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August 28, 2010 | 11:00 am | Dunbar High School | 1301 New Jersey Avenue Northwest | Washington, DC

47 years ago, the March on Washington took place where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his I Have a Dream speech at the March on Washington. 47 years later, Rev. Al Sharpton and the National Action Network invites you to reclaim the dream. We’ve made progress but our struggle still continues. Please join us and register for the historic Reclaim the Dream Rally and March on Saturday, August 28th in Washington DC at Dunbar High School at 11 am. National Action Network will mobilize progressive leaders, clergy, activists and "Dream Keepers" for a mass rally. There are conservative groups and tea party members that are holding rallies the same day at the Lincoln Memorial and we want to show the world that THE DREAM LIVES ON.
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LOU DONALDSON QUARTET

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"If Only for One Night"

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The Young Lions

THE YOUNG LIONS

August 27 - 8:30 & 10:30 Shows

Carolyn Malachi Tribute to John Malachi

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Akua Allrich has definitely got that thang!!!

Last weekend I ventured out to the Historic Bohemian Caverns to hear some music and to my surprise I witness a very talented vocalist and composer Akua Aldrich who took the audience by storm. Akua's command performance and tribute to two great entertainers Nina Simone and South Africa's Mariam Makeba was one of the most gratifying and soulful experience I seen in some time. Simone's "Sinner Man", Makeba's "Pata Pata" left everyone wanting more and more. Every note, and nuance was on the money. Every now and then a talent comes a long that makes you feel good and you can't get enough. When she announced the last song of the evening it turned into a medley and audience sing-a-long. The rhythm section featured Janelle Gil on pianist, Kris Funn-bass and John Lampkin-drums, as well as a flutist and two African drummers who filled the air rhythms that made you pat your feet and clap your hands~~~GeoJO Last weekend Hot Ticket! Rising young vocalist and composer AKUA ALLRICH paid Tribute to Nina Simone & Miriam Makeba @ Bohemian Caverns

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TRIBUTE TO NINA SIMONE AND MARIAM MAKEBA

WEEK #3

James King

Born in Houston Texas has made the Washington DC area his musical home for the last 40 years. Working with both local and national acts such as Stanley Turrentine, Gary Bartz, Buck Hill, Shirley Horn, John Malachi, George V Johnson Jr, Sharon Clark, Max Roach, Sonny Fortune, Harold Mabern, Gary Thomas, Geri Allen, Ronnie Mathews, Ronnie Burrage, John Hicks, James Williams, Jon Hendricks, Junior Cook, James Moody, Pharoah Sanders, Eddie Henderson, Steve Williams, Fred Foss, Barry Harris, Rueben Brown, Dick Morgan, Freddy Cole, to name a few. James King is a very gifted composer with a lyrical bass style and one of the most sort after bassist in the Metropolitan area. He can be found at one of the many National and International Jazz festivals that keep on the forefront of the Jazz scene. James King currently performs and tours with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra.

New CD Release "Allen's Odyssey"

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Abbey Lincoln, the gifted jazz vocalist and songwriter

died Saturday in New York. She was 80

Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, August 15, 2010

Abbey Lincoln, a jazz singer and actress of unshakable integrity who transformed her image from that of a slinky chanteuse to an oracle of hard-won wisdom, died Aug. 14 in New York. She had been in precarious health since having open-heart surgery in 2007, but the precise cause of death could not be learned. She was 80. Read more here...

Week # 2

Featuring

Miles Griffith

RADAM SCHWARTZ

Radam Schwartz has built his reputation over the last 25 years playing with such great musicians as Arthur and Red Prysock, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Al Hibler, and Jimmy Ford. He continues to make music history today playing with renowned artists Cecil Brooks III, Russell Malone, and David Fathead Newman. Radam's own band, Conspiracy for Positivity, offers a fresh, original jazz sound and brings youth and experience to the bandstand. The musicians include Radam on organ, James Gibbs on trumpet, Tyshawn Sorey,Luciana Padmore, or Joe Brown on drums, Misha Fatkiev or Shawn Maloney on guitar, Anthony Ware or Irwin Hall on alto saxophone, and James Stewart on baritone sax. Their first recording, released on Blue Ark Records, was played on over 200 radio stations nationally, and was on the national charts for 14 weeks (peaking at #15 on Jan 29, 2006). The Soul Jazz Spectrum named this CD the #6 Soul Jazz record of the year. Arabesque Records then released the second Conspiracy recording entitled Magic Tales. On the week of December 10,2007 it was #11 on the national Jazzweek chart. This recording can be purchased online from the Arabesque Records website or at Amazon, or downloaded from eMusic.com, or from Radam on gigs. In March,2009, Savant Records released Blues Citizens with Bruce William, Bill Saxton, Eric Johnson , Cecil Brooks III, and rapper Kice. Read more...

You know this is really our 10th year, we've been doing this at the Carter Barron for 6years.... but we've been Producing Poetry in the DC METRO area for 10 years!! Come on out and see how we do it!

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6th Annual DC Poetry Festival

August 27 · 7:30pm - 11:00pm

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Week #1

DENISE KING

"The Nearnest of You"

Philadelphia, PA

”When people ask me about my music and how I got started, I tell them that my singing career really started by accident. Music was never something that I planned to do or something that I picked. It just happened. After all that I've experienced, and all of the wonderful people that I've met, I don't think I would trade this gig for any other in the world.”
One day a shy girl from Philadelphia, PA, was sweeping her front stoop and sweetly singing “Summertime” when a guitarist/writer from Philadelphia International Records walked by and heard her singing. He was so impressed by what he heard that he auditioned her, hired her and the rest is history. That was the beginning of a singing career that would WOW people in Brazil, France, Africa, Japan, Turkey, and other places around the world~~~All About Jazz

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Howard Music Professor Designated Lowell Mason Fellow

WASHINGTON (July 16, 2010) – The National Association for Music Education (MENC) recently announced that Fred Irby, III, professor of Music, director of Howard University Jazz Ensemble, was designated as one of the five Lowell Mason Fellows for 2009.

The fellowship honors Lowell Mason who is credited with introducing music instruction to American public schools and establishing teacher training in music education. The fellows are being recognized as outstanding music educators and advocates.They have furthered the Association’s mission of music education for all.

Also recognized as fellows are Michael Bates, senior manager, Institutional Solutions Group, Yamaha Corporation of America; Jere W. Fridy, music educator and director of numerous school, military, and community bands; Douglas W. Herbert, special assistant to the assistant deputy secretary of Innovation and Improvement, U.S. Dept. of Education; and Randolph F. Kummer, former executive director of Illinois Music Educators Association, music educator and music department chair at Lincoln-Way High School.

The honorees were formally recognized at a ceremony in Washington, DC on June 27 during MENC’s 2010 Music Education Week. For more information, visit



www.menc.org.

Fred Irby, III, is a graduate of Grambling State University, (Louisiana) and Southern Illinois University (Edwardsville). As Professor of Music at Howard University Mr. Irby is the coordinator of instrumental music, trumpet instructor, and director of the internationally acclaimed Howard University Jazz Ensemble (HUJE), which he founded in 1975. The Ensemble has given outstanding performances in the United States, Europe, South America, Asia, and the Caribbean and is recognized as one of the foremost college jazz ensembles. Mr. Irby is also principal trumpet of the Kennedy Center Opera House Musical Theater Orchestra and has recorded several films for the History Channel.

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