplus funds from the event. The other event
was a battle of Bands at Boatmans. The hands down winner was Deep Down.
7 July
A busy weekend with two events. The first was a Freedom Concert at
Boatmans were we rocked out to 1 AM the independence of our Nation.
The on Saturday we held a Double Concert, starting with an all ages
concert from 7 to 10 PM followed by an over 21 concert from 10 to 1:30
AM. Everyone did a great job, the headline bands of Blame The
Victim, Kneel to Zod and Below Sixth showed what the southern MD rock
scene is all about!
30 June
Since our last Blog we have held two events that were separated by a
much needed vacation. On Friday 13 June we held our second Go-Go
Concert for 2008. The fans are turning out, the band were a hit
and Go-Go is alive again in St. Mary's County. Our next event was
held on 27 June, it marks a change in PJMA events. On the Thursday
before the event Calvert County Southern Community Center advised that
there was a scheduling error when the touring bands from NJ stopped in
to check out the venue. As a result we had to find a new venue and
fast! A quick driving tour of St. Mary's County resulted in two
possible site to relocate to. We decided on giving Boatmans
Restaurant in Ridge a try. It was a good choice! We were able to cut the
door fee to $5 and had over 40 people paying at the door. We we
closed the show with Butterfly Chuck we still had fan arriving to check
out the scene. As a result of this successful event PJMA has been
asked to fill as many dates as they can. The Freedom Fest planned
for the fairgrounds has been changed to the Freedom Concert and moved to
Boatmans. We are also planning to relocate the Battle of the Bands
Finals and PJMA fest there too!
3 June
No events this weekend. Park Rock post cards are in and available
for bands to pick up at My Brother's Place in Waldorf.
27 May
On Saturday we supported a concert ran by Colors Promotions. the
event was to be a Battle of the Bands but due to some confusion of
booking between RWAB, Colors Promotions and PJMA we decided not to hold
our hold our event but instead just pick the best band from the night.
The best bands was Deep Down
12 May
Spring Fest was a big success,
Randae did from EFF Promotions did a great job coordinating the bands,
helping with all aspect of setup. The crowd set got to enjoy 10
rock-in bands. We know that the next PJMA Fest will be even a
bigger success!
5 May The 3 round of battle of the bands was held on Friday, the winner is Breaking The Legend. Thanks for all the bands that competed.
28 Apri
The Go-Go show went head to head with the Great Mill Prom. We
lost! We had a poor turn out. We hope our next event in May
will go much better. On Saturday PJMA supported a Gospel Concert
in Laurel Maryland. It was a refreshing change to work with so
many professionals and exceed their expectations with sound and
lighting.
21 Apr
A roller coaster weekend of concerts. Friday was a Spring Concert
in Lusby. We high energy night with performance by . Beating
the Legend, A New Born Thriller, Mile High School, Stand Clear
and. Leprosy Cupcake. Saturday was the Winter Battle Finals
feature the 4 winners from the Winter Round of Battle of the Bands.
On Saturday morning RWAB opened their shop with a Boy Scout Camporee and
tents back up to the fence separating the site with the St. Marys
Fairgrounds. In the interest of good community relationship with
the campers, RWAB management requested we cancel the event and
reschedule for another time. This was a low point, but probably
better than dealing with campers complaining of loud Rock Bands playing
all evening. We are evaluating our remaining spring schedule and
planned summer schedule to find a date and location to hold Winter
Finals..
14 Apr
After a fast change of venues we held Part 2 of the Battle of the Band
at the St. Mary's County Fairgroound. Our fan based found
their way to enjoying 4 grinding bands. The winner for the
night was
Resistance of the Fallen
with some Delaware Hardcore.
7 Apr
A weekend of Good new and bad. PJMA supported Southern Maryland
Youth Day at St. Johns Church in Hollywood. During the day we
provided sound reinforcement for some truly motivational speaker on
Christian lifestyles. In the evening PJMA sponsored a Christian Rock
Concert featuring Latrice Carr, Failure To Excel and Under Command.
The band got to play for an audience of over 200 new fans! That was the
good news, the bad news is that the management at Room With a Brew has
decided to cancel all future PJMA events and focus on in-house sponsored
events. This was the fallout of a non-PJMA Rock Concert that was poorly
run at RWAB this past weekend. We have begun the process of
booking other venues. We have several alternative locations
and as a result of the SMYD event we have new added options of several
church halls that will be available for booking events. We will
start with relocating this weeks event and the focus on the long term
plans. We try to only cancel events that have not been booked with
bands.
31 Mar
Friday was a fun Battle of the Bandst with 3 bands at the Southern
Community Center. The winner was Sound Break. However, Blame
the Victim put on the most awesome performance with their thick metal
tunes. Saturday was a thrown together show at Room With a Brew.
Casey Colors was very help full in making the event a big success with a
very supportive audience, security and all the help in setting up and
take down. The fans got to enjoy 6 bands for their money!
25 Mar
Wow what a weekend for St. Mary's County Rock Fans with two rock
concerts the same night both within walking distance. Aditi
promotions was at Room With a Brew and PJMA was at the St. Mary's
Fairground working with Colors Promotions.. The touring bands were
amazed how lucky the fans are with such support for new bands.
17 Mar
We held our first event at the new Room With a Brew Location, it
was a good evening with three bands. The winner of the battle of
the Bands is Cataleptic Burial.
12 Mar
This past weekend was to be a no show weekend but in Saturday evening
during we a last minute request by Count Your Blessings to provide sound
at an fund raising event at Ricken High School. We worked around
the sound system that was present to bring in and setup the PJMA sound
system. We were able to provide sound for 4 of the 7 bands that
play that night. We made it home to see Saturday night live too!
