The Loft
A unique performance space for music of all genres

Incredible music can be found at the Mill in two beautiful, intimate spaces, outside in the Loft and inside on the second floor of the Mill. Small audiences mean musicians can perform and discuss their work. Manor Mill has shared music of all genres, including world-class talent from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, blues, jazz, bluegrass, rock and more.

FEBRUARY

James Maddock

Saturday, February 22, 7-9PM

James Maddock’s status as a fixture on the Folk and Americana scene is confirmed with every listen of any song in his prodigious catalog. Relix Magazine put it this way: “James Maddock possesses the kind of lived-in craggy voice that would sound authoritative if he were singing the sports pages. Fortunately, he doesn't need to do that because his compositional skills are a match for his delivery."
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Micky Braun (of Micky and the Motorcars) with Jeff Crosby:
Hold This Town Together Tour

Sunday, February 23, 3-5PM

Micky Braun:
For a handful of summers about 30 years ago, tourists who wandered into a large dancehall in Stanley, Idaho, witnessed a family tradition finding new life. Young and old sat shoulder-to-shoulder, taking a break from the town’s mountain hikes and river campgrounds to take in Muzzie Braun and the Boys––a local family band who’d made it to the Johnny Carson Show, effortlessly spouted cowboy poetry and Western swing at gatherings around the country, and featured Muzzie’s four young sons––precocious boys with rock-and-roll futures, the youngest of which is Micky Braun.

The Braun brothers never stopped. Big brothers Cody and Willy started Reckless Kelly, and Micky and Gary left Idaho for Austin and started Micky and the Motorcars, a road-dogging favorite whose nonstop tour for the last 24 years has defined not just the lives of the brothers, but also shaped Austin’s roots-rock resurgence that has played out over the last two decades. Micky and the Motorcars cement their place as elder statesmen of that alt-country scene who have managed to master that ever-elusive blend of artistic familiarity and surprise.

Beyond his role of co-fronting the band, Micky has been a prolific writer having written with Parker McCollum, Reckless Kelly, Randy Rogers, Cody Canada, Bruce Robison, Kevin Welch, Jason Eady, Adam Hood, Jessie Plemons, Wade Bowen, Courtney Patton, and more. “If you can put your heart on your sleeve and say it, it’s the best medicine for people,” Micky says. Micky will be performing with longtime collaborator and writer Jeff Crosby.
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Jeff Crosby:
Born and raised in Idaho, Jeff Crosby has been sharing his unique perspective of Americana throughout the US and Europe over the past decade. After moving to Los Angeles CA in 2012, Crosby landed 2 songs ("This Old Town" and "Oh Love, Oh Lord") on the hit FX series Sons of Anarchy which has led to the band continually performing over 200 shows a year throughout the US and Europe. 
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MARCH

Sam Nitzberg and That’s That

Saturday, March 1, 7-9PM

Singer-songwriter Sam Nitzberg is co-founder of local roots/Americana act The Old Part of Town, who appeared here in a sold-out show in January 2024. This past summer, Sam released Sam plays well with others., his second solo album, full of his melodic and well-crafted songs, along with a healthy dose of eclectic, re-imagined cover tunes. To celebrate, for this special show, Sam’s put together That’s That, with many of the musicians who appeared on the album: Edward & Monica Graham (bass and vocals, respectively) from the Soul Magnets, “Captain” Kirk Kness (keyboards) from Stewbone and the Jerry Tripsters, along with current and former members of TOPOT, Steve Raskin (drums) and Brian Whaley (fiddle/vocals).
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Robbie Fulks

Sunday, March 2, 3-5PM

Robbie Fulks is a singer, recording artist, instrumentalist, composer, and songwriter. His most recent release, 2017’s Upland Stories, earned year’s-best recognition from NPR and Rolling Stone among many others, as well as two Grammy® nominations, for folk album and American roots song (“Alabama At Night”).
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Liz Longley
with an opening performace by MAX GOMEZ

Thursday, March 6, 7-9PM
SOLD OUT

Liz Longley:
"...Longley's spirited vocals send your heart plunging." - American Songwriter

Liz Longley is a Nashville-based singer-songwriter celebrated for her stop-you-in-your-tracks voice and deeply emotional music. Known for her distinctive blend of folk, pop, and Americana, Liz has earned accolades from prestigious songwriting competitions, including the BMI John Lennon Songwriting Scholarship Competition.
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Max Gomez:
Singer/Songwriter Max Gomez grew up in Taos, New Mexico, where he fell under the influence of country blues early on and developed a songwriting style that was uniquely his. He received critical acclaim upon the release of his debut album Rule The World (2013, New West Records); and his subsequent EP, Me and Joe (2017, Brigadoon Records), contained a freshly minted classic, “Make It Me,” which has gained over 4 million listeners on Spotify alone.
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SOLD OUT

Gallagher's Frolics

Friday, March 7, 7-9PM

Gallagher's Frolics features Terry O'Neill on fiddle and mandolin, Eric "Seamus" Sloan on flute and whistle, Norm Myers on bodhran and bones, and the irrepressible Drew Vervan on guitar and vocals. The band has been together since 2023 and often performs with the Irish Dance group Tir Na nOg at area festivals. Gallagher's Frolics presents an eclectic mix of energetic tunes and moving, richly layered songs that is quickly gaining attention through the Mid-Atlantic region.
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Ari and the Buffalo Kings

