The Bluebird

A romantic, literary themed cocktail bar in Hampden, Baltimore.

The Bluebird Jazz Session with Charlie Ballantine
Mar
12
8:00 PM20:00

The Bluebird Jazz Session with Charlie Ballantine

Join us every Thursday night from 8-11 PM in The Green Room at The Bluebird for an unforgettable Jazz Session!

Led by the renowned guitarist Charlie Ballantine, with Brendan Bailey on drums and Hamilton Price on bass, this straight-ahead jam session brings together top-tier musicianship and an intimate atmosphere. Whether you're a jazz enthusiast or just looking for a great way to wind down your weekend, this is the place to be. Come experience the magic of live jazz.

No cover, all ages welcome!

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Wit, Whiskey & Mischief 🍀
Mar
13
to Mar 14

Wit, Whiskey & Mischief 🍀

  • The Green Room at The Bluebird (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Wit, Words & Mischief 🍀

From Friday the 13th through St. Patrick’s Day, we’re celebrating the storytellers of Ireland.

In the Cocktail Room, you’ll find a menu of special cocktails inspired by Irish literary tradition and a few well-chosen words scattered throughout the room.

And this Friday night only, the Pub will be open downstairs for a little Friday the 13th mischief. Draw a fortune at the bar and see if luck is on your side.

March 13–17, Open Daily at 5pm


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Wit, Whiskey & Mischief 🍀
Mar
14
to Mar 15

Wit, Whiskey & Mischief 🍀

  • The Green Room at The Bluebird (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Wit, Words & Mischief 🍀

From Friday the 13th through St. Patrick’s Day, we’re celebrating the storytellers of Ireland.

In the Cocktail Room, you’ll find a menu of special cocktails inspired by Irish literary tradition and a few well-chosen words scattered throughout the room.

And this Friday night only, the Pub will be open downstairs for a little Friday the 13th mischief. Draw a fortune at the bar and see if luck is on your side.

March 13–17, Open Daily at 5pm


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Wit, Whiskey & Mischief 🍀
Mar
15
to Mar 16

Wit, Whiskey & Mischief 🍀

  • The Green Room at The Bluebird (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Wit, Words & Mischief 🍀

From Friday the 13th through St. Patrick’s Day, we’re celebrating the storytellers of Ireland.

In the Cocktail Room, you’ll find a menu of special cocktails inspired by Irish literary tradition and a few well-chosen words scattered throughout the room.

And this Friday night only, the Pub will be open downstairs for a little Friday the 13th mischief. Draw a fortune at the bar and see if luck is on your side.

March 13–17, Open Daily at 5pm


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Wit, Whiskey & Mischief 🍀
Mar
16
to Mar 17

Wit, Whiskey & Mischief 🍀

  • The Green Room at The Bluebird (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Wit, Words & Mischief 🍀

From Friday the 13th through St. Patrick’s Day, we’re celebrating the storytellers of Ireland.

In the Cocktail Room, you’ll find a menu of special cocktails inspired by Irish literary tradition and a few well-chosen words scattered throughout the room.

And this Friday night only, the Pub will be open downstairs for a little Friday the 13th mischief. Draw a fortune at the bar and see if luck is on your side.

March 13–17, Open Daily at 5pm


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Django Jazz Jam
Mar
16
6:30 PM18:30

Django Jazz Jam

Hosted every Monday night in the Green Room. No cover and open to all ages!

Guitarist Michael Joseph Harris started the Monday Django Jazz Jam in the winter of 2012 to build community around the music of Django Reinhardt and traditional jazz. The popular Monday was awarded Best Monday Night by City Paper.

Music from 6:30-10pm.

Hosted by Michael Joseph Harris and the Hot Club of Baltimore.

The Hot Club of Baltimore performs inspired arrangements of the Django Reinhardt repertoire, French waltzes, and Trad Jazz. The ensemble boasts a variety of configurations including an instrumental trio of two guitars and upright bass, a classic quintet with violin, a late 40's instrumentation adding piano, drums, and horns, and a Django Big Band, which emulates the sound of the early 50's when Reinhardt performed with Duke Ellington.”

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Wit, Whiskey & Mischief 🍀
Mar
17
to Mar 18

Wit, Whiskey & Mischief 🍀

  • The Green Room at The Bluebird (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Wit, Words & Mischief 🍀

From Friday the 13th through St. Patrick’s Day, we’re celebrating the storytellers of Ireland.

In the Cocktail Room, you’ll find a menu of special cocktails inspired by Irish literary tradition and a few well-chosen words scattered throughout the room.

And this Friday night only, the Pub will be open downstairs for a little Friday the 13th mischief. Draw a fortune at the bar and see if luck is on your side.

March 13–17, Open Daily at 5pm


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Bluegrass Jam
Mar
17
7:00 PM19:00

Bluegrass Jam

  • The Green Room at The Bluebird (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Alex Lacquement & Friends lead the Baltimore Bluegrass Jam from 7-10pm for a jam featuring bluegrass songs and instrumentals. Come with a song or two to lead - or just show up and jam along. Door open at 6pm.

About the venue - The Green Room is a gorgeous event space with wonderful acoustics, a cozy vibe, plenty of room for the jammers and viewers, great drinks of all sorts (beer, wine, cocktails, non-alcoholic options) and awesome food. It is the former location of De Kleine Duivel, a Belgian beer hall. They host a Django jazz jam on Monday nights. For you long-term jammers, it evokes the best of Liam Flynn's and Five & Dime combined. 

Best of all, the jam is FREE! & open to all ages

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The Bluebird Jazz Session with Charlie Ballantine
Mar
19
8:00 PM20:00

The Bluebird Jazz Session with Charlie Ballantine

Join us every Thursday night from 8-11 PM in The Green Room at The Bluebird for an unforgettable Jazz Session!

