Milk Boy Art House Leyla McCalla will be performing this evening at The Milk Boy Art House in downtown College Park, Maryland. Milk Boy Art House is an interesting club like venue with artistic programing run by the University of Maryland’s The Clarice Smith Performing…
New Year’s Eve, 31 December 2019, the Branford Marsalis Quartet, https://www.branfordmarsalis.com, will be doing two shows at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts at 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. in the Terrace Theater. If you are a fan of this simply amazing quartet,…
WPFW Fundraiser This Friday, 20 December 2019, WPFW will host a year-end holiday bash and fundraiser at Bethesda Blues & Jazz, featuring multi-talented, multi-genre, genre bending vocalist Nona Hendrix and her band Mamafunk. The evening begins at 6:00 when WPFW’s own, DJ’s Lance Reynolds (House…
The Art Ensemble of Chicago will visit the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’s Terrace Theater this evening for two performance (7:00 & 9:00 p.m.) as part of their 50th Anniversary Tour. Founder and newly named NEA Jazzmaster, Roscoe Mitchell, and long-time member,…
I will be attending the Bela Fleck and the original Flecktones concert tomorrow evening, 2 December 2019, at the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda, Maryland, https://www.strathmore.org/. While Strathmore is one of my very least favorite concert venues, both architecturally and acoustically, I do…
Tomorrow evening, I am heading to the Italian Embassy for a concert by Neapolitan jazz singer Maria Pia de Vito. I must admit, I was not familiar with her work until Thursday afternoon, when I heard her being interviewed by WPFW’s Amy K. Bormet on…
I will be attending the 7:00 show of pianist Jason Moran and Band Wagon – Tarus Mateen (b) and Nasheet Waits (d) with guest Ingrid Laubrock on reeds. The concert will be at the Kennedy Center’s Family Theater. Their project is entitled Black Stars, which…