3 Mar
We tried out a new venue at the St. Joseph Church Parish Hall, the
attendance was low, the Fiction and Carefree competed for the Battle of
the Bands, with Carefree the winner. The good new is both the
leadership for the St. Joseph Church Youth Ministry and PJMA see high
potential for the location with the proper planning and promoting.
We will be announcing future events on a quarterly basis for this
location for the future.
25 Feb
We were back again on Saturday at the St Mary's County Fair
Grounds with a successful Rock Concert promoted by Colors Promotion.
18 Feb
This past weekend was the second round of the Winter Battle of the
Bands. Another successfully event, we had 4 bands in this round
with Branch Avenue being the winner
11 Feb
Cudos to Colors Promotion for all the work promoting the winter rock
concert on 9 Feb. Casy was also helpful in getting the Fairgrounds
for the event. There was a wide range of bands, fans and
support that came.
4 Feb
We supported a community event at Lusby on Friday. On Saturday we held
the 2007 Battle of the Bands Finals. We had all great night of music,
with the 2007 winner of Malice Vitality! White Shadow and
Scarborough Fair were the other bands in the final round. The
judges were A New Born Thriller from VA Beach.
31 Jan
There were no formal PJMA events this past weekend, we did support a
private party. The major good news is we have signed a lease for a
building in Leonardtown Maryland, we submitted our permit for use,
we are dealing with all the questions from the county planning and
zoning office.l
24 Jan
Last weekend was the first of the Winter Battle of the Bands, The winner
was Anathemas. We have been very busy with the leasing of the new
venue. On Thursday we sign the lease and begin a new phase of the
PJMA community program!
15 Jan
Kudo's to Color's Promotions for thier best concert to date on Saturday
at Room with a Brew. Hot Band all night. The final bands was
Audio Strobelight, it is such a pleasure to work with such a
professional band! On Tuesday night we held met and organized the
PJMA Board of Directors. We have nominated officer some of the
officers and are looking for volunteers to fill two postions. In
Feb we will be voting in the slate of officers..
7 Jan
Two events and two different results, The Gallery Crawl on Friday
started out with 3 band and end with 7 bands. We had more fans that
band! On Saturday we held the Fall Battle of the Bands,
There was 4 bands who were in the Fall Finals, however, only 2
bands were able to make the event. The winner was Voyant Clair. We
had a special guest band called Kids of Survival. The played a
high energy opening set that set the bar high for the competing bands.
There were also the judges.
31 Dec
We held the rescheduled Fall Battle of the Bands on Friday at Room with
a brew. The event featured 2 bands, with The Phoenix Endeavour
being the winner. The go on to the fall finals on 5 Jan at My
Brother's Place in Waldorf.
24 Dec
The Friday Go-go had the anticipated attendance and we made some more
money for the future New Venue. The Saturday event was canceled
half way thought the night when we found out that a local bar was
holding a competing Rap event! We are making major steps forward
to having a full time venue for PJMA events. read the concert
countdown for more details.
17 Dec
The Holiday Party on Friday has two bands that played a holiday song.
Phoenix Endeavor was the winner with their impromptu song.
Saturdays event was held at hyperspace. The rain and potential ice
kept the attendance down but sill there was a good crowd to see some
really good band brought together by Colors Promotions.
10 Dec
Friday was a Go-Go held at Room With a Brew, the event started on time
but the second and third band got lost and did find the place till
after 10 PM. So, ACB got to play two extended sets while Sucka
Free and U-Neek had to play short sets. SMG and OLB played after
them, we added an extra hour on to the evening so that everyone got time
to play to the good size audience who turned out for the event. On
Saturday we were at My Brother's Place with an event put together by
Color's Promotion. Given the short notice of the relocation
and band lineup intended for St. Mary's we have a good event. The
bands were all great and the fans who came enjoyed the event.
3 Dec
We had two concerts scheduled for this past weekend. The Friday
New Venue Concert was managed by Colors Promotions. We had a small
but supportive audience for 5 truly great bands.. Many of
the local fans were holding out for the Battle of the Bands on Saturday.
Thing were coming together well on Saturday night until we had a fan's Dad
come by to check out the venue, he made us aware that studio did not
have the required paper work to hold public events. As a
result we shutdown the event and are in the process of rescheduling the
Battle of the Bands for a date later in December at a more suitable
location. All other events planned for the studio will also
be relocated until they can get the building approved for PJMA type
public events. .
26 Nov
The Thanksgiving Holiday was celebrated by two Go-Go Concerts at
Hyperspace Fun Center. The Friday event was held in honor of Kiki
turning 18 years old. Her sister arranged for numerous bands to
take the stage, each had a special tribute song Kiki. well over 130
people turn out to party. On Saturday we held the second go go
with the plans to have CCB make the closing appearance. About mid
way through the event the promoter for CCB decided to cancel CCB in
order to keep the event with positive cash flow. An outstanding
young DJ Wise filled in late hours with crowd appealing Go-Go Music.
Both night the event ran in to the early morning hours ,as a result we
started cleanup on Sunday afternoon and did not leave until 6 PM. It was
a long but fun weekend. The surplus from these two events will be
going to the New Venue Fund which will minimize such long hours of setup
and cleanup.
19 Nov
The Battle of the Banda at Lusby had a good turn out for the bands with
the winner Soundbreak. On Saturday we had our first event
organized by Colors promotions. We had our first international
band from Netherland called The Black Atlantic, the featured act
of Drama for the Masses from New York and even a last
minute performance by Prometheus. It was a busy night and everyone
who came have a great night of entertainment.
13 Nov
We held our annual Park Rock Thank You Party. It was a laid back
night with lot of music, free food and fun. Thanks to everyone who
made Park Rock 2007 happen and join us next year for Park Rock 2008.
8 Nov
The Friday Gallery Crawl was crawling with people, we were up to 1 PM
with so great Gospel Go-Go music. On Saturday we worked with Aditi
Promotions for their first show featuring Ball Room Break Down. A
Special thanks for a well done job of arranging for some really great
inde bands and a house full of fans!