Led by the renowned guitarist Charlie Ballantine, with Brendan Bailey on drums and Hamilton Price on bass, this straight-ahead jam session brings together top-tier musicianship and an intimate atmosphere. Whether you're a jazz enthusiast or just looking for a great way to wind down your weekend, this is the place to be. Come experience the magic of live jazz.

No cover, all ages welcome!

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Smut Slam Baltimore: March
Mar
20
8:00 PM20:00

Smut Slam Baltimore: March

Play sexy games, win sexy prizes at this inclusive real-life storytelling open mic-- a perfect date night at a swanky cocktail lounge!

Pucker up and kiss our blarney stones, Slamily! As we do our walk of GAME (no shame here!) across the finish line of winter, spring fever's got us all feeling frisky and ready to roll the dice on a new season of sexytimes. Let's meet up to revel in the stories that are the absolute GOLD at the end of the rainbow!

This month, our theme of "Gettin' Lucky" has space for all your steamy shenanigans. Talk to us about the wild night that almost wasn't. Clue us in on whether that shillelagh had more thud or sting. Or did you adopt a puppy boi named Lucky? Your wish come true is our good fortune to hear about. PLUS! It's our second anniversary of Smut Slam Baltimore, so enjoy the tales of birthday spankings or caked-up celebrations.

(Not familiar with Smut Slam? It’s a storytelling open mic where audience members sign up for 5-minute slots to tell their best real-life, first-person, consensual sex stories. It’s queer-friendly, kink-friendly, lifestyle-friendly, body-positive, sex-positive, and wildly fun. No costumes, no notes, no gimmicks, just straight-up raw truth! Don't have a story that's on theme? That's okay-- the theme is just a suggestion!)

As always, we have the Fuckbucket where audience members can throw in anonymous confessions or questions to enter the free raffle for a smutty prize courtesy of our sponsor, Uberlube . All storytellers will get a little swag bag to reward their courage, and we've got some fabulous storytelling prize packs on tap for our top three tellers, too—you could win a sexy little something to keep the party going at home!

Your fabulous femme-cee is longtime Smut Slam Baltimore/DC producer and burlesque performer Diva Darling, joined by a panel of local celebrity judges who want to know if you LIKE like them, please check yes or no.

Join us before the show to enjoy light pub fare and sample the decadent cocktail and mocktail menu. Get your copy of Anonymous Sex, the Smut Slam International book edited and signed by Diva.


This event has been selling out in presales, so door tickets may or may not be available. However, should they be available, they are $25 payable in cash, PayPal, Venmo, or CashApp. If the show is sold out but you want to take a chance on waiting, the Bluebird has two other bar rooms where you can enjoy food and drinks. We recommend arriving close to 7, asking the door person to take your name for the wait list, and coming back at about 7:50 to see if we've had no-shows or last-minute cancellations and can sell you a ticket. Usually we can, but buying in advance is better-- you can get a refund up to the day before the show if you can't make it.

Tickets: $15 early bird, $20 presale, $25 door

(want to give back to your community? Can't make the show, but want to help others attend? Choose the "contribute to gift tickets" option to fund community tickets for those in economic hardship! Gift tickets are made available as they're funded, no questions asked-- please only take one if you actually need it and if not, save them for those who do. We especially encourage federal workers who are on administrative leave or fired to enjoy a gift ticket, so please consider supporting them!)

Doors: 7:00pm

Show: 8:00pm

Hosted and Produced by: Diva Darling

Diva Darling is the producer and femme-cee of the standing-room-only sex-themed storytelling show Smut Slam DC, and now of Smut Slam Baltimore and co-producer of the just-debuted Smut Slam Greater Philly (with Lola Kat). She is proud to have helped Smut Slam International creator Cameryn Moore develop the very first franchise show with DC. She's a sex educator, nightlife/event producer, and writer by day. She's also a burlesque performer and teacher, an actor, playwright/producer, and an author whose short story "Frenzy" was released last year in Best Women's Erotica of the Year Vol. 8. She's a popular presenter and producer at Nerd Nite DC, leads a polyamory discussion group at the DC Center for the LGBTQ+ Community, and hosts the SpeakTeasy burlesque show. Follow her at divanations.com.

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Django Jazz Jam
Mar
23
6:30 PM18:30

Django Jazz Jam

Hosted every Monday night in the Green Room. No cover and open to all ages!

Guitarist Michael Joseph Harris started the Monday Django Jazz Jam in the winter of 2012 to build community around the music of Django Reinhardt and traditional jazz. The popular Monday was awarded Best Monday Night by City Paper.

Music from 6:30-10pm.

Hosted by Michael Joseph Harris and the Hot Club of Baltimore.

The Hot Club of Baltimore performs inspired arrangements of the Django Reinhardt repertoire, French waltzes, and Trad Jazz. The ensemble boasts a variety of configurations including an instrumental trio of two guitars and upright bass, a classic quintet with violin, a late 40's instrumentation adding piano, drums, and horns, and a Django Big Band, which emulates the sound of the early 50's when Reinhardt performed with Duke Ellington.”

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Old Time Jam
Mar
24
7:00 PM19:00

Old Time Jam

  • The Green Room at The Bluebird (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Ken & Brad Kolodner lead the Baltimore Old Time Jam from every other Tuesday night 7-10pm. The first hour of the jam will be a "slow jam" so anyone can hop in and play along at a moderate tempo. From 8-10pm, they'll kick up the tempo for the "fast jam." Imagine a sea of fiddles, banjos, guitars and more all swelling together in a chorus of joyous tunes!

Letitia Van San leads an Early Country Sing from 6-7pm

On the opposite Tuesdays, Alex Lacquement & Friends will lead the Baltimore Bluegrass Jam from 7-10pm for a jam featuring bluegrass songs and instrumentals. Come with a song or two to lead - or just show up and jam along.

