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LABOR DAY WEEKEND | AUGUST 30 SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

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CHECK OUT THIS YEAR’S ALL-STAR LINEUP!

GREGORY PORTER • KENNY GARRETT AND SOUNDS FROM THE ANCESTORS • CHARLES LLOYD KINDRED SPIRITS FEAT. GERALD CLAYTON, MARVIN SEWELL, REUBEN ROGERS, & KENDRICK SCOTT • SAMARA JOY

TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON NEW STANDARDS • DAVE HOLLAND TRIO FEAT. KEVIN EUBANKS AND ERIC HARLAND• BIG CHIEF DONALD HARRISON • ARTURO O'FARRILL AND THE AFRO LATIN JAZZ ENSEMBLE

GENERATIONS FEAT. GEORGE CABLES, BENNY GREEN, ORRIN EVANS, SHAMIE ROYSTON, HOPE UDOBI, JAZZMEIA HORN, JEFF "TAIN" WATTS, & KRIS FUNN • OMAR SOSA QUARTETO AMERICANOS • ORRIN EVANS QUINTET WITH SPECIAL GUEST SY SMITH • CHASE ELODIA'S PERENNIALS • ETIENNE CHARLES & CREOLE SOUL • WARREN WOLF & HISTORY OF THE VIBES • SUNNA GUNNLAUGS • THE STRING QUEENS

LUDOVICA BURTONE • ISABELLA OLIVIER FEAT. REZ ABBASI • VINNY VALENTINO GROUP FEAT. MARSHALL KEYS, FREDERICO PENA, DENNIS CHAMBERS • BRASSAHOLICS • JULIETA EUGENIO TRIO • LEIGH PILZER STARTET • MARK G.

MEADOWS • BIRCKHEAD • JOGO PROJECT • VERONNEAU• GEORGE V. JOHNSON JR. • LANDON PADDOCK GROUP

AYO • CORCORAN HOLT GROUP FEAT. MARQUIS HILL • LISA SOKOLOV • JOSÉ LUIZ MARTINS • ALEX HAMBURGER

LANGSTON HUGHES II • FLAVIO SILVA QUARTET FEAT. PAT BIANCHI • NEXT JAZZ LEGACY • AARON MYERS

DCJAZZPRIX FINALISTS: BIRCKHEAD, EMBER, NEW JAZZ UNDERGROUND

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 National Endowment for the Arts, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Gillon Family Charitable Fund, Galena-Yorktown Foundation, The 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 Charitable Foundation, and HumanitiesDC. ©2023 DC Jazz Festival. All rights reserved.

President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and their children, Caroline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, Jr., play with their dogs, Shannon, Wolf, White Tips, Blackie, Clipper, and Charlie, at Brambletyde house on Squaw Island, Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. Credit: Cecil Stoughton. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. See story on page 12.

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