2009

Date

Event

Location

Contact/Tickets

Saturday,

January 3, 2009

DORIS (with Mark on bass)

returns to

Come listen to music, sip hot chocolate and take walking tour outside of beautiful gardens adorned with creative lighting inside and out!
(If you like, tour with Doris after the performance.)  This is Doris’s annual Christmas treat!
Pay by carload to enter.

Wheaton, MD

For info, click:

Light Show &/or

Musical Performance

or call the gardens at

301 962-1400

Show info:  301-962-1453 

info:  301-962-1401

Map

Sunday,

January 4, 2009

 SIDE BY SIDE: 

“25^th Anniversary Year” begins

Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage

2700 F St, NW, DC

(few blocks from Foggy Bottom Metro, paid parking available at Center)

6:00 – 7:00 pm   

FREE - first come, first seated

Check out our previous appearance (9/11/99):  www.kennedy-center.org, click on Millennium Stage, click on Past Performances, Side by Side, September 11, 1999.  This was great fun and broadcast worldwide, live at that time AND is still available! 

Washington, DC

 www.kennedy-center.org 

Millennium Stage

202-467-4600

Friday,

January 30

DORIS
St. Elmo’s Coffee Pub

2300 Mt. Vernon Avenue

8:00 - 10:00 PM

Alexandria, VA

703-739-3161

Map

Friday,

March 6

DORIS
St. Elmo’s Coffee Pub

2300 Mt. Vernon Avenue

8:00 - 10:00 PM

Alexandria, VA

703-739-3161

Map

Sunday,

March 15

DORIS

Northern Virginia Ethical Society (NOVES)

Green Hedges School
415 Windover Ave, NW,  (just off Nutley St)
NOVES 9:30 am – Chorus rehearsal
11:00 am – DORIS performs

Vienna, VA

Tuesday,

March 31, 2009

 SIDE BY SIDE: 

“25^th Anniversary Year” Celebration continues with a WFMA Concert with

The Chad Mitchell Trio

(celebrating their 50th anniversary)

Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church

9601 Cedar Lane

near Beach Drive, easily reachable from I-495, the Washington Beltway, (Exit 33), I-270, and MD-355 (Rockville Pike).

 Show:  7:30 pm   

Doors open at 6:30 pm

General Admission Tickets - first come, first seated:

$35 in advance / $40 at the door

Bethesda, MD

Sponsored by the World Folk Music Association (WFMA)

See directions to the church on the church's web site.

View a map of the area on Mapquest.

You can find all the concert details and order tickets starting at noon on Monday, January 19, on the Chad Mitchell Trio/

Side by Side Concert Information Page.

Saturday,

April 18

DORIS

Kensington Row Bookshop

“Play Chess with a Master”  Allan Savage: play INside, music OUTside!
1:00 – 3:00 pm  
3786 Howard Ave, 

(by the gas station on the corner of Armory)
 

Kensington MD

301-949-9416

www.kensington

rowbookshop.com
 

Sunday,

April 19

DORIS

Northern Virginia Ethical Society (NOVES)

Green Hedges School
415 Windover Ave, NW,  (just off Nutley St)
NOVES 9:30 am – Chorus rehearsal
11:00 am – DORIS performs

Vienna, VA

Friday,

April 24

DORIS

Mark Ashby may join me on upright bass
St. Elmo’s Coffee Pub

2300 Mt. Vernon Avenue

8:00 - 10:00 PM

A favorite neighborhood place for coffee and conversation

Alexandria, VA

703-739-9268

Map

Saturday, April 25

SIDE BY SIDE

Montgomery College Planetarium Laser and Star Show Concert!  

Montgomery College Planetarium

Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus

FREE
8:00 pm
Takoma Ave & Fenton St,

 
This should be great!  Lasers and lights coordinated with our music!  Then join Professor Dr. Harold Williams as we have a stargazing party!   
 

Takoma Park, MD 

240-567-1488  www.montgomerycollege.

edu/Departments/planet/

Sunday,

May 3

DORIS

Northern Virginia Ethical Society (NOVES)

Green Hedges School
415 Windover Ave, NW,  (just off Nutley St)
NOVES 9:30 am – Chorus rehearsal
11:00 am – CHORUS performs

Vienna, VA

Sunday,

May 17

DORIS

Northern Virginia Ethical Society (NOVES)

Green Hedges School
415 Windover Ave, NW,  (just off Nutley St)
NOVES 9:30 am – Chorus rehearsal
11:00 am – DORIS performs

Vienna, VA

Thursday,

May 21, 2009

SIDE BY SIDE

“25^th Anniversary Concert”

(surprise guests?)

