Mark Baughman's WORKING THEORY

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Doors 6:30 PM / Show 7:30 PM Tickets: Free, But donations much appreciated Mark Baughman’s WORKING THEORY All Ages Mark Baughman is a songwriter, singer, playwright, composer, guitarist, visual artist and architect (yes, really, an architect) who lives in the Washington, DC area. Mark spent his formative years as a young musician in Pittsburgh and almost 50 years after leaving, he still thinks of it as home. Mark formed Mark Baughman’s Working Theory as a platform to write, record and perform his songs which combine thoughtful storytelling lyrics with an extremely diverse range of musical influences. The lyrics, arrangements and musicianship are both sophisticated and accessible. STORYTELLERS AND ROCK OPERAS Baughman’s story-telling-through music talents took off with the formation of WORKING THEORY to produce and perform his first rock opera, 99: A Rock Opera. It tells a modern love story with the backdrop of political activism, where it seems that every issue in contemporary life is a call to take sides. Baughman’s second rock opera to make it to the stage, Release – A Rock Opera, tells the story of Amy (an African American medical corps veteran suffering from PTSD), Thom (a son of privilege who made a mistake and ruined his life), and Patrick (a teenager trapped in his autistic world). All three live their own forms of an alienated lives and find each other in a Wyoming mental clinic where they discover that they may be able to help each other get back into the bigger world. His third rock opera – Energie – shows he wasn’t sleeping through every physics class in college. It is the story of three theoretical physicists (yes, it is) and how one discovers a safe, free source of energy, and how that discovery brings blessings and curses. In the end, they discover energy, like life, is far more than formulas and observations. A fourth show is called Victoria Falls is the story of an aging Americana Roots R&B band from the Midwest that gets a chance to…