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*Hip-hop artists including rappers Nas and Somalia-born K’naan will hit the Kennedy Center stage next year for the weeklong festival, “One Mic: Hip-Hop Culture Worldwide.” The center announced Tuesday that its 2014 hip-hop festival will open with Nas rapping with musicians from the National Symphony Orchestra on music from his classic debut album “Illmatic.” The [...]
*We’ve been privy to very powerful, bellowing voices like Paul Robeson, James Earl Jones, and Avery Brooks to name a few. But even of those three, we have never heard such a voice as the newcomer you are about to meet. Soloman Howard, 31, is a Washington, D.C. native that is making his mark in [...]
*During an exclusive interview Friday with the Washington Post about the Trayvon Martin Case, actor Bill Cosby, a Navy veteran, said, “We’ve got to get the gun out of the hands of people who are supposed to be on neighborhood watch.” Martin was killed Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla., by self-appointed neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman, [...]
*Tickets are available to see Smokey Robinson perform at the historic Kennedy Center in Washington next month as part of the 2012 Performance Series of Legends benefit concert for DC’s Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Founded in 1974, the high school is the only one inside the Beltway that offers pre-professional arts training and [...]
*Even in his death, Marvin Gaye is inspiring thousands to use music to change the world. Singer John Legend is one of those who are leading the pack and on Tuesday, the singer, in partnership with the Kennedy Center, announced he will be encouraging youth to engage in social issues through a long-term music program [...]
*President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama were on hand to salute the 2011 class of Kennedy Center Honorees on Sunday at the Kennedy Center in Washington. CBS will broadcast the show on Dec. 27. Actress Meryl Streep, pop singer Neil Diamond, Broadway singer Barbara Cook, famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and jazz saxophonist Sonny [...]
*It’s been a long time coming but it’s finally here, the celebration of the life and music of Marvin Gaye. In honor of the legendary artist’s classic album“What’s Going On” R&B favorites like Stevie Wonder, Janelle Monae, John Legend and The Roots will stage tribute concerts. 2011 is the 40th anniversary of the album’s momentous [...]
*Jazz pianist and media personality Billy Taylor died of a heart attack in New York City Tuesday (Dec. 28), The Washington Post reported Wednesday. He was 89. Taylor, who grew up in Washington and moved to New York City in the early 1940s, played alongside Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. He was also [...]
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