Fort Meade - USNA - Andrews AFB: September 2010

Crofton Children's Centre is hosting an event next Saturday, Oct. 2, to support one of their teachers in her battle against breast cancer.  This will not be a bake sale, and it's not a “run”… it's something MUCH more spectacular.

They're bringing    to Anne Arundel County for a benefit concert

and they're calling it Juice Box @ The Whiskey.

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Rocknoceros (pronounced like rhinoceros) has dominated the Washington, DC children's scene since its inception in 2005, winning four Whammies (Washington Area Music Awards), landing an on-going Video-on-Demand offering through Cox Cable, and producing 3 CD's of original music.

If there are kids in your family, you probably already know that Rocknoceros is a group of three guys: 

Coach Cotton is the ring-leader, frequently immersed in a sea of knee-high concert goers. Wearing a wireless head-set microphone, he wades through the mass of dancing children, dispersing high-fives and shaking a tambourine.

Williebob provides the necessary string work for the show, moving among a collection of guitars, mandolins, and banjos while wearing a kazoo around his neck.

Boogie Woogie Bennie is a one-man-band within the power trio, employing a contraption that one four-year-old fan described as "the piano-drum". The piano-drum allows Boogie Bennie to play the bass drum with his right foot, the snare drum and hi-hat cymbal with his left foot, and the keyboard with his hands (with his left hand playing the bass parts).

Together, Rocknoceros is able to cover a dizzying range of musical styles in each set... from Tin Pan Alley to the shores of Jamaica, Rocknoceros hops from genre to genre like a toad on summer asphalt.  Local resident Katherine Nicol tells me there's no denying that this group is definitely NOT your typical musical trio!

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Bring The Whole Family to see and hear Rocknoceros perform JUICE BOX @ THE WHISKEY

WHEN:  Saturday, October 2, 2010 from 11am-12pm.

WHERE:  THE WHISKEY, 1803 West St., Annapolis, MD 21401 (MAP) 

TICKETS: Just $12.  Visit www.juiceboxjams.com or call 1-800-255-2071 to order tickets! 

Don't wait to get your tickets, because this concert will probably sell out quickly kids and parents throughout Anne Arundel County find out about it.

For a preview of their music, click on Rocknoceros –  and while you're there, check out the rest of their website.

Images and Bio provided by Rocknoceros Press Kit

Many thanks to Crofton Children's Center for letting me know about this upcoming event.  I'm happy to share it with readers of the Maryland Real Estate Blog. Juice Box @ The Whiskey sounds like a lot of fun for everyone and I'm sure readers will want to support your teacher in her battle with breast cancer.  Great idea for a fundraiser!

Many of our home-buyers in the area around Fort Meade, Andrews AFB, and the Naval Station Annapolis are either active duty military or veterans.  And some of them are asking whether they can buy again after a short sale. 

North Carolina mortgage lender Eleanor Thorne does a great job of answering this question in the following blog post (re-blogged here with her permission).  Thanks, Eleanor!

NOTE:  Comments are disabled below; please click on the title of Eleanor's post to comment there instead.

It's been my experience that most homebuyers in Crofton, Bowie, and other nearby communities are not interested in living with someone else's choice of wallpaper.  They look at it and think, "Oh no... I'll have to take that down after settlement before we even move in... too much work!"

So take heed, and see what D.C. REALTOR Patricia Kennedy says about this topic:

Our family will be wearing navy blue tomorrow and cheering for the U.S. Naval Academy in their game against the Maryland Terps.  It's a little different experience for us, since we're Maryland season ticket holders.

My husband Larry is a retired Naval Officer and our family has lived near the U.S. Naval Academy for about 40 years.  Given the sorry state of the Maryland football program (first 10-game losing season in history last year) and our affinity for Navy, we went out to get some new tee shirts for this game.  There will be plenty of other opportunities later in the season for Terps attire.

Regardless of which team wins the season opener for both teams tomorrow, we won't complain.  We might even be equal opportunity fans, finding reasons to cheer for both teams.  It will be hard to break the Terps habit, even though we're dressing for Navy... 

We're looking forward to all the pre-game pageantry, and promise to post some photos on Tuesday.

P.S. - We may have four tickets to sell for the Maryland game the following week, so contact me if you'd be interested in buying them.  I guarantee you they're better seats than any you can buy at the box office or online.