Roots Cafe Singer-Songwriter Series at An Die Musik Live- SAM NITZBERG & MATT DOUGLASS

SAM NITZBERG
Sam is best known as the founder/leader of the Reactors (aka the Charm City Reactors), a staple in the Baltimore area from 1980 to ’85. The Baltimore Sun declared that the Reactors had “followed the lead of new wave acts like the Clash, the Police and Joe Jackson, who have breathed new life into old rock conventions with the fresh air of reggae." After the Reactors disbanded, Sam spent time as lead singer with the Sway before leaving to form the Odds in order to provide another vehicle for his own songs. Since the Odds break-up in 1992, Sam has periodically played reunion performances with the original Reactors line up.
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MATT DOUGLASS
Matt released his first CD in 2002, winning honorable mention for songwriting that year from MD Music Monthly Magazine. The roots-rock singer-songwriter's 2008 CD, “Big Lucky,” features 11 originals with an interesting take on rock, country and blues. A veteran guitar player with local bands The Reactors, Red Tape and The Sway, Matt has placed a couple of songs in a local movie, “Sins of the Father,” and recently appeared at the Roots Café’s “Night of 1000 Dylans” at the Creative Alliance at The Patterson with Sam. http://www.reverbnation.com/mattdouglass

Host GEOFFREY HIMES
Though he is best known as a music critic for the Washington Post, Baltimore City Paper, Nashville Scene, Jazz Times, No Depression, Paste and others, Geoffrey Himes is also a longtime singer-songwriter who has co-written songs with Fred Koller, Walter Egan, Sonia Rutstein, Billy Kemp, Stephen Wade, Jim Patton, Paul Margolis, Josh Charles, Timothy Bracken, Andrew Grimm, Bob Kannenberg and others. This month Himes will premiere his new song, “A Dog Named Blue."