All over the world music festivals and conferences are held each year, joining together members of the music industry, music lovers, and fans alike and bringing millions of visitors to their respective states.
The Baltimore Music Conference, although fairly young, is an upcoming music, and fast becoming multi media, conference designed to do the same and bring, not only those from Baltimore, but all along the east coast with the ultimate goal being worldwide, to Baltimore.
We are a grassroots operation consisting of an extraordinary group of volunteers who have joined on to do this all out of love for the music, film, and the arts in general!
The BMC, and what started as a suggestion from me on an internet music message board, has now taken on a life of it’s own as excitement continues to grow each year.
I invite you to join us and be a part of the excitement!

Lisa Chaplin Suit
Executive Director / Founder

So Who Is This Woman Anyway?
A little about the Founder and Executive Director of the BMC

People often ask Lisa how she got involved in and started the BMC.
"It was a total fluke really. I suggested we do our own conference in Baltimore on a message board as several DJs were lamenting about the "state of the scene" here. I also suggested we include bands & the business aspect of doing one. The response was ’Good idea, Lisa, you should do it!’ So I said ’ok, why not? I will’. I then called a meeting together, we brainstormed and off I went!" says Ms Chaplin Suit. "I love music and wanted to help my friends if possible, so it just made sense to me!"

And as crazy as that may seem, it actually does make sense!
Flashback to the early 80’s when working in nightclubs and the majority of her friends were musicians. Falling in love (as 19 year olds do) with a drummer in a band from Baltimore, she first discovered this great city and also fell in love with it while spending time here. Thinking at the time that there was much talent here, but little knowledge of it existing, she wished there was something she could do to help her friends "make it big" even back then.

She later met and married someone else, had 2 daughters and left the rock ’n roll life behind. A stay at home mom for a number of years who was president of her neighborhood community association and then began her flower business once her daughters were in school.
Years went by and after divorcing her husband and beating 2 bouts of breast cancer, she made her way back to Charm City opening a flower shop in Fells Point where she also started a marketing group for the business community, sat on the board of directors for the Business Association and orchestrated a number of events for the community.
She also made her way back into the nightlife scene after meeting Baltimore’s own, DJ Feelgood, who invited her out to a gig after ordering flowers from her.

Realizing her first love had always been music, she then became a regular patron at many of the local clubs, met many of the DJs and musicians playing in them, joined a message board and the rest is, as they say... history!

Lisa rarely sits still and can usually be found at a venue (whether it’s her own, a martini bar featuring DJs each night, recently purchased from Feelgood, or another local spot) supporting a band or a DJ that’s playing, chatting with everyone there, connecting those that haven’t met yet and then onto the next project, person, place and thing!

So, you ask, who is Lisa?
She’s the mother of 2 teenagers, an event producer, a community leader, 2 time breast cancer survivor, fundraiser, networker, promoter, bar owner and still known as the flower lady to many.
She’s the one you’ll see pitching in to promote a party or an artist, attending a show, socializing and networking at the same time and she’s usually one of the oldest dancers in the club, but that’s ok, you’ll still have a hard time keeping up with her!
She’s also the "little guy in town" and doesn’t really belong to the "good ol’ boy network" prevalent in many scenes, but she’s fueled with a passion for what she’s doing and by a desire to bring due recognition to the Baltimore scene, it’s artists and the city she dearly loves!