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Who wants to wait until Monday to kick off their Halloween fun? We sure don’t! It’s one of the biggest holiday parties of the year that you can see superheroes, gladiators and celebrity-wannabes all in one spot at the Rams Head. The Rams Head restaurants are excited to announce it will host a Halloween Party on Saturday, October 29^th, 2011.

The Halloween bash will feature spooky drink specials in the bar, costume contest with four different categories including best costume and a chance to win four tickets to any show of your choice at Rams Head Live in 2011 and live music from local musicians with no cover charge to get your spook on!

Costume Contest ( All Rams Head Locations)

• Best Costume: 4 tickets to a Rams Head Live show of your choice in 2011
• Best Couples Costume: $50 Rams Head Gift Certificate
• Sexiest Costume: Bottle of wine
• Scariest Costume: $30 Rams Head Gift Certificate

Rams Head Tavern Annapolis Specials:

• Time: 9pm- 2am | 21+
• Music: Swampcandy’s Halloween All Star Music Jam ( starts at 10pm)
• Drink Specials:$4 Capt Morgan and Capt Morgan Lime Bite Cocktails,$2 Natty Bohs, Witches Brew Shots $2

Rams Head Roadhouse Specials:

• Time: 9pm -2am | 21+
• Drink Specials: $3 Trick or Treat shots, $4 Drinks: Blood-tini, Dracula’s Kiss and Monster Mash
• Music: Matt McConville ( starts at 10pm)

Rams Head Tavern Savage Mill specials:

• Time: 9pm-2am specials in the Rath | 21+
• Drink Specials: $2.50 Fordham Drafts, $2.50 Domestic bottles,
• $3.50 Stoli Drinks ,$5 bombs
• Food Specials: ½ price Nachos, Sliders, and wings
• Music: Pressing Strings (starts at 10pm)

Rams Head Shore House specials:

• Drink Specials 6pm-2am | 21+
• Music: Curbside manner (starts at 9pm)
• Drink specials: $5 graveyard bombs (grape or  cherry bombs)
• $4 black widows , $3 candy corn shooters

You can follow Rams Head news on Twitter @RamsHeadGroup or check out www.ramsheadtavern.com

If you’re looking for previews of the amazing music of the Silopanna Music Festival, this is where you can find them this weekend:

FRIDAY:
Sweet Leda at Wild Willy’s in Annapolis
Bond & Bentley at Greene Turtle Westminister
Sam Grow at Greene Turtle La Plata
Sharon Jones at Targhee Fest in Wyoming

SATURDAY:
Pressing Strings at Sly Fox in Annapolis
Deep River Rockwoodat Music Hall | New York, NY
Trombone Shorty at Umbria Music Festival in Italy

SUNDAY:
Cris Jacobs with The Bridge all All Good Festival Masontown, WV
All Mighty Senators at All Good Festival Masontown, WV
Sweet Leda at Annapolis City Dock

Matt and Kim will most likely be playing basketball with Wiz Khalifa in Brooklyn.  Jimmie’s Chicken Shack recently had their first “real practice in 10 years” – I think they’re still recovering.  Harper Blynn will be hanging with their Models/Dancers friends before their West Coast tour.  Grilled Lincolns & Pasadena are stocking up on dramamine before they board a boat next weekend.   Jarflys is still riding high after releasing this video for ‘balancing act.’  And Fitz and the Tantrums are preparing to be Aussie’s for a week.

And you can check out what the other guys are doing online:  LAZERlibby, Pandomonia,  Tobias Russell.  Mike McHenry you will have you find on the streets in Annapolis – I don’t think he does the online thing very well.

Regardless of where the bands are this weekend, you know you plan to see these guys, all in one beautiful day at Anne Arundel County Fairgrounds on August 27, 2011.  http://tickets.silopannafest.com $39.50

And because every blog post needs a picture, here is one from Matt & Kim’s instagram yesterday:

Saturday August 27, 2011  Anne Arundel County Fairgrounds www.silopannafest.com

The 4th of July means time with friends and family, the red white and the blue, music, crabs, giving thanks to our troops… it all goes hand-in-hand.  So in case you need some 4th of July music inspiration, we suggest checking out some of the bands of Silopanna Fest 2011.

Here is the 4th of July round-up as to the what, when & where’s of the Silopanna 2011 bands:

The Grilled Lincolns & PASADENA:
7/1 8×10 in Baltimore

Sweet Leda:
7/1 Nick’s Fish House Baltimore

Pressing Strings:
7/1 The Bridges in Grasonville
7/2 Sly Fox Annapolis

Sam Grow:
7/1 Popes Creek Waterfront Newburg, MD

Bond & Bentley:
6/30 Shuckers Baltimore

And in case you are a jet-setter and looking for some travel for your 4th of July weekend, you can join up with these guys:

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings:
6/30 with Prince in Paris

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue:
7/2 London Bluesfest

Fitz & the Tantrums:
7/4 Louisville, KY

Matt & Kim:
6/30 Boston House of Blues

Harper Blynn, Jimmie’s Chicken Shack, All Mighty Senators, Deep River, Jarflys, Mike McHenry Tribe, Cris Jacobs of the Bridge, Tobias Russell and LAZERlibby are resting their vocal chords in celebration of the 4th of July (or they have secretly encrypted their tour schedule on the world wide web).

Speaking of the 4th – be sure to sign up for our email blast to get an extra FREEdom special next week. Click here to join the Silopanna email blast.

