Ricky Martin at EagleBank Arena. The Indigo Girls at the Birchmere. Adore Delano at Baltimore Soundstage. Those are just three of the many wide-ranging (and far-flung) pop music highlights in our region this season. Many more favorites are sure-to-be discovered at two noteworthy music festivals — the return of the indie-oriented All Things Go Fall Classic at Union Market, and the star-studded debut of the two-day National Mall fundraiser, the Landmark Festival. But if you’re full of nostalgia for legacy acts, there are at least a dozen tribute-oriented concerts to choose from, featuring bands covering everyone from the Beatles to Weezer.

2015 SONIC CIRCUITS

Pyramid Atlantic Art Center
8230 Georgia Ave.
Silver Spring, MD
301-608-9101
dc-soniccircuits.org

• Pyramid Atlantic is the host for Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music. Among the nearly 30 acts scheduled to perform this year: Z’EV, Gut/Head, Chester Hawkins, Anthony Pirog, Mark Cisneros and Ian McColm, Mia Zabelka, Hay Fever, Black Spirituals, Boat Burning, and the electro-acoustic duo Salarymen. (9/18-20)

9:30 CLUB

815 V St. NW
Washington, DC
202-265-0930
930.com

• Viceroy (9/18)
• Three Days Grace w/Pop Evil (9/20)
• The Fratellis (9/21)
• Lianne La Havas — British soul singer (9/23-24)
• moe. (9/25-26)
• The Jesus and Mary Chain — Celebrating 30 years, the Scottish punk band performs their debut album Psychocandy (9/27)
• The Neighbourhood (9/28-29)
• Ibeyi — Downtempo electronic soul from French-Cuban twin sisters (9/30)
• MS MR — Half-queer co-ed synth-pop duo, with openers Circa Waves and Crater (10/1)
• No Scrubs — DJs Will Eastman and Brian Billion’s ’90s Dance Party (10/2)
• Built to Spill (10/3)
• Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls (10/4)
• Destroyer (10/5)
• Luna — A New York-based quartet (10/6)
• Wavves & Twin Peaks (10/7)
• Kurt Vile and the Violators (10/8)
• Owl City (10/9)
• Mew (10/9)
• The Growlers (10/10)
• Lucero (10/11)
• Neon Indian (10/13)
• The Word — Featuring Robert Randolph, John Medeski and the North Mississippi Allstars (10/14)
• Cherub (10/15)
• Leon Bridges (10/16)
• Tobias Jesso Jr. (10/17)
• Old 97’s w/Banditos (10/17)
• Smallpools w/Phoebe Ryan and Machineheart (10/18)
• Tove Lo — Queen of the Clouds Tour from this sharp Swedish dance artist (10/19)
• Battles (10/19)
• Halsey (10/20)
• X Ambassadors w/Skylar Grey & Kevin Garrett — Imagine Dragons-esque New York pop/rock quartet (10/21)
• Matoma (10/21)
• Lotus — All Good presents (10/23-24)
• Cold War Kids feat. Dearland Horns (10/25)
• Peaches w/Deap Vally — The raunchy, queer, Canadian singer/rapper returns (10/26)
• UB40 — Featuring Ali Campbell, Astro and Mickey Virtue (10/27)
• Garbage — The British punk-pop act (10/28-29)
• Pigeons Playing Ping Pong (10/30)
• The Revivalists (10/31)
• Youth Lagoon (11/1)
• The Districts (11/2)
• Lido (11/3)
• Parov Stelar (11/4)
• Gorgon City — The best British house DJ duo you don’t know, in a full-scale show with special guests Kidnap Kid, Waze and Odyssey (11/5)
• Bakermat (11/6)
• Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. (11/6)
• Odesza (11/7)
• MisterWives (11/8)
• GWAR (11/9)
• RAC w/Big Data, Filous, Pink Feathers — Cutting edge synth-pop (11/10)
• El Vy — Featuring Matt Berninger of the National and Brent Knopf of Ramona Falls & Menomena (11/11)
• Rachael Yamagata (11/12)
• Wild Child (11/13)
• Yonder Mountain String Band (11/14)
• Shakey Graves w/Those Darlins (11/15)
• Shakey Graves (11/15)
• Chris Robinson Brotherhood (11/17)
• The Wood Brothers (11/18)
• Azealia Banks — If only this queer-identified rapper wasn’t so homophobic and bitter (11/20)
• Slow Magic & Giraffage (11/21)
• Ryn Weaver (11/23)
• The English Beat (11/25)
• Keller Williams’ ThanksForGrassGiving — Larry Keel, Jason Carter, Jay Starling, Travis Book and Chris Pandolfi perform at this pot-touting concert (11/28)
• Dark Star Orchestra — The nearly 15-year-old unofficial recreation of the Grateful Dead concert experience (12/3)
• Deerhunter w/Atlas Sound — Queer singer-songwriter Bradford Cox will perform twice, both as leader of this punk band plus an opening set by his solo experimental side project (12/5)

THE ALDEN

McLean Community Center
1234 Ingleside Avenue
McLean, VA
703-790-0123
aldentheatre.org

• Julie Fowlis — “Music of the Scottish Isles” by this pure voiced singer (10/17)
• John Eaton Holiday Spectacular — An afternoon of American Songbook standards, including holiday classics, from the celebrated local pianist and musicologist (12/19)

ALL THINGS GO FALL CLASSIC

Dock 5
Union Market
1309 5th Street NE
Washington, DC
800-680-9095
allthingsgofallclassic.com

• The lineup this year is headlined by up-and-coming Norwegian dance artist Kygo as well as neo-disco New York band The Knocks. Also includes Penguin Prison, Niykee Heaton, Baio, Powers, TigerTown, Chelsea Lankes, The Walking Sticks (10/10)

AMP BY STRATHMORE

11810 Grand Park Avenue
North Bethesda, MD
301-581-5100
ampbystrathmore.com

• James Lloyd — Pieces of a Dream frontman (9/19)
• Peter Rowan — A Bill Monroe protégé (9/25)
• Chaise Lounge (9/26)
• Michael Lynche Live — Minister of Love Tour from this one-time American Idol contestant (9/30)
• Hamilton Leithauser — Former Walkmen frontman (10/2)
• Blue Highway — Grammy-vetted bluegrass (10/4)
• Michael Chapman & Ryley Walker (10/8)
• Naughty Professor — High-energy jazz (10/9)
• PigPen Theatre Co. — Outrageous folk (10/16)
• Strathmore Cabaret 2015 — An Evening in Paris (10/17)
• Nicholas David — A favorite from The Voice (10/25)
• Bob McDonald — Sinatra celebration (10/29)
• JazzReach’s Metta Quintet (10/30)
• The Weight (11/6)
• Hugh Masekela & Larry Willis — Legendary jazz duo (11/12)
• Storm Large — Classic songs twisted by this irrepressible vocalist, lately best known from her work in Pink Martini (11/13)
• The Yardbirds (11/18)
• Tony DeSare — Gay jazz singer-songwriter/pianist offers a wide-ranging cabaret, from Sinatra to Prince, Mercer to McCartney (11/22)
• Christian Scott — Bold jazz trumpet (1/17/15)

ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

1333 H Street NE
Washington, DC
202-399-7993
atlasarts.org

• Brad Linde — Useless Machines is an innovative collection of jazz compositions from the Atlas Artist in Residence (9/18)
• QuinTango — Internationally renowned, locally based troupe shares tango music and stories (9/24)
• Heidi Martin — Jazz vocalist combines poetry, songs and monologues for a one-woman tribute to the indomitable Abbey Lincoln (9/24-26)
• Eldar — Grammy-nominated, New York-based pianist (9/26)
• Darius Jones & Emilie Lesbros — Composer and alto-saxophonist and vocalist perform as part of the Jazz at the Atlas series (10/3)
• Ran Blake — Jazz master offers a rare concert performance (10/23-24)
• Cyro Baptista & Banquet of the Spirits — A quartet following the philosophy of Anthropofagia, the Brazilian cultural movement from a century ago (11/13)
• Jamie Baum Septet — Modern jazz drawing classical inspiration from Stravinsky and Ives, as well as from farther afield (11/21)

