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Country singer Laura Cantrell has balanced different aspects of her music life over the course of a 20-plus years career, whether as a recording artist, radio host, writer, or working parent of a high-school-aged musician.

Join us for FREE film screenings in the Justice Forum at the REACH. Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes is the story of a musician whose far-reaching ambitions were inspired and challenged by the inequities of the society around him. Stay after for a panel with Raoul Roach, Dr. Tammy Kernodle, Nasheet Waits, and Willard Jenkins.

Exquisite vocals, powerful lyrics, and gorgeous melodies make Paula Fuga one of the most sought-after live performers in Hawai‘i. A poet and accomplished ‘ukulele player, her songs embody a personal style combining storytelling with passion and intense emotion.

Students from the National Symphony Orchestra Youth Fellowship Program will perform chamber music on the Millennium Stage.

The Open Doors Festival is a celebration of disability culture through the arts, for and by people with disabilities. The festival elevates the voices of artists with disabilities and builds community with artists and organizations invested in disability arts in the DMV region.

Sessa, the São Paulo musician known for his enchanting 2019 debut album Grandeza, returns with an expansive collection of songs built with reverence for the deep historical traditions of Brazilian music.

Join us for FREE film screenings in the Justice Forum at the REACH. The Birds is a 1963 American natural horror-thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It focuses on a series of sudden and unexplained violent bird attacks on the people of Bodega Bay, California.

Davina Sowers and the Vagabonds have created a stir on the national music scene with their high-energy live shows, level-A musicianship, sharp-dressed professionalism, and Sowers’ commanding stage presence.

With her enchanted voice and evocative songwriting, Leslie Mendelson has won the hearts and minds of both an adoring fan base and fellow artists alike. A Grammy Award®–nominated artist, Mendelson released her fourth studio album After The Party in the summer of 2024.

Czech mezzo-soprano Ester Pavlů and Slovak pianist Robert Pechanec present a captivating program featuring DvoÅ™ák’s Love Songs and Gypsy Songs, alongside M.S. Trnavský’s evocative compositions.

Douglas Taurel’s The American Soldier is a play based on letters from veterans and their families that span from the Revolution to recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The script has been created through a combination of exhaustive research, wording from actual letters sent from soldiers to their loved ones, and verbatim language lifted from interviews conducted with veterans and their family members.

Join us for FREE film screenings in the Justice Forum at the REACH. The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 American supernatural horror film. The film follows a fictional story of three student filmmakers who hike into the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland, in 1994 to film a documentary about a local myth known as the Blair Witch.

Zoë Jorgenson is a versatile bassist, composer, and educator whose music is deeply rooted in jazz, indie, folk, and ambient genres. She has been hailed for her innovative approach to melodic bass and vocal lines, using both to weave throughout the space of a modern jazz quartet.

New York–based Progressive Americana band Nefesh Mountain has been hailed as one of the formative boundary-pushing ensembles in roots music.

Members of the National Symphony Orchestra play an assortment of chamber music.

Grupo Fénix is a Washington, D.C.–based collective of musicians focused on preserving and promoting musical genres from Mexican and other Latin American cultures.

Join us for FREE film screenings in the Justice Forum at the REACH. Written and directed by Academy Award® nominee Ava DuVernay, Origin chronicles the tragedy and triumph of Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson.

Shetrit’s music contains original compositions that elegantly fuse traditional North African music, Gnawa, Andalusian music from his Moroccan heritage, along with contemporary jazz and Mediterranean music.

Diwali is a popular Hindu festival celebrating the age-old story of good winning over evil. In tonight’s performance, Jas and Kamaljeet Ahluwalia, known as Absolute Focus, will present the joyous and jubilant raag gawati, on the santoor (a hundred stringed hammered dulcimer) and tabla (hand drums).

When you see Chatham Rabbits on stage, it’s clear why they are one of North Carolina’s most beloved roots bands. Partners in life and music, Austin and Sarah McCombie blend their personal histories and shared life into songs that people from just get.

Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin are two award-winning performing artists who have joined forces on their Smithsonian Folkways release, symbiont (2024). Blount is a renowned interpreter of Black folk music, and Obomsawin is a celebrated composer and bassist-vocalist.

Join us for a FREE film screening in the Justice Forum at the REACH. In Road Tested, Kennedy Center Honoree Bonnie Raitt performs some of her most popular material along with a number of new songs previously unrecorded in this live concert from the Paramount Theater in Oakland, California.

²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵÃâ·Ñ°æapp joins the NeuroArts Blueprint, an initiative of the Aspen Institute and Johns Hopkins Medicine, to present a series of in-depth discussions about the potential of the arts to improve our health and well-being.

The Empresarios is a Washington, D.C.–based collective of musicians and DJs who finely tuned their Tropicaliente sound over the past few years and shared this unique blend of tropical beats across the globe.

Led by the National Symphony Orchestra and Washington National Opera, and the Kennedy Center’s Social Impact department, The Cartography Project is a multiyear commissioning project engaging artists from around the nation to map Black dignity

Madison McFerrin’s distinct vocal and meticulously layered stylings of a capella and self-harmonizing culminate in work that blends the genres of R&B, pop, soul and jazz, all with a sense of softness. Her genre-bending work has led to Questlove dubbing her early sound “soul-appella,” AdHoc to describe her work as “an oasis of serenity,” and The FADER noting how Madison’s “warm harmonies feel effortless.”

Join us for a FREE film screening in the Justice Forum at the REACH celebrating 47th Kennedy Center Honoree Arturo Sandoval. For Love or Country follows the legendary Dizzy Gillespie who helps Cuban trumpet genius Arturo Sandoval, his wife Marianela, and their son gain political asylum in the United States so Arturo could have the freedom to pursue his great passion: jazz.

This year is a special one for the Embassy of Malta to the U.S., as it marks the anniversary of numerous momentous occasions: Malta is celebrating 60 years since gaining independence, 50 years since becoming a republic, and 20 years since its accession to the European Union. This concert puts the spotlight on sheer Maltese talent!

Hailed as a “prodigiously gifted composer and virtuoso pianist,” James Fernando creates music that lies at the intersection of jazz, classical, and electronic music. He relies on his genre-expanding original compositions to deliver thought provoking and exciting performances on some of the world’s most renowned stages.

Culture Caucus member Angela Miracle Gladue aka Miss Chief Rocka, is a nehiyaw (Cree)/Greek interdisciplinary artist from the Treaty 6 Territory of amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta). Since 2016, Angela has toured as one of the lead dancers for The Halluci Nation (formerly known as A Tribe Called Red), and has also opened for major recording artists such as TLC, Sean Paul, Lil’ Kim, and more.

Tia Wood followed her heart from the Rez to the city of Angels to make her musical dreams come true. Her powerful, soulful voice carries the spirit of her people’s songs that have echoed from her homelands since time immemorial, and the musical roots of her family tree run deep.

Join us for a FREE film screening in the Justice Forum at the REACH. Kennedy Center Honoree Francis Ford Coppola’s brilliant companion piece to the original The Godfather film continues the saga of two generations of successive power within the Corleone family.

Members of the Raíces Negras chamber music collective celebrate innovative and prominent American women composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Within these musical works, audiences will discover and enjoy the worldly and otherworldly soundscapes these composers can elicit.

Grammy® winners Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer will lead and all ages sing-along, strum-along ukulele jam session. Come strum, come sing, come join the fun community and the joy of uke! Other small instruments welcome. Join the chorus, join the band.

Caleb Caudle’s sixth studio LP Sweet Critters is a nocturnal collection of songs about the things that keep you up at night, by an artist deeply in tune with himself.

Join us for a FREE film screening in the Justice Forum at the REACH. Kennedy Center Honoree Francis Ford Coppola’s Peggy Sue Got Married follows Peggy Sue Bodell (Kathleen Turner) who attends her 25-year high school reunion after separating from her cheating husband, Charlie (Nicolas Cage).