23 Oct
A roller coaster weekend! Friday's Battle of the Bands had 4 bands
competing with Voyant Clair the winner with a very good following of
fans that voted for them and play good too. Saturday was a downer,
only The Corpses made the event with their 5 fans, there was just
too many high school events, we closed early with no money made for the
new venue. .
15 Oct
Busy weekend with our first New Venue Concert at the Sandybottom Studio
and Roctober Fest. Due to a lot of competing high school home
coming events the attendance was low. Voyant Clair had thier first show
at the Roctober Fest, They did a great job of bringing in the fans
to the event.
8 Oct
On Friday was the Galley Crawl with the Posse 4 Christ and Higher
Heights, The event was a success. We will be back next month
we even a bigger and better lineup of Gospel Go-Go music. On
Saturday we held the second Fall Battle of the Bands at the Sandybottom
Studio. The winner was Apathy of the Dead. We provided a detail
report of plan to improve the venue to get it up to a super venue for
Rock Concerts as well as a recording studio.
1 Oct
Friday was a long night, PJMA supported a local Go-go event. We
did not get home until 3 AM, On Saturday we held the battle
of the Bands Finals on Saturday at My Brothers Place. The winner
was Malice Vitality with a one song demo recording at Sandybottom
Studio.
25 Sept
This past weekend PJMA only arranged for the Coffee House Concerts at
the Coffee Quarter with the CSM Guitar Club and a group of local talent
brought together by Chris. The other big activity for the weekend
was the county fair which surely attracted many of our fan base.
17 Sept
On 14 Sept we held a Fall Concert at the Calvert Southern Community
Center. A good night for music with 5 bands jamming from 7
to 11. School was out so we had good attendance. The special
feature for the night was the bands
Brian Severn and Those Victorious who drove down from Frederick MD
to share thier pop-inde sound. We hope to have them back for future
events..
10 Sept
Saturday we held our first event at the Sandybottom Studio. The
venue worked out great for our events. There was more that enough
space for the bands and fans. We had a special appearance by
Encore. Great band, great music and some great entertainment.
Encore will be back on Nov 16 for their second performance in Southern
Maryland . The winner for the Night was Murderface, we also place
Malice Vitality as a wild card at the Battle of the Bands on 29 Sept at
My Brothers Place.
6 Sept
Park Rock has kept us very busy that we have not had time to update this
Blog each week. PJMA organized Part 3 of the Battle of the Bands
at the Southern Community Center. The winner was Anathemas however
they are already in the Summer finals so the second place band Distorted
Muse will be playing in the third slot on 29 Sept. Park Rock 2007
was the biggest Park Rock Fest out of the 5 years PJMA has sponsored the
event. Music was rocking on all 5 stage. There was a wide
selection of food and vendors. Great weather and great fun!
The bands, volunteers and fans made this event.
6 Aug
It has been a while to update this blog and much has occurred. The
break in blog happened because at the end of June the hard drive used
for PJMA died and had to be sent out for recovery, that was followed by
a two week vacation to Hawaii. We are now back to working order!
The month of July had three major events the Freedom Fest, Summer
Sizzler and the Cove Point Pool Party. Freedom fest was
great, the band played well and the attendance was good. The Summer
Sizzler Concert for the military at Naval Air Station Patuxent River
went well. It was hot, but the bands put on a sizzling
performance. The Battle of the Band at the Cove Point Pool was a
disaster. It started with a lineup change with both Astora and
finally Fall Away dropping due to last minute changes in in band
members. On the night of the event a huge storm blew in with
Lightning, thunder and buckets of rain. Where upon the organizers
from the county had to cancel the event. On Aug 4 we
held the annual PJMA fest. The event was a success, again despite
the heat the fans and band filled the day with Punk, Hard Rock, Metal
and Hardcore. The hit of the day was Audostroblight from Virginia
Beach who rock out with a outstanding licks on keyboard and flying V
violin.
25 June
A very busy weekend. Friday we held the First of the Summer Battle
of the Bands, with a new band
Anathemas
winner, the brought in the fans and got the audience
and judges vote. A special thanks to
Karate High School
who joined the event while on their tour and
capture the audience with their high energy performance. On Saturday, we
were at the Three Notch Theater with a special concert featuring
Below Sixth. After a delayed start it ended with a good crowd and
an impressive performance by all the bands. At the Coffee Quarter Nix
the Latter entertained the patrons. Finally on Sunday we were at
the Room With a Brew where
Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies
and Ciao Roma
played as part of their early summer tour. Check them out, be sure
to catch them when they come back this way again.
18 June
This past weekend we had two concerts at the Coffee Quarter and Part 4
of the Spring Battle of the Bands. The Bands rocked out to
their fans with Hail False Heroes taking the top spot and going on the
the 30 June finals at My Brothers Place
10
June
The Spring Concert was a very successful event. Non-stop music
from 1 to 9 PM. Everyone who came to play got to play their sets.
The fans came and we all had some good times. The Room with a Brew
is looking forward to hosting future PJMA events!
3 June
The only event we held this week was the Coffee House concert featuring
Under Command. They delighted the auidence with a
26 May This week we did not have any concerts planned. Everyone should be enjoying a safe and fun Memorial weekend. June will be a busy month with Spring Fest, Battle of the Bands, Spotlight Concerts, Pool Parties and weekly coffee house concerts.
6 May
On Friday we held our Second Spring Battle of the Bands at Hyperspace
Fun Center. The concert line up changed twice, with Decade filling
in for February Fiction and Pleasure for a Season filling in for
Defenestrate. In total had 5 bands in the competition. The
winner was Pleasure for a Season, a new death metal and hardcore band
from St. Mary's. We had a good showing of fans. Mostly to to
the last minute efforts of the new bands. The event closed with a
first time performance by We are the Sky in St. Mary's County.