Saturday, March 8, 7-9PM

Weaving mindfulness practice, spiritual experience, and roots music from around the world, Ari and the Buffalo Kings gives your mind a fresh glass of spring water and your heart a warm embrace. The band’s second album, In the All Together, is out now, full of irreverent folk romps, transcendent soundscapes, and heartfelt lyrics inspired by the inner wisdom of our truest selves.
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Jax Hollow

Saturday, March 15, 7-9PM

“Imagine if Taylor Swift rocked, imagine a female Eddie Van Halen, imagine songwriting chops like Liz Rose and Jeffery Steel combined and you have Jax Hollow.” – Nashville.com

Jax Hollow is an untamable force of nature. Hailing from Nashville by way of Western Massachusetts, The Berklee College Of Music graduate is bringing a much needed revival to rock with her fresh innocence and serious talent. Jax’s sound is a unique blend of Classic Rock, Blues, and Americana, combined with songwriting, riffs, ripping solos, and powerful vocals. Her debut record, “Underdog Anthems” was produced and engineered by music legend Michael Wagener (over 100 million records sold).
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Steve Davis Quintet

Sunday, March 16, 3-5PM

"Steve is one of the greatest Trombone Players in the world”
- Freddie Hubbard

Steve Davis is widely regarded as one of today's leading voices on the trombone. Davis has worked with numerous jazz luminaries such as Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Jackie McLean, Horace Silver, Roy Hargrove, and Chick Corea with whom he won a Grammy Award for the album “Antidote” as a member of Chick Corea’s Spanish Heart Band. Steve’s many notable performances include The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon with Stevie Wonder and The White House Tribute to Ray Charles (PBS).
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Kalos

Monday, March 17, 8-10PM

Kalos is made up of three innovative interpreters and composers of Celtic roots music: Eric McDonald, Ryan McKasson and Jeremiah McLane. They are masters of tradition who purposefully explore the dark corners floating on its edges, delivering an alluring musical complexity full of spontaneity and joyful exuberance. Their individual artistry is enhanced when together. In short, the sum creates a greater whole. Pulling from parallel strands of influence, they create a swirling level of intensity that traverses darkness, light, and everywhere in between.
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King Kyote and Caleb Stine

Wednesday, March 26, 7:30-9:30PM

King Kyote
Harken to a night of whiskey drinking in a cabin among the pines, King Kyote echoes the yells of Rock & Roll’s fore-bearers while having a deeply rooted harmony with the Blues, Roots-Rock & Indie-Americana genres. A force to be reckoned with on stage, Kyote’s fiery live shows prove that pure raw talent combined with real, honest songwriting is still the future of today’s music. 

Hailing from the Maine coast, King Kyote’s sound and inspiration comes from how he views and interprets the world around him. He expresses himself through a unique lens—like a photograph, putting pen to paper captures life’s most delicate moments. The ability to draw creative power from the waves he rides and mountains he climbs gives Kyote a distinct perspective on the intertwines of the vagabond troubadour and the artist. 
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Caleb Stine
Caleb Stine is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist. Though he makes his living as a folk musician, Stine wouldn’t call what he does a job; he considers it a calling. His work is part-mystic poet, part-traveling preacher. As Americana UK observed, “Stine’s upfront personality [is] seeking to make a personal connection with everyone in the venue.” The albums and shows are the tip of the iceberg; to get to where he is today, Stine has put in decades of daily practice, day jobs, and deep commitment to the craft of music. “There’s an element of endurance to almost everything I do,” says Stine, who plays 100+ shows a year, has released 14 albums of original music, and shares a series of viral Instagram videos called “Caleb Stine Says Keep Going,” encouraging followers to dig deep into a creative practice of their own.
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Gallery Quartet

Sunday, March 30, 2-4PM

The Gallery Quartet is a classical string quartet presenting works by masters from the classical period to the present. Founded over 40 years ago as the quartet in residence of the Washington County (MD) Museum of Fine Arts and regularly perform in the recital hall built to accommodate chamber music.

The Gallery Quartet will perform classical and romantic string quartets, as well as quartet arrangements of folk and popular pieces.  There will be music that's familiar to some, and genres that may be new to some.
Video of the quartet playing!
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Interested in performing at Manor Mill? Please use this form or email theloft@manor-mill.com

Brad Selko

National Music Curator

Brad Selko grew up loving music and sharing this passion with others. Among many musical endeavors, Brad was founder, owner and director of the Hot August Music Festival, formally known as the “Hot August Blues Festival", which started on his farm here in Monkton. Brad ran the festival for 28 years, overseeing its transition to Oregon Ridge Park in Cockeysville where thousands of music fans still attend annually.

Emerson Probst

Regional Music Curator

Emerson has been playing bluegrass and folk music around Baltimore since an early age. After a career as an author recruiter in educational publishing, he works with his family real estate business to sponsor charity music events, pulling together local musicians for jams and open mics. His monthly blog "Hereford Music News" features these efforts and can be found at https://herefordmusicnews.com/

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