After their successful Artscape concert in July, Straight Up Tribal has been invited by the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts to perform on the Main Stage at the Baltimore Book Festival on Sunday September 29th at 3pm. 

The world music group, co-founded in 2008 by Interdisciplinary Studies Assistant Director Steven McAlpine and UMBC alumni Trey Kulp, Abhik Saha, Bryan Lee, Asif Majid, and Eddie Chen, has recently released an album of original songs available in the UMBC bookstore.