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WPFW presents...Grammy Award winner Cassandra Wilson!

Cassandra Wilson is an American jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. Described by critic Gary Giddins as “a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack who has expanded the playing field” by incorporating blues, country and folk music into her work. She began playing piano at six, guitar by the age of twelve and was working as a vocalist by the mid-’70s, singing a wide variety of material.
Wilson has continued interpreting in fresh and creative ways jazz, vintage blues, country and folk music up until the present day.

When: March 29, 2019 8:00PM

Where: Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club 7719 Wisconsin Avenue
Bethesda, MD 20814

There are a limited number of tickets at $100. These include premium seating and a Meet and Greet with Ms. Wilson; all others are $85. To purchase tickets, visit bethesdabluesjazz.com or call 240.330.4500.

PLEASE NOTE: There is a $20 food/beverage minimum per person not included in ticket price. Tickets are neither refundable nor exchangeable.

Come out to the Embassy of Italy on March 20, 2019 and celebrate Women Who Jazz with us from 6:00-8:00 PM!

The Italian Cultural Institute's Women Who Jazz series continues with one of Italy’s youngest conductors but also a pianist and a composer, Federica Fornabaio,presenting her latest project in duo with acclaimed trumpeter Angelo Olivieri.

The concert will see a ‘contamination’ of contemporary classical music, film soundtracks and jazz, taking inspiration from Federica’s own compositions as well as the standards that influenced her artistic discourse. This is how Ryuichi Sakamoto and Nino Rota, Erik Satie and Bix Beiderbeche can be part of the same evening, rearranged and revisited in Fornabaio’s unique style.

Helping her bringing on stage such an eclectic mix, the warm round tone of Angelo Olivieri’s trumpet, considered amongst the best European jazz trumpeters according to Top Jazz.

This concert is FREE but registration is required. Registration is accepted through the Eventbrite page so Click HERE. The promotional code is WPFW.

The Italian Cultural Institute is located at Embassy of Italy
3000 Whitehaven St, NW
Washington, DC 20008

This concert will be broadcast live by WPFW 89.3 FM

WPFW TOWN HALL MEETING - 3/16

The next WPFW TOWN HALL MEETING will be on Saturday, March 16, 2019, from 12 noon to 2PM, at the Petworth Branch of the DC Public Library, 4200 Kansas Avenue NW, Washington, DC.
Our special guest speaker will be MAXIE JACKSON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE PACIFICA FOUNDATION.

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