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Schedule
List of upcoming Millennium Stage performances.
Archives
Search for your favorite past performances and watch them online.
P.A.F.E.
Learn about the goals and mission of the Performing Arts for Everyone initiative.
Conservatory Project
Music's rising stars from the nation's top conservatories performing in the Terrace Theater
Video Highlights
Bearfoot Bluegrass October 26, 2007
Based out of Anchorage, Alaska, Bearfoot Bluegrass, has an up-and-coming acoustic band feel with fully fledged music chops.
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March Fourth October 11, 2007
March Fourth characterizes itself as little bit Duke Ellington meets Sgt. Pepper in a big-top tent pastiche.
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Chango Spasiuk October 3, 2007
Accordion player Chango Spasiuk performs chamamé, a unique Argentine folk music. AMERICARTES.
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17 Hippies September 23, 2007
Berlin-based ensemble 17 Hippies mixes traditional music from Eastern Europe, France, and America.
And More ...
- Portland Taiko September 9, 2007
- Skatalites/Shaggy June 19, 2007
- NEA Jazz Masters March 7, 2007
- Ondrej Havelka and his Melody Makers June 26, 2007
- Sara Tavares January 23, 2007
- The Roaring 40s November 23, 2006
- Polyphonic Spree October 1, 2004
Performances from the Past Week
September 1, 2010 -
Watch this Performance The Czech pianist has received numerous prizes for solo piano, piano four-hands, and chamber music.
Featured Artist(s): Iva Bartosova
August 31, 2010 -
Watch this Performance Combine an American veteran bluegrass player with three top French musicians who have the same affinity and you get hard-driving, crowd-pleasing music.
Featured Artist(s): Blue Railroad Train
August 30, 2010 -
Watch this Performance The roots rock band plays music from their latest recording, What Lasts, released July 20, 2010.
Featured Artist(s): These United States
August 29, 2010 -
Watch this Performance The San Francisco–based musical agitators blend an alternative pop attitude with international spices, mixing in elements of Gypsy swing, Colombian cumbia, French chanson, and Indian ragas.
Featured Artist(s): Rupa and the April Fishes
August 28, 2010 -
Watch this Performance Led by the soulful Arnold, whose scratch in his singing makes him stand out among singer songwriters, draws on blues, gospel, folk, and rock, as heard on the August 2010 release Simplify.
Featured Artist(s): Ben Arnold Band
August 27, 2010 -
Watch this Performance Hailing from Maui, longtime friends Ginger Johnson and Robyn Kneubuhl blend vintage Hapa Haole songs with jazz classics to create a swinging sound all their own.
Featured Artist(s): Hula Honeys
August 26, 2010 -
Watch this Performance Founded in 1956 and able to sing in more than 26 languages, the chorus presents an evening of American music.
Featured Artist(s): U.S. Army Chorus
August 25, 2010 -
Watch this Performance The group from Wisconsin plays a blend of polka, pop, country, and rock. Part of Homegrown: The Music of America series.
Featured Artist(s): Steve Meisner and Friends
August 24, 2010 -
Watch this Performance Malian vocalist Khaira Arby shifts seamlessly between the edgy and progressive and the traditional, turning to her mixed Berber and Sonrhai roots. She blends electric guitar with the forefather of the banjo and drum breaks with the traditional percussion of the scraper and the calabash.
Featured Artist(s): Khaïra Arby
August 23, 2010 -
Watch this Performance The quintet plays music that incorporates jazz, hip hop, and rock, as well as influences from the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
Featured Artist(s): Michael Feinberg Ensemble
August 22, 2010 -
Watch this Performance The folk rock group started in 2004 by brothers Todd and Eric Fink is known for extraordinary environmental stewardship and eco-friendly music production.
Featured Artist(s): The Giving Tree Band
August 21, 2010 -
Watch this Performance In celebration of the D.C. Youth Orchestra’s 50th anniversary, Marvin Hamlisch, Principal Pops Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra, conducts a program featuring some of the program’s 50,000 alumni from around the country. IN THE CONCERT HALL
Featured Artist(s): Marvin Hamlisch DC Youth Orchestra
August 20, 2010 -
Watch this Performance The pianist and professor of music at Baltimore’s Peabody Conservatory has performed with such legendary artists as Clark Terry, Zoot Simms, Herbie Hancock, Shirley Horn, B.B. King, Chuck Berry, and others.
Featured Artist(s): Charles Covington Jr.
August 19, 2010 -
Watch this Performance The funky folk artist from Fredericksburg, Virginia, performs tunes from her latest release, Hundreds of Lions.
Featured Artist(s): Erin McKeown
August 18, 2010 -
Watch this Performance The ensemble was named Best Folk Song Choir at the 2010 Trinidