Don’t miss free performances in Afro-Cuban, bluegrass, jazz genres and more.

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Kingman Island’s annual one-day festival is back, with dozens of bluegrass, Americana and folk artists and an innovative zero-waste goal.

WAMU is transferring the station over to the Bluegrass Country Foundation, which says it has raised enough money to keep it going for at least the next six months.

And if someone doesn’t buy it by the end of this year, the music service will end.

Neighborhoods turn into a giant open-air music venue for the afternoon.

An inconvenient heap of river-bottom silt was home to dump and a squatters colony before its rebirth as a nature refuge and host of a wildly popular annual concert.

Yesterday, George Washington University officially launched the D.C. Vernacular Music Archive, which aims to archive all of D.C. music—not just punk and go-go.

The fourth annual Kingman Island Bluegrass and Folk Festival kicks off tomorrow at 1 p.m.

A bluegrass and folk festival set for tomorrow seeks to raise awareness of two relatively unknown islands and the Anacostia River that they occupy.