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Saturday, March 21

LaPortas – Alexandria

Sharón Clark Trio

Sharón Clark is perhaps the most powerful jazz vocalist in Washington, D.C. She belts Great American songbook standards and soars over lush arrangements created by her regular pianist Chris Grasso. She performs in a trio every Saturday at LaPorta’s in…



My father’s music


Jazz was not my music. When I think of jazz, I see that as my father’s music. When I was growing up in the South Bronx, before I came to Washington, D.C., I was listening to folk rock. I was listening to Dylan and Phil Ochs and hanging out in Greenwich Village. I think that…