They were able to keep the attention of the audience all the way to the
end at 12:30 AM
30 May
On 27 May we held a successful Off Duty Concert for the military at the
Patuxent Naval Air Station. On Sunday we held a Go-Go
Concert. As a result of the poor attendance we have suspended the
efforts of holding Sunday afternoon Go-Go concerts.
16 May
On Friday we held the First of the Spring Battle of the Band, 4 band
competed, it was a one point spread between White Shadow and Decade.
Decade move on to the Spring Battle of the Bands Finals on 30 June.
10 May
This past weekend was a 3 part spring Break Concert. The Thursday
Go-Go Concert did well with over 300 fans, The Rock Concert on
Friday had far less but was still a financial success. The Monday Go-go
only drew 50 fans who got treated to Back Yard. On Saturday we
stopped by Fusions to help with sound for 209 Band and DIE.
We got a good feel for the needs of the fans and the owner for live
music.
5 May
Very busy weekend and week. Lots of good thing happening.
26 Mar
The weekend went by very fast! Friday was a spring concert at the
Southern Community Center, with a last minute addition of Unkempt to the
lineup. The event went off like clock work and sounds were all
good. On Saturday we fielded 4 bands at the Fusions Club as part
of the Gig Exchange; the place was packed with people and the were lots
of patrons enjoying the live bands. On Sunday PJMA supported a
Rock Recital with Schettie Music in Huntington. Nicky and the
Breakers was the solid act for the event with their version of classic
rock songs
19 Mar
Sunday was our fist event at the Room With a View, Great event, Great
location, Great management and fun for all. We also provide sound for
the Keltic society who held a fund raiser for a musician to go to
Ireland to learn fiddle. On Sunday we held our first Sunday Go-Go.
It was a success too! Now we are scheduled for Go-Go's every other week
on Sunday afternoon.
11 Mar
This was an off weekend for PJMA, See you all at Room With a Brew
on Saturday
5 Mar
Friday was a Go-Go event at the Lil' Evas concurrent with From the
Ground UP at the Coffee Quarter and Part 4 of the Winter Battle of the
Bands at Hyperspace on Saturday. All dramatically different
events. The Go-Go started out bad with the bands delayed due to an
accident in DC and finally closed at 10 PM due to poor attendance.
The group from the Ground Up and the Battle of the Band both had
capacity crowds. On Friday before and after the event we were able
to capture bits of the first of hopefully many performance by this
outstanding group of youth from the Calvary Baptist Church in Calvert..
There were 5 band competing for the winning spot at the Battle of the
Bands. Both Honor We Speak and Death Among Hero were the biggest
draw of fans. Winner was Honor We Speak who will be performing on
31 March at MBP. Hyperspace management was very impressed with the
quality of the music and the record setting attendance of over 180 fans.
26 Feb
The only events held this past weekend were at the Coffee Quarter.
Friday featured My Radio Flyer with Anthony Swartz and Michael Leard.
Both are receive our special thanks for filling in the last minute.
Saturday at the Coffee Quarter featured Basement Tapes, Cadence, Ghost
Outfit, and Prisms. All of these groups have college
students from St. Mary's County that are now attending studies in New
England. Richard at the Coffee Quarter says they put on a great
performance for the patrons.
19 Feb
We are back in the saddle at the Calvert Community Center. The
concert on Friday had 5 good bands that attracted a good audience.
We shared the building with a church group, a fencing class and a square
dancing group. The result was Day Spring being the winner of the
Battle of the Bands and we have secured the spring schedule of concerts
at the Community Center. We have also got an invite to do some
concerts a the Calvert Northern Community Center. We will announce
them when the get scheduled.
12 Feb
On Friday we featured Call Shores at the Coffee Quarter. Saturday
was the Grand Finals for the 2006 Battle of the Bands at My Brothers
Place. The winner was Space Lumberjacks. All the bands were
offered to go on tour to either Boston on VA Beach. Congratulation
to all the Bands for making it to the grand Finals, they are all
winners!
5 Feb
On Friday we held our second Go-Go event at the Southern Community
Center. The event was well attended and audience was well behaved.
We have been invited back to have more Go-Go events in the future.
At the coffee Quarter we had two group entertaining the patrons, Unless
Your Willing report a good experienc and is looking forward to booking a
future event there. On Saturday we held our second Battle of
the Bands for the Winter of 2007. It was our second event to be
held at the Three Notch Theatre in Lexington Park. Despite an
accident on Route 235 with detour to Great Mills, all the band arrived
at the venue, however many of the fans did not do as well. The
evening ended with Scarbourgh Fair taking the winning spot with high
ticket sales, fan votes and good scores by the judges.
28 Jan
This past weekend we held two events at two new locations. On
Friday we held our second Go-Go event, at the Holiday Inn in Solomons.
The attendance was good and well behaved. The music ended when the both
heads on the kick drum broke. For the next show we will have a
hydraulic head with a protection spot. Our second event was a
Spotlight Concert at the Three Notch Theater in Lexington Park.
The musicians put on a outstanding performance that showed PJMA has the
talent to put on a very professional event. We are looking forward
to holding more events at both of these location.
20 Jan
Friday nights event at the Southern Community Center started out as well
attended event. We got off with a slow start due to some technical
problems with the PA, but then Space Lumberjack, Mile High School and
Semperfy really rocked the audience. Then where we were half
way through the program were were shut down because of some people who
left the event and were bothering local retirement center. We had
Lennen Falls all the way from Boston, then Defenestrate and Three Star
Shaman still to perform. It was going to be a very close battle of
the bands! Due to the premature closing of the event, PJMA was
forces to decide the winner. Defenestrate was selected because
they had sold 24 tickets, and had been pivotal in the attendance and
band lineup. Their performance if it had occurred would have been
also as remarkable.
