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Capital City Fireworks River View
See the skies light up this Independence Day from the Potomac.
Book your boat to see the fireworks from your seat in a double or single kayak as you see the Lincoln and Washington Monuments lit up by brilliant fireworks!
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Gypsy Sally's Presents a Tribute to Bob Dyaln June 24
Gypsy Sally's Presents The THE BAND Band performing the music of The Band and Bob Dylan on Saturday, June 24, 2017.
This is not your ordinary tribute band. The THE BAND Band brings the music of The Band alive with authentic, true to form renditions of their extraordinary repertoire delivered with the passion and commitment for which The Band was renowned.
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Val Lewton Memorial Exhibition at Katzen Arts Center
"Val Lewton From Hollywood to Breezewood," a memorial exhibition of the artist's work at Addison/Ripley is on display at the Katzen Arts Center at American University through July 13, 2017. The show includes works from the artist's estate and from the gallery archives that span Lewton's long career.
This retrospective of Val Lewton brings it all to bear: Lewton’s lifetime in front of the canvas, his knowledge of color, his unerring command of the paint-loaded brush and his certitude about how best to structure a painting. Lewton was born in California, the son of a film director, and moved to Washington to work as an exhibit designer at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (then the National Collection of Fine Arts). His paintings use the artifacts of traffic and run of the mill objects—cars, trucks, roadways, semi-demolished buildings, and paint cans—to create improbably beautiful and personal compositions.
The Katzen Arts Center is located at 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW.
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Embassy of Sweden Hosts Nordic Folk Dancing at Glen Echo Park
Embassy of Sweden in collaboration with Glen Echo Park and the local folkdance community are offering free Swedish/Nordic folk dance lessons this summer. The dance lessons take place in Glen Echo Park, Bumper Car Pavillion located at 7300 MacArthur Boulevard, Glen Echo, MD.
July 28, 7:00 pm dance class, 8:00 pm social dance
Mid-Atlantic Norwegian Dancers
August 25, 7:00 pm dance class, 8:00 pm social dance
Nordic Dancers of Washington, DC
September 10, 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Washington’s Spelmanslag
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Walking Tour of Georgetown June 24
Interested in learning about the historic Georgetown that only locals know? Join Dwane Starlin, member of the Guild of Professional Tour Guides on Saturday, June 24, 2017 for Georgetown Walking Tours: Off the Beaten Path.
You'll discover parts of Georgetown seldom visited. Listen to tales and facts unknown to the outsider, and see the lesser known parts of the neighborhood many Washingtonians call home.
Stroll by the former residences of cabinet officers, U.S. Generals, movie stars, world renowned authors and journalists, including ones who covered the Watergate Scandal. Pass the abodes of America’s 1st Miss America and five former U.S. Senators all of whom shared the same first name. Do you know who they are? Come and learn at Off the Beaten Path.
• Meet at the corner of Q and 27th Streets, NW (by the garden gates)
• Tour starts at 1:00 pm sharp
• Rain or shine
• 2 hour tour
• We encourage you to purchase tickets in advance. Day of we can only accept cash/checks.
• 3 years and younger are free, must be in a stroller
• No pets allowed
• Wear comfortable shoes and clothing
• Tour begins and ends at Dumbarton House.
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Jean Carne Live at Blues Alley July 6-9
Soul legend Jean Carne will be performing live at Blues Alley July 6 through 9, 2017.
Her recording career began in 1969 with her husband Doug. Her musical skills became apparent as a teenager on a morning radio talk show, 'Today In Georgia', when she sang 'Misty' to the accompaniment of Errol Garner's piano. Together they made three albums for Ovation Records that saw a building success, via touring engagements across the U.S.A. Jean was often praised for being one of the first Afro-American women to control her musical stylings and not be controlled by the industry moguls.
Jean performed with Duke Ellington, the last vocalist to do so before his death. She then teamed up with Norman Connors for four highly regarded sets, contributed 'Reach For it' to George Duke's Gold album and sang lead vocals on the first two albums by Earth, Wind And Fire. The four albums she recorded for Philadelphia International are considered her finest and introduced Jean to pop and R & B audiences for the first time.
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Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection Through Sept. 4
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is hosting an exhibition of its masterworks through September 4, 2017.