BlackRock Center for the Arts

12901 Town Commons Dr

7:30 pm    

About 50 tickets remain!  Mark your calendar and come celebrate with us! 

Germantown MD

240-912-1058 (ticket & info)

www.blackrockcenter.org

Saturday,

May 30

DORIS

Mark Ashby may join me on upright bass
St. Elmo’s Coffee Pub

2300 Mt. Vernon Avenue

8:00 - 10:00 PM

A favorite neighborhood place for coffee and conversation

Alexandria, VA

703-739-9268

Map

Friday,

June 5

 –

Sunday,

June 7

DORIS
NOVES Retreat
 

Sharpsburg, MD

www.noves.org

Saturday,

June 20

SIDE BY SIDE

6th Annual NOVES House Concert

Deale, MD

Saturday,

June 27

DORIS

Mark Ashby may join me on upright bass
St. Elmo’s Coffee Pub

2300 Mt. Vernon Avenue

8:00 - 10:00 PM

A favorite neighborhood place for coffee and conversation

Alexandria, VA

703-739-9268

Map

Saturday,

August 1

SIDE BY SIDE
Benefit for Garrett Park Elementary School - Jay Keating, others …
7:00 – 10:00 pm 

Garrett Park Town Hall

(near Kensington)  
10814 Kenilworth Ave

Garrett Park, MD

301-946-1578

www.garrettpark-md.gov/c/260/town-hall

Sunday,

September 6

(Note: earlier WES appearances previously listed for August were postponed until this date)

DORIS

Blessing of The Animals

with Doris singing "A Place in the Choir" by Bill Staines and her own "Rainbow Bridge"

Washington Ethical Society (WES)
11:00 – 12:30 pm      

7750 16th St, NW (near MD line)  
 

Washington, DC

www.EthicalSociety.org

Tuesday,

September 15

SIDE BY SIDE
Folk Club of Reston/Herndon

 Celebrating their 24th year (and we were among their first performers!)
Tortilla Factory

648 Elden St   

7:15 pm

Herndon, VA

www.restonherndonfolkclub.com
 

Thursday,

September 24

SIDE BY SIDE
Uptown Concerts  – Tribute to John Denver
8:00 – 10:00 pm 

Baldwin’s Station,

7618 Main St  
We return to one of our favorite spots.  Wonderful, cozy room and great food!  Come for dinner before.
 

Sykesville, MD

Reservations & tickets:  410-795-1041  www.uptownconcerts.com

Saturday, November 14 – Side by Side

Shenandoah Coffeehouse

7:30 pm, Unitarian Universalist Church of Loudoun, 20460 Gleedsville Rd, Leesburg VA  20175

I have performed there twice and I love it!  This will be Side by Side's first appearance.  It’s an acoustic room with no sound system needed!  Small, cozy with a friendly congregation.  Can't wait to see old friends again.

Directions, etc:  703-737-7644, Tickets & info:  www.shenandoahacoustics.com

Friday &/or Saturday, January 22 & 23, 2010 – 24^th Annual World Folk Music Association Concert:

Women of Folk Music– Doris with special guest, Sean McGhee at Birchmere Music Hall!

(Many performers!)  www.wfma.net

And DORIS  “keeps on keeping on”

Fridays, November 20 & December 18
St. Elmo’s Coffee Pub (solo and unplugged)

8:00 – 10:00 pm    703-739-9268   2300 Mt. Vernon Ave, Alexandria VA

Favorite neighborhood place for coffee and conversation.   (Hi to Californian Steve, his wife and their family who plan to stop by 9/25!)
www.stelmoscoffeepub.com

Sunday, November 29 & Saturday, December 26

Brookside Gardens (unplugged, with a friend?) – my annual visit for several years now

6:30 - 8:00 pm – www.brooksidegardens.org (more details soon) Music inside, garden lights outside.

NOTES:  Doris is Music Director for Northern Virginia Ethical Society (NOVES).  Please contact me directly if you would like detail.  ALL levels of ability welcome!  First performance, Sunday, October 4.  You do not need to be a member of NOVES.  I perform the third Sunday of each month.

Saturday, December 19  (“Saturday at the Summit”)

Summit Avenue Coffeehouse – DORIS (and host, singer/guitarist, David Alberding)
7:00 – 9:00 pm    info:  301-766-7290
Emmanuel U. Methodist Church, 802 Summit Ave (at corner of Howard St), Hagerstown MD
Family friendly promoting fellowship & an appreciation of the performing arts!

www.gbgm-umc.org/emmanuelumc-hagerstown/index1.html