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“Once you start playing music for all-ages audiences, it’s hard to go back...”
The Fugazi frontman explains why punk is the “free space” of creative expression.
On Sunday, June 30, the Folklife Festival will present Latvian singing, Lithuanian dancing, and an Estonian sack race.
The Festival Afro-Bahia starts runs through June 16 at locations around Northwest D.C.
D.C. artists Wawa and DJ SupaLee offer deaf perspectives from the music industry.
Fanzines are independent, often highly personal, small-run publications created by fans of a specific subject.
One sunny afternoon, we whisked Catalan musician Alidé Sans away from the bustle of the Folklife Festival.
On a steamy summer evening, the Secret Trio sizzled with virtuosity.
Despite this band’s fresh sound, the cobla itself is relatively old, popularized in the nineteenth century.
A professional sculptor from Armenia, Bogdan Hovhannisyan represented the epitome of joy.
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