Join WTMD on August 1st for our next First Thursday Festival—the region’s largest FREE music and arts festival! Presented by CFG Bank and the Maryland Energy Administration.

We’re thrilled to present our first—and BIGGEST—all Baltimore billing:

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong

We could hardly contain our excitement when our pals in Pigeons Playing Ping Pong told us they wanted to play a First Thursday! The Baltimore-based band formed in 2009 in a University of Maryland dorm room and has since become a national touring act. The high-energy quartet has performed at sold-out tours and festivals.

Daphne Eckman

The young Annapolis-based indie folk singer-songwriter creates an unapologetic space for catharsis… Inspiring not just tears, but compelling you to laugh, sing, scream, and dance, too.

Eckman’s five piece band devotes everything to emotion, drawing influences of Joni Mitchell, Phoebe Bridgers, Adrienne Lenker, and Radiohead through the filters of chamber pop, indie rock, 70’s soul, and pop-punk.