That’s right the live band from the epic rock opera extravaganza Gründlehämmer will be performing their favorite hit songs from the show during Artscape.

Their performance is part of the Exotic Hypnotic festival sponsored by the High Zero Foundation.    Come up to the  5th floor of the University of Baltimore Student Center (corner of Mt. Royal and Maryland Avenues), escape the heat and dive into the pit!

This will be a wild good time guaranteed.  Relive the epic!

FRIDAY, July 16th @ 6pm

University of Baltimore Student Center, 5th Floor

Mt. Royal and Maryland Avenues

Baltimore, MD

Thanks to the generosity of the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, BROS will be participating in the 17th Annual Art Car Show at Artscape this summer! Thanks to Holly Klemm (who is coordinating the Art Car and who owns the most excellent “Blue Hawaiian” art car) and Larry Klemm of Honest Larry’s Used Cars (call 443-280-1035 and mention the BROS for a hook-up!) who helped us get involved in the festival.

The Car is a 1988 Saab 900, and presents the BROS with a humble palette that we will make fly to ultimate heights. A few highlights of the design….

- A massive, glowing, smoke-billowing, horned skull will decorate the hood of the saab.

- The roof will be converted into a Castle Turret with Drawbridge. From these heights a demigod of rock will hold court and play some wicked air guitar.

- 12 Foot Wings of Gold will cover the entire length of the car, creating an approximate 20 foot total wingspan for the car in its truest form.

- Stained Glass will decorate the three rearmost windows.

Lots of other insane and hilarious features will be all over this thing.  We really are looking forward to this car being so epic and insane that you will fall over in laughter or in worship the moment that you see it.

Wanna help build it? Email baltimorerockopera AT gmail.com with ART CAR in the subject line.  We’ll let you know what we need and the secret location of our next art car meeting/build date.

Wanna help fund it? Boy are we broke! Any monetary donation would be HUGELY appreciated.  It will help us buy MORE LASERS, MORE LEDs and the other high-tech machinery needed to get this beast moving.  BROS prides themselves on doing HUGE THINGS with a small amount of money.  Your donation of $20 will take us many miles in this automobile.   Email baltimorerockopera at Gmail.com for business sponsorship opportunities.

You can expect digital distribution of the album to go online soon (via Itunes, Amazon, Bandcamp) and after that keep your XBoxes peeled for the debut of GH on Rock Band!! WOOT!

Find info about the album HERE.

Purchase the album and GH t-shirts on our MERCH page.

Halvor shows Benedon how not to be such a pansy.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! To everyone that came to our sold-out showing of Gründlehämmer! The BROS (cast, crew, writers, band, set people, front of house, prop makers, techies) EVERYONE would like to say a big thank you to the incredibly supportive audiences we had this past weekend.  In mean the world to us that we were able to put on this show again with such success. Please sign up for our email list and keep in touch for future BROS shows.  This won’t be the last time your face will be melted!!!!!!

AK

Just a few days until the remount of Grundlehammer!! Preparations are running smoothly and we are all very excited to see you at the show! If you haven’t bought your tickets there are still plenty available online for Friday and Sunday: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/15567. When the online tickets sell out we will still be selling tickets at the door! You may be able grab one if you show up by 6 or 6:15 the night of the show!

Parking will be more difficult to find this time around due to all the snow that has recently been dumped on us so we recommend that you bundle up and walk if you can. If you have to drive please carpool! there is parking on Calvert St. (runs parallel to St. Paul St. one block east) below 26th st. If you are having trouble finding a place to park stop by 2640 and we will send you in the right direction!!

SEE YOU SOOOOOON!

When the four founders of the Baltimore Rock Opera Society talked up an epic production, they spoke every bit of truth. Epic is undoubtedly the best word to describe Gründlehämmer, the 3-hour long, debut rock opera from the creative quartet of director Aran Keating, music coordinator & actor Dylan Koehler, band director John DeCampos, and propmaster & floor manager Eli Breitburg-Smith….

Read the rest here: http://auralstates.com/2010/01/live-review-baltimore-rock-opera-society-presents-grundlehammer-2640-space-2009-10-03.html

Photo: Andy Cook

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