BALTIMORE SOUNDSTAGE

124 Market Place
Baltimore, MD
410-244-0057
baltimoresoundstage.com

• Zoso — “The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience,” formed in 1995 (11/28)
• Integrity, Chokehold, God’s Hate, Churchburn, Queensway (9/19)
• Kodaline, Good Old War (9/20)
• Tremonti & Trivium Wilson (9/25)
• Eric Roberson, Jerzey Shawn (9/26)
• Pat McGee, Jefferson Grizzard, Billy Redfield (10/1)
• Adore Delano w/Full Band — The popular RuPaul’s Drag Race runner-up returns for a full-fledged concert (10/3)
• Flux Pavilion w/Wilkinson & Diskord (10/5)
• The Aquabats, Dog Party (10/9)
• Atreyu, Unearth, Wovenwar (10/11)
• Sanctuary, A Sound of Thunder, Burning Shadows (10/14)
• The Mantras (10/15)
• The White Buffalo, The Saint Johns (10/20)
• The Misfits (10/22)
• Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad (10/23)
• Blind Guardian with special guest Grave Digger (10/27)
• Combichrist & the Birthday Massacre (10/28)
• Plain White T’s (10/29)
• The Sheepdogs (10/30)
• Copeland, Eisley, We Are The City (11/7)
• Kataklysm & Belphegor (11/8)
• The Story So Far (11/9)
• Skinny Puppy, Youth Code (11/10)
• Allen Stone (11/11)
• Turkuaz — Nontet from Brooklyn with a “PowerFunk” pop sound (11/21)
• Mayhem & Watain (11/25)
• Psycho Killers — The Talking Heads tribute band performs for a Toys for Tots fundraiser (11/27)
• Kindred the Family Soul (11/28)
• Our Last Night (12/1)
• Silverstein & Senses (12/11)
• Ballyhoo — “America’s favorite feel-good party band” performs “The Nightmare Before Christmas” show (12/12)
• The Black Dahlia (12/14)

BARNS AT WOLF TRAP

1635 Trap Road
Vienna, VA
877-WOLFTRAP
wolftrap.org

• Megan Hilty — The Smash star returns to make her debut at the Barns (10/9)
• The Ann Wilson Thing — Heart’s lead singer offers a solo show of blues, soul and rock (10/12-13)
• Benjamin Clementine — Soulful, British/French singer-songwriter and poet often compared to Antony Hegarty and Nina Simone (10/14)
• Sam Bush — The “King of Newgrass,” an offshoot of bluegrass that adds jazz and rock influences (10/15)
• Crystal Bowersox — The out, former American Idol finalist (10/16)
• Old Dominion — Country rock (10/22)
• Willie Nile — Gritty folk-rock (10/29)
• Catherine Russell — Grammy-winning jazz vocalist (10/30)
• Joan Armatrading — Acclaimed British folk/rock singer-songwriter makes the last U.S. stop on her final world tour (10/31-11/1)
• Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds — A debut Wolf Trap performance of the soul-funk act led by singer Arleigh Kincheloe (11/5)
• Mountain Heart — Acoustic bluegrass ensemble (11/8)
• Paul Thorn (11/10)
• California Guitar Trio (11/11)
• Debby Boone — “You Light Up My Life” singer and Pat’s daughter (11/12)
• Madeleine Peyroux (11/17)
• Suzanne Vega & Duncan Sheik — A night of popular hits plus music created for Vega’s Off-Broadway debut, Carson McCullers Talks About Love (11/18-19)
• Rickie Lee Jones (11/20)
• Sonny Landreth (11/21)
• John Eaton — Pianist/musicologist offers “The Roaring Twenties: A Salute to the Jazz Age” (11/27)
• Dream Discs: The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle, Moondance — Tribute to two of rock’s best-loved albums, from Bruce Springsteen and Van Morrison, performed in their entirety (11/28)
• Over The Rhine (12/4)
• Calmus (12/6)

THE BIRCHMERE

3701 Mount Vernon Avenue
Alexandria, VA
703-549-7500
birchmere.com

• Bill Kirchen & Too Much Fun, Jumpin’ Jupiter (9/18)
• Brigitte w/Trio Caliente (9/19)
• Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers (9/20)
• Steve Earle & the Dukes w/the Mastersons (9/23)
• John Ondrasik — Formerly of Five for Fighting, performing with a quartet (9/24)
• Maysa & Her Jazz Funk Soul Orchestra (9/25)
• Celebrating Danny Gatton and the Music of the Anacostia Delta — Hosted by WPFW’s Tom Cole and featuring clips from the Anacostia Delta documentary and live performances from musicians in the Gatton tradition, including Antohony Pirog, Dave Chappell, Dave Elliott, Joel Harrison, Robbie Magruder, Tom Principato (9/26)
• Buddy Guy (9/28)
• Patty Griffin w/Sam Lee (9/29)
• Joel Hodgson, Pat Rothfuss and Paul & Storm — Nerds and Music (9/30)
• Jose James w/Nao Yoshioka — “Yesterday I Had The Blues” featuring the music of Billie Holiday (10/1)
• Pat McGee & Friends w/Brian Dunne (10/2)
• Hiroshima (10/3)
• The 1964: The Tribute (10/4)
• Aaron Neville (10/5)
• Melody Gardot (10/6)
• Matt Nathanson — Show Me Your Fangs Tour (10/7)
• Kenny Lattimore (10/9)
• The Whispers (10/10-11)
• the subdudes w/Vance Gilbert (10/15)
• Hal Ketchum & Suzy Bogguss (10/16)
• Keiko Matsui (10/17)
• Herman’s Hermits starring Peter Noone (10/18)
• The Wailin’ Jennys (10/20)
• Michael McDonald (10/21)
• Avery*Sunshine (10/22-23)
• Commodores (10/25)
• Loreena McKennitt (10/26-27)
• Jay Farrar w/Holy Sons — Performing songs of Son Volt’s Trace and more (10/28)
• Natalie MacMaster & Donell Leahy — Visions from Cape Breton & Beyond (10/29)
• David Bromberg Big Band (10/30)
• Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin and the Guilty Ones w/Webb Wilder (10/31)
• The Polyphonic Spree — A 15th Anniversary Tour performing The Beginning Stages of… in its entirety as well as deep cuts, choice covers and other surprises (11/1)
• Indigo Girls w/A Fragile Tomorrow — The original lesbian folk duo (11/2)
• Joshua Radin w/Anya Marina (11/3-4)
• Delbert McClinton w/Damon Fowler (11/5)
• Oleta Adams — ’90s-era R&B hit-maker returns for what’s becoming an annual stop at the Birchmere (11/6)
• George Winston (11/8)
• Toadies w/In The Whale — Masters of eerie rock (11/9)
• Cooder-White-Skaggs (11/10-11)
• Colin Hay (11/12-13)
• Tom Paxton & Friends — “The Last Roundup” with special guests Janis Ian, Robin & Linda Williams, Jim Rooney and more (11/14)
• Lee Ann Womack (11/15)
• Acoustic Alchemy (11/16)
• Narada Michael Walden (11/17)
• Three Dog Night (11/18-19)
• Jerry Douglas (11/22)
• The Seldom Scene & Bumper Jacksons (11/27-28)
• A Peter White Christmas feat. Mindi Abair & Rick Braun (12/2)
• Sheila E (12/3)
• Blood Sweat & Tears featuring Bo Bice (12/4)
• Cheryl Wheeler & John Gorka (12/5)
• Squeeze Acoustic — “The At Odds Couple,” an Evening with Difford & Tilbrook (12/6)
• David Benoit Christmas w/Jane Monheit — “Tribute to Charlie Brown” (12/7)
• Fourplay (12/8)
• Rosanne Cash w/John Leventhal (12/9)
• The Dan Band — Holiday Show! (12/10)
• Judy Collins w/Ari Hest (12/11-12)
• Gad Elmaleh — “All in English” (12/13)
• Asleep at the Wheel — “Merry Texas Christmas Y’all!” (12/16)
• Carbon Leaf (12/17-18)
• Pieces of a Dream (12/19)
• Robert Glasper Experiment (12/20)
• Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes (12/26)
• Mint Condition — Holiday Show (12/28-30)
• MO’Fire featuring In Gratitude, Motown & More — Tributes to Earth, Wind & Fire and Motown and Soul Legends (1/1/16)
• Travis Tritt (1/12/16)
• Emily West (1/23/16)

BLACK CAT

1811 14th St. NW
Washington, DC
202-667-4490
blackcatdc.com

• Common People — DJ lil’e’s ’90s alt-pop and ’90s hip-hop dance party (9/19)
• Jungle/Fever — The Beard & the Fro present this party featuring DJ Mista Selecta and DJ Mane Squeeze (9/19)
• Jack on Fire w/Head-Roc, Cool People (9/21)
• Joyce Manor (9/23)
• Dream Boat (9/24)
• El Ten Eleven (9/25)
• Dark & Stormy — DJ Shea Van Horn’s “darker side of dance/electro/retro” party (9/25)
• Low (9/26)
• Parlor Mob (9/27)
• Fidlar w/Dune Rats (9/28)
• Hemlines w/Homosuperior (9/30)
• Joey Cape (10/1)
• Noah Gundersen w/Field Report (10/3)
• Bae Bae: A K-Pop Dance Night — DJs Dakdahri and Chimek (10/3)
• Radkey — Black metal band of brothers (10/4)
• Computer Magic (10/6)
• Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires Pujol (10/7)
• SaintSeneca (10/8)
• Metalachi (10/9)
• Futurebirds (10/10)
• Electric Six (10/11)
• Mal Blum (10/12)
• Tricot (12/13)
• Goatsnake (10/14)
• Blitzen Trapper (10/15)
• Telekinesis — Intriguing synth-pop (10/19)
• Boys Life (10/20)
• Babes in Toyland (10/24)
• The Menzingers (10/25)
• The Ex & Ken Vandermark (10/27)
• Eighties Mayhem — DJs Steve EP, Killa K, Missguided and Krasty McNasty offer an ’80s Halloween Dance Party (10/30)
• The Halloween Circus (10/31)
• Night Streets (11/2)
• Marching Church (11/3)
• Movits! (11/4)
• We Were Promised Jetpacks (11/6)
• DIIV (11/7) Allison Weiss (11/9)
• Moving Units (11/10)
• Fuzz (11/13)
• Wand (11/15)
• Priests— D.C.’s mixed-gender, mixed-sexuality, hard-charging punk band (11/17)
• Exodus (11/18)
• !!! — A punky, neo-disco band inspired by Paradise Garage (11/19)
• Okkervil River — Performing Black Sheep Boy (11/20)
• Sinkane — Funky pop tunes from the London-born musician (11/25)
• Darwin Deez w/Charly Bliss (12/9)
• The Get Up Kids — A 20th Anniversary Tour with opening sets from Into It. Over It. and Rozwell Kid (12/13)

BLUES ALLEY

1073 Wisconsin Avenue NW
Washington, DC
703-549-7500
bluesalley.com

• Regina Belle — Peabo Bryson’s duet partner on the Aladdin ballad “A Whole New World” now mostly sings gospel tunes (9/18-20)
• Darrell Hill (9/21)
• Joshua Breakstone (9/22)
• Mark G. Meadows (9/23)
• Gabbie McGee (9/24)
• Syleena Johnson — Couples Therapy Tour from the soul singer-songwriter (9/25-27)
• The Fruition Experiment (9/28)
• Kathleen Bertrand (9/290
• Marianne Solivan (9/30)
• Rachelle Ferrell — Celebrated jazz vocalist and keyboardist (10/1-4)
• Roy Hargrove — Considered one of the premier players in jazz (10/6-11)
• Karin & Mike Kelleher (10/12)
• Kenya — The 2014 recipient of the Black Women in Jazz’s Best Black Female Rising Star Jazz Artist award (10/13)
• Najee (10/16-18)
• Sanjay Mishra (10/20)
• Rudresh Mahanthappa — “Bird Calls” (10/24-25)
• Christiana Drapkin & Mike Gellar Quartet (10/26)
• Cecily — Cecily Bumbray’s sound is rooted in a deep appreciation for mid-century soul and jazz, ’90s R&B, and re-imagined folk (10/27)
• Byron Miller (10/28)
• John Pizzarelli — The prime interpreter of the Great American Songbook offers “McCartney & More” (10/29-11/1)
• Jody Watley — Gay-affirming soul and dance artist offers a concert toasting her disco roots with “Shalamar Reloaded” (11/6-8)
• Danni (11/9)
• Juanito Pascual New Flamenco Trio (11/10)
• Jonathan Butler (11/12-15)
• Tamara Wellons (11/16)
• Alex Bugnon (11/27-29)
• Arturo Sandoval — Latin Jazz legend returns for an annual weekend run of shows (12/3-5)
• Eric Felten Jazz Orchestra — A holiday big band show performing Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite (12/8-9)
• Marcus Johnson — A funky smooth seasonal soundtrack (12/10-13)
• A Freddy Cole Christmas (12/17-20)
• Cyrus Chestnut (12/26-31)
• Gerald Albright (1/14-1/17/16)

BOHEMIAN CAVERNS

2001 11th Street NW
Washington, DC
202-299-0800
bohemiancaverns.com

• Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah — Stretch Music Release (9/18-19)
• Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra – Esteemed big band performs every Monday night
• Brad Linde — Saxophonist and founder of the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra (9/22)
• Cecily Salutes DC — Bumbray honors her forebears nurtured by Chocolate City, including Duke Ellington, Roberta Flack and Gil Scott-Heron (9/24)
• The Thing — Scandinavian garage/free jazz trio has established themselves as one of the most important European jazz groups (9/27)
• Brad Linde — Therapy Band (9/29)
• Jesse Fsicher (10/1)

CLARICE SMITH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

University of Maryland
College Park, MD
301-405-ARTS
theclarice.umd.edu

• Edmar Castaneda — Colombian jazz harpist (10/2)
• Julian Lage Trio — American guitarist, composer and arranger building bridges between traditional acoustic forms and jazz (10/16)
• Emiline Michel — Called “the queen of Haitian song” and the “new goddess of Creole music” (11/6)
• UMD Chamber Jazz — Swing with the UMD jazz combos as they play new tunes and beloved standards (11/10-11)

COMET PING PONG

5037 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC
202-364-0404
cometpingpong.com

• Ultimate Painting, Ruby Fray and the Beginner’s Mynd (9/21)
• Mike Kroi and Title Tracks (9/26)
• Dot Dash and Nox — DVD Release Show for Scott Crawford and Jim Saah’s Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90) (10/2)
• Ought, LVL UP and BRNDA (10/3)
• Shannon & The Clams, Las Rosas and Gauche w/DJ Baby Alcatraz (10/13)
• Eternal Summers (10/18)
• Ex-Cult (10/19)
• Teen, Widowspeak and Ava Luna (10/22)
• Mean Jeans, the Ar-Kaics and Bless (11/4)
• Yonatan Gat and Go Cozy (11/12)
• U.S. Girls and Escape-ism — Found sound is the name of the game for Ian Svenonius’ Escape-ism (11/17)

CONGRESSIONAL CHORUS

Atlas Performing Arts Center
1333 H Street NE
Washington, DC
202-399-7993 ext. 182

congressionalchorus.org

• It’s A Small World — “A Multicultural Musical Extravaganza” featuring the American Youth Chorus, Congressional Chorus Chamber Ensemble and NorthEast Senior Singers (11/1, Lutheran Church of the Reformation)
• Living, Laughing & Loving — “Celebrating the Circle of Life through Song, Dance and Poetry” (11/14, Church of the Epiphany)
• 10th Annual Holiday Concert & Sing-Along — Featuring the American Youth Chorus (12/13)

DAR CONSTITUTION HALL

1776 D Street NW
Washington, DC
202-628-1776
dar.org/conthall

• Music Magic Mast Kalaiyaan — Elite Bollywood Entertainment presents this concert featuring Indian pop stars Sukhwinder Singh and Kanika Kapoor (9/19)
• Roger Waters & Special Guests Billy Corgan and Tom Morello — The frontmen of Pink Floyd, Smashing Pumpkins and Rage Against the Machine offer a concert benefiting the Wounded Veterans of Musicorps (10/16)
• Festival of Praise 2015 — National gospel tour features Fred Hammond, Donnie McClurkin and Kim Burrell and others (11/1)
• Don Henley — A fall concert by the founder of the Eagles (11/5)
• 70’s Soul Sounds: Temptations Review — A show featuring Dennis Edwards, Bloodstone, Black Ivory and the Jones Girls (11/6)
• Glen Hansard — IMP Productions presents this Irish singer-songwriter, best known for his Tony-winning score for Once (11/28)

DAVIS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Georgetown University
3700 O Street NW
Washington, DC
202-687-ARTS
performingarts.georgetown.edu

• Donald Harrison Jr. — A Friday Music Series concert featuring the creator of Nouveau Swing, a style merging R&B and hip-hop with traditional jazz (10/23)
• Georgetown University Jazz Ensemble — Annual Holiday Concert (12/4)
• GU Jazz Ensemble — Professor Aaron Broadus leads this group in a program featuring some of Charles Mingus’s most famous hits, along with additional jazz standards and favorites (12/5)

DC9

1940 9th Street NW
Washington, DC
202-483-5000
dcnine.com

• Discnotheque — DJs Sean Morris and Bill Spieler spin this cellphones-discouraged house party every Friday night
• Peach Pit — DJ Matt Bailer’s popular, ’90s pop-focused party (9/19)
• Throwing Back Sunday (9/20)
• Brave Baby (9/20)
• The Bellfuries (9/22)
• The Boundary Stones (9/23)
• Truly (9/24)
• Phil Cook (9/25)
• Steve’n’Seagulls (9/26)
• A People’s Choir: Art All Night — A casual sing-along (9/26)
• Mikaela Davis — A harpist/singer-songwriter on the rise (9/27)
• American Wrestlers (9/28)
• Good Graeff (9/29)
• Superhumanoids (9/30)
• Reigning Sound (10/1)
• Maritime (10/3)
• Liberation Dance Party (10/3)
• The Very Small (10/4)
• The Lighthouse and The Whaler (10/5)
• The Glorious Sons — The Contender Tour (10/6)
• Pure Bathing Culture (10/7)
• Teen Daze (10/8)
• Matthew Friedberger (10/9)
• Drinks (10/11)
• Deaf Wish (10/12)
• Paperhaus — Popular local psychedelic pop band (10/13)
• Empress Of (10/14)
• King Dude (10/15)
• Brent & Co. (10/16)
• Dungen (10/17)
• Braids (10/19)
• Israel Nash (10/20)
• Landshapes (10/21)
• Caspian (10/22)
• Susto (10/23)
• Little May (10/24)
• Kill Lincoln (10/25)
• David Ryan Harris (10/27)
• July Talk and Little Hurricane — Dr Martens Stand For Something Tour (10/28)
• Joanna Gruesome — A Welsh, noise-pop five-piece (11/1)
• Strange Names (11/3)
• The Hotelier (11/4)
• The Dirty Nil (11/6)
• Waters (11/7)
• Mitski (11/11)
• Dilly Dally (11/12)
• Made of Oak — Featuring Nick Sanborn of Sylvan Esso (11/18)
• Beat Connection (11/19)
• Alex Bleeker and the Freaks (11/21)
• Car Seat Headrest & Ne-Hi (12/7)
• Girl Band (12/10)
• Jesse Merchant (12/17)

EagleBank Arena

George Mason University
4500 Patriot Circle
Fairfax, VA
703-993-3000
eaglebankarena.com

• Ricky Martin (10/9)
• Marc Anthony & Carlos Vives (10/11)
• Juan Gabriel (11/1)
• TobyMac (11/14)
• Alejandro Fernandez (11/21)
• Christmas with Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith (12/20)

ECHOSTAGE

2135 Queens Chapel Road NE
Washington, DC
202-503-2330
echostage.com

• Tchami w/Don Diablo — Part one of “Echoversary” (9/18)
• Bingo Players w/Henry Fong — Part two of “Echoversary” (9/19)
• Armin Van Buuren — A veteran electronic/dance music DJ/producer and still one of the best (9/24)
• Oliver Heldens w/Cazzette — A new Dutch DJ/producer, groomed by his fellow countryman Tiesto (9/25)
• Future — One of hip-hop’s newer stars (10/2)
• J Balvin (10/3)
• DVBBS — Canadian EDM brothers, best known for the international club banger “Tsunami” (10/10)
• Kaskade — Originally a smooth house/chillout DJ and producer, now harder and more popular (10/16)
• Mega DC feat. Nero (10/17)
• Disclosure — One of today’s sharpest house acts (10/21-22)
• Duke Dumont — Another appealing new neo-house act from the U.K. (10/24)
• Safe in Sound Festival — Featuring Bro Safari, Datsik, Zomboy (10/25)
• Cash Cash + Tritonal (10/30)
• The Chainsmokers — A remixing powerhouse (10/31)
• GTA (11/13)
• James Bay — The latest young, soulful British artist (11/14)
• All Time Low & Sleeping with Sirens (11/16)
• The Wilderness Politics Tour — Featuring Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness and New Politics with the Griswolds and Lolo (11/17)
• 3LAU (12/5)
• City and Colour (12/11)

FILLMORE SILVER SPRING

8656 Colesville Road
Silver Spring, MD
301-960-999
fillmoresilverspring.com

• Cheap Trick (9/20)
• Ghost with Purson (9/22)
• Nick Jonas — Live in concert with Bebe (9/29)
• Ben Rector — Sweet, passionate, piano-driven pop (9/30)
• Steel Pulse (10/1)
• One Ok Rock (10/6)
• Korn (10/9)
• Joey Badass (10/10)
• Dan + Shay — Just the Right Kind of Crazy Tour with Kelsea Ballerini (10/11)
• Collective Soul (10/13)
• Hollywood Undead w/Crown the Empire and I Prevail (10/14)
• Iration (10/14)
• Girls Night In w/MyLifeAsEva, Meredith Foster, Alisha Marie, Meghan Rienks, Mia Stammer and Andie Case (10/15)
• Overkill & Symphony X (10/16)
• Mayday Parade (10/18)
• Hiatus Kaiyote — Trippy Ozzie soul/jazz band performs “Live in 3D” (10/20)
• Streelight Manifesto (10/21)
• New Found Glory & Yellowcard (10/22)
• Aer (10/23)
• Iration Hotting Up Tou (10/24)
• The Darkness (10/25)
• Chance The Rapper (10/28)
• Cypress Hill (10/29)
• Biz Markie: Halloween Flashback — ’80s vs ’90s Dance Party with the New Romance and Here’s to the Night (10/30)
• STS9 (10/31)
• Young Thug (11/1)
• Motionless in White, The Devil Wears Prada (11/3)
• Andy Mineo (11/5)
• Turnpike Troubadours w/Black Lillies (11/7)
• SoMo w/Jordan Bratton (11/10)
• Timeflies, Kalin and Myles (11/12)
• Kamelot with Dragonforce (11/18)
• Jennifer Nettles w/Brandy Clark (11/20)
• Parkway Drive (11/21)
• The Front Bottoms w/the Smith Street Band and Elvis Depressedly (11/27)
• Mac Miller (12/13)
• Jon Pardi (12/17)
• The White Panda (12/28)

FLASH

645 Florida Avenue NW
Washington, DC
202-827-8791
flashdc.com

• Jan Blomqvist w/Vinyl Speed Adjust and Philip Goyette (9/18)
• DJ Three, Navbox and DJ Lisa Frank (9/19)
• Kenny Glasgow (9/23)
• Claptone, Leo Lee, Fort Fairmont — Masquerade Ball (9/24)
• Cassy — Residency launch with Solomon Sanchez and Ladies of the Underground (9/25)
• Love & Disco: Maurice Fulton, Farid, Martin Miguel (9/26)
• Matt Zo (9/30)
• Andhim, Rosenberg (10/1)
• Subb-an, Wahi, Meegs (10/2)
• Saeed Younan — Internationally known, locally based veteran progressive house DJ (10/3)
• Damian Lazuras, Sarah Myers (10/10)
• Flashy Sunday — Flash’s popular special Sundays gay party featuring DJs TWiN and Sean Morris (10/11)
• Commix (10/15)
• Jimpster, Juan Zapata, Joe L. (10/17)
• Kowton b2b Peverelist AKA Livity Sound (10/22)
• Sammy Dee, Navbox (10/23)
• Derrick May — The “Strings of Life” techno pioneer, born in Detroit and a founder of Motor City’s venerated Movement festival (10/24)
• Chus + Ceballos — The gay-popular Spanish house stars return for a pre-Halloween treat (10/30)
• Paco Osuna (11/5)
• Tiefschwarz — Germany’s Schwarz brothers have been producing and remixing deep house tunes for two decades (11/6)
• Zenker Brothers, Ron Jackson (11/13)
• Chris Liebing, Oliver Caine (11/19)

