View the full monthly Calendars: August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 2008    January- February- March- April- May- June- July   August- September- October- November- December August 2008 Suzanne Vega with Christina Courtin Date: Monday 8/18/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $35.00 Buy Tickets Bobby 'Blue' Bland Date: Tuesday 8/19/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $29.50 Buy Tickets This is the Rescheduled show from 5/18. All 5/18 tickets will be honored on this new date. The Saw Doctors All Standing in the Bandstand! Date: Wednesday 8/20/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $25.00 Buy Tickets Nico Muhly - SHOW MOVED TO NEW VENUE! Date: Thursday 8/21/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $20.00 Buy Tickets The Nico Muhly show has been MOVED to the venue below. Refunds for the Birchmere show are available at place of purchase thru 9/4. Episcopal Church of the Ascension 634 Silver Spring Avenue Silver Spring MD Tickets will be $10 at the door, the show starts at 7:30. En Vogue with Sol Edler Date: Friday 8/22/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $45.00 Buy Tickets SOLD OUT! Kim Waters Date: Saturday 8/23/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $27.50 Buy Tickets Jesse Cook Band featuring Sophie Milman Date: Sunday 8/24/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $24.50 Buy Tickets Terrence Howard Date: Monday 8/25/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $25.00 Buy Tickets Mindi Abair Date: Tuesday 8/26/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $29.50 Buy Tickets The Fabulous Thunderbirds & The Nighthawks Date: Wednesday 8/27/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $25.00 Buy Tickets Kinky Friedman with Brian Burns, Tommy Alverson & Bob Livingston Date: Thursday 8/28/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $29.50 Buy Tickets MAYSA The Metamorphosis Concerts with special guest Kloud 9 Date: Friday 8/29/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $39.50 Buy Tickets MAYSA The Metamorphosis Concerts with special guest Kloud 9 Date: Saturday 8/30/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $39.50 Buy Tickets MAYSA The Metamorphosis Concerts with special guest Kloud 9 Date: Sunday 8/31/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $39.50 Buy Tickets September 2008 Boz Scaggs with David Jacobs-Strain Date: Thursday 9/4/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $89.50 Buy Tickets Pure Prairie League & Firefall www.pureprairieleague.com & www.firefall.com Date: Friday 9/5/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $35.00 Buy Tickets The Seldom Scene Date: Saturday 9/6/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $25.00 Buy Tickets MEDICAL EMERGENCIES NECESSITATE POSTPONEMENT OF "THE DILLARDS" PERFORMANCE - SEPT. 6,2008 TO ALL OF OUR MANY LOYAL FANS: Due to a couple of major Medical Emergencies involving members of Rodney Dillards immediate family, THE DILLARDS regretably will not be able to appear at THE BIRCHMERE this Sept. 6, as scheduled, with "SELDOM SCENE". We sincerely apologize to our fans, and especially those who have already purchased tickets to the show. We look forward to coming back real soon, and making up this postponed date, as soon as THE BIRCHMERE can fit us in, and after we've resolved the Medical issues. (The Dillards are all in good health, it's family that is sick). For ticket exchange and/or refund information, and for any possible New Date for "THE DILLARDS", contact THE BIRCHMERE in the usual ways. Again, we apologize to our fans, and we will miss you. Enjoy a "Double Dose" of " SELDOM SCENE, until we see you again. THE BIRCHMERE is always at the TOP OF OUR LIST of favorite places to perform, thanks to you and the staff! Steve Earle & Allison Moorer Date: Sunday 9/7/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $59.50 Buy Tickets Steve Earle & Allison Moorer Date: Monday 9/8/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $59.50 Buy Tickets Mike Doughty The Question Jar Show Date: Tuesday 9/9/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $22.50 Buy Tickets Amel Larrieux Date: Wednesday 9/10/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $35.00 Buy Tickets Amel Larrieux Date: Thursday 9/11/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $35.00 Buy Tickets Los Lobos with Pistolera - Presented in association with MEXICO TOURISM BOARD and NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELER Date: Friday 9/12/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $49.50 Buy Tickets Sonny Landreth with Delta Moon Date: Saturday 9/13/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $25.00 Buy Tickets The Felice Brothers with A.A. Bondy Date: Sunday 9/14/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $20.00 Buy Tickets All Standing in the Bandstand! Old Blind Dogs, Teada, Cara www.oldblinddogs.co.uk, www.teada.com & www.caramusic.com Date: Tuesday 9/16/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $29.50 Buy Tickets Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson with Justin Townes Earle Date: Wednesday 9/17/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $29.50 Buy Tickets Laura Marling & Johnny Flynn www.lauramarling.com & www.myspace.com/johnnyflynn Date: Thursday 9/18/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $20.00 Buy Tickets Yard Dogs Road Show with THE INDIGO featuring Rachel Brice Date: Friday 9/19/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $25.00 Buy Tickets Lowen & Navarro with Stephen Fearing & Tom Wilson Date: Saturday 9/20/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $29.50 Buy Tickets Jeffrey Osborne Date: Sunday 9/21/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $69.50 Buy Tickets Rachael Yamagata Date: Tuesday 9/23/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $20.00 Buy Tickets Avant Date: Wednesday 9/24/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $29.50 Buy Tickets B.J. Thomas with Pete Huttlinger www.petehuttlinger.com Date: Thursday 9/25/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $39.50 Buy Tickets Hiroshima Date: Friday 9/26/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $39.50 Buy Tickets Jackopierce CD Release Show! Date: Saturday 9/27/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $27.50 Buy Tickets Young Dubliners & Scythian Date: Monday 9/29/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $20.00 Buy Tickets the subdudes Subdued Tour - Unplugged & Acoustic Date: Tuesday 9/30/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $25.00 Buy Tickets October 2008 Patty Loveless Date: Wednesday 10/1/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $45.00 Buy Tickets Patty Loveless Date: Thursday 10/2/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $45.00 Buy Tickets Tuck & Patti with Judith Owens Date: Friday 10/3/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $29.50 Buy Tickets Vieux Farka Toure Date: Sunday 10/5/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $35.00 Buy Tickets Eric Benet & Dwele www.ericbenet.net & www.dwele.net Date: Tuesday 10/7/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $59.50 Buy Tickets On Sale Fri. 8/15 @ Noon Eric Benet & Dwele www.ericbenet.net & www.dwele.net Date: Wednesday 10/8/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $59.50 Buy Tickets On Sale Fri. 8/15 @ Noon Pat McGee Band Date: Thursday 10/9/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $27.50 Buy Tickets Martin Sexton with Ryan Montbleau Date: Friday 10/10/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $35.00 Buy Tickets Jane Monheit Date: Sunday 10/12/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $35.00 Buy Tickets BOOTSY COLLINS presents A Tribute To James Brown featuring Bootsy Collins & The Hardest Working Band featuring The Original JB Rhythm Section & Tony Wilson, The Bobby Byrd Band (with Mrs. Vicky Anderson Byrd), Escapism, and iCandi, Freekbass, DJizzle, Zionplanet10 with Special guests Fred Wesley and Tomi Rae Brown Date: Monday 10/13/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $59.50 Buy Tickets Julia Fordham Date: Tuesday 10/14/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $29.50 Buy Tickets After 7 Date: Wednesday 10/15/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $49.50 Buy Tickets The Ventures Date: Thursday 10/16/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $35.00 Buy Tickets Girlyman Date: Friday 10/17/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $20.00 Buy Tickets Cheryl Wheeler with Kenny White Date: Saturday 10/18/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $29.50 Buy Tickets Rodney Crowell Acoustic Trio Date: Tuesday 10/21/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $27.50 Buy Tickets On Sale Fri. 8/15 @ Noon An Evening with MILTON NASCIMENTO Date: Wednesday 10/22/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $45.00 Buy Tickets Paula Poundstone Date: Thursday 10/23/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $39.50 Buy Tickets John Starling Band & Claire Lynch Band with THE CLAIRE LYNCH BAND Date: Friday 10/24/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $25.00 Buy Tickets The Del McCoury Band Date: Saturday 10/25/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $35.00 Buy Tickets Vesta Williams Date: Sunday 10/26/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $35.00 Buy Tickets THE MAGNETIC FIELDS AT GW'S LISNER AUDITORIUM IN WASHINGTON DC Date: Sunday 10/26/2008 Time: 8:00 PM Cost: $35.00 Buy Tickets This show is NOT at The Birchmere. Zappa Plays Zappa "You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Tour" Date: Monday 10/27/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $115.00 Buy Tickets This is a very special limited capacity event. With your ticket, you will also receive: - Digital license so that you can download the show in its entirety! - Your chance to vote for 5 songs to be included in the