"Mayor Sheila Dixon has declared Monday as "Frank Zappa Day" in Baltimore.

The eccentric musician was born in Baltimore on Dec. 21, 1940. He died in 1993.
Last week, Baltimore's public art commission decided that it will erect a bust of Zappa outside a public library.

"Calling the first volume of Mike Keneally's Scambot trilogy “ambitious" might be understating things a bit. For five years Mike held it close to his heart as his main project, employing nine engineers and many musicians at six studios. Scambot 1 will be released Nov. 24 on Exowax Records."

from All About Jazz

Saturday, November 14, 2009 | 8:00 p.m.
Dalton Center Recital Hall, WMU
Opus 21 – Richard Adams, Artistic Director
Bradley Wong, clarinet | Andrew Bishop, saxophone
Alexa Muhly, cello | Carl Witt, piano
Judy Moonert, percussion | Greg Secor, percussion

"Neil Slaven’s evocative title for his 1996 biography of Frank Zappa captures the wide-ranging career of the greatest musical marauder of our time. Guitarist, composer, filmmaker, champion of First Amendment rights—but for those who knew and worked with Zappa, one word seems to pervade their recollections: genius. In a collaborative venture with Fontana, critically acclaimed Opus 21 presents a prog-rock playlist of Zappa’s inventive, irreverent and subversive work."