DC Jazz Festival: A Showcase from Around the World
• August 28, 2023

This year’s D.C Jazz Festival, August 30 to September 3, will showcase “Jazz as a global brand,” and celebrate Washington D.C.’s historic role as an incubator of a distinctly American […]

DC Jazz Festival Launches Cuba Collaboration
• May 4, 2023

They say music is the universal language. So, it shouldn’t be surprising that it’s often a tool of exchange in cultural diplomacy.  One of the premier musical cultural institutions in […]

Ford’s Theatre Presents ‘Shout, Sister, Shout!’
• March 23, 2023

What becomes a legendary artist most is to be celebrated in the art of subsequent generations. The guitar-playing gospel great Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973) has recently been portrayed in the […]

Georgetown’s Renowned Blues Alley Reopens Sept. 16
• September 16, 2021

At the height of the pandemic in February 2021, it looked like D.C.’s most famous jazz supper club — Georgetown’s Blues Alley — might be shuttering for good. But now, […]

Weekend Round Up October 19, 2017
• October 19, 2017

It is a weekend of legendary names: Jerome Robbins, Frank Lloyd Wright, Annie Proulx, Dizzy Gillespie and Leonard Bernstein — not to mention Johannes Vermeer.