Party Time: Both Capital Pride Week and the D.C. Jazz Fest kick off this week. Keep checking Arts Desk for D.C. Jazz Fest news and previews anchored by Michael J. West, and pick up next week's dead tree edition for Capital Pride events coverage.
Summer in the City: The Fort Dupont outdoor concert series was announced [...]

There’s plenty of music you won’t need a guide to this summer: jazz at the National Gallery; blues at Carter Barron; aging punks at Fort Reno; aging R&B giants at Fort Dupont. It doesn’t matter who’s playing there—and invariably, some of those schedules emerge way later than you’d like them to—because you’ll go anyway. Music [...]

I saw Original P with openers Ken Staton and his James Brown Revue for free at Fort Dupont Park in Anacostia Saturday night July 18.  I was not intending to write it up, but it was such an exciting and interesting event that I gotta share.  Yes, it was just an oldies tribute show, but [...]