Best of all, the jam is FREE! & open to all ages

Doors open at 6pm.

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Chess Night in the Pub ♟️
Mar
26
5:00 PM17:00

Chess Night in the Pub ♟️

Join us the last Thursday of the month from 5–9pm for a casual chess night in the Pub, hosted by our bartender Drew.


We’ll have a house set available, and we encourage guests to bring their own boards if they have them. Drop in for a game, challenge a stranger, or cozy up with a drink and watch or mingle.
Drink specials available all night!


All levels welcome.

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The Bluebird Jazz Session with Charlie Ballantine
Mar
26
8:00 PM20:00

The Bluebird Jazz Session with Charlie Ballantine

Join us every Thursday night from 8-11 PM in The Green Room at The Bluebird for an unforgettable Jazz Session!

Led by the renowned guitarist Charlie Ballantine, with Brendan Bailey on drums and Hamilton Price on bass, this straight-ahead jam session brings together top-tier musicianship and an intimate atmosphere. Whether you're a jazz enthusiast or just looking for a great way to wind down your weekend, this is the place to be. Come experience the magic of live jazz.

No cover, all ages welcome!

View Event →
Django Jazz Jam
Mar
30
6:30 PM18:30

Django Jazz Jam

Hosted every Monday night in the Green Room. No cover and open to all ages!

Guitarist Michael Joseph Harris started the Monday Django Jazz Jam in the winter of 2012 to build community around the music of Django Reinhardt and traditional jazz. The popular Monday was awarded Best Monday Night by City Paper.

Music from 6:30-10pm.

Hosted by Michael Joseph Harris and the Hot Club of Baltimore.

The Hot Club of Baltimore performs inspired arrangements of the Django Reinhardt repertoire, French waltzes, and Trad Jazz. The ensemble boasts a variety of configurations including an instrumental trio of two guitars and upright bass, a classic quintet with violin, a late 40's instrumentation adding piano, drums, and horns, and a Django Big Band, which emulates the sound of the early 50's when Reinhardt performed with Duke Ellington.”

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The Bluebird Jazz Session with Charlie Ballantine
Apr
2
8:00 PM20:00

The Bluebird Jazz Session with Charlie Ballantine

Join us every Thursday night from 8-11 PM in The Green Room at The Bluebird for an unforgettable Jazz Session!

Led by the renowned guitarist Charlie Ballantine, with Brendan Bailey on drums and Hamilton Price on bass, this straight-ahead jam session brings together top-tier musicianship and an intimate atmosphere. Whether you're a jazz enthusiast or just looking for a great way to wind down your weekend, this is the place to be. Come experience the magic of live jazz.

No cover, all ages welcome!

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Chess Night in the Pub ♟️
Apr
30
5:00 PM17:00

Chess Night in the Pub ♟️

Join us the last Thursday of the month from 5–9pm for a casual chess night in the Pub, hosted by our bartender Drew.


We’ll have a house set available, and we encourage guests to bring their own boards if they have them. Drop in for a game, challenge a stranger, or cozy up with a drink and watch or mingle.
Drink specials available all night!


All levels welcome.

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Old Time Jam
Mar
10
7:00 PM19:00

Old Time Jam

  • The Green Room at The Bluebird (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Ken & Brad Kolodner lead the Baltimore Old Time Jam from every other Tuesday night 7-10pm. The first hour of the jam will be a "slow jam" so anyone can hop in and play along at a moderate tempo. From 8-10pm, they'll kick up the tempo for the "fast jam." Imagine a sea of fiddles, banjos, guitars and more all swelling together in a chorus of joyous tunes!

Letitia Van San leads an Early Country Sing from 6-7pm

On the opposite Tuesdays, Alex Lacquement & Friends will lead the Baltimore Bluegrass Jam from 7-10pm for a jam featuring bluegrass songs and instrumentals. Come with a song or two to lead - or just show up and jam along.

Best of all, the jam is FREE! & open to all ages

Doors open at 6pm.

View Event →
Django Jazz Jam
Mar
9
6:30 PM18:30

Django Jazz Jam

Hosted every Monday night in the Green Room. No cover and open to all ages!

Guitarist Michael Joseph Harris started the Monday Django Jazz Jam in the winter of 2012 to build community around the music of Django Reinhardt and traditional jazz. The popular Monday was awarded Best Monday Night by City Paper.

Music from 6:30-10pm.

Hosted by Michael Joseph Harris and the Hot Club of Baltimore.

The Hot Club of Baltimore performs inspired arrangements of the Django Reinhardt repertoire, French waltzes, and Trad Jazz. The ensemble boasts a variety of configurations including an instrumental trio of two guitars and upright bass, a classic quintet with violin, a late 40's instrumentation adding piano, drums, and horns, and a Django Big Band, which emulates the sound of the early 50's when Reinhardt performed with Duke Ellington.”

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The Bluebird Jazz Session with Charlie Ballantine
Mar
5
8:00 PM20:00

The Bluebird Jazz Session with Charlie Ballantine

Join us every Thursday night from 8-11 PM in The Green Room at The Bluebird for an unforgettable Jazz Session!

Led by the renowned guitarist Charlie Ballantine, with Brendan Bailey on drums and Hamilton Price on bass, this straight-ahead jam session brings together top-tier musicianship and an intimate atmosphere. Whether you're a jazz enthusiast or just looking for a great way to wind down your weekend, this is the place to be. Come experience the magic of live jazz.

No cover, all ages welcome!

View Event →
Bluegrass Jam
Mar
3
7:00 PM19:00

Bluegrass Jam

Alex Lacquement & Friends lead the Baltimore Bluegrass Jam from 7-10pm for a jam featuring bluegrass songs and instrumentals. Come with a song or two to lead - or just show up and jam along. Door open at 6pm.

About the venue - The Green Room is a gorgeous event space with wonderful acoustics, a cozy vibe, plenty of room for the jammers and viewers, great drinks of all sorts (beer, wine, cocktails, non-alcoholic options) and awesome food. It is the former location of De Kleine Duivel, a Belgian beer hall. They host a Django jazz jam on Monday nights. For you long-term jammers, it evokes the best of Liam Flynn's and Five & Dime combined. 

Best of all, the jam is FREE! & open to all ages

View Event →
Django Jazz Jam
Mar
2
6:30 PM18:30

Django Jazz Jam

Hosted every Monday night in the Green Room. No cover and open to all ages!

Guitarist Michael Joseph Harris started the Monday Django Jazz Jam in the winter of 2012 to build community around the music of Django Reinhardt and traditional jazz. The popular Monday was awarded Best Monday Night by City Paper.

Music from 6:30-10pm.

Hosted by Michael Joseph Harris and the Hot Club of Baltimore.

The Hot Club of Baltimore performs inspired arrangements of the Django Reinhardt repertoire, French waltzes, and Trad Jazz. The ensemble boasts a variety of configurations including an instrumental trio of two guitars and upright bass, a classic quintet with violin, a late 40's instrumentation adding piano, drums, and horns, and a Django Big Band, which emulates the sound of the early 50's when Reinhardt performed with Duke Ellington.”

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11th Annual Charm City Django Jazz Fest: Vintage Paris Swing Party at The Bluebird
Feb
28
to Mar 1

11th Annual Charm City Django Jazz Fest: Vintage Paris Swing Party at The Bluebird

Step into 1930s and 1940s Paris for an unforgettable night of Gypsy jazz at The Bluebird as part of the 11th Annual Charm City Django Jazz Fest.

On Saturday, February 28, The Bluebird transforms into a Vintage Paris Swing Party featuring two simultaneous experiences under one roof. In The Green Room, a full live band led by Natalie Hanna Mendoza and Luca Pino brings high-energy swing for dancing all night long. Downstairs in the Whiskey Pub, Le Jazz Hot Quintette presents an intimate listening concert celebrating the early Django Reinhardt sound.

Concert doors open at 7PM. Enjoy the freedom to move between spaces — dance in The Green Room or settle in downstairs for an immersive tribute to Django’s legendary acoustic guitar style.

Earlier that afternoon, The Green Room hosts music and dance workshops, including jazz violin, Django-style guitar, Gypsy jazz techniques, a facilitated jam session, and Balboa dance classes. All Saturday ticket holders receive free admission to the 4PM and 5PM dance classes.

Please note: The dance is 18+ and the Whiskey Pub is 21+. The Bluebird space includes several steps and does not have wheelchair access for Saturday evening events.

Low ticket alert — this event is nearly sold out.

Buy your tickets here: https://app.tickethive.com/e/charm-city-django-jazz-fest-2

See full festival details: DjangoJazzFest.com

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CANCELLED- The Bluebird Jazz Session  Charlie Ballantine
Feb
26
8:00 PM20:00

CANCELLED- The Bluebird Jazz Session Charlie Ballantine

Join us every Thursday night from 8-11 PM in The Green Room at The Bluebird for an unforgettable Jazz Session!

Led by the renowned guitarist Charlie Ballantine, with Brendan Bailey on drums and Hamilton Price on bass, this straight-ahead jam session brings together top-tier musicianship and an intimate atmosphere. Whether you're a jazz enthusiast or just looking for a great way to wind down your weekend, this is the place to be. Come experience the magic of live jazz.

No cover, all ages welcome!

View Event →
Chess Night in the Pub ♟️
Feb
26
5:00 PM17:00

Chess Night in the Pub ♟️

Join us the last Thursday of the month from 5–9pm for a casual chess night in the Pub, hosted by our bartender Drew.


We’ll have a house set available, and we encourage guests to bring their own boards if they have them. Drop in for a game, challenge a stranger, or cozy up with a drink and watch or mingle.
Drink specials available all night!


All levels welcome.

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Irish Music Night with Seamus Wick and Patrick Winch
Feb
25
6:00 PM18:00

Irish Music Night with Seamus Wick and Patrick Winch

The Baltimore Irish Music School returns for an evening of live traditional music and community gathering.

Schedule:
🎻 Youth Session — 6–7pm
🎶 Concert featuring Seamus Wick (fiddle) & Patrick Winch (guitar) — 7–8pm
🎵 Open Jam — 8–10pm (all are welcome to listen or join in)

No cover charge — donations to the musicians are greatly appreciated.

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Old Time Jam
Feb
24
7:00 PM19:00

Old Time Jam

  • The Green Room at The Bluebird (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Ken & Brad Kolodner lead the Baltimore Old Time Jam from every other Tuesday night 7-10pm. The first hour of the jam will be a "slow jam" so anyone can hop in and play along at a moderate tempo. From 8-10pm, they'll kick up the tempo for the "fast jam." Imagine a sea of fiddles, banjos, guitars and more all swelling together in a chorus of joyous tunes!

Letitia Van San leads an Early Country Sing from 6-7pm

On the opposite Tuesdays, Alex Lacquement & Friends will lead the Baltimore Bluegrass Jam from 7-10pm for a jam featuring bluegrass songs and instrumentals. Come with a song or two to lead - or just show up and jam along.

Best of all, the jam is FREE! & open to all ages

Doors open at 6pm.

View Event →
Django Jazz Jam
Feb
23
6:30 PM18:30

Django Jazz Jam

  • The Green Room at The Bluebird (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Hosted every Monday night in the Green Room. No cover and open to all ages!

Guitarist Michael Joseph Harris started the Monday Django Jazz Jam in the winter of 2012 to build community around the music of Django Reinhardt and traditional jazz. The popular Monday was awarded Best Monday Night by City Paper.

Music from 6:30-10pm.

Hosted by Michael Joseph Harris and the Hot Club of Baltimore.

