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Livestreaming at The Mainstay!
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Thank you to all of the wonderful supporters and Mainstay audience members who have been tuning in to our streaming content. Our live streams from The Mainstay continue October 11 with the Tom Lagana Trio!
Since March 30, The Mainstay has been offering free concerts live on our Facebook page every Monday evening from performers' homes. Due to the amazing audience response, we are keeping these shows going!
Also, please remember that all of the Facebook shows we have done so far are archived for your repeated viewing pleasure HERE. Most of the videos still include a link for the performers' Venmo or PayPal accounts, so if you enjoy their music, please send a little love (i.e. money) their way! The majority of our artists have lost all of their performing work for 2020, and their only compensation for these Monday night shows comes from your generous tips.
If you are enjoying the content that we are producing during this strange time in all our lives, please consider supporting The Mainstay so that we can continue to bring live music to your home throughout the COVID crisis and beyond. From financial donations, to sponsoring particular artist or presentation, to volunteer work, there are a variety of ways that you can help The Mainstay. Find out more HERE.
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Did you know changes to charitable giving tax deductions included in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, & Economic Security (CARES) Act will allow taxpayers who don't itemize their deductions to now deduct charitable contributions up to $300 on their tax return?
Click below to donate online or mail a check to PO Box 238, Rock Hall, MD 21661.
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October 11 at 7pm
$5 Streaming Access
STREAMING ONLY
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Tune in to The Mainstay LIVE on Friday October 9 to hear versatile jazz guitarist Tom Lagana and his Trio. $5 Streaming pass.
Guitarist Tom Lagana has been steadily building a strong reputation as a multi-faceted artist in the mid-Atlantic region. As a jazz guitarist and bandleader in clubs, festivals, and recordings, as a classical guitarist in master classes and with orchestras, as an educator, and as a composer, Lagana has garnered respect for his creativity, musical integrity, and devotion to his craft.
After graduating from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Lagana went to work as the guitarist for the Walt Disney Jazz Band in Orlando, Florida. Upon his return to his home state of Maryland, he was recognized by jazz legend Charlie Byrd as "one of the most promising jazz guitarists in the area." Byrd invited Lagana to sit in with him on several occasions, paving the way for the Tom Lagana Trio to become the house band at Byrd's venue of choice, The King of France Tavern in Annapolis, three nights a week for over a year.
Lagana took his professional education to a new level by obtaining a Masters in Music at Towson University with a dual focus on both jazz and classical guitar performance. While at Towson, Lagana was awarded second prize in the prestigious Sidney Lieberman Competition. Normally won by pianists, Lagana was the first guitarist to be recognized in the history of that competition.
Lagana's work in higher education has not been limited to musical performance: His in-depth analysis of the work of Pat Metheny was published by Just Jazz Guitar magazine in two issues in 2005 and was endorsed by Metheny himself. Following up on his academic successes, Lagana has served on the faculty at Towson University as well as in his current position at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Mainstay streaming concerts are brought to you via private Youtube link. You will receive a confirmation email when you purchase the ticket. 30 minutes before the show, the link will go live, and you can accesss it through your confirmation email. The link will remain active for seven days for your repeated viewing pleasure. Streaming access to the archived concert will also continue to be available for seven days through our ticketing site if you missed the livestream.
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Monday Night LIVE
Stephen Phillip Harvey
September 28 at 7pm
FREE on Facebook
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Join us Monday September 28 at 7pm for an interview with saxophonist, composer, and educator Stephen Phillip Harvey. We'll learn more about him and his music, and will premiere two recordings of his virtual big band!
Stephen P. Harvey (1992), is a American saxophonist, composer, arranger, and educator.
As a musician and bandleader, Stephen has performed extensively in Western Pennsylvania, Northeast Ohio, and the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Several projects under his belt include his jazz duo/trio Harvey Allen, his mid-sized jazz combo SPH8, and his large ensemble the Stephen Philip Harvey Jazz Orchestra. He's also performed professionally with the First Class Big Band, The Akron Symphony Big Band, The Ohio Players, The Youngstown Jazz Collective, The Big Nasty, The Black Wolf and the Thief, The Vindy's, The House of Leaves Band, and other musical projects. On May 6, 2016, he released his debut album as composer and bandleader: Suite Childhood.
As a composer and arranger, Stephen has worked with a diverse array of musicians and instrumentations; composing for solo instrument to wind ensemble, jazz combo to large ensembles. It is his practice to funnel his eclectic musical background into his compositions, fusing Jazz and Classical with Popular, Funk, Hip-Hop, Rock, and Gospel. His compositions have been performed by ensembles at the Eastman School of Music, New York University, the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, Youngstown State University, Seton Hill University, and Westminster College. Stephen has also collaborated with avant-garde jazz artist Roscoe Mitchell, with his project Conversation for Orchestra, which has been performed by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the SEM Ensemble of Brooklyn, NY.
As an educator, Stephen has held instructional positions at all levels of education in diverse areas of music education. He's taught in environments such as summer camp, marching band, K-12 public school and postsecondary applied music and academic subjects. He is currently employed by the Wicomico County Board of Education as a choir director at Wicomico High School and at Youngstown State University as an adjunct faculty. He has previously taught at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore as an adjunct instructor. Stephen is an alumnus of Youngstown State University ('16, MM - Jazz Studies) and Seton Hill University ('14, BM - Music Education). He has studied composition and arranging under Ryan Truesdell, Dr. David Morgan, Dr. John Marcinizyn, and Dr. Ted DiSanti. He's had a wide array of performance studies under Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, Dr. Kent Engelhardt, Dr. John Seybert, Eric DeFade, Lisa Thackrah (reeds), Dr. Alton Merrell, Theron Brown (jazz improv), and Curt Scheib (voice) Remember, this is a FREE show, and all you have to do is go to The Mainstay Facebook Page (not our website) to view the concert. When the concert is live, you just have to scroll down the page past our logo and photo, and you will arrive at the video in progress. If for some reason you still can't see the video, click on the "Videos" tab, and the live video and all of our other recent live-streamed videos will be right there. If you are watching on a laptop or desktop, rembember to turn up both the volume in the Facebook window and the volume on your computer.
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