evenings setlist. - A chance to win a beautiful Hagstrom guitar and be presented with it onstage. The Kinsey Sicks Date: Thursday 10/30/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $32.50 Buy Tickets Delbert McClinton Date: Friday 10/31/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $55.00 Buy Tickets On Sale Fri. 8/15 @ Noon November 2008 Tom Paxton with The Kennedys Date: Saturday 11/1/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $35.00 Buy Tickets Jonatha Brooke & Glen Phillips www.jonathabrooke.com & www.glenphillips.com Date: Sunday 11/2/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $35.00 Buy Tickets Henry Rollins The Recountdown Tour Date: Monday 11/3/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $25.00 Buy Tickets Joan Baez Date: Wednesday 11/5/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $55.00 Buy Tickets Joan Baez Date: Thursday 11/6/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $55.00 Buy Tickets Dar Williams with Lucy Wainwright Roche Date: Friday 11/7/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $35.00 Buy Tickets Dar Williams with Lucy Wainwright Roche Date: Saturday 11/8/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $35.00 Buy Tickets Inti-Illimani Date: Thursday 11/13/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $35.00 Buy Tickets Kate Clinton Hilarity Clinton '08 Date: Friday 11/14/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $45.00 Buy Tickets Johnny Winter with Gina Scilia Date: Saturday 11/15/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $35.00 Buy Tickets Robyn Hitchcock "I Often Dream Of Trains & Other Phenomena" Tour Date: Tuesday 11/18/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $25.00 Buy Tickets Rhonda Vincent & The Rage Date: Thursday 11/20/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $29.50 Buy Tickets Catie Curtis & Lori McKenna catiecurtis.com & www.lorimckenna.com Date: Friday 11/21/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $25.00 Buy Tickets Jimmy Thackery & The Drivers with The Cathy Ponton King Band Date: Saturday 11/22/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $25.00 Buy Tickets A Special Acoustic Evening with VINCE GILL Date: Sunday 11/23/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $89.50 Buy Tickets SOLD OUT! A Special Acoustic Evening with VINCE GILL Date: Monday 11/24/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $89.50 Buy Tickets SOLD OUT! Ingrid Michaelson with Newton Faulkner & David Ford Date: Tuesday 11/25/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $25.00 Buy Tickets ALL STANDING IN THE BANDSTAND! Doors 6pm. On Sale Fri. 8/15 @ Noon. B.B. King Date: Wednesday 11/26/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $135.00 Buy Tickets On Sale Fri. 8/15 @ Noon Christmas with AARON NEVILLE & His QUINTET featuring CHARLES NEVILLE Date: Sunday 11/30/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $45.00 Buy Tickets December 2008 Hot Tuna Date: Monday 12/1/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $35.00 Buy Tickets A Peter White Christmas w/ Mindi Abair & Rick Braun Date: Wednesday 12/3/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $49.50 Buy Tickets The Roches with a Holiday Twist Date: Thursday 12/4/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $35.00 Buy Tickets Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mt. Boys Date: Saturday 12/6/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $35.00 Buy Tickets Iris Dement Date: Sunday 12/7/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $35.00 Buy Tickets Raul Malo Annual Christmas Party Date: Tuesday 12/9/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $35.00 Buy Tickets Bela Fleck & The Flecktones "The Holiday Tour" featuring Victor Lemonte Wooten, Future Man & Jeff Coffin Date: Thursday 12/11/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $59.50 Buy Tickets Four Bitchin' Babes "Hormonal Imbalance" Date: Friday 12/12/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $35.00 Buy Tickets Four Bitchin' Babes "Hormonal Imbalance" Date: Saturday 12/13/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $35.00 Buy Tickets Aimee Mann's 3rd Annual Christmas Show with special guests Date: Monday 12/15/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $46.00 Buy Tickets On Sale Fri. 8/15 @ Noon Aimee Mann's 3rd Annual Christmas Show with special guests Date: Tuesday 12/16/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $46.00 Buy Tickets On Sale Fri. 8/15 @ Noon. The Bacon Brothers Date: Thursday 12/18/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $35.00 Buy Tickets On Sale Fri. 8/15 @ Noon 1964: The Tribute Date: Saturday 12/20/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: 35.00 Buy Tickets Good For The Jews Date: Sunday 12/21/2008 Time: 7:30 PM Cost: $27.50 Buy Tickets 2003 Birchmere Calendar Archive 2004 Birchmere Calendar Archive 2005 Birchmere Calendar Archive 2006 Birchmere Calendar Archive 2007 Birchmere Calendar Archive