14 Jan
Our Friday event feature a CD release of Broken Stigma's CD at the
Coffee Quarter. Their fans and patrons fo the Coffee Quarter
enjoys a night filled with new and old song. Broken Stigma also
took request and was amazing in filling every song. On Saturday we
were at My Brother's Place with the Fall Battle of the Bands Finals. All
the band did well in bringing in the crowd, with the Space Lumberjacks
coming out on top with the highest draw of fans and the highest score by
our judges from Strictly Fun Entertainment.
9 Jan
The Coffee House Concert on Friday was to be event with one band, then
two then three. As ended up, we had Under Command do perform a
great full band set, followed by Phoenix Endeavor with their acoustic
set.
2 Jan
Welcome to the new year. The coffee Quarter enjoyed the
sounds of
The Peasantry and
Flinn Pomeroy.
27 Dec
We hope everyone had a merry Christmas and will have a Happy New Year'.
This past Friday we had a holiday coffee house concert at the Coffee
Quarter featuring Generation Gap, and Phoenix Endeavor. We also
had a guest appearance by the Co-Pilots. The music covered
traditional carols, contemporary holiday songs and some progress
acoustic guitar songs. It was a great evening to enter in to the
holiday weekend!
20 Dec
Christmas is just next week! PJMA held our annual Holiday Concert
with at the Calvert Southern Community Center in Lusby with Below Sixth,
Defenestrate, Arsenic, and Hail False Heroes. Dwell could not make
the event due to a car accident that involved their guitar player.
We hope he recovers and will be out playing quickly. Our next
formal event is on 13 Jan with the Winter Battle of the Bands Finals.
We will be supporting Music Box at the day before New Years concert at
MBP. It is time to say have a safe and Merry Holiday, and a Happy
New Year
4 Dec
This past Saturday PJMA held the last of the Fall Battle of the Bands,
there was a last minute lineup change with Space Lumberjacks filling in
for White Shadow, they were followed by Downfall, Incoming Machine, AM
Flixs, and Hail False Heroes. Downfall had the scored the
highest on Talent, Stage Presence and Appeal, but Hail False Heroes took
first place with a good advance ticket sale and high voting by the fans.
At the Coffee Quarter we heard the youth voices from St. Paul's
Methodist Church in Leonardtown. The gave a sampling of their
Christmas music the weekly PJMA Coffee House Concert.
Unfortunately Atonement was not able to play due to an injury on Monday.
We wish their keyboard player a speedy recover and return in January.
27 Nov
This past Friday and Saturday we organized the Fat Pilgrim concert at
the Hyperspace Fun Center. Friday featured Go-Go and Rap.
The musicians were all appeared but the fans did not! At 10 PM we
closed the event and went home! Saturday was much better, we
again had all the bands and they brought 50 fans, we had a good
time with the fans who id come. A special thanks to Broomfiller
who came all the way from Toronto Canada to play at our event.
They were on a tour of the east coast from Florida to Massachusetts.
19 Nov
This past weekend PJMA held two super events. Friday PJMA worked
with the Navy MWR at Patuxent Rive to provide a "Off Duty" Concert at
Lil' Evas. The show featured Manifest to open the Kneel to Zod and
the Reflection Factor to close. The event was a big success and we
have been invited back ASAP for another event. Saturday was part 3
of the Battle of the Bands, 5 Band competed with Lifted Down being the
winner to go on to the finals on 5 Jan.
12 Nov
This weekend PJMA held a Thank You party to show appreciation for the
volunteer and bands who supported Park Rock Fest 2006. Compared to
past events it was a big success. The bands played well, the fans
too came out early and we all had a good time.
6 Nov
This week end PJMA had an off weekend, but at MBP they held their first
round of the MBP Battle of the Bands. The sad part is that two
band were no show and Defenestrate was the only band who showed up to
play. Needless to say, Defenestrate won! They got to play
for 3 hours too. The two bands who were no show have will now have
to pay a performance fee to play in the future.
29 Oct
Halloween is coming on 31 Oct, but PJMA held two Halloween events on
Friday and Saturday. Friday was the Fall Battle of the Bands Part
2, with 4 bands. PJMA introduced our new light system at the
event. The notebook computer used for controlling the lights and scoring
would not work properly, it kept rebooting, which prevented it use for
scoring. However, it was very obvious from the hard work put forth
by Against the Tide who sold lots of tickets and got the majority of the
votes was the winner. Saturday we did our first event at the CMS
Auditorium with Fright Fest 2006. We all had a great time. A
special Thanks for Hotspur and Lifted Down for who worked had to bring
in the fans. We used the new light system again, the computer was
working better and the DMX controlled lights were amazing.
23 Oct
PJMA supported three events this weekend. The CSM Guitar Club
appeared at the Coffee House Concert with a whole group of new members
and jammed out for 3 hours straight. The Saturday Coffee House
Concert featured Ernie Keen and. Assassinate Caesar. Ernie
reports that his CD release went well and looking forward to a future
performance. Saturday PJMA supported a benefit concert at
MBP organized by Music Box Promotions, the event raised money for
relief efforts in Darfur.
15 Oct
Another busy weekend, Friday we has a last minute appearance by
Jeff Miller at the Coffee Quarter. For those that stopped by he
covered a lot of ground with excellent vocals and guitar playing.
Saturday was our Roctober Fest. Everyone made the event on time,
we completed on time and a great time was had by all. A special
thanks to Tropical Joe who provide their unique Hawaiian and
Philippine foods.
11 Oct
The Summer Battle of the Bands Finals went off well with 4 bands
competing for the title. There was a last minute wild card band of
Count Your Blessings who joined the event at 9 AM on Friday. The
vote of the fans and the judges (Bigbutch) was clear for Count Your
Blessings.
