2021 Festival Review

2021 Arts & Drafts Festival

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The Baltimore County Arts Guild presented the inaugural Arts & Drafts Summer Music & Arts Festival at the Guinness Open Gate Brewery in Halethorpe, MD in August of 2021. The event kicked off Friday, August 20 with a ticketed concert featuring Baltimore's own Cris Jacobs and the Kelly Bell Band. The fun continued with a free music and arts festival on Saturday, August 21 and Sunday, August 22 where over 50 artists from the region displayed and sold their work, and local musicians played a full schedule of live music.

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By the Numbers

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5,000+ 

festival visitors

51

artist exhibitor booths

(professionals and emerging)

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2

art demonstrations

36

musicians

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2

collaboration beers brewed with Guinness

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56

volunteers

28

sponsors

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1

amazing weekend celebrating local art and music