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SUMMARY:Stone Room Concerts @ Hill Center: Make the Yuletide Gay Featuring Crys Matthews\, Heather Mae\, and Flamy Grant
DESCRIPTION:In-person Register HereCurated and Hosted by Stone Room Concerts Founder David Holiday  \nHeather Mae\nIt’s your newest holiday tradition! Don your gay apparel and cozy up next to three award-winning songwriters for a night of holiday classics\, original music and storytelling. 2025 International Folk Music Artist of the Year award winner Crys Matthews is joined by genre-defying artist/activist Heather Mae and shame-slaying singer-songwriter drag queen Flamy Grant for a winter show like no other. We’re making merry and celebrating the resilience of the LGBTQ+ community in a time when so many are trying to silence our voices. Don’t miss this night of feel-good\, uplifting\, soul-filling music as we Make the Yuletide Gay!   \n  \nFlamy Grant\nAbout David Holiday: David Holiday — a lifelong music aficionado who in his youth performed with the Grammy-winning Texas Boys Choir and numerous youth orchestras and ensembles\, founded Stone Room Concerts together with his wife in 2012 to bring  intimate\, high-quality performances by local\, national and international independent musicians to the DMV area.  He has hosted more than 200 shows over the past decade in homes\, churches and other eclectic venues\, including for several years at Bikenetic\,a full service bicycle shop in Falls Church. Stone Room Concerts also serves as the fiscal agent for Niñas Arriba\, a charitable project of Latin Grammy-nominee Gina Chavez and their wife Jodi Granado\, which they set up to support the college education of young women in El Salvador and Central America.  In keeping with his long standing professional involvement with Central America\, Holiday is part of a teamsupporting the Maya Kaqchikel musician Sara Curruchich.  In 2023\, he had the privilege of serving as tour manager for Curruchich’s first-ever US tour\, including major venues and festivals in New York\, California\, Colorado and Illinois.
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/stone-room-concerts-hill-center-make-the-yuletide-gay-featuring-crys-matthews-heather-mae-and-flamy-grant/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Global Sounds on the Hill Featuring Joe Troop's Whirlwind
DESCRIPTION:In-person Register Here“…some of the most unusual music I’ve ever heard: polyglot internationalist banjo player Joe Troop and his latest group Whirlwind\, a lineup featuring flute\, viola\, jazz-adjacent rhythm section and electric banjo that often sounded a lot more like a guitar. It was something like gypsy jazz leaning in all sorts of unexpected directions\, very hard to describe — a super-group jam with the late Frank Zappa coming back from the great beyond to sit in with Punch Brothers and Jens Kruger\, maybe?” \n– David Menconi\, music writer and author \nCurated and hosted by iconic DC impresario and musician Jim Thomson \nJoe Troop is a GRAMMY-nominated  multi-instrumentalist\, singer\, and songwriter hailing from the Piedmont. He is one half of the acclaimed panamerican folk duo Larry & Joe\, and founder of Latingrass stringband Che Apalache. His music is deeply inspired by a decade living in Buenos Aires and traveling throughout Latin America and the world. \nNow clad with his long-awaited custom electric jazz banjo\, he’s curated an unexpected ensemble featuring flute (Rebecca Kleinmann)\, viola (Bailey Newman)\, drums (Gaston Reggio) and bass (Ramon Garcia) to bring to life a new concept album called “Whirlwind.” \nDrawing from a kaleidoscope of influences – Latin jazz to R&B\, candombe to bluegrass\, classical music to samba\, rock and roll – this group will surely keep you on the edge of your seat. \n \nAbout Jim Thomson: Jim Thomson is an independent DIY music producer based in Washington DC who specializes in booking\, live music production\, artist management\, DJ events\, and record releases. In Washington DC he operates an ongoing live music series called Secret Planet DC that partners with various venues\, foundations\, and musicians all across the city to produce unique\, intimate\, and meaningful performances. He also owns and operates the Washington\, DC-based boutique record label Electric Cowbell Records as well as holding down and curating all vinyl DJ residencies at The Green Zone\, Cana\, La Shukran\, Daikaya\, Le Mont Royal\, Eaton Hotel\, the DC Record Fair\, and other bars and restaurants in the city. \nJim is also a lifelong musician and promoter\, playing drums as a founding member of GWAR\, The Alter-Natives (SST Records)\, Bio Ritmo\, CSC Funk Band\, Time Is Fire\, and he currently plays drums and percussion with Motherf*ckers JMB & Co with Geologist from Animal Collective. One of the first concerts he co-promoted was a Bad Brains show in Richmond\, Virginia in 1987 followed by years of concerts including surf guitar legend Dick Dale\, Knitting Factory tours\, Marc Ribot\, Charles Gayle\, Negativland\, Medeski\, Martin\, and Wood\, and many others.
