Performance space at George Washington University.
730 21st Street, NW
Washington, D.C., District of Columbia 20052
Events:
Saigon Love Story Movie Premiere
Saigon Love Story
Film Premiere & Live Presentation
Vietnamese with English Subtitles
The most beloved Vietnamese movie stars and singers will grace the red carpet for the movie premiere scree...
Category: Media, 19:00:00, 2007-04-14 19:00:00
Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd: Still Life with Commentator
A bass groove, deep and reassuring, lures us in like a subterranean heartbeat, only to be buried under a sublime, electro-acoustic fog of sounds competing for our attention - it's the perfect ...
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-04-20 20:00:00
Russell Peters
Tickets: $42.75; available at the Lisner Box Office, TicketMaster Outlets, PhoneCharge (301) 808-6900, http://www.ticketmaster.com/venue/172067/
Category: Performing Arts, 20:00:00, 2007-04-21 20:00:00
Russell Peters
Tickets: $42.75; available at Lisner Box Office, TicketMaster Outlets, PhoneCharge (301) 808-6900, http://www.ticketmaster.com/venue/172067/
Category: Performing Arts, 20:00:00, 2007-04-22 20:00:00
Nick Swardson
Tickets: $28.50; available at Lisner Box Office, TicketMaster Outlets, PhoneCharge (202)397-SEAT, http://www.ticketmaster.com/venue/172067/
Category: Performing Arts, 20:00:00, 2007-05-04 20:00:00
Angélique Kidjo - One Night Only!
While her music is steeped in the tribal and pop rhythms of her West African homeland, Benin-born vocalist Kidjo effortlessly slides across musical boundaries—blending a variety of styles, from funk...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-05-17 20:00:00
Rita - Israel's Pop Superstar (Washington Jewish Music Festi...
CLOSING NIGHT – Sat, June 9, 9:30 pm
Israel’s Pop Superstar
RITA
Lisner Auditorium, The George Washington University
730 21st Street NW (21st and H)
Tickets: $75 VIP Orchestra (plus reception); $4...
Category: Music, 21:30:00, 2007-06-09 21:30:00
Alan Greenspan to Speak in Washington DC
The Mid-Atlantic Venture Association (MAVA) announced today that it had partnered with Politics and Prose, the leading independent book store in Washington, to bring former Federal Reserve Board Chair...
Category: Education, 19:00:00, 2007-09-19 19:00:00
I Puritani by Vincenzo Bellini
This fall presentation is filled with Vincenzo Bellini's glorious melodies and vocal dynamism from beginning to end. His last opera and perhaps his most brilliant and sophisticated work, &...
Category: , 18:00:00, 2007-09-23 18:00:00
John McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension Band
Only a handful of guitarists in the instrument's history have come to be regarded with the awe and respect given to McLaughlin.
His career highlights include a series of high-profile projects,...
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-09-28 20:00:00
Global Drum Project
Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart reunites with Indian tabla master Zakir Hussain, Nigerian "talking-drum" ace Sikiru Adepoju and Latin conga legend Giovanni Hidalgo in a bound...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-10-11 20:00:00
Macaco
New Voices from Spain presents the debuts of two of the country's most electrifying popular music acts.
Macaco effortlessly fuses rumba catalana -- the feverish strumming of flamenco guitars -...
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-10-26 20:00:00
Concha Buika
New Voices from Spain presents the debuts of two of the country's most electrifying popular music acts.
Buika's singing -- a hypnotic fusion of soul, flamenco, jazz, funk, and the lull...
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-10-27 20:00:00
Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas + Edgar Meyer
Mandolin/fiddle champion Sam Bush, dobro master Jerry Douglas and bass virtuoso Edgar Meyer join forces in a new collaborative project featuring genre-crossing original works, traditional tunes, and s...
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-11-01 20:00:00
Brazilian Legend: Caetano Veloso
Veloso is a national icon, remaining musically modern, but undeniably Brazilian. He incorporates elements of rock, reggae, fado, tango, samba canao, baiao and rap, bringing his bossa-nova guitar styli...
Category: Music, 19:00:00, 2007-11-04 19:00:00
Festival in the Desert: Tinariwen + Vieux Farka Touré
Influenced for decades by western rock, Tinariwen, members of the nomadic culture of northern Mali, traded-in traditional stringed instruments for electric guitars to accompany their ornate vocal styl...
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-11-08 20:00:00
Yamato: Drummers of Japan
With a massive six-foot diameter drum made from a 400-year-old tree as their centerpiece, the highly skilled musicians of YAMATO play 40 taikos of various sizes, blending phenomenally powerful and dra...
Category: , 19:00:00, 2007-11-11 19:00:00
Yamato: Drummers of Japan
With a massive six-foot diameter drum made from a 400-year-old tree as their centerpiece, the highly skilled musicians of YAMATO play 40 taikos of various sizes, blending phenomenally powerful and dra...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-11-11 20:00:00
The Conga Kings: Candido Camero, Carlos 'Patato' Valdes + Gi...
The Conga Kings are an 11-piece rumba group featuring three master congueros of Afro-Cuban music: Candido Camero, an 83 year-old living history of Cuban Music; Carlos "Patato" Valdes...
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-11-16 20:00:00
The Christmas Revels
The 25th annual CHRISTMAS REVELS visits the colorful Renaissance world of Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth I.
Will Kemp, the brilliant and irreverent clown from Shakespeare’s company, has just Morris...
Category: Performing/Visual Arts, 00:00:00, 2007-12-08 00:00:00
The Christmas Revels
The 25th annual CHRISTMAS REVELS visits the colorful Renaissance world of Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth I.
Will Kemp, the brilliant and irreverent clown from Shakespeare’s company, has just Morris...
Category: Performing/Visual Arts, 00:00:00, 2007-12-15 00:00:00