Magic happens when music and dance wraps and engulfs a space. This is annual concert series of Baker Artist Award winners. Performance venue is the Enoch Pratt Free Library. Featuring Carl Grubbs (saxophone), Vincent E. Thomas (dance/choreographer), Adam Hopkins (bass), and Rob Levit (guitar), and Eric Allen (drums) from 2009 to the current artists awarded the Baker Award and B Grant winners. The evenings are filled with toe-tapping, thigh slapping, head bopping, engaging and intriguing improvisation of music, spoken word, and dance. In 2009 we premiered "Carl's Blues" performed by Carl Grubbs and Vincent E. Thomas, a magical crowd favorite. An updated "Carl's Blues" was performed again in March 2010 at Theatre Project Baltimore. Also is a collaboration between Adam Hopkins and Vincent E. Thomas on "Prelude/Frustration" and "By and By" with Carl Grubbs (sax), Adam Hopkins (bass), Rob Levit (guitar), and Eric Allen (drums).This year, Vincent collaborated with 2011 B Grant winners, Love the poet and Bashi Rose, on an excerpt of "Red Flags".
  • Prelude/Frustration
    Prelude/Frustration
    Photo credit: Rich Riggins
  • "Carl's Blues" 2010 (Updated)
    Performers: Vincent E. Thomas & Carl Grubbs This is an updated version of "Carl's Blues" Performance: March 2010 at Baltimore Theatre Project Lighting Design: Rebecca Wolf
  • "Prelude/Frustration" with Bass
    Performers: Vincent E. Thomas (dancer), Adam Hopkins (bassist) This was another exciting collaboration for the evening of jazz and dance.
  • "By and By"
    Performers: Vincent Thomas, Carl Grubbs, Adam Hopkins, Rob Levit, Eric Allen Enoch Pratt Free Library
  • "Carl's Blues" 2009
    Performers: Vincent E. Thomas & Carl Grubbs Enoch Pratt Free Library