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/global-sounds-on-the-hill-featuring-joe-troops-whirlwind/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
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SUMMARY:“SONG OF SOLSTICE" A Celtic Christmas Celebration Featuring: OCEAN Celtic Quartet
DESCRIPTION:In-person Register Here“Listen up – They’re good!” \n–Fairport Convention’s Simon Nicol \nFairport Convention’s Simon Nicol says that OCEAN are exciting because they “get right inside the spirit of the folk music of the British Isles\, unpick it and weave it into a bright new fabric on their own 21st century American loom.”  Tony Barrand of Nowell Sing We Clear praises their “beautiful original songs and fabulous arrangements of traditional songs.” Steeleye Span’s Maddy Prior calls their songwriting “stunning” and the Washington Post calls them “Nothing short of spellbinding.”   \nThe OCEAN Celtic Quartet will transport you to the Yuletide celebrations of yore in a program featuring time-honored carols\, 19th century broadside songs\, traditional Celtic tunes\, original seasonal compositions\, and even an appearance by Father Christmas of the old mummers plays! With their soaring vocals and stately Celtic instrumentals\, OCEAN is known for marrying lighthearted exuberance with great spiritual depth in a program that appeals to all faiths and wisdom traditions. Come in good voice\, as you’ll be invited to sing along! \nSo come on out and celebrate the magic of Christmas and the Winter Solstice in cozy fellowship. This boisterous concert will include British Mummer’s play recitations\, traditional English and French carols\, fiddle\, harp\, and hurdy-gurdy tunes\, 19th century broadside songs\, and original seasonal compositions celebrating both the joy of the season of light and the introspection of the dark half of the year. The OCEAN Celtic Quartet is led by composer and ethnomusicologist JENNIFER CUTTING (accordion and keyboards)\, a Washington Area Music Association “Musician of the Year” and “Songwriter of the Year.” OCEAN features the stunning vocalist LISA MOSCATIELLO (also a WAMA “Musician of the Year”)\, folklorist/vocalist/percussionist STEPHEN WINICK\, plus fiddler\, Celtic harpist\, and composer JAY ANSILL. Cutting’s original anthem\, “Song of Solstice\,” has become a classic on Celtic and Folk radio\, and the title cut of OCEAN’s newest CD\, “The Turning Year\,” reached #1 Song on the Folk Radio charts for December 2021. Come prepared to sing along with OCEAN on these and other seasonal songs ancient and modern! \n \nJENNIFER CUTTING (Artistic Director\, Keyboard\, Accordion) happily blends careers as a bandleader\, composer\, instrumentalist\, ethnomusicologist\, and record producer. In the early 80s\, she became the last and youngest protégée of British folk revival leader A.L. Lloyd\, who had previously mentored members of Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span. Cutting spent 10 years as leader of The New St. George\, one of the most significant British folk-rock groups on this side of the Atlantic. She then created and produced the award-winning CDs OCEAN: Songs for the Night Sea Journey\, Song of Solstice\, and Waves\, collaborating with international superstars such as Maddy Prior and Peter Knight (Steeleye Span)\, Annie Haslam (Renaissance)\, Dave Mattacks (Fairport Convention) Tony Cuffe (Ossian) and Troy Donockley (Iona [UK]). Cutting is a multiple award winner in all areas of her musical career. She has won over 20 WAMMIE awards\, including “Musician of the Year\,” “Songwriter of the Year\,” and “Best New Artist\,” as well as “Album of the Year\,” “Best Traditional Folk Recording” and “Best Contemporary Folk Recording.” She has won two Maryland Governor’s Citations for composition\, as well as prestigious national-level songwriting awards such as First Prize in songwriting at the Merle Watson Festival\, and American Songwriter Magazine’s Song of the Year. \nLISA MOSCATIELLO (Vocal\, Guitar\, Penny Whistle) is a smooth\, sultry folk contralto from the Washington\, DC area. She has won over two dozen Washington Area Music Awards\, including two of the coveted Album of the Year awards for Second Avenue and Trouble from the Start. Although her first love is traditional Irish\, Scottish\, English and Anglo-American traditional folk music\, her voracious appetite for beautiful melodies and mysterious\, heart-rending lyrics has led her far afield from what is normally considered “folk music\,” into jazz\, electronica\, country\, Italian pop music and even opera. In addition to singing with the OCEAN Celtic Quartet\, she performs as a solo artist. As part of a duo with cellist Fred Lieder\, she performed monthly at 49 West for many years\, and also recorded for the electronica project Arthur Loves Plastic. She is the former lead singer for Celtic fusion band Whirligig and British folk-rock band The New St. George\, and has recorded and toured with fiddler Rosie Shipley.  \nSTEPHEN WINICK (vocals\, percussion) specializes in traditional ballads and sea chanteys\, and is both a performer and an expert lecturer and teacher\, bringing a scholarly depth to OCEAN’s concerts and educational programs. Steve has been singing traditional songs in English and French since his childhood. In the early 1990s\, he spent several summers under the tutelage of the late Dublin ballad singer Frank Harte\, one of the foremost traditional ballad singers in Irish music. Steve is a member of Ship’s Company Chanteymen\, in which he performs a repertoire of sea chanteys and historical songs. He was engaged as an expert scholar and researcher for the 2008 Washington Christmas Revels\, which presented the music of Québec. He ended up also performing one of the lead roles in the show\, for which he sang traditional songs in French to an audience of thousands.  He reprised his role on the 2010 CD release Le Temps des Fêtes\, and in the same year appeared on OCEAN’s CD Song of Solstice. He has a Ph.D. in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania\, where he studied under song specialists Kenneth S. Goldstein and Roger Abrahams. He has taught courses in folklore and folksong at the University of Pennsylvania\, George Washington University\, and George Mason University. \nJAY ANSILL (Violin\, Celtic Harp\, Hurdy Gurdy) is a multi-instrumentalist\, composer and producer based in Bucks County\, Pennsylvania. He has toured extensively and performed a wide variety of music with a wide variety of musicians including Anne Hills\, Martin Carthy\, Johnny Cunningham\, Bill Keith\, J. “Mo’ong” Santoso Pribadi and Maria Del Mar Bonet. Jay has written music for theater\, most notably working with playwright/director Lee Breuer at Mabou Mines on a number of projects and with John Guare on his Lydia Breeze Trilogy. Jay has released several albums including A Lost World\, a critically acclaimed collection of settings of poems by Robert Graves\, and Fragile Gifts\, with singer-songwriter Anne Hills.
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/song-of-solstice-a-celtic-christmas-celebration-featuring-ocean-celtic-quartet-2/
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