3 Oct
At the Calvert Southern Community Center three bands competed for the Part 2
Battle of the Bands. The winner was Space Lumber Jacks. They
were the first band to sell all 30 advance tickets and got an immediate
payment of $25. At My Brothers Place in Waldorf they only had 2
out of the 3 bands appear. As a result PJMA will be asking bands
to confirm their booking the week before. Bands that do not confirm will
be replace the following week.
16 Sept
The Summer Battle of the Bands is over, we have 3 solid bands,
with Unkempt taking the winning position on Saturday among three other
very good bands. A special thanks for Steve Nelson for playing a solo
act at the Chophouse, the patrons were asking for more all night long.
This Sunday PJMA participated in the monthly My Brother's Place Trustee
Meeting. They were very happy with the new booking site for MBP and the
availability to book bands on-line by using the
booking@MyBrothersplace.org
e-mail. We work out the plans for Rocktober Fest in the Parking
Lot along with other plans for future events.
9 Sept
Park Rock 2006 came and went very fast. Just like the
tropical storm Ernesto that came and went on Friday before the event.
Needless to say we were impacted by the storm. We lost tent for the
north stage which resulted in moving that venue inside to the Loffler
Hall. We had no power all day Saturday and most of Sunday. We were
promised power on Saturday by 3 PM, when that did not happen we rented
generators. The show went on!. Thanks to all the fans, band
and Park Rock Staff who worked with us on Saturday to put on what we had
left of the event when the generators arrived. Sunday was a great
day, the sun shined the fans came out and the music when on and on and
on! The closing acts were great. We lived up to our goal of making
this event a huge end of summer rock concert, the largest in southern
Maryland.
Another good event was the second summer sizzler at the NAS, Patuxent
river. The military enjoyed the show and we have been invited back
for many more events. Another venue for all!
PJMA has opened up two new venues for gig exchange at
Jake and Ale's and Isaacs at Holiday Inn in Solomons. Both
are classy venues that are looking for class acts!
11 Aug
We had a great event on 28 July at the Southern Community Center.
All the band contributed to the well attended event. We are still
waiting for the county to let us know how well we did with the surplus
from the event. The event on 5 Aug was canceled due to last minute
cancellation by the groups that had signed up to play. were are looking
for options to replace the event so that we will have a full lineup for
the Fall Battle of the Bands on 6 Oct at My Brothers Place..
12 July
This was another busy weekend. The Spring Battle of the Bands
Finals at My Brothers Place featured 4 bands to to over 150 fans.
The winner was Blame the Victim who will go on to the grand finals in
Jan 2006. The Part 2 of the Battle of the Bands did not occur due
to some facility problems so instead we were able to have the band play
at the Skate Park. Part 2 BOTB will be rescheduled for a new date.
On Sunday we held our first Touring Band Concert in support of Doctors
without Borders. It was a successful event with over 9 bands
coming from 4 states to perform for the fans and skate boarders.
6 July
The Freedom Fest Concert ended up featuring three great bands Held Under
from Albany NY, Permanent Holiday and Death Among Heroes.
The rain, thunder and lighting hit during the middle of the set with
Death Among Heroes. The county had to close the fairground and we
closed the concert early. Do not miss any of these guys at their
next gig!
25 June
To all of you who stayed home because of the rain you missed some very
good groups that played at the first round of the summer battle of the
band. The Judges had a hard choice between Molotov Valentine and
Remember Daylight. The final winner was RememberDaylight.
They will be playing on 6 Oct at the Summer finals at My Brothers Place.
A special thanks to all the band who made it our to play on such a
gloomy night.
18 June
The Summer Sizzler was rained out on Wed, and got rescheduled for
Thursday. Broken Stigma and Blame the Victim were able to make the
date. The party started off slow but by the end of the night the
pavilion was surrounded by sailor rocking out. We got many request
to come back for future concerts. We should have our next gig at
PAX in late July. The Saturday Spring Concert was also a
successful event, Capsized and Drowning closed the show with their
get down hardcore metal from Delaware.
11 June
Phillips Union from Winchester VA, played both concerts on Friday and
Saturday. A very unusual sound with a SAX. They played for
well over two hours of music with some very sophisticated playing.
We look forwarded to having them back for the Park Rock Fest.
The Farmers Market at Charlotte Hall was filled with many
shoppers, however very few stopped by for the PJMA Spring Fest.
Many of the merchants could not handle the the contemporary rock music
say that the could not hear the customers and people were avoiding the
area due to the loud music. We are very grateful for the support
of the Rite Note Guitar Ship and the owner of the Farmers Market for
allowing us to try out the location for PJMA Spring Fest.
However, PJMA will not be holding any future events there do all the
negative results. We will be looking for a new location for next
years Spring Fest. The good thing for this weekend is PJMA
has obtained a 16 x 20 stage that we can use for indoor and outdoor
events in the future (most important for Park Rock 2006)
4 June
Those of you who were not at the Black Box Theater for the Spotlight
Concert this weekend missed some real good bands. Scott from Nix
the Latter put together two great shows. The Friday concert
featured Downtown Singapore. Amity a band on tour from LA was a
tight group with a great hard rock sound. The Wading Girl appeared both
Friday and Saturday with a intersting mix of hard rock, punk and
country. The Saturday concert featured The Heart String Band who
delighted the audience with a wide range of music style. At the
Coffee Quarter Harvest Fellowship Praise Band and Kristyn Leigh a
fantastic Christian singer from NC
28 May
Between the this blog and the last PJMA has organized 15 events,
including 2 so far of the Memorial weekend. The rock concerts are
all doing well, we have been having good attendance. The regional
bands are have been putting on great shows with good entertainment for
their fans. In an effort to create and share consistent rules for
security PJMA has developed a set of security standards. The new
PJMA security team will be enforcing these rules at all future PJMA
concerts. The security standards and security team guidelines are
available for download on the band resource page of this website.
