Before Roberta Flack became an internationally renowned, chart-topping music icon, she was already making indelible footprints in Washington, D.C., both as a public-school choir teacher and an aspiring singer and pianist. It was in D.C.’s classrooms and especially its small nightclubs that Flack — who died in February at 88 — established the disarmingly personal…
Thursday, May 22
Metropolitan Park at National Landing – Virginia
Mentioned in past coverage
As the Trump administration continues to target institutional bastions of Black American Music, like the Smithsonian and the Kennedy Center, the month devoted to celebrating the music known as “jazz” feels in many ways more important than ever. Though many shows in the Jazz Appreciation Month calendar focus on the more “traditional” end of the…
