Panel on Earliest Opera by a Black American, Jan. 16
• January 9, 2025

Sometimes it takes a while for a rare treasure to be uncovered. In 2000, Harvard University’s Houghton Library acquired a group of opera scores from a Paris collection. A remarkable […]

Ricky Skaggs at the Birchmere
• December 23, 2024

At age 70, Ricky Skaggs is a spring chicken compared to Willie Nelson, who’s 91. Though Willie (pardon the first-name basis) has never played the Birchmere — he did a […]

JazzFest Underway; Meet the Artists at Arena Stage
• August 29, 2024

The DC Jazz Festival, DC JazzFest for short, has been a District-wide happening from the get-go. Musicians performed at 18 venues during the inaugural five-day festival (then called the Duke […]

Ciné-Concert: The Blood of a Poet
• January 23, 2024

New score performed live by Matthew Nolan and Erik Friedlander The Blood of a Poet (Le Sang d’un Poète), the first part of Jean Cocteau’s Orphic Trilogy, is considered one […]

‘Shout Sister Shout!’ at Ford’s Theatre Brings Audiences on a Rollercoaster of Successes, Sorrows
• April 6, 2023

Settling into a seat for “Shout Sister Shout!” at Ford’s Theatre, one expects to hear a voice capable of raising the historic rafters: that of Carrie Compere as “Godmother of […]

Cherokee Days Festival
• March 22, 2023

Visit the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and enjoy the three-day festival featuring storytelling, traditional flute music, traditional games, demonstrations, music, dance performances, and hands-on activities in the […]

Capital Fringe Festival Comes to Georgetown Park   
• July 13, 2022

Whoever says you can’t have it all, has yet to go to the Capital Fringe Festival. For the first time, the annual theater event highlighting local, new, and “fringe” playwrights […]