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The 2024 season comes as the first part of Graham 100, the company’s three-year centennial celebration.

From Dance Place to Wolf Trap, the Kennedy Center to Hylton Performing Arts, world-class dance artists are making their debuts on DMV stages.

February is known as the month of celebrating and honoring Black history in America. However, what you may not know is that each Black History Month actually has a specified theme. This has been the case since the beginning of its observance when it was still known as “Negro History Week.” The theme is decided… Continue reading Black History Month Facts About Art for This Year’s Theme

(Shenandoah) -- A well-renowned old-time piano player is returning to his roots this weekend.

NY-based pianist plays four originals, including a piece with string quartet, and two covers including her solo arrangement of Maple Leaf Rag

September 11, 1960 – August 15, 2023

The infectiously driving rhythms from a well-played piano fill the sunlit atrium of the Des Moines County Historical Center and the organization’s executive director, Colton Neely, stirs the venerable building

Max Morath, who stepped out of the 1890s only a lifetime late, and with syncopated piano rhythms and social commentary helped revive the ragtime age o

The uneasy alliance of sounds underscores the friction at the heart of the narrative

Cool Cool Cool saxophonist Greg Sanderson ascended through the ranks to join Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade in Columbia, SC.