30 April
Two Awesome concerts this weekend. If anyone had asked in the beginning of the
week how the weekend concerts were going to go, it was looking bad with
all the last minute band changes, competing concerts and Proms at the
local high schools. However, we had full lineups each night,
everyone had good performances, and the fans turned out. As
special thanks to Rise From Ruin who brought in 3 warm-up bands for the
Saturday Battle of the Bands at the Hollywood Rec Center and provided
their band's equipment to play on The band count for that night
was 8 bands! The winners of the Battle of the Bands were Blame the
Victim on Friday and Nervosa on Saturday.
23 April
Our second event at the Calvert Southern Community Center was big
success. All four bands had lots of fans in audience. The
music ranged from classic metal, to emo, pop punk to death metal.
Concurrently we had 4 bands perform at My Brothers Place Inc, in
Waldorf. They to brought in a good size crowd for the season.
17 April
Easter break is over. We had a good time at the Coffee Quarter
with Sapient Dove and Fall Away. Get ready to join PJMA as we
bring on a flood of spring events here in April out to June.
Something for everyone!
5 April
A lot has happened throughout the month of April.
PJMA held 10 event ranging from Winter Battle of the Bands, Spring
Concerts and Coffee House Concerts. PJMA has started a new process
for concert coordination. Bands will be asked to confirm their plans to
play a concert 3 weeks before the event. Bands who do not confirm
will be replace by a band who are confirmed. PJMA and the CBFT
have work out new date and plans for the spring and summer for booking
concerts at the Backbox Theater in Waldorf. Another new addition
to the spring and summer schedule are new date at the Calvert Southern
Community Center. The last announcement is PJMA providing music at
the Patuxent Naval Air Station for a summer picnic for the enlisted
personnel.
27 Feb
Two more rock concerts were held this past weekend (beside the Coffee
House Concert), one well attended and one poorly attended.
The Friday Battle of the Bands had 4 bands competing for the 3rd slot
for the Winter Battle of the Bands Finals on 31 March. The winner
was Semperfy. A special thanks to Fall Away who played a break
slot and provided the Judges even with a sick drummer (Thanks Brian).
The Band Three Fold Trust is to be commended for filling in the 4th Slot
on the program on Friday at 4 PM. There as a last minute
cancellation by Malice Vitality due a change of their band members.
In comparison the Saturday show the band Mass Destruction was a no show,
the Band Droplight has one band member go ill and there was only about
15 fans in the audience compared to Friday with over 200.
The lesson learned is that band need to promote their
performance and selling advance tickets to lock the fans in to coming to
the event, this did not happen with the Saturday event. Also when
a band know in advance that they can not play, a simple e-mail and phone
call will allow someone else in the Alliance to pick up a concert.
Everyone want a is successful event!
23 Feb
This weekend we had our second successful concert at the Calvert
County's Southern Community Center in Lusby. The event was a
battle of the Bands, the winner is Counterminde who will be
playing in the second slot on 31 Mar. The Valentines Concert was
an even more successful event. All the bands who performed we able
to share in the door after paying for the use of the facility and
policeman. The event also marks our return to the Hollywood Rec
Center working under our arrangements where PJMA is more responsible for
the event. We learned that we will need to restart our volunteer
Concert Security Team. Bands participating in future events will
be required to provide one adult (over 18 at least) to be part of
the security team
28 Jan
This weekend PJMA had two concurrent events on Friday. The
Coffee Quarter held the weekly Coffee House Concert with Dan from
Droplight. The second event was a Hip Hop Go Go and Rap Concert at
the Calvert County Southern Community Center. The was the first
event at the venue. Access if a bit confusing becaue you have to
go to the old Solomonds Road now call Truman Road, and then turn west on
to Apeal Road. The room we used has a good size stage and room
that is remarkably clear of clutter. Kevin Brooks organized the
event with 4 bands from 8 to 11 PM. The musician all pitched in
with setup and take down. This was much appreciated. Our
next event at this site is on 17 Feb. Planning for Park Rock has
begun in full swing with the publication of the Park Rock Operating
Plan. It can be download from this website under the General Info
Band Resources page. The Park Rock Executive Committee is fully
formed and we are looking for volunteers to fill the program producing
and event coordination positions. Send e-mail to
Fred@pjma.info to volunteer.
22 Jan
The coffee house concert at the coffee Quarter with the CMS Guitar Club
featured a Fender Strat donated by Nambo Guitar Emporium that will be
raffled off at a fund raiser on 18 Feb for the Tri County Youth llll.
The first part of the Battle of the Bands competed 4 Bands from Calvert
County at My Brothers Place. The winner was Fall Away who scored
the best because of selling all their advance tickets, getting the high
number of votes from the audience and being rated the highest by the
Judges. They will be the first Band to play at the Winter Battle
of the band on 31 March.
16 Jan
This past weekend we has three successful event. The owner of the
Coffee Quarter reports that the music on Friday went well. A special
thanks for Miles for doing the sound. The 2005 Winter Battle of
the Bands Finals had over 250 fans. it was a long evening. There
was a special guest appearance of by member of the former band The
Hurting Truth now with a new line up and new name -Death Among Heroes. The judge was
Paul Throne from P.A.T. Productions. The winner was Count Your
Blessings. The Saturday event was the Spotlight Concert at the
Black Box Theatre. The theater has a capacity crowd to see the
performance by Semperfy, Reflection Factor and Eternal Winter.
This event marked a new relationship with the CBFT. They will be
providing more date and higher sharing of the door with PJMA as the
result of our good effort for the past year.
9 Jan
Both the Coffee House Concert and Winter Concert were well attended and
the music was great. Ernie Keen performed with a full band.