THE HAMILTON

600 14th St. NW
Washington, DC
202-787-1000
thehamiltondc.com

• John Hammond (9/18)
• Free Late Night Music: Moonshine Society — The Hamilton offers free music in its loft bar, with a rotating roster of local acts worth supporting (9/18)
• Free Late Night Music: Vintage #18 ((9/19)
• The Nightowls (9/20)
• Jackie Greene (9/22)
• Spirit Family Reunion (9/23)
• moe. (9/24)
• The London Souls and Son Little — Official Landmark Festival Pre-show (9/25)
• Free Late Night Music: Magic Bus featuring Tender Polman and Brian Goddard (9/25)
• Red Baraat — Official Landmark Festival Aftershow (9/26)
• Carly Harvey (9/26)
• Martin Taylor, Frank Vignola, Vinny Raniolo and Peppino D’Agostino — “The Great Guitars” (9/30)
• Lee Ritenour (10/2)
• Free Late Night Music: Justin Trawick and the Common Good (10/3)
• Free Late Night Music: David Kitchen Band (10/3)
• Yacht Rock Revue (10/4)
• ALO w/Fruition (10/8)
• Free Late Night Music: 19th Street Band (10/9)
• Newmyer Flyer Presents: A John Lennon Birthday Tribute — Various local music acts perform hits from Lennon’s time in the Beatles and his solo career (10/10)
• Free Late Night Music: Johnny & the Headhunters (10/10)
• Kinky Friedman — Loneliest Man I Ever Met Tour (10/12)
• John Grant — The gay basso profondo singer-songwriter whose frequently heard music was one of the few redeeming things about HBO’s Looking (10/13)
• The Taj Mahal Trio (10/14)
• Bettye LaVette — Impressive, hard-living soul singer who has been incredibly forthcoming about her many dalliances with women (10/15)
• Big Something (10/16)
• Free Late Night Music: Shartel & Hume (10/16)
• Free Late Night Music: Moonshine Society (10/17)
• Ed Kowalczyk — Former lead singer of Live offers “Throwing Copper Unplugged” (10/18)
• Chiara Civello (10/19)
• Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad (10/22)
• American Aquarium (10/23)
• Free Late Night Music: Lloyd Dobler Effect (10/23)
• Free Late Night Music: Magic Bus featuring Tender Polman and Brian Goddard (10/24)
• Pete Rock & C.L. SMooth (10/25)
• Portland Cello Project (10/28)
• Tim O’Brien and Old Man Luedecke (10/30)
• Free Late Night Music: Speakers of the House (10/30)
• Newmyer Flyer Presents: The Mini Halloween Howl — Various local music acts will perform along with monsters from the last 40 years (10/31)
• Brass-A-Holics (11/1)
• David Cook — The former American Idol winner (11/3)
• Civil Twilight (11/4)
• The Bros. Landreth (11/5)
• Lera Lynn (11/6)
• Free Late Night Music: Lloyd Dobler Effect (11/6)
• Free Late Night Music: Moonshine Society (11/7)
• Peter Himmelman Band (11/8)
• Stephen Kellogg (11/10)
• Jon McLaughlin (11/12)
• Newmyer Flyer Presents: The Last Waltz Tribute — Various local music acts, including Julia Nixon, Tommy Lepson and Margot MacDonald, perform a tribute to The Band (11/13)
• Free Late Night Music: Brent & Co (11/13)
• Free Late Night Music: David Kitchen Band (11/14)
• Del & Dawg — Featuring Del McCoury and David Grisman (11/15)
• Free Late Night Music: 19th Street Band (11/20)
• The Musicmaker Revue — Old Ebbitt Grill Oyster Riot After Party featuring Cool John Ferguson, Ironing Board Sam, Pat “Mother Blues” Cohen and others (11/21)
• Bruce In The USA (11/27)
• Free Late Night Music: Speakers of the House (10/30)
• NRBQ (11/28)
• Free Late Night Music: Michael Scoglio (11/28)
• Allen Toussaint Trio (11/30)
• Free Late Night Music: Moonshine Society (12/4)
• Free Late Night Music: Justin Trawick and the Common Good (12/5)
• Bronze Radio Return w/Brothers McCann (12/9)
• Free Late Night Music: 19th Street Band (12/11)
• Free Late Night Music: Brent & Co (12/12)
• Free Late Night Music: Michael Scoglio (12/18)
• Free Late Night Music: Speakers of the House (12/19)
• Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals — A Holiday Show from the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer (12/20)
• Start Making Sense w/HmfO — Tribute bands to Talking Heads and Hall & Oates (12/29)

HILL CENTER

Old Navy Hospital
921 Pennsylvania Avenue SE
Washington, DC
202-549-4172
HillCenterDC.org

• Nasar Abadey — Hot 5 @ Hill Center: Jazz on a Summer’s Eve (9/20)
• Ken Waldman — “Alaska’s Fiddling Poet” (9/25)
• Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen — Popular bluegrass band performs a concert after Hill Center’s Family Fun Festival (9/27)
• Rahim AlHaj — A Dounouya: Global Sounds on the Hill concert (9/30)
• Min Xiao Fen — Composer and pipa virtuoso (10/7)
• Foghorn Stringband w/Joel Savoy and Jesse Lege — Part of the American Roots Music Series at Hill Center (10/13)
• Hill Center Jazz Ensemble — Marshall Keys leads this ensemble now in its fourth year (11/5)
• Innov Gnawa (12/4)

THE HOWARD THEATRE

620 T St. NW
Washington, DC
202-588-5595
thehowardtheatre.com

• Chante Moore (9/19)
• A Special Sunday Gospel Brunch feat. Jonathan Nelson (9/20)
• W.H.A.T. Band — Reunion Show (9/20)
• Ky-Mani Marley (9/22)
• Eric Roberson (9/25)
• Down South Bounce (9/26)
• Lalah Hathaway (9/26)
• Sunday R&B Brunch with vocalist Shirleta Settles (9/27)
• Vieux Farka Toure & Julia Easterlin Present: Touristes (9/27)
• Yo Gotti (10/1)
• Harlem Gospel Choir (10/4)
• Big Daddy Kane & Rakim (10/8)
• White Ford Bronco — D.C.’s ’90s band (10/9)
• Sunday Jazz Brunch feat. pianist Anthony Walker (10/11)
• Dream Mar-I (10/13)
• Back to the 80’s Show with Jessie’s Girl — Featuring a special performance by Rob Base (10/16)
• Mother Falcon and Ben Sollee — An unlikely psych-rock orchestra, founded by a cellist, will perform with a cello-playing indie rocker (10/17)
• I Love the 90’s Show with the Fresh Kids of Bel-Air (10/17)
• Sunday Funk Brunch with Faycez U Know (10/18)
• Dave Davies — From the Kinks (10/20)
• The Underachievers (10/22)
• Bell Biv DeVoe (10/23)
• Musiq Souchild (10/24-25)
• Sunday R&B Brunch feat. Redfootz (10/25)
• Big K.R.I.T. (10/27)
• Gin Blossoms — “Hey Jealousy” (10/30)
• Harlem Gospel Choir (11/1)
• Deafheaven (11/6)
• Stephanie Mills (11/7)
• Minus The Bear (11/9)
• AndersonPonty Band w/Jon Anderson and Jean Luc Ponty (11/10)
• The Charlatans (11/12)
• Pablo Alboran (11/13)
• Angie Stone (11/14)
• A Tribute to the Music of Motown (11/15)
• Uprising (11/17)
• George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic (11/19)
• Loose Ends feat. Jane Eugene (11/20)
• Macy Gray (11/22)
• Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra (11/27)
• John Scofield & Jon Clearly Duo — Jazz at the Howard (12/4)
• Vanessa Carlton (12/11)
• Bobby Brown (12/18)
• A Darlene Love Christmas (12/19)

IOTA CAFE

2832 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA
703-522-8340
iotaclubandcafe.com

• Tommy Keene w/Dot Dash (9/18)
• Pleasure Train Band (9/19)
• Rebecca Loebe and Betty Soo (9/20)
• Bachelor Boys (9/21)
• Audio Inkblot (9/24)
• The Lights Out (9/25)
• Joe Hertler and the Rainbow Seekers (9/26)
• Head for the Hills (9/27)
• Herb and Hanson (9/28)
• Chopteeth Afrofunk Big Band (10/2)
• Flashband — Pride Showcase (10/3)
• The Lonely Heartstring Band (10/4)
• Darlingside (10/8)
• Will Overman (10/15)
• Classic Albums 1997 — Koshari performs Radiohead, Skin Folds Five does Ben Folds Five, Right Handed Lefties does Incubus (10/17)
• Oldermost (10/23)
• Honor By August (10/24)
• Laura Tsaggaris — Up-and-coming local lesbian folk-rocker (10/30)
• Projected Man (11/7)

JAMMIN JAVA

227 Maple Avenue East
Vienna, VA
703-255-3747
jamminjava.com

• Black Alley (9/18)
• Street Corner Symphony — 9:30 Club presents at Jammin Java (9/19)
• Big O and Dukes present Wrinkle Neck Mules (9/19)
• Settle Down Kids (9/20)
• Falcon Heavy + Emy and Ethan + Chute + Faded Giant — Jammin Java Local Scene Show (9/21)
• Jonny Craig (9/22)
• Brad Roberts (9/23) Leigh Nash — Album release party for The State I’m In (9/24)
• Michael Tolcher (9/25)
• Ash (9/25)
• Aztec Two-Step — “Second Step” 40th Anniversary Concert (9/26)
• Not Even — Reunion Show (9/26)
• Jammin Java Songwriters Circle — Tribute to Queen (9/27)
• Elliott Yamin + Blake Lewis (9/28)
• Mikaela Davis + Awna Teixeira (9/29)
• Alex G (9/30)
• Emily Hearn (10/1)
• New Kingston + Footwerk (10/2)
• Taylor Davis (10/3)
• The Project — A Birthday Bash also featuring Irresponsible and Yum. (10/3)
• Shenandoah Run (10/4)
• Danielle Nicole, Liz Vice (10/5)
• Tyler Ward (10/6)
• David Ramirez (10/7)
• Tall Heights — Folk-rock band reminiscent of Fleet Foxes (10/8)
• Communion DC: Arkells, Tora, Secret Someones, Yukon Blonde (10/9)
• Vocal Face Off feat. Face, Euphonism (10/10)
• Emerson Hart, Meiko (10/10)
• Andrew Belle (10/11)
• The Elephant Sessions w/Robbie Schaefer (10/12)
• Owen Benjamin — “Huge Pianist Tour” (10/13)
• Fortunate Youth (10/15)
• Family Force 5 (10/16)
• Joey Cook — American Idol alum (10/17)
• Pat Travers Band (10/18)
• Chuck Prophet (10/19)
• Daby Toure (10/20)
• Tyrone Wells (10/21)
• Kim Richey (10/22)
• Steve Lauri — Best known from the Hollies (10/23)
• Antigone Rising (10/24)
• Wylder (10/24)
• Tracy Grammer (10/25)
• Green River Ordinance w/The Last Bison (10/25)
• The Wind + The Wave with Jesse Ruben (10/26)
• Mary Gauthier and Eliza Gilkyson (10/27)
• Max (10/29)
• Ellis Paul (10/30)
• Back to the 90s — Two nights of ’90s-era tribute bands, from Lithium (Nirvana), Good Time Boys (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Wrestle with Jimmy (Weezer) and Garden Grove (Sublime) (10/30-31)
• Josh Kelley (11/1)
• Simon Townshend (11/3)
• Declan O’Rouke, Peter Breinholt (11/4)
• Joseph Arthur (11/6)
• Lucy Kaplansky (11/7)
• Noah Guthrie (11/8)
• The Stone Foxes (11/8)
• Daniel Powter (11/10)
• Paul Brady (11/11)
• The Fabulous Dialtones (11/12)
• Luke Brindley, Jay Nash (11/13)
• Shane Koyczan (11/15)
• Against the Current (11/17)
• Richard Shindell (11/18)
• Radney Foster (11/19)
• Greg Brown (11/20)
• The Ocean Blue (11/21)
• Have Mercy (11/22)
• Noah Hunt, Mato Nanji and Shun Ng (11/23)
• Parthenon Huxley & Friends — Performing the hits of ELO and the Beatles (11/28)
• The Paper Kites (12/5)
• Martin Barre — Known from Jethro Tull (12/6)
• Cas Haley (12/8)
• Jenn Grinels (12/9)
• Commander Cody & His Modern Day Airmen (12/10)
• Toby Lightman (12/11)
• A Cappella Afternoon: Exit 245 and BluesTones (12/20)
• Griffin House (12/20)
• Todd Wright’s 13th Annual Santa Clauster-f@%! Christmas Spectacular (12/22-23)
• Egypt — “Annual Reunion Show” (12/26)
• Deanna Bogart Band (12/28)

JIFFY LUBE LIVE

7800 Cellar Door Drive
Bristow, VA
703-754-6400
thejiffylubelive.com

• WMZQ Fall Fest: Brad Paisley — Headlines the festival also featuring Justin Moore and Mickey Guyton (9/26)

JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL

1212 Cathedral Street
Baltimore, MD
410-783-8000
ticketmaster.com

• Sufjan Stevens — Critically heralded earnest singer-songwriter (11/1)
• Postmodern Jukebox — “We take pop music back in time” (11/3)
• Soulful Symphony — A 15th anniversary concert featuring the world premiere of The Audacity of Hope, artistic director Darin Atwater’s four-movement piece inspired by Barack Obama (11/27-28)
• Judy Collins w/Ari Hest (11/29)

KENNEDY CENTER

Terrace Theater
2700 F Street NW
Washington, DC
202-467-4600
kennedy-center.org

• KC Jazz Club: Jimmy Cobb Trio — NEA Jazz Master drummer brings his trio to open the new jazz season at the Kennedy Center (10/2)
• KC Jazz Club: Kurt Rosenwinkel (10/3)
• Jason Moran & Jeremy Denk — Two MacArthur “Genius Award”-winning pianists team up for the first time to explore the connections between their jazz and classical traditions (10/9)
• KC Jazz Club: E.J. and Marcus Strickland — Twin brothers make their debut at the Kennedy Center as a drummer and saxophone duo (10/10)
• KC Jazz Club: Joanne Brackeen — The former member of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers has helped define modern piano jazz (10/16)
• Barbara Cook’s Spotlight: Terri White — Barbara Cook brings White back to the Kennedy Center for a cabaret after her show-stopping performance in Follies a few years ago (10/31)
• KC Jazz Club: Derrick Hodge (10/17)
• The Crossroads Club: Revive Music — The Roots’s pianist Ray Angry leads a reimagined recording of the classic Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown (10/20, Atrium)
• Barbara Cook’s Spotlight: Randy Graff — Known as the original Fantine in Les Miserables and for her Tony-winning role in City of Angels (10/30)
• KC Jazz Club: Marquis Hill Blacktet — Winner of the 2014 Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Trumpet Competition (11/6)
• Barbara Cook’s Spotlight: Michele Lee — “Nobody Does It Like Me, The Music of Cy Coleman” is the title of the cabaret from this Emmy and Tony nominee (11/6)
• Butler, Bernstein & the Hot 9 (11/7, Terrace)
• Dorado Schmitt and the Django Festival All-Stars (11/13)
• KC Jazz Club: Lynne Arriale, Carla Cook and Grace Kelly — “Celebrating Great Women of Jazz: Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone and Joni Mitchell” (11/14)
• Barbara Cook’s Spotlight: John Lloyd Young — Tony Award winner from Jersey Boys offers a solo cabaret (11/20)
• KC Jazz Club: Carmen Lundy (11/20-21)
• 25th Annual NPR’s A Jazz Piano Christmas (12/4)
• KC Jazz Club: Fresh Cut Orchestra — A 10-piece jazz ensemble from Philadelphia (12/12)
• KC Jazz Club: Javon Jackson and Sax Appeal featuring NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Heath (12/19-19)
• Dianne Schuur and Strings: A Jazz New Year’s Eve — “Celebrating Sinatra’s Centenary” (12/31)
• KC Jazz Club: Rene Marie — “I Wanna Be Evil, a Tribute to Earth Kitt” (1/29/16)

LANDMARK FESTIVAL FOR THE NATIONAL MALL

West Potomac Park
West Basin Drive SW
Washington, DC
888-512-7469
landmarkfestival.org

• The Trust for the National Mall is throwing this blockbuster two-day festival to kickoff a national campaign to raise money to restore the Mall, which hasn’t had a major renovation in nearly 40 years. Among the highlights: Drake, Ben Howard, Miguel, Nate Ruess of fun., and Wale (9/26); The Strokes, alt-J, Chvrches, Chromeo and TV on the Radio (9/27)

LEVINE SCHOOL OF MUSIC

2801 Upton Street NW
Washington, DC
202-686-8000
www.levinemusic.org

• Season Preview — Monuments and Miniatures is the fitting theme of the new milestone season of Levine, its 40th (9/26)
• Kickin’ It With the Masters — A program focused on jazz organ compositions by Jimmy Smith, Jack McDuff and Shirley Scott (10/10, Levine at Strathmore)
• Electric Miles — Jazz fusion as pioneered by Miles Davis (11/7)
• Intimate Ellington — Brad Linde, Josh Walker, Regan Brough, Andrew Hare and Chuck Redd perform a series of solos and duet pieces by D.C. native Duke Ellington (12/19)
• American Idiot — Act Two @ Levine hosts a performance of the two-time Tony-winning Green Day musical (1/15/16, Arena Stage)

LINCOLN THEATRE

1215 U Street NW
Washington, DC
202-328-6000
thelincolndc.com

• Ana Carolina — Brazilian pop star who sings in her native Portuguese (9/18)
• Sturgill Simpson (9/23-24)
• Yo La Tengo featuring Dave Schramm (9/25)
• Loretta Lynn w/the Von Trapps — The legendary female country star with the family who inspired The Sound of Music (9/27)
• FFS — Comic-rock supergroup featuring the members of Franz Ferdinand and Sparks (10/5)
• The Zombies — British psychedelic pop legends perform their seminal 1968 album Odessey and Oracle (10/8)
• Rachel Platten — 94.7 Fresh FM presents this “Breast Concert Ever” (10/9)
• Kacey Musgraves — “Follow Your Arrow” gay-affirming country star (10/16-17)
• Natalia Lafourcade — Mexican pop/rock singer-songwriter (10/22)
• Joe Jackson (10/23)
• Josh Ritter and the Royal City Band (10/26)
• Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine — Billed “America’s loudest lounge singer” who performs Vegas versions of rock, rap and Top 40 hits (10/30)
• Beirut (11/3-4)
• Marina and the Diamonds — Quirky dance-pop from full-voiced Greek-British singer-songwriter (11/6)
• Steve Hackett — Genesis founder (11/13)

LISNER AUDITORIUM

George Washington University
730 21st Street NW
Washington, DC
202-994-6800
lisner.org

• Stairway to Paradise: A Gershwin Spectacular — Luke Frazier conducts two recently formed groups, the American Pops Orchestra and the National Broadway Chorus, in a toast to the Gerswhins. Also features Broadway’s Christine Ebersole and Paige Faure (10/16)
• National Broadway Chorus: A Broadway Christmas with Elaine Paige and Ron Raines — The Broadway superstar reteams with her colleague from the Kennedy Center’s hit Broadway production of Follies (12/16)

