Music
Find DC music concerts, performances and recitals including classical, opera, pop, rock, country, recitals and more. CultureCapital gives you quick and easy access to Metro DC concert schedules with links to the presenters to purchase tickets.
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Hot Hits
 | DC Jazz Festival June 5-16 With more than 100 performances in dozens of venues across the city, the DC Jazz Festival is the largest music festival in DC. In this 10-day period you can hear jazz artists from around the world and around the block performing Bebop, Blues, Swing, Soul, Latin and World music. |
 | Season Preview 2013-2014 DC theatre and performing arts presenters are announcing their 2013-2014 seasons. Check here for full information and subscription purchase options for DC presenters, including theatre, music, and dance. |
 | Washington National Opera: Show Boat John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Through Sun, May 26 Featuring legendary songs like "Ol' Man River" and "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," in a spectacular new production, "this joyous, beautifully mounted entertainment should keep rolling along for a long while to come" (Chicago Tribune). |
 | Rickie Simpkins Strathmore Wed, May 29 Rickie Simpkins, master musician, will showcase a collection of invigorating original and traditional melodies featuring fiddle, mandolin, guitar, vocals along with cello. |
 | National Symphony Orchestra: John Adams, conductor / Jeremy Denk, piano, plays Ravel John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Thu, May 30 through Sat, June 1 Incomparable composer John Adams returns to conduct his City Noir as well as Ravel's Piano Concerto performed by Jeremy Denk, whom the New York Times says "plays with clean articulation, warmth, and power." |
 | National Symphony Orchestra: Matthew Halls, conductor / David Hardy, cello, plays Dutilleux John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Thu, June 13 through Sat, June 15 Dynamic young British conductor Matthew Halls returns after leading last season's Messiah for a program of Dutilleux's Tout un monde lointain featuring NSO Principal Cellist David Hardy, as well as works by Ravel and Vaughan Williams. |
 | Owen Danoff Strathmore Wed, June 19 Alone with an acoustic guitar, an Owen Danoff performance is a showcase of thoughtful lyric and song writing. When with a band he joins the ranks of the bassist-turned-lead-singers, la Paul McCartney, and brings on the rock 'n' roll. |
 | Anything Goes John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Tue, June 11 through Sun, July 7 Winner of three Tony Awards, including Best Musical Revival, Cole Porter's first-class comedy features some of musical theater's most memorable standards, including "I Get a Kick out of You," "You're the Top," and, of course, "Anything Goes." |
Highlights
| The Mikado Fri, May 31 through Sat, June 1 Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts |
| Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars Sat, June 1 Artisphere |
| National Philharmonic: Carmina Burana Sat, June 8 through Sun, June 9 Strathmore |
| Music Commemorating the War of 1812 Tue, June 11 Dumbarton House |
| The United States Marine Chamber Orchestra, Summer Concert Series I Sat, June 15 Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall |
| Juanes Wed, June 19 Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts |