Kenya Allmond (me)

Paige Hernandez directs a musical journey through hip-hop’s many intersections when multiple artists join The Corner Store Jazz Trio to breathe life into a fading art – the liner note.

Joy of Motion Dance Center’s adult hip-hop company unleashes their passion for jazz, tap, modern and pop-fusion AND their amazing hip-hop moves.

Jazz musicians (and tap dancers) came to sit in with top DC jazz trumpeter Jose Herrera and his trio for for an open session of standards and more.

I’ll be out of town for SXSW this weekend and won’t be able to attend the INTERSECTIONS festival for its final weekend.  If I was attending INTERSECTIONS, though, I would check out the following performances:   3/8 Thursday 7:30 Cafe Concert: Andrea Wood 8:00 Bohemian Caverns Orchestra: The Re-Write of Spring 9:30 Dance/Metro DC 11th [...]

Students and representatives of Critical Exposure were on hand to talk about their photography exhibit at the Atlas. The organization seeks to empower youth through photography.  On this larger view of the image featured above you can read what the student wrote.  Critical Exposure has worked w/ more than 800 students in DC, Baltimore, New [...]