Kick off your weekend at Lisner Auditorium with an intimate evening of acoustic performances in the round featuring Grammy Award-winning artists Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Buddy Miller and The Milk Carton Kids, and Robert Plant October 21 at 8:00pm.
What’s the best way to celebrate Omara’s 85th birthday and 70 years of performing professionally? A musical party with Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca, clarinetist/saxophonist, Anat Cohen and violinist Regina Carter throughout America’s greatest concert halls!
Kick off your weekend at Lisner Auditorium with an intimate evening of acoustic performances in the round featuring Grammy Award-winning artists Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Patty Griffin, Buddy Miller and The Milk Carton Kids, October 21 at 8:00pm.
What’s the best way to celebrate Omara’s 85th anniversary and 70 years of performing professionally? A musical party with Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca, clarinetist/saxophonist, Anat Cohen and violinist Regina Carter throughout America’s greatest concert halls!
The concert brings together three performers who bring songs of protest and social justice through the lens of people of color.
Michael Lewis’ latest book, “Flash Boys,” manages to turn a pretty complex topic into a nonfiction page-turner.
Every Elvis Costello concert is a game of trainspotting. It’d be tough to name another songwriter who’s produced as much original material over the last 35 years. As always, he found room in the 28-song, 130-minute set at Lisner Auditorium for stuff that would set even the most pious of fans a-Googling to identify.
Former President Jimmy Carter was scheduled to appear in Washington, D.C. today to discuss his new book White House Diary, which includes selections from over 5,000 pages of personal notes he took while in office on everything from the Iran hostage crisis to creating the Department of Energy. Carter fell ill on Tuesday in Cleveland and was rushed to the hospital with stomach issues. He appears to be back to “normal,” in a statement issued by the Carter Center this morning, but has canceled his D.C. appearances today, including the 12:30 p.m. book signing at Politics and Prose and the 7 p.m. discussion at the Lisner Auditorium. Neither have been rescheduled.
MONDAY: Peter J. Gomes, pastor of Harvard’s Memorial Church, will be at Politics and Prose to read from his book The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus. Gomes believes Christians should be heeding the messages of Jesus, not objectifying the man. 7 p.m. TUESDAY: Washington Post literary critic Michael Dirda wants you to know it’s OK to love Fowler’s Modern English Usage. How else would you learn that the “n” in damning, when it means “fatally conclusive,”…
>> One of the biggest names in smooth jazz, altoist David Sanborn, begins a five night stint at Blues Alley tonight with daily 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. sets. Tickets are $50 + $12.50 minimum/surcharge. >> Our first must see of the week takes place at Twins Jazz, where the club will feature three ensembles under the direction of local saxophonist Brad Linde. The University of Maryland Jazz Chamber Ensemble will play the first set…
