Category: Announcing…
Welcoming Jeanette Berry, CapitalBop’s new executive director
These days, more often than not, if you want good news you’ve got to make it yourself. And that’s...
CapitalBop presents a jazz-punk superbill on June 17: Harriet Tubman, The Messthetics and ¡FIASCO!
Words can’t describe the sound of the trio known as Harriet Tubman. But just calling it “freedom music” gets...
David Murray’s Octet Revival and much more at the (free) HR Music Festival this Saturday!
With the summer festival season just getting going, CapitalBop is proud to be partnering this Saturday with the Home...
Brandon Woody’s UPENDO brings Baltimore fire to Petworth this Friday
Brandon Woody’s trumpet playing is a lightning rod. There’s a special kind of energy in his music that will...
Christie Dashiell’s voice has been heard on records around the world. Hear it in person at CapitalBop’s next show.
The last time Christie Dashiell sang at a CapitalBop presentation was Feburary 2020, at a special Valentine’s Day show...
Be in the room for CapitalBop’s next live taping, featuring steel pan master Victor Provost
If you’ve been following the D.C. jazz scene for long enough — or if you made it out to...
CapitalBop presents Simone Baron’s “genre-fluid” chamber ensemble, Arco Belo, in two shows this Sunday and Monday
occupy our dreamscapes!resist oppressive specificity !free the space on the margins! Those three lines from Simone Baron’s “ruin manifesto”...
CapitalBop’s artist residency returns with Amy Bormet’s AMYANA
Before the pandemic, CapitalBop’s Spotlight Residency was a monthly showcase of D.C.’s most innovative bandleaders, presenting two nights of...
Announcing the 7th Annual Jazz & Freedom Festival, a day of live music & activism benefiting Harriet’s Wildest Dreams
Even before the #DontMuteDC movement sprang up in 2019, music and activism had long gone hand-in-hand in Washington, D.C....