Four years ago, as Baltimore grappled with the pandemic and emerged from the divisive first presidency of Donald Trump, there came an idea from inside a rowhouse on Lanvale Street in Bolton Hill: Let’s get people together, let’s get them outdoors, and let’s do it across the racial dividing line of Eutaw Place.

Let’s do it with music.

Let’s call it Arts in the Parks, with an emphasis on parks. There are 29 parks, pocket size and up, in Bolton Hill, Marble Hill and Madison Park. That’s 29 places where people can gather, have an evening picnic and listen to some music. So let’s have a series of weeknight concerts, with music ranging from jazz to blues to folk, over the summer in parks on both sides of Eutaw Place.

It was Lee Tawney , a 44-year resident of Bolton Hill, who got Arts in the

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