Think of this gig as a party among friends, a lineup of Baltimore?s most enduring indie bands, a chance to reconnect with the local sounds you love.
Rodney Henry, the singer/guitarist of the Glenmont Popes, insists his band and others are still around despite what some call as a lack of indie musical spirit in Charm City these days.
“Every year we have a big old rock and roll party, sort of a gourmet park with some of the best bands around town playing,” said Henry. “Some of the bands have been playing this holiday party forever; most of them are good friends of mine.”
Indeed, the “Dangerously Delicious Pies Rock-N-Roll Holiday Extravaganza” is a feast for several senses.
As many music lovers in Baltimore know, Dangerously Delicious Pies is the company that Henry runs to pay the bills when not wielding his ax to chop out some good old rock. And yes, there will be pies (and quiches) available at the show.
It?s an interesting twist, selling all-American, favorite pies while singing about good women gone bad and other hard-livin? topics in a rockabilly style.
To Henry, though, the match is ideal.
When he was a kid learning to play his guitar, he?d often spend time in Indiana with his grandparents.
Sadly for him, the baseball season was just usually coming to an end when he stepped into Hoosier country, so he?d spend a lot of days baking with his grandmother.
“I really decided to do it because with the rock and roll stuff I needed to pay the bills,” he said. “It?s helping me support my music.”
Henry means that in several ways. Not only does the cash from pies come in handy, but he?ll often send a pie along with a demo tape or flyer to a record-industry insider.
That?s, of course, the bottom line. Henry said the Popes are better than ever and have a new release in the works.
“We?re a bit older, so it?s not that we live and die by music every day,” said Henry of the band, which started in the 1990s. “But our music is still really rockin.? ”
