Baltimore-based acoustic trio The Bayberries (Hana Morford, Samantha Flores, and Danielle Williams) will perform original music rooted in bluegrass and folk traditions, with classical touches and global influences. The program will invite audiences to consider how music has shaped human relationships with the natural world and with one other.
Complementing the performance, historic bound volumes of sheet music from Sheridan Libraries Special Collections will offer a deeper perspective. Created, collected, and passed down by women from the early nineteenth through the twentieth centuries, these volumes reveal how music has preserved cultural memory and connected generations of families and communities.
Together, the music and materials will illuminate how people have long turned to both nature and song as sources of meaning, continuity, and connection.
The In the Stacks Concert Series at the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries and University Museums offers an informal, dynamic way for audiences to engage with music and performance art. Throughout the year, this concert series activates Baltimore’s iconic George Peabody Library—a glorious space with five tiers of cast-iron balconies that soar up to a latticed spotlight—with art, music, dance, film, drama, and more. Join us for up-close, unforgettable experiences with musicians and performance artists who are thinking outside the box.
Event DateThursday, July 30, 2026Start Time: 7:00pm EDTEnd Time: 8:00pm EDT
17 E Mt Vernon PlBaltimore, MD 21202
ContactSheridan Libraries and University MuseumsSam BessenArtistic Director of In the Stacks and Levy Family Curator of Sheet Music and Popular Culture6672086715inthestacks@jhu.edu
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Thank you for supporting the In the Stacks concert series, a cultural outreach program of the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries. Your investment will enable us to continue this free community music and performance art series that "Baltimore" magazine says makes classical music “accessible—and relevant—in the 21st century.” When you make a gift, you join the Friends of the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries community, which provides support for acquisitions and conservation, public exhibitions and programming, and resources to help Hopkins scholars stay ahead in a research landscape that is constantly changing.