LYRIC OPERA HOUSE

140 West Mount Royal Avenue
Baltimore, MD
410-547-SEAT
lyricoperahouse.com

• Paul Rodgers — The rocker performs with his band for the 16th Annual “One Night One Show One Cause” concert, a benefit for the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center (10/10)
• Mercy Me (10/23)
• Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band — Former Beatle performs with Steve Lukather of Toto, Gregg Rolie of Santana and Journey, Richard Page of Mr. Mister, Todd Rundgren of Utopia, Warren Ham and Gregg Bissonette of Electric Light Orchestra (10/28)
• George Benson (11/12)
• Mannheim Steamroller Christmas by Chip Davis (12/10)

MERRIWEATHER POST PAVILION

10475 Little Patuxent Parkway
Columbia, MD
800-551-SEAT
merriweathermusic.com

• Alabama Shakes w/Drive By Truckers — Soul-powered rock (9/18)
• Of Monsters and Men w/Oh Land — Icelandic chamber-pop group with an experimental, electronic Danish artist (9/20)
• WPOC Weekend in the Country — Brantley Gilbert and Sam Hunt perform both days of this country music festival that closes the season at Merriweather (10/3-4)

RAM’S HEAD LIVE

20 Market Place
Baltimore, MD
410-244-1131
ramsheadlive.com

• Rock Your Bones (9/18)
• The Legwarmers — D.C.’s largest ’80s retro dance party, exported to Charm City (9/19)
• Purity Ring (9/21)
• Tori Kelly (9/24)
• Sturgill Simpson (9/25)
• Kix (9/26)
• Buddy Guy (9/27)
• Father John Misty (9/28)
• Lee Brice — WPOC presents the Jagermeister Country Tour (9/29)
• Beats Antique (10/1)
• Lake Street Drive (10/2)
• Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls (10/3)
• Toro Y Moi (10/4)
• Polaroak, Shady Lady, Broke Til Friday, Jason Gonet and the Driftwood Renegades, Against Better Judgement, Late Risers — “The Road to Frozen Harbor: Episode 1” showcase of regional bands (10/9)
• Twiddle & The Works (10/10)
• Mat Kearney (10/13)
• Glass Animals (10/14)
• No Scrubs — Will Eastman and Brian Billion’s ’90s-focused party (10/16)
• Magic Wax & Janelle (10/17)
• Go Go Gadjet — An electric funk band with an immersive musical and visual show (10/23)
• Circa Survive — Rams Head & Monozine present Juturna 10 Year Anniversary Tour (10/24)
• Raheem DeVaughn & Leela James (10/25)
• Everclear — 20th Anniversary Tour: Sparkle and Fade (10/27)
• Kip Moore — WPOC pressents a “Jam-BOO-ree” (10/31)
• Theory of a Deadman (11/4)
• The Turnpike Troubadours (11/6)
• Guster (11/7)
• The Wonder Years & Motion City Soundtrack (11/24)
• The Bridge (11/25)
• The Wombats (11/27)
• DigiTour Slaybells Ice (12/6)
• Matisyahu — “Festival of Light: An Intimate Evening” (12/10)
• The Infamous Stringdusters (12/31)

RAM’S HEAD ON STAGE

33 West Street
Annapolis, MD
410-268-4545
ramsheadonstage.com

• Young Dubliners (9/18)
• Asleep at the Wheel (9/22)
• Dave Mason’s Traffic Jam (9/24)
• Livingston Taylor (9/25)
• The Outlaws & Blackhawk (9/26)
• Marc Antoine & Paul Brown (9/27)
• Striking Matches (9/28)
• Elliott Yamin & Blake Lewis — The Soul Box Tour (9/29)
• The Artimus Pyle Band — Honoring the Music of Ronnie Van Zant’s Lynyrd Skynyrd (10/1)
• Hiroshima (10/2)
• Lee Ritenour (10/3)
• Cowboy Junkies (10/4)
• Moonchild (10/5)
• Melody Gardot (10/5, Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts)
• Shemekia Copeland (10/7)
• Bret Michaels (10/8)
• The Ann Wilson Thing (10/9-10)
• Josh Rouse (10/11)
• Renaissance — Formed from the ashes of seminal British rock band The Yardbirds (10/11)
• Vanilla Fudge (10/12)
• Kinky Friedman — Hailed as the Frank Zappa of country music (10/13)
• The Subdudes (10/14)
• Suzy Bogguss & Hal Ketchum (10/15)
• Jessy J & Nate Harasim — That’s Jessy J, the jazz artist, not Jessie J, the pop star (10/16)
• Phil Vassar (10/17)
• Al Jarreau (10/17, Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts (10/17)
• PigPen Theatre Co. (10/18)
• Keiko Matsui (10/18)
• Taj Mahal Trio (10/20)
• Maria Muldaur (10/22)
• The Morrison Brothers (10/23)
• Yuna (10/24)
• Avery*Sunshine (10/25)
• The Polyphonic Spree — 15th Anniversary Tour (10/26)
• Mary Gauthier & Eliza Gilkyson — Lesbian rocker tours with a fellow Americana traveler (10/28)
• The Tubes featuring Fee Waybill (10/29)
• Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin with the Guilty Ones (10/30)
• Tim O’Brien & Old Man Luedecke — “A Hillbilly Halloween” (10/31)
• Elephant Revival (10/31)
• Adler — Featuring Steven Adler from Guns N’ Roses (11/1)
• Indigo Girls (11/1, Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts)
• David Cook — An acoustic evening with the American Idol winner (11/2)
• Chatham County Line (11/3)
• Jody Watley featuring Shalamar (11/4)
• Tommy Castro & the Painkillers (11/5)
• Herman’s Hermits starring Peter Noone (11/6)
• Oleta Adams (11/7)
• Mike Farris Band (11/11)
• Tommy Emmanuel (11/12-13)
• Newmyer Flyer Presents: The Last Waltz Tribute — A group of area musicians — among them Julia Nixon, Big Joe Maher, Tommy Lepson and Margot MacDonald — recreate music of The Band and others who performed at their farewell concert (11/14)
• David Mayfield & Sean McConnell (11/15)
• Acoustic Alchemy (11/15)
• Morgan James (11/16)
• Rhiannon Giddens — Former leader of the great, black bluegrass band The Carolina Chocolate Drops (11/17)
• Loose Ends featuring Jane Eugene (11/19)
• Robert Randolph & the Family Band (11/20)
• Greg Brown (11/21)
• Noah Hunt & Mato Nanji — Vocalist for Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band and frontman of Indigenous (11/22)
• Technicolor Motor Home — A Steely Dan tribute (11/22)
• Macy Gray (11/23)
• NRBQ (11/27)
• Little River Band (11/29)
• Dublin 5 (12/1)
• Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr. (12/2)
• Blood Sweat & Tears feat. Bo Bice (12/3)
• Peter White’s Christmas — Featuring Mindi Abair & Rick Braun (12/4)
• Samantah Fish (125)
• Ted Vigil w/Joan & Joni — A John Denver Tribute preceded by a Musical Tribute to Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell (12/9)
• Bill Kirchen & Too Much Fun — Honky Tonk Holiday Show (12/10)
• Carbon Leaf (12/11-12)
• Leslie West of Mountain (12/13)
• Marshall Tucker Band (12/16)
• Pieces of a Dream (12/18)
• Maysa & Her Jazz Funk Soul Orchestra — Featuring music from A Very Maysa Christmas and Back 2 Love (12/19)
• Robert Glasper Experiment (12/21)
• Stephen Kellogg (12/27)
• Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes (12/28)
• Deanna Bogart Band (12/29)
• Seldom Scene (12/30)
• Maggie’s Music Celebration for the New Year — Maggie Sansone hosts this toast also featuring Robin Bullock and special guests Seth Kibel, Andrea Hoag and Matthew Bell (1/3/16)

ROCK AND ROLL HOTEL

1353 H Street NE
Washington, DC
202-388-ROCK
rockandrollhoteldc.com

• Crunt — EDM duo of Nick Licitra and Jake Ellis offer a hometown dance party (9/18)
• Brodown Throwdown 4 — Acts duke it out on three floors, led by Justin Jones and Shark Week on the first floor (9/19)
• DJs Rex Riot & Basscamp (9/19, and every Saturday night)
• Algiers — Dramatic, dirge-like goth-pop with echoes of gospel and Civil Rights-era protest soul (9/20)
• Gardens & Villa (9/24)
• Black Masala — D.C.-based multicultural gypsy brass band (9/25)
• Eli August & the Abandoned Buildings’s Roadshow (9/26)
• Doomtree (9/27)
• Lydia (9/29)
• Little Green Cars — Dramatic folk-rock quintet from Ireland (9/30)
• Bully — Young and punky indie-rock band from Nashville (10/1)
• Four Year Strong (10/2)
• Pentagram (10/3)
• Lower Dens — The return of Baltimore’s experimental rock band (10/10)
• The Dear Hunter — High concept dramatic rock (10/13)
• Matt Pond PA (10/14)
• Mac Demarco (10/14)
• Borns — A dreamy blend of folk, glam and electro from, of all places, Michigan (10/15)
• Mercury Rev (10/16)
• The Struts (10/21)
• Here We Go Magic — Progressive folk-pop (10/22)
• Kylesa (10/24)
• Southern Culture on the Skids (10/25)
• The Bright Light Social Hour (10/27)
• White Ford Bronco — The ’90s-era pop cover band offers a sure-to-be-spooky pre-Halloween show (10/30)
• Tragedy: A Metal Tribute to the Bee Gees & Beyond — But for a truly spooky Halloween show, check out “Misfits and Metal Hits” presented by Van Schleibaum (10/31)
• Craig Finn (11/2)
• Born Ruffians (11/3)
• Deafheaven (11/6)
• A Silent Film (11/7)
• Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats (11/8)
• Natalie Prass (11/12)
• Kate Boy (11/15)
• Health — Death Magic Tour 2015 (11/19)
• Macy Gray (11/22)
• Flamin Groovies (11/23)
• The Sword — High Country Tour (11/29)
• Terror (12/6)

