Arts & Culture

BMAG x The Truth in This Art: Sonic Lifeline Founders on Strengthening Baltimore’s Jazz Reputation

As part of our monthly podcast partnership, host Rob Lee chats with Ed Baldi and Nick Moreland about curating special performances at The Hemingway Room—their intimate live jazz venue on Key Highway.

The Baltimore team is excited to continue its partnership with The Truth in This Art, a local podcast hosted by Charm City native Rob Lee that has “bridged arts, culture, and community through authentic, insightful, and curious conversations,” for 800 episodes (and counting!)

On a monthly basis, Baltimore editors, contributors, and subjects sit down with Lee to give listeners an inside look at the making of the stories they’re reading in the magazine.

This latest interview with producer Ed Baldi and photographer Nick Moreland—the uncle-nephew duo behind The Sonic Lifeline—delves into their initiatives to raise Baltimore’s profile as an East Coast hub for jazz. Among those efforts is a recurring concert series at The Hemingway Room, the intimate, pop-up jazz club that Baldi and Moreland founded in the private events space at Little Havana on Key Highway. The episode is a continuation of coverage from our October issue. 

Listen in as the co-founders discuss founding The Sonic Lifeline in the wake of the pandemic, booking emerging artists, and what makes the audience experience at their shows so special.

Subscribe to The Truth in This Art—available on all streaming platforms—to keep up with our monthly episodes, as well as all of Lee’s robust regular reporting.

—Episode illustration by Alley Kid Art/Photography by J.M. Giordano