The Maryland Folk Festival Make your plans now to join us in Salisbury, Maryland, for the Maryland Folk Festival— a diverse celebration of arts, culture, and heritage. This large-scale multi-day outdoor event, celebrates the roots, richness and variety of American culture. It features hundreds of the nation’s finest musicians, dancers, craftspeople and other keepers of culture in performances, workshops, and demonstrations, plus children’s activities, non-stop participatory dancing, storytelling, parades, and more. Best of all, it’s[...]
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Museums and Galleries In Baltimore City and Central Maryland, see art from antiquity at the Walters Art Museum, and modern masterpieces at the Baltimore Museum of Art; don't miss the James E. Lewis Museum of Art - it's stunning collection of African and African-American art highlights this museum dedicated to the mingling of art and cultures from around the globe. In Annapolis, the Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Gallery at St. John's College attracts 10,000 visitors a[...]
What’s New, What’s Next & What May Come in Maryland 2025 & Beyond JANUARY 21, 2025 | Subject to Change SIGNIFICANT ANNIVERSARIES/ EVENTS 2025 Maryland Scenic Byways program 25th Anniversary – 2025 Maryland will be commemorating and celebrating our 18 scenic byways (6 of which are also National Scenic Byways). 60th Anniversary of Assateague Island National Seashore (Berlin) Programming TBD Army-Navy Football Game – The annual Army-Navy Football game will be played at M&T Bank[...]
Western Maryland Western Maryland is a great place for outdoor adventures. You can climb Maryland's highest mountain, swim in numerous lakes, hike the Appalachian Trail, brave white-water rapids or enjoy all kinds of winter sports from skiing to ice fishing. The three counties of Western Maryland, where fall foliage arrives first and winter usually stays the longest, were Maryland's last frontier. One of the most important events in Western Maryland in the early 1800s was[...]
BALTIMORE, MD (August 22, 2024) — Governor Wes Moore today proclaimed September 2024 as the sixth annual International Underground Railroad Month in Maryland. The month acknowledges the significance of the Underground Railroad, and all those involved, for its contribution to the eradication of legal enslavement in the United States and as a cornerstone for the more comprehensive civil rights movement that followed. “The heroes of the Underground Railroad continue to have an international impact even[...]