The Hot Club of Baltimore performs inspired arrangements of the Django Reinhardt repertoire, French waltzes, and Trad Jazz. The ensemble boasts a variety of configurations including an instrumental trio of two guitars and upright bass, a classic quintet with violin, a late 40's instrumentation adding piano, drums, and horns, and a Django Big Band, which emulates the sound of the early 50's when Reinhardt performed with Duke Ellington.”

View Event →
The Bluebird Jazz Session with Charlie Ballantine
Feb
19
8:00 PM20:00

The Bluebird Jazz Session with Charlie Ballantine

Join us every Thursday night from 8-11 PM in The Green Room at The Bluebird for an unforgettable Jazz Session!

Led by the renowned guitarist Charlie Ballantine, with Brendan Bailey on drums and Hamilton Price on bass, this straight-ahead jam session brings together top-tier musicianship and an intimate atmosphere. Whether you're a jazz enthusiast or just looking for a great way to wind down your weekend, this is the place to be. Come experience the magic of live jazz.

No cover, all ages welcome!

View Event →
Bluegrass Jam
Feb
17
7:00 PM19:00

Bluegrass Jam

  • The Green Room at The Bluebird (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Alex Lacquement & Friends lead the Baltimore Bluegrass Jam from 7-10pm for a jam featuring bluegrass songs and instrumentals. Come with a song or two to lead - or just show up and jam along. Door open at 6pm.

About the venue - The Green Room is a gorgeous event space with wonderful acoustics, a cozy vibe, plenty of room for the jammers and viewers, great drinks of all sorts (beer, wine, cocktails, non-alcoholic options) and awesome food. It is the former location of De Kleine Duivel, a Belgian beer hall. They host a Django jazz jam on Monday nights. For you long-term jammers, it evokes the best of Liam Flynn's and Five & Dime combined. 

Best of all, the jam is FREE! & open to all ages

View Event →
Django Jazz Jam
Feb
16
6:30 PM18:30

Django Jazz Jam

  • The Green Room at The Bluebird (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Hosted every Monday night in the Green Room. No cover and open to all ages!

Guitarist Michael Joseph Harris started the Monday Django Jazz Jam in the winter of 2012 to build community around the music of Django Reinhardt and traditional jazz. The popular Monday was awarded Best Monday Night by City Paper.

Music from 6:30-10pm.

Hosted by Michael Joseph Harris and the Hot Club of Baltimore.

The Hot Club of Baltimore performs inspired arrangements of the Django Reinhardt repertoire, French waltzes, and Trad Jazz. The ensemble boasts a variety of configurations including an instrumental trio of two guitars and upright bass, a classic quintet with violin, a late 40's instrumentation adding piano, drums, and horns, and a Django Big Band, which emulates the sound of the early 50's when Reinhardt performed with Duke Ellington.”

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Smut Slam Baltimore: Exes and Oh's
Feb
13
8:00 PM20:00

Smut Slam Baltimore: Exes and Oh's

Play sexy games, win sexy prizes at this inclusive real-life storytelling open mic-- a perfect date night at a swanky cocktail lounge!

Is Valentine's Day your high holiday of schmoop, or do you embrace more of a Massacre aesthetic? Either way, your Slamily is here for your tales of twitterpation or sheer pettiness! Smut Slam Baltimore is A WEEK EARLY this month, landing us right in the heart of hearts-and-flowers season. Grab your Galentine's squad, plan your steamy Valentine's date night, or even come solo and make new friends as we gather to share stories of carnal cupidity.

This month, our theme of "Exes and Oh's" holds space for both your heartquake and your heartbreak. What happened in that moment of weakness when you fell back into bed with your irresistible ex? Tell us about your most luxuriously romantic dalliance. Regale us with stories of your defiant Tinder hookup on an otherwise-solo V-day. How did you flip off couple culture with a sexy solo celebration? We're suckers for love in all its forms, so give us your best sagas, whether funny, sweet, sad, cringe, or delightfully perverted! BONUS: Diva's decided you're all her Valentines, so look for treats...

(Not familiar with Smut Slam? It’s a storytelling open mic where audience members sign up for 5-minute slots to tell their best real-life, first-person, consensual sex stories. It’s queer-friendly, kink-friendly, lifestyle-friendly, body-positive, sex-positive, and wildly fun. No costumes, no notes, no gimmicks, just straight-up raw truth! Don't have a story that's on theme? That's okay-- the theme is just a suggestion!)

As always, we have the Fuckbucket where audience members can throw in anonymous confessions or questions to enter the free raffle for a smutty prize courtesy of our sponsor, Uberlube . All storytellers will get a little swag bag to reward their courage, and we've got some fabulous storytelling prize packs on tap for our top three tellers, too—you could win a sexy little something to keep the party going at home!

Your fabulous femme-cee is longtime Smut Slam Baltimore/DC producer and burlesque performer Diva Darling, joined by a panel of local celebrity judges who want to know if you LIKE like them, please check yes or no.

Join us before the show to enjoy light pub fare and sample the decadent cocktail and mocktail menu. Get your copy of Anonymous Sex, the Smut Slam International book edited and signed by Diva.


This event has been selling out in presales, so door tickets may or may not be available. However, should they be available, they are $25 payable in cash, PayPal, Venmo, or CashApp. If the show is sold out but you want to take a chance on waiting, the Bluebird has two other bar rooms where you can enjoy food and drinks. We recommend arriving close to 7, asking the door person to take your name for the wait list, and coming back at about 7:50 to see if we've had no-shows or last-minute cancellations and can sell you a ticket. Usually we can, but buying in advance is better-- you can get a refund up to the day before the show if you can't make it.

Tickets: $15 early bird, $20 presale, $25 door

(want to give back to your community? Can't make the show, but want to help others attend? Choose the "contribute to gift tickets" option to fund community tickets for those in economic hardship! Gift tickets are made available as they're funded, no questions asked-- please only take one if you actually need it and if not, save them for those who do. We especially encourage federal workers who are on administrative leave or fired to enjoy a gift ticket, so please consider supporting them!)

Doors: 7:00pm

Show: 8:00pm

Hosted and Produced by: Diva Darling

Diva Darling is the producer and femme-cee of the standing-room-only sex-themed storytelling show Smut Slam DC, and now of Smut Slam Baltimore and co-producer of the just-debuted Smut Slam Greater Philly (with Lola Kat). She is proud to have helped Smut Slam International creator Cameryn Moore develop the very first franchise show with DC. She's a sex educator, nightlife/event producer, and writer by day. She's also a burlesque performer and teacher, an actor, playwright/producer, and an author whose short story "Frenzy" was released last year in Best Women's Erotica of the Year Vol. 8. She's a popular presenter and producer at Nerd Nite DC, leads a polyamory discussion group at the DC Center for the LGBTQ+ Community, and hosts the SpeakTeasy burlesque show. Follow her at divanations.com.

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The Bluebird Jazz Session with Charlie Ballantine
Feb
12
8:00 PM20:00

The Bluebird Jazz Session with Charlie Ballantine

Join us every Thursday night from 8-11 PM in The Green Room at The Bluebird for an unforgettable Jazz Session!

Led by the renowned guitarist Charlie Ballantine, with Brendan Bailey on drums and Hamilton Price on bass, this straight-ahead jam session brings together top-tier musicianship and an intimate atmosphere. Whether you're a jazz enthusiast or just looking for a great way to wind down your weekend, this is the place to be. Come experience the magic of live jazz.

No cover, all ages welcome!

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Old Time Jam
Feb
10
7:00 PM19:00

Old Time Jam

  • The Green Room at The Bluebird (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Ken & Brad Kolodner lead the Baltimore Old Time Jam from every other Tuesday night 7-10pm. The first hour of the jam will be a "slow jam" so anyone can hop in and play along at a moderate tempo. From 8-10pm, they'll kick up the tempo for the "fast jam." Imagine a sea of fiddles, banjos, guitars and more all swelling together in a chorus of joyous tunes!

Letitia Van San leads an Early Country Sing from 6-7pm

On the opposite Tuesdays, Alex Lacquement & Friends will lead the Baltimore Bluegrass Jam from 7-10pm for a jam featuring bluegrass songs and instrumentals. Come with a song or two to lead - or just show up and jam along.

Best of all, the jam is FREE! & open to all ages

Doors open at 6pm.

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Django Jazz Jam
Feb
9
6:30 PM18:30

Django Jazz Jam

  • The Green Room at The Bluebird (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Hosted every Monday night in the Green Room. No cover and open to all ages!

Guitarist Michael Joseph Harris started the Monday Django Jazz Jam in the winter of 2012 to build community around the music of Django Reinhardt and traditional jazz. The popular Monday was awarded Best Monday Night by City Paper.

Music from 6:30-10pm.

Hosted by Michael Joseph Harris and the Hot Club of Baltimore.

The Hot Club of Baltimore performs inspired arrangements of the Django Reinhardt repertoire, French waltzes, and Trad Jazz. The ensemble boasts a variety of configurations including an instrumental trio of two guitars and upright bass, a classic quintet with violin, a late 40's instrumentation adding piano, drums, and horns, and a Django Big Band, which emulates the sound of the early 50's when Reinhardt performed with Duke Ellington.”

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The Bluebird Jazz Session with Charlie Ballantine
Feb
5
8:00 PM20:00

The Bluebird Jazz Session with Charlie Ballantine

Join us every Thursday night from 8-11 PM in The Green Room at The Bluebird for an unforgettable Jazz Session!

Led by the renowned guitarist Charlie Ballantine, with Brendan Bailey on drums and Hamilton Price on bass, this straight-ahead jam session brings together top-tier musicianship and an intimate atmosphere. Whether you're a jazz enthusiast or just looking for a great way to wind down your weekend, this is the place to be. Come experience the magic of live jazz.

No cover, all ages welcome!

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Bluegrass Jam
Feb
3
7:00 PM19:00

Bluegrass Jam

  • The Green Room at The Bluebird (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Alex Lacquement & Friends lead the Baltimore Bluegrass Jam from 7-10pm for a jam featuring bluegrass songs and instrumentals. Come with a song or two to lead - or just show up and jam along. Door open at 6pm.

About the venue - The Green Room is a gorgeous event space with wonderful acoustics, a cozy vibe, plenty of room for the jammers and viewers, great drinks of all sorts (beer, wine, cocktails, non-alcoholic options) and awesome food. It is the former location of De Kleine Duivel, a Belgian beer hall. They host a Django jazz jam on Monday nights. For you long-term jammers, it evokes the best of Liam Flynn's and Five & Dime combined. 

Best of all, the jam is FREE! & open to all ages

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Django Jazz Jam
Feb
2
6:30 PM18:30

Django Jazz Jam

  • The Green Room at The Bluebird (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Hosted every Monday night in the Green Room. No cover and open to all ages!

Guitarist Michael Joseph Harris started the Monday Django Jazz Jam in the winter of 2012 to build community around the music of Django Reinhardt and traditional jazz. The popular Monday was awarded Best Monday Night by City Paper.

Music from 6:30-10pm.

Hosted by Michael Joseph Harris and the Hot Club of Baltimore.

The Hot Club of Baltimore performs inspired arrangements of the Django Reinhardt repertoire, French waltzes, and Trad Jazz. The ensemble boasts a variety of configurations including an instrumental trio of two guitars and upright bass, a classic quintet with violin, a late 40's instrumentation adding piano, drums, and horns, and a Django Big Band, which emulates the sound of the early 50's when Reinhardt performed with Duke Ellington.”