Joseph Hirshhorn, whose 1966 gift to the nation of nearly six thousand works led to the creation of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, was a passionate and knowledgeable collector. He amassed art by some of the greatest figures of modernism, such as Auguste Rodin and Willem de Kooning, and took risks by supporting emerging artists. Since its opening in 1974, the Hirshhorn has carried on its founder’s legacy through an active and ambitious program of acquisitions. Its highly regarded collection charts the development of modern and contemporary art from the late nineteenth century to the present, across the world, and across media.
“Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection,” a new rehanging of the third-level permanent collection galleries, features highlights of Joseph Hirshhorn’s original gift alongside some of the newest additions to the collection. Featuring more than 75 works in virtually all media, the exhibition includes several major artworks returning to view after more than a decade, such as Jean-Paul Riopelle’s 1964 Large Triptych, as well as in-depth installations devoted to some of the most important artists in the collection.
More than a dozen paintings and works on paper by Willem de Kooning are exhibited alongside sculptures by Alberto Giacometti, creating a riveting conversation between two of the 20th century’s greatest figurative artists. Other cornerstones of the collection on view are Constantin Brancusi’s Sleeping Muse I (1909–10), Edward Hopper’s Eleven A.M. (1926), Ed Ruscha’s The Los Angeles County Museum on Fire (1965–68), Louise Bourgeois’ Legs (1986/cast 2008) and Ron Mueck’s Untitled (Big Man) (2000).
The exhibition is augmented by a special loan of Peter Doig’s painting Spearfishing (2013), which hangs alongside richly colored canvases by Francis Bacon, Richard Diebenkorn and Wifredo Lam.
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Nordic Jazz Festival June 25-29
The Nordic Embassies are presenting the eleventh annual Nordic Jazz Festival in Washington, D.C., June 25th – 29th, 2017. Internationally acclaimed performers from Denmark/The Faroe Island, Sweden, Finland and Norway will present the modern sound of Nordic Jazz over the course of 7 concerts.
On Monday, June 26 three bands will perform in the spectacular setting of House of Sweden. Enjoy a first hour of cocktails and jazzy tunes by Oskar Stenmark Trio on the rooftop followed by two full sets of contemporary jazz by Swedish sextet Klabbes Bank and by the Nordic ensemble based in the Faroe Islands Yggdrasil.
6:30 pm Doors open.
7:30 - 7:45 pm Welcome remarks and Oskar Stenmark Trio in Nobel Hall
8:00 - 8:45 pm Klabbes Bank in Alfred Nobel
8:45 - 9:00 pm Short break with bar
9:00 - 9:45 pmYggdrasil in Nobel Hall
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CAG Summer Concerts in the Park Starts May 21
The Citizens Association of Georgetown is once again hosting its annual Summer Concerts in the Parks Series.
Concerts in the Parks is Georgetown’s favorite summer Concerts series, free and open to the public in beautiful Volta and Rose Parks. These family-friendly events take place on Sunday evenings throughout the summer and feature great music, fun family activities and edible treats – even food trucks!
The dates for the 2017 Concert Series are:
Sunday, May 21st in Volta Park - 5:30 to 7:00 pm
Sunday, June 18th (Father's Day) in Volta Park - 5:30 to 7:00 pm
Sunday, July 9th in Rose Park - 5:30 to 7:00 pm
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Eighteenth-Century French Painting at NGA
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Joseph Ducreux, Le Discret, c. 1791, oil on aluminum, transferred from canvas, Spencer Museum of Art
The National Gallery of Art (NGA) is hosting an exhibition highlighting smaller museum collections of eighteenth-century French paintings. The show, in the west building, main floor, runs from May 21 through August 20, 2017
When Joseph Bonaparte, elder brother of Napoleon, arrived in the United States in 1815, he brought with him his exquisite collection of eighteenth-century French paintings. Put on public view, the works caused a sensation, and a new American taste for French art was born. Over the decades, appreciation of French eighteenth-century art has fluctuated between preference for the alluring decorative canvases of rococo artists such as François Boucher and Jean Honoré Fragonard to admiration for the sober neoclassicism championed by Jacques Louis David and his pupils.
This exhibition brings together sixty-eight paintings that represent some of the best and most unusual examples of French art of that era held by American museums and tells their stories on a national stage.
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