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1101 6th St SW

Meet the Artists

Free tickets are available to get an up close and personal look at your favorite DC JazzFest artist. Join us in conversation at Meet the Artist at Arena Stage. Register Today

Meet the Artists
Meet the Artists

Time & Location

Aug 31, 2024, 10:00 AM – Sep 01, 2024, 5:30 PM

1101 6th St SW, 1101 6th St SW, Washington, DC 20024, USA

About the event

Free tickets are available to get an up close and personal look at your favorite DC JazzFest artist. Join us in conversation at the Meet the Artist at Arena Stage.

Entry is subject to availability, please arrive early.

SATURDAY - AUGUST 31, 2024

MEET THE ARTIST: D-NICE – 10AM

NEW STANDARDS EXHIBIT TALK AND TOUR 11AM

TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON

DOWNBEAT BLINDFOLD TEST – 1PM

STANLEY CLARKE

CULTURE IN THE MUSIC: FROM CUBA TO NEW ORLEANS  2PM

NICHOLAS PAYTON, GALACTIC, & CIMAFUNK

TRIBUTE TO BILLY “JABALI” HART PANEL – 3PM

THE ASCAP FOUNDATION CONVERSATION WITH JOE BLOCK (A RECIPIENT OF THE ASCAP FOUNDATION HERB ALPERT YOUNG JAZZ COMPOSERS AWARD – 4PM

EDUCATION TALK: HOW TO AUDITION  - 5PM

RON CARTER

MEET THE DCJAZZPRIX WINNING BAND – 6PM

SUNDAY - SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

MEET THE ARTIST: BOBBY SANABRIA - 12:30PM

MEET THE NEA JAZZ MASTERS: DIANNE REEVES, TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON, KENNY BARRON, RON CARTER, WILLARD JENKINS - 1:30PM

PAOLO FRESU, CLOVIS NICOLAS, JOONAS HAAVISTO | INTERNATIONAL JAZZ BEYOND BOUNDARIES – 3:30PM 

100th YEAR CENTENNIAL CELLEBRATION OF SONNY STITT CONVERSATION WITH KATEA STITT – 5:30PM

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The DC Jazz Festival®, a 501(c)(3) non-profit service organization, and its programs are made possible, in part, with major grants from the Government of the District of Columbia, Muriel Bowser, Mayor; DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities; National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs program of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts; DC Office of Cable Television, Film, Music & Entertainment, the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development; and with awards from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Gillon Family Charitable Fund, Galena-Yorktown Foundation, Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Leonard and Elaine Silverstein Family Foundation, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts, Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Mid Atlantic Arts,  The Venable Foundation, Arts Forward Fund of the Greater Washington Community Foundation, Les Paul Foundation, Ella Fitzgerald Foundation, Wells Fargo Foundation, New Music USA, Carefirst, and HumanitiesDC. ©2024 DC Jazz Festival. All rights reserved. 

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