Join us as we welcome Marcus Isaiah, a versatile professional dedicated to highlighting the arts' significance in contemporary culture.

Ampl!fy is a curated open mic that mimics a professional showcase. Each month’s show has a theme inspired by social issues, pop culture, and more.

Coreyah is a psychedelic Korean folk music group whose six members integrate traditional Korean instruments, vocals, guitar, and percussion. Since their 2010 debut, Coreyah has pioneered a new style of Korean music that blends genres of contemporary ethnic and popular sounds while still maintaining the distinctive characteristics of traditional Korean instruments. The group’s unique freewheeling, polystylistic vision combines a variety of influences, including Anglo-American rock, Balkan gypsy, and genres from South America and Africa.

JChris, un cantautor urbano conocido por una voz suave y actuaciones de alta energía. Su música trasciende fronteras, infundiendo nostalgia del pop latino, su herencia brasileña-peruana y explorando temas de la cultura queer.

Este taller usará música de películas de Disney como Coco, Saludos Amigos, y Encanto, para enseñarle a los niños a cantar y tocar instrumentos de percusión mientras también aprenden sobre los diferentes ritmos, estilos, y géneros de Latinoamérica. El taller será presentado por JChris, cantautor, pianista, y productor de pop Latino reconocido como los mejores de Washington, DC.

Ampl!fy is a curated open mic that mimics a professional showcase. Each month’s show has a theme inspired by social issues, pop culture, and more.

Acompáñenos para un evento comunitario con algunos de los mejores representantes de la música Latinoamericana en el área de DC. Desde mariachi y son jarocho de México, a cumbia Colombiana, y música Andina, esta presentación le dará la oportunidad a la comunidad de conocer la amplia diversidad, variedad y talento que vive y crece en nuestra área de Washington, DC.

El primer concierto de la Serie Cultural Latinoamericana Pa’lante, se enfocará en la cultura de Centroamérica por medio de la música de Elena La Fulana, instrumentalista nominada al Latin Grammy y líder del grupo Elena & Los Fulanos. Acompañen a Elena quien con su música explorará sus raíces y explica el viaje que tomó con su arte para encontrar su propia voz e identidad. Por medio de esta dinámica presentación, exploraremos el sabor incomparable de la cultura y folklore Centroamérica con música original y tradicional intercalada con poesía y baile.

Ampl!fy is a curated open mic that mimics a professional showcase. Each month’s show has a theme inspired by social issues, pop culture, and more.

Bumper Jacksons are hot and sweet, painting America's story from the streets of New Orleans to Appalachian hollers. Unafraid to scrap together new sounds from forgotten 78's, the Bumper Jacksons elegantly balance paying homage to the traditions while fashioning their own unique, playful style. The group began as a duo, a city-meets-country experiment between songstress Jess Eliot Myhre and banjo player Chris Ousley. They hopped on bicycles, touring the country, instruments on their backs, seeking to reimagine roots music. Over a decade, Bumper Jacksons grew to a fiery five-piece, with horns and pedal steel. They now tour internationally, and have been honored multiple times as the Mid-Atlantic's "Artist of the Year," "Best Country/Americana Band" & "Best Folk Band" at the Washington Area Music Awards. Bursting at the seams with some of the richest threads of old America, Bumper Jacksons bring you into the center of a party where everyone's invited and the dance floor never sleeps.

Ampl!fy is a curated open mic that mimics a professional showcase. Each month’s show has a theme inspired by social issues, pop culture, and more.

Ampl!fy is a curated open mic that mimics a professional showcase. Each month’s show has a theme inspired by social issues, pop culture, and more.

Based on the article “Fake Online Identities and Catfishing Pose a Serious Threat,“ join us for an evening of original skits, videos, and musical performances.

Ampl!fy is a curated open mic that mimics a professional showcase. Each month’s show has a theme inspired by social issues, pop culture, and more.

Ampl!fy is a curated open mic that mimics a professional showcase. Each month’s show has a theme inspired by social issues, pop culture, and more.

Join us outdoors at Joe's this summer for a festival vibe complete with craft and food vendors, hands-on art activities for kids, and a performance from Pan Masters Steel Orchestra! From Calypso to Jazz, Soca to R&B, Pan Masters utilizes an outstanding musical repertoire that reflects the unique musical arrangements of several of its members to showcase their creativity and with the ultimate goal of enticing and pleasing any audience.

Join us outdoors at Joe's this summer for a festival vibe complete with craft and food vendors, hands-on art activities for kids, and a performance from Proverbs Reggae Band! Proverbs is a positive unique, rootz reggae band utilizing strong lyrical content and musical expressions to uplift Rasta livity. It’s the only reggae band in the DC Metropolitan area to maintain the authentic sound of Rasta Roots Reggae Music.