After playing his planned 45 minute set, he can back and play a encore
set closing down the Coffee Quarter. Just before the Winter
Concert on Saturday we sent our a plea for a replacement for Just
Another Hero. Droplight was on online and was able to pull off a
last minute performance bring in a sizable crowd. The other two
bands Semperfy and Count Your Blessings also get a special thanks
because they also filled in for bands that canceled earlier in the week
and played awesome sets with good size audience. Does anyone know
what happened to Fallen Chaos they did not show up for this show or
shows in December?
5 Jan
We have added a small version of the bilog here on the main page of the
PJMA website to give better visibiltiy to the happening of PJMA and to
force me to provide something each week. This Saturday's concert
is a good example of how well all of you help with the PJMA events.
We have had several changes in the band lineup all filled by other
members. Thanks to the PJMA members we have a great line-up and it
will the a rocking concert.
30 May
PJMA held a Thank You Party for all the bands and volunteers at Park
Rock 2004. There was an equal number of band members and fans came
and joined the celebrations. Bands were jamming on the stage
from 2 PM to 10 PM. The fans from Eternal Winter, and Reign Within know
how to party!
7 May
Or thanks to the all four band who played this eveing. In Tyler We
Trust came and played with substutie members and then rushed off to make
thier school PROM. Army of None too came despite thier internal
striff to play thier set. Rivera never appeared. This is the
thier time they have not showed up for an event and will not be able to
play in future events.
6 May
We held our second Christian Coffee House at the IHM Church Hall.
The groups varied from folk rock to contemporary to metal. The
unexpected hit of the night was Stones Overtunrned. Their heavy
metal sound and Christian theme was a crowd pleaser with the youth who
attended the event. The night closed with Crosseyed. The are
looking for a new name to reflect their current new members of their
group. Crosseyed made a great closing act for the evening. The IHM
youth group will be making this one of their annual events.
30 April
This was the first show that we have held at Carver Rec Center in the
Multi-Media Room. All the way around it was a better location at
that site for our current concerts. The sound was better.
The audience was closer. The access was better. However the
almost all out of county bands program did not bring in the crowd.
We have experience this in the past and will avoid having this kind of
mix in the future. As for the groups Catching Thieves and
Semperfy were impressive. The other band played well too.
4 April
The recording of the State of Rock took a new approach with the event
being held at My Brothers Place. Despite a delayed start all 4
bands got their chance to be recorded for future cable TV broadcast.
The plan is to edit the show and get it shown on St Marys and Charles
County Public Access. The Baltimore connection to Musicworkz has
not produced any shows. We will continue to interface with them to
see what can be done to improve their support.
23 April
This event was to feature Lividity, however their drummer broke his leg
so they could not play. Eva however did a great service by
continuing to support the event by getting a replacements bands. putting
out flyers, and coming to support the event. A special thanks to
Brambledon Productions how came down from La Plata to provide the sound
for the event. The spring concert brought to the scene the group
Electric Citizens who played a great set of alternative music.
Stealth Waffles, Flashbasket and Droplight rounded out the night with
their high energy sounds.
22 April
This was a sad day for our efforts for the Coffee House Concerts in
Leonardtown. The two groups that were to play did not.
One canceled and other did not show. We filled the time with a
short performance by Fred and Sue Heather. However no one appeared to
listen to the music. A week later the owner of the shop sent an
e-mail advising that he was not going to support concert for the future
due to the poor attendance. All coffee house concerts henceforth
are being held at the Coffee Quarter.
1 April
The group Bond Ambition preformed at the Coffee Quarter. She
played an amazing set with a good size crowd. Her song about being
a St Maries resident is was the high point of the evening.
April 9
We just wrapped up the Winter Battle of the Bands and right in to spring
battle. The Bands did well with the ticket sale and brought in a
good size crowd for their audience. It was clear from the audience
that it was going to be close between Malice Vitality and Three Fold
Trust. This night marked the first performance ever of Malice
Vitality. Some where between death metal and hardcore the put on a
growled out some great songs. The second act
dEbRiS. Lacking a following but still put on
some good tunes. Cut Throat Policy has undergone several change
over the past year, all to their better in playing hardcore. Three
Fold Trust with their EMO to hardcore style captured the audience with
the closing act. The winner was Malice Vitality with high sores in
ticket sales and audience vote. Thanks to the judges picked out by
the bands who helped score this weeks bands.
April 8
The Winter Battle of the Bands Finals was held at My Brothers Place in Waldorf. There were over 280 fans that came to see Arsenic, Postscript Apologies, Define New Ara and Avenue compete. Define New Ara was a replacement for Lividity who unfortunately could not play because of an injured drummer. It was clear from the audience attendance that it was going to be close between Arsenic and Avenue. All the band played well. Even DNA who came on a 3 hour drive from western MD, and were suffering from the flue introduced the audience to their unique combination of RAP, soul, and rocking metal. The winners were Arsenic who got First Prize (Recording with KMH Studio), Avenue with Second Place (Recording with Brambledon Productions), DNA with Third Place (Recording with Test Box Studio), and Postscript Apologies with Fourth Place (Recording with My Brother's Place Studio)
March 19
The last
of the Winter Battle of the Bands was held at Hollywood Rec Center. On
that Saturday afternoon there was a last minute replacement of Ad Astra with
The Untold Story. The success of the evening was in question due to the
majority of the bands were out of county and the last minute change however
we had one of the best concerts in a long time. The success can be
attributed to the hard efforts of Avenue who worked the new advance ticket
sale to their advantage to attract the crowd. Needless to say
Avenue won first place followed by Life Goes On in second place, Depotts, in third place and
Untold Story in fourth place
March 25
The 2004 Battle of the Band Grand Finals was held at My Brothers Place. There were two judges; one each from DCide Records and DC 101. The band Flashbasket had replaced Second Sunrise in the competition due to change in the band. Each of the winners were given a special engraved Lucite monolith award with the PJMA Log and encryption citing the event and winning place. First Place went to Amaranth, second place was Flashbasket, third was Cut Throat Policy and fourth place was Stealth Waffles