SIGNATURE THEATRE

4200 Campbell Avenue
Arlington, VA
703-820-9771
signature-theatre.org

• Tracy Lynn Olivera — Signature favorite musical actor returns for another run of cabaret, this time “a Halloween spooktacular” (10/27-31)
• Christmas with Nova Y. Payton and Friends — Signature’s youngest powerhouse performer, star of Dreamgirls and Hairspray, performs a cabaret of some of her holiday favorites (12/8-14)

SIXTH & I HISTORIC SYNAGOGUE

600 I Street NW
Washington, DC
202-408-3100
sixthandi.org

• Cecile McLorin Salvant — The quirky, sophisticated and soulful jazz vocalist (think Billie Holiday meets Ella Fitzgerald) tours in support of her new set For One to Love (10/3)
• Edgar Meyer & Christian McBride — A double take on the double bass, as a classical/folk/bluegrass Renaissance man and jazzmaster offer a thrilling exploration of the deep space between genre and expectation (10/22)
• Joey Alexander Trio — At 12 years, this jazz pianist is the youngest mainstage artist ever to be presented by Washington Performing Arts (11/21)
• Anonymous 4 with Bruce Molsky — A valedictory D.C. performance of this soon-to-retire virtuosic singing ensemble, appearing here with “the Rembrandt of Appalachian Fiddle” (11/22)

THE STATE THEATRE

220 North Washington Street
Falls Church, VA
703-237-0300
thestatetheatre.com

• The Legwarmers (9/25-26)
• Eric Lindell (9/27)
• Boombox/UA — Andriy Khlyvnyuk leads this Ukrainian band, celebrating 10 years of recording (9/29)
• Dailey & Vincent (10/2)
• Albatross and Diwas Gurung — Gorkhaly Foundation presents this “Voyage to Shangri-La Concert for Nepal,” a benefit for VA-TF1 International Urban Search and Rescue team and Team Rubicon for efforts in Nepal Earthquake Relief (10/9)
• Passafire w/BlackBeat SoundSystem and Lionize (10/8)
• Burton Cummings (10/10)
• Reckless Kelly — Country/rock band, with an opening set by local band Scott Kurt & Memphis 59 (10/11)
• The Mavericks — Cuban-American Raul Malo leads this country-steeped garage band founded in 1989 in Miami (10/23-24)
• Elephant Revival w/Nora Jane Struthers and Joe Overton (10/29)
• Tommy Castro & the Painkillers (11/6)
• Saved by the 90’s — A Party with the Bayside Tigers w/DJ Suga Ray (11/21)
• The Nighthawks and Skip Castro Band (11/27)
• Zoso — The 20-year-old “Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience” (11/28)
• Samantha Fish (12/06)
• Bruce in the USA — “The World’s #1 Tribute to Bruce Springsteen” (1/16/16)

STRATHMORE

5301 Tuckerman Lane
North Bethesda, MD
301-581-5100
strathmore.org

• Bela Fleck & Chick Corea Duet — The duo of longtime collaborators explore the worlds of jazz, bluegrass, rock, flamenco, gospel and more, just as they do on their second, just-released album together Two (9/30, Music Center)
• Brown & Breen Piano Duo with Russell Smith — Pianists Bonnie Brown and Louisa Breen perform Peter Sculthorpe’s last composition Island Songs, written for two pianos and didgeridoo (10/2, Mansion)
• Chris Cornell — IMP Productions presents a solo show from this former frontman of Soundgarden (10/14, Music Center)
• Rochelle Rice — Strathmore Artist in Residence alumni puts a soulful spin on an array of holiday classics ranging from medieval plainchant to Stevie Wonder (12/18, Mansion)
• Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis — A big holiday concert featuring the preeminent big band in the land (12/12, Music Center)
• Kristin Chenoweth — “Coming Home Tour” takes the audience through this Broadway legend’s career-defining moments, from Wicked to Glee to a piece from Andrew Lippa’s new production I Am Anne Hutchinson (1/29/16, Music Center)
• Alan Cumming — “Sings Sappy Songs” features this Tony Award winner transforming Valentine’s Day through comic banter with songs by Annie Lennox, Elaine Stritch and Rufus Wainwright (2/14/16, Music Center)

U STREET MUSIC HALL

1115A U Street NW
Washington, DC
202-588-1880
ustreetmusichall.com

• Vacationer (9/18)
• SayWeCanFly — A one-man acoustic act from Canada (9/19)
• Mikal Cronin (9/22)
• The Cribs (9/23)
• Robert DeLong — Los Angeles-based dance-pop provocateur (9/24)
• Sam Feldt (9/24)
• Marian Hill (9/25)
• Mynabirds — Laura Burhenn, who was last seen as a touring member of the synth-pop band the Postal Service (9/26)
• CocoRosie — “The potentially poetic music-based project of American cross-disciplinary performance artists Sierra and Bianca Casady” (9/27)
• Coin & Colony House (9/28)
• Mutemath (9/29)
• Bridget Kelly (9/30)
• Wolf Alice (10/1)
• Kenny Dope — The Masters at Work DJ/producer (10/2)
• Tensnake (10/3)
• Emily Kinney — A singer better known as an actor from The Walking Dead (10/4)
• Seoul (10/5)
• Oberhofer (10/6)
• Danny Howells (10/9)
• Lissie (10/10)
• Royal and Ben Browning of Cut Copy — DJ set, the All Things Go Fall Classic After Party (10/10)
• Reptar (10/13)
• Joywave (10/14)
• Oddisee (10/16)
• Miguel Migs (10/16)
• Jonas Rathsman (10/17)
• Yuna — The return of this charismatic Malaysian pop star (10/20)
• Autre Ne Veut w/GEMS (10/23)
• Mikky Ekko w/Transviolet (10/24)
• Green River Ordinance w/the Last Bison (10/25)
• Lil Dicky — Looking for Love Tour (10/26)
• AlunaGeorge — The British downtempo soul duo returns to U Hall (10/27)
• Strange Talk w/Intergalactix (10/28)
• Iamx (10/29)
• Chad Valley & Keep Shelly in Athens (10/31)
• Tops (11/2)
• Mod Sun (11/4)
• Murs (11/6)
• Yacht (11/7)
• Public Image Limited (11/10)
• Givers w/Doe Paoro (11/11)
• Nada Surf (11/13)
• Family of the Year (11/14)
• David Wax Museum (11/21)
• Skizzy Mars (11/24)
• Citizens! w/High Waisted (11/28)
• Kingsley Flood (12/4) & Chris Lake (12/19)

VERIZON CENTER

601 F Street NW
Washington, DC
202-628-3200
verizoncenter.com

• Ed Sheeran (9/22-23)
• R. Kelly (9/26)
• Stevie Wonder — Songs in the Key of Life Performance Tour (10/3)
• The Who — Hits 50! Tour (11/1)
• Dead & Company — Grateful Dead members Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann and Bob Weir offer a retrospective show, accompanied by John Mayer and others (11/6)
• The Weeknd — The Madness Fall Tour (11/15)
• Trans-Siberian Orchestra — The Ghosts of Christmas Eve Tour is a conceptual, progressive-rock concert following the story of a young runaway who has visions from the past after sneaking into an abandoned vaudeville theater (12/10)
• Andrea Bocelli — Returning to the U.S. for his annual December Holiday Tour of soaring arias, famed love songs and crossover hits (12/13)

WARNER THEATRE

513 13th Street NW
Washington, DC
202-397-SEAT
warnertheatre.com

• Joe Walsh (9/23)
• Sezen Aksu — Turkish pop star (10/5)
• Warren Hayes & the Ashes & Dust Tour (10/8)
• Hans Raj Hans — Punjabi singer (10/16)
• Mark Knopfler (10/18)
• Raheem DeVaughn & Leela James — The Love ‘n Soul Experience with two neo-soul greats (10/24)

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