Happy 4th of July to you and yours. Give thanks for the red, white & blue.
Erin

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facebook: @silopannafest

Remember the first year of the Silopanna Music Festival?  When it was at Anne Arundel County Fairgrounds?  When it was only a one day festival?  When they only had 20 bands?  Remember that first year and the eclectic mix of headliners that rocked the stage with their infectious energy?

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings have come a long way since their humble beginnings nearly a decade ago. Steeped within the gilded and gritty sounds of gospel, soul and funk, this nine-piece Brooklyn collective has continued to electrify fans, disc jockeys, critics, record collectors, and bloggers the world-over with their authentic, heart-felt sound. As distinguished as their recordings may be, however, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings have truly become renowned thanks to their incredible live show, not to mention their relentless touring.The band has appeared on CNN, MTV News, VH1, Conan OBrien, Craig Ferguson, David Letterman and Jimmy Fallon.   website Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue   Troy ‘Trombone Shorty’ Andrews’ new album, Backatown (Verve Forecast April 20), is the work of a rare artist who can draw both the unqualified respect of jazz legends and deliver a high-energy rock show capable of mesmerizing international rock stars and audiences alike. With such an unprecedented mix of rock, funk, jazz, hip-hop and soul, he had to create his own name to describe his signature sound: Supafunkrock! Andrews is the kind of player who comes along maybe once in a generation, and Backatown is the latest, clearest proof that his artistry is as singular as his raw talent. Shorty’s dream is now a musical reality of potentially game-changing significance, as he and his band prepare to shift the musical landscape in a thrilling new direction website Matt & Kim Matt & Kim are a two-piece: Matt plays keys and Kim plays drums. The two met at Pratt Institute. Despite Kim having never played drums before and Matt having never played keyboard, they started the band in 2004. Cameras, was released August 31, 2010 and jumped to the number 14 spot on the iTunes Alternative Chart within the first hour its release. The new album is the follow up to Grand, released in early 2009 via FADER Label. Grand achieved iTunes Top 10 single and album placements, as well as spots on both the Billboard Single and Album Charts. To date, Matt and Kim have been on the Billboard New Artist chart for 78 weeks and the single Daylight is certified gold, having sold over 500K. Their video for Lessons Learned, won an MTV VMA for Breakthrough Video and an mtvU Woodie award for Best Video.  website Fitz and The Tantrums Fitz and the Tantrums may be the breakout act of 2011. Their monster hit Moneygrabber may very well be the song of the year, and their live show is among the best going. Dont take our word for it, heres what the press is saying:  “Fitz and the Tantrums comes around with the chops to back up an L.A. swaggerboth a familiar yet rousing soul-pop sound that transports you back to nostaligic heartache and a live performance which involves the audiencesinging, dancing, clapping, screamingfrom start to finish.” Paste Magazine website Harper Blynn   Harper Blynn is classic pop reimagined. The band’s instantly hummable music is remarkable not only for its breadth but also its intimacy, ranging from four-on-the-floor dance stompers to near-whispered pleas for understanding. As inspiring as their recordings are, Harper Blynn effortlessly transcends them in concert, delivering three-part harmonies over a smartly-arranged blend of guitar, keyboards, bass and drums that is at once minimalistically modern and timelessly organic. In fact, the bands musical proficiency and on-stage chemistry raise an uncomfortable question: Where did all the real bands go? We may never know for sure, but at least theres one still standing: Harper Blynn. website

Do you remember the first time you heard the word Silopanna?  Did you stumble over how to say it [sill-o-pan-uh]?  Did you wonder where it came from or what it meant?

Remember when you actual wondered who would come to the event?  And how far they would be willing to drive?

Do you remember hearing your favorite band for the first time at Silopanna?

Jimmie’s Chicken Shack website	All Mighty Senators website	The Grilled Lincolns website
Pasadena website	Deep River website	jarflys
Sweet Leda website	LAZERlibby featuring Navid from the Data Frogs website	Bond & Bentley website
Mike McHenry Tribe website	Cris Jacobs (of The Bridge) website	Tobias Russell website
Pressing Strings website Sam Grow Band website

Do you remember Silopanna 2011?

http://tickets.silopannafest.com

It is rumored to be true that Rams Head Tavern Annapolis is home to the oldest wisteria vine in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.   I wish I had that documented, stamped and signed so that I could really go to town on that claim and maybe get in on some horticulture tour in Annapolis, or listed in 1,000 Things to See Before You Die, or have it be part of our tagline… Food Fun & Wisteria.   But, for now… it’s just an undocumented rumor.

Regardless of documentation, these gorgeous wisteria blooms have cast great purple haze over thinkers in town… inspiring beers of Fordham past (R.I.P. Wisteria Wheat.  You will never be forgotten) and exciting writers to dream of lazy afternoons;

Sitting on the back patio under the enormous wisteria vine on a sunny afternoon is the way to properly enjoy these brews.  -Eric Brace, Washington Post

For us, the arrival of the bloom is a highlight to the spring season, marking the kick-off to warmer weather, happy hours highlighted by the sunset, longer days full of sunlight, and the arrival of a favorite Annapolis past-time: live outdoor music on the patio.

Friday, May 1st marks the arrival of our summer music calendar which includes all the local favorites… The Geckos , Dean Rosenthal, Matt McConville just to name a few.  If you haven’t spent an evening on the patio, at rams head, listening to these guys while drinking a Fordham brew, well… you just can’t call yourself an Annapolitan.  It’s a rite of passage, an Annapolis must.

So, if you’ve been waiting for your official invitation to come and see us on the patio…  it just arrived…  purple and sweet as they come, and full of hosptitality.