Join aerial artists from UpSpring Aerial Lab and the musicians of Kundalika for a special preview of their upcoming show, Elemental. Elemental is a collaborative performance exploring how people are experiencing climate change.

Join us to celebrate NOOTANA’s 10th anniversary, as we look back, and look forward through the lens of the ensemble's award-winning live, Indian Classical Music and Dance repertoire, directed by Rishi Das.

 Smriti, meaning Remembrance in Sanskrit, represents Nootana’s theme for the year, as we recreate our favorite moments from the past decade with new musicians and dancers, and enter the next decade of Nootana.

Join us to celebrate NOOTANA’s 10th anniversary, as we look back, and look forward through the lens of the ensemble's award-winning live, Indian Classical Music and Dance repertoire, directed by Rishi Das.

 Smriti, meaning Remembrance in Sanskrit, represents Nootana’s theme for the year, as we recreate our favorite moments from the past decade with new musicians and dancers, and enter the next decade of Nootana.

Join aerial artists from UpSpring Aerial Lab and the musicians of Kundalika for a special preview of their upcoming show, Elemental. Elemental is a collaborative performance exploring how people are experiencing climate change.

Led by Khandeya Sheppard, DSP is comprised of a team of brilliant musicians and educators who have performed together in varying capacities which provides an atmosphere that fosters musical creativity and expression. DSP is devoted to the future of steelpan and is dedicated to educating audiences about the history and culture of the national instrument of Trinidad & Tobago.

EducArte and Joe's Movement Emporium are are proud to present this eclectic, virtuosic, and charismatic duo. Upon seeing Larry & Joe at an intimate house concert, EducArte's co-founders Kate Spanos and Pablo Regis knew they had to bring Larry & Joe to the wider public in the Washington, DC area. Larry & Joe exemplify EducArte's mission to expand vibrant and boundary defying mission for equity in the arts.

Ash Forest Project Reception and Presentation We are Mount Rainier-based photographer Leslie Brice and writer Gabe Popkin. For the past three years, we've documented beautiful wetland forests in Maryland that are threatened by the emerald ash borer. Please join us on Sunday, November 6 from 4 to 6 pm for a reception where we'll share our work and speak about these special places. Joining us will be Andrew Baldwin, a University of Maryland ecologist who studies the transformations of the wetlands. Through our presentation, we hope to open a space for us all to think about how we can become stewards of the wild and natural places around us. Our exhibition featuring Leslie’s photographs, Gabe’s writing and drone imagery taken by Yazan Hasan will run from October 30, 2022 to January 8, 2023. It's free and open to the public.

Join us for Nootana’s 9th annual show: MAYURA. Mayura, which means peacock, symbolizes renewal, re-growth, and rejuvenation. Given the unprecedented times, as we rebuild and renew, Nootana offers rejuvenation to the community through this award-winning ensemble’s live Indian Classical Music and Dance, on stage October 22, 2022 at Joe’s Movement Emporium.

Tamara Wellons closes out our Spirit of Summer Series and ushers us into fall with her album release party, at CREATIVE SUITLAND on October 8th, 2022 at 7:00 PM. Artist, advocate, and avid supporter of music, arts, and education programs Tamara Wellons returns to our stage! Tamara is an independent American singer, songwriter and producer of Soul, Jazz, and House Music and has executive produced four full-length albums.

Fast Eddie & The Slowpokes are guaranteed to get you up on your feet! The Slowpokes playlist is inspired by classic blues material from Chicago to West Coast Swing, Motown to Muscle Shoals, and all the rock n’ roll in between.

Kundalika invites you to experience a unique cross-cultural musical conversation called global jugalbandi. Jugalbandi is a traditional Indian classical musical style with lively improvised dialogue between musicians based on pure musical scales. We have opened up the conversation to include other musical traditions such as bluegrass, jazz, and Manding. Each of our shows is different, reflecting the vibe in the room that night. Come make music with us! Featuring Deep Shenoy, sarod; Uasuf Guye, djembe; Sachin Khandari, bass; Alex Martin, acoustic guitar; Graham Smith-White, banjo; Ananth Virakthi, Karnatak vocal.

The Spirituality and the Arts Players are veterans and staff from the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington, DC who sing a variety of genres, from Civil Rights songs, to Prince to Kirk Franklin to Earth, Wind, and Fire, the Spirituality and the Arts Players seek excellence in our performance and empowerment of those who partake!

From Calypso to Jazz, Soca to R&B, Pan Masters utilizes an outstanding musical repertoire that reflects the unique musical arrangements of several of its members to showcase their creativity and with the ultimate goal of enticing and pleasing any audience.