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The Bluebird Jazz Session with Charlie Ballantine
Jan
29
8:00 PM20:00

The Bluebird Jazz Session with Charlie Ballantine

Join us every Thursday night from 8-11 PM in The Green Room at The Bluebird for an unforgettable Jazz Session!

Led by the renowned guitarist Charlie Ballantine, with Brendan Bailey on drums and Hamilton Price on bass, this straight-ahead jam session brings together top-tier musicianship and an intimate atmosphere. Whether you're a jazz enthusiast or just looking for a great way to wind down your weekend, this is the place to be. Come experience the magic of live jazz.

No cover, all ages welcome!

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Chess Night in the Pub ♟️
Jan
29
5:00 PM17:00

Chess Night in the Pub ♟️

Join us the last Thursday of the month from 5–9pm for a casual chess night in the Pub, hosted by our bartender Drew.


We’ll have a house set available, and we encourage guests to bring their own boards if they have them. Drop in for a game, challenge a stranger, or cozy up with a drink and watch or mingle.
Drink specials available all night!


All levels welcome.

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Irish Music Night with Kate Knudsvig and Richard Hearn
Jan
28
6:00 PM18:00

Irish Music Night with Kate Knudsvig and Richard Hearn

BIMS is hosting a session and performance with fiddler Kate Knudsvig and accompanist Richard Hearn! Come join us for a youth session from 6-7:00, performance from 7:00-8:00, and tunes from 8:00-10.

No cover, but a donation will be taken for the band.

Classical violinist and Irish fiddler Kate Knudsvig was born in Hof, Germany, and currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts, where she works as a freelance musician in and around the area. Formative years spent in a household with two classical brass-musician parents laid the foundation for her musical interests. This eventually led her to earning a BM in Violin Performance from the Eastman School of Music and an MM in Contemporary Musical Arts from the New England Conservatory.

While studying at Eastman with Federico Agostini and later with Juliana Athayde, Kate’s artistic trajectory took an unexpected turn as she found herself drawn to styles of music apart from classical. During this time she explored a number of different genres, taking three independent studies in jazz and jazz theory, playing with a bluegrass band, and co-founding the alternative-folk and singer-songwriter group, Copper Hill. This interest in non-classical styles led to her attendance at the New England Conservatory, where she fell in love with Irish traditional music and obtained a Master’s degree in Contemporary Musical Arts under the guidance of renowned Irish fiddler and educator, Liz Knowles. Amid her musical pursuits, Kate also earned a minor in Music Theory, a passion that emerged as a defining hallmark of her artistic identity.

Kate now divides her time between classical music and Irish traditional music, a combination that Boston’s vibrant musical scene lends itself to exceedingly well. In June of 2022, she represented the New England Conservatory in the International Benchmarking Group’s 21st Century Orchestra, which was comprised of students from eight of the top music schools in the world at the IBG’s conference at the Royal Northern Conservatory of Music. She has performed in Symphony Hall and New York’s Carnegie Hall with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, has been a guest artist and recorded with Palaver Strings, is the Principal 2nd Violinist for the Brockton Symphony Orchestra and can regularly be found at Irish sessions around Boston. A touring musician, Kate is the fiddle player in the PBS supergroup Celtic Thunder and also regularly performs with one of their lead singers, world-renowned Irish tenor Emmet Cahill.

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Old Time Jam
Jan
27
7:00 PM19:00

Old Time Jam

  • The Green Room at The Bluebird (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Ken & Brad Kolodner lead the Baltimore Old Time Jam from every other Tuesday night 7-10pm. The first hour of the jam will be a "slow jam" so anyone can hop in and play along at a moderate tempo. From 8-10pm, they'll kick up the tempo for the "fast jam." Imagine a sea of fiddles, banjos, guitars and more all swelling together in a chorus of joyous tunes!

Letitia Van San leads an Early Country Sing from 6-7pm

On the opposite Tuesdays, Alex Lacquement & Friends will lead the Baltimore Bluegrass Jam from 7-10pm for a jam featuring bluegrass songs and instrumentals. Come with a song or two to lead - or just show up and jam along.

Best of all, the jam is FREE! & open to all ages

Doors open at 6pm.

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Django Jazz Jam
Jan
26
6:30 PM18:30

Django Jazz Jam

  • The Green Room at The Bluebird (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Hosted every Monday night in the Green Room. No cover and open to all ages!

Guitarist Michael Joseph Harris started the Monday Django Jazz Jam in the winter of 2012 to build community around the music of Django Reinhardt and traditional jazz. The popular Monday was awarded Best Monday Night by City Paper.

Music from 6:30-10pm.

Hosted by Michael Joseph Harris and the Hot Club of Baltimore.

The Hot Club of Baltimore performs inspired arrangements of the Django Reinhardt repertoire, French waltzes, and Trad Jazz. The ensemble boasts a variety of configurations including an instrumental trio of two guitars and upright bass, a classic quintet with violin, a late 40's instrumentation adding piano, drums, and horns, and a Django Big Band, which emulates the sound of the early 50's when Reinhardt performed with Duke Ellington.”

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Candyman and The Baltimore Show
Jan
23
8:00 PM20:00

Candyman and The Baltimore Show

Join us for an exhilarating performance by Candyman and the Baltimore Show, a talented Blues-rock and Swing band that knows how to get the crowd moving!

With their roots deeply embedded in the time-honored sound of American music, this dynamic group features:

- David ‘Candyman’ Rosenberg on harmonica

- Jim Seechuk showcasing his lead guitar wizardry and vocals

- Jamie ‘White Lightnin’ Hopkins on bass

- Jimmy Brink on drums and percussion

Their energetic live performances promise to lift your spirits and get you dancing!

📅 Date & Time:

- When: Friday, August 22nd

- Doors Open: 7:30 PM

- Show Time: 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM

🎟️ Tickets:

- $15 in advance / $18 at the door

- General Admission

Enjoy lite fare and a full bar available on-site in the Green Room. Join us before or after the show in The Bluebird Cocktail Room for dinner or drinks!

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Bluegrass Jam
Jan
20
7:00 PM19:00

Bluegrass Jam

  • The Green Room at The Bluebird (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Alex Lacquement & Friends lead the Baltimore Bluegrass Jam from 7-10pm for a jam featuring bluegrass songs and instrumentals. Come with a song or two to lead - or just show up and jam along. Door open at 6pm.

About the venue - The Green Room is a gorgeous event space with wonderful acoustics, a cozy vibe, plenty of room for the jammers and viewers, great drinks of all sorts (beer, wine, cocktails, non-alcoholic options) and awesome food. It is the former location of De Kleine Duivel, a Belgian beer hall. They host a Django jazz jam on Monday nights. For you long-term jammers, it evokes the best of Liam Flynn's and Five & Dime combined. 

Best of all, the jam is FREE! & open to all ages

View Event →
Django Jazz Jam
Jan
19
6:30 PM18:30

Django Jazz Jam

  • The Green Room at The Bluebird (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Hosted every Monday night in the Green Room. No cover and open to all ages!

Guitarist Michael Joseph Harris started the Monday Django Jazz Jam in the winter of 2012 to build community around the music of Django Reinhardt and traditional jazz. The popular Monday was awarded Best Monday Night by City Paper.

Music from 6:30-10pm.

Hosted by Michael Joseph Harris and the Hot Club of Baltimore.

The Hot Club of Baltimore performs inspired arrangements of the Django Reinhardt repertoire, French waltzes, and Trad Jazz. The ensemble boasts a variety of configurations including an instrumental trio of two guitars and upright bass, a classic quintet with violin, a late 40's instrumentation adding piano, drums, and horns, and a Django Big Band, which emulates the sound of the early 50's when Reinhardt performed with Duke Ellington.”

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Smut Slam Baltimore: Party Harder
Jan
16
8:00 PM20:00

Smut Slam Baltimore: Party Harder

Play sexy games, win sexy prizes at this inclusive real-life storytelling open mic-- a perfect date night at a swanky cocktail lounge!

New Year's festivities may be behind us, but we can still light up the night with a rowdy remembrance of our carnal celebrations! We're pack animals at heart, so it's only natural that we should sometimes be party animals in heat. The cold outside ain't the only thing making your bits tingle when you reunite with the Slamily for a new year of sizzling stories.

This month, we're kicking off 2026 and beating the January doldrums with our theme of "Party Harder". You're cordially invited to share your tales of sharing tail with a dozen of your sluttiest friends. Did anyone notice when you and your instant-chemistry intro ducked into an unused room at the party? We want to hear if your first orgy lived up to its hype. How did you reignite your marriage bed by seducing each other masked at the ball?

(Not familiar with Smut Slam? It’s a storytelling open mic where audience members sign up for 5-minute slots to tell their best real-life, first-person, consensual sex stories. It’s queer-friendly, kink-friendly, lifestyle-friendly, body-positive, sex-positive, and wildly fun. No costumes, no notes, no gimmicks, just straight-up raw truth! See the full rules and how it works on our Rules of the Road page. Don't have a story that's on theme? That's okay-- the theme is just a suggestion!)

As always, we have the Fuckbucket where audience members can throw in anonymous confessions or questions to enter the free raffle for a smutty prize courtesy of our sponsor, Uberlube. All storytellers will get a little swag bag to reward their courage, and we've got some fabulous storytelling prize packs on tap for our top three tellers, too—you could win a sexy little something to keep the party going at home!

Your fabulous femme-cee is longtime Smut Slam Baltimore/DC producer and burlesque performer Diva Darling, joined by a panel of local celebrity judges who've put the s'il vous PLAIT back in RSVP.

Join us before the show to enjoy light pub fare and sample the decadent cocktail and mocktail menu. Get your copy of Anonymous Sex, the Smut Slam International book edited and signed by Diva.


This event has been selling out in presales, so door tickets may or may not be available. However, should they be available, they are $25 payable in cash, PayPal, Venmo, or CashApp. If the show is sold out but you want to take a chance on waiting, the Bluebird has two other bar rooms where you can enjoy food and drinks. We recommend arriving close to 7, asking the door person to take your name for the wait list, and coming back at about 7:50 to see if we've had no-shows or last-minute cancellations and can sell you a ticket. Usually we can, but buying in advance is better-- you can get a refund up to the day before the show if you can't make it.

Tickets: $15 early bird, $20 presale, $25 door

(want to give back to your community? Can't make the show, but want to help others attend? Choose the "contribute to gift tickets" option to fund community tickets for those in economic hardship! Gift tickets are made available as they're funded, no questions asked-- please only take one if you actually need it and if not, save them for those who do. We especially encourage federal workers who are on administrative leave or fired to enjoy a gift ticket, so please consider supporting them!)

Doors: 7:00pm

Show: 8:00pm

Hosted and Produced by: Diva Darling

Diva Darling is the producer and femme-cee of the standing-room-only sex-themed storytelling show Smut Slam DC, and now of Smut Slam Baltimore and co-producer of the just-debuted Smut Slam Greater Philly (with Lola Kat). She is proud to have helped Smut Slam International creator Cameryn Moore develop the very first franchise show with DC. She's a sex educator, nightlife/event producer, and writer by day. She's also a burlesque performer and teacher, an actor, playwright/producer, and an author whose short story "Frenzy" was released last year in Best Women's Erotica of the Year Vol. 8. She's a popular presenter and producer at Nerd Nite DC, leads a polyamory discussion group at the DC Center for the LGBTQ+ Community, and hosts the SpeakTeasy burlesque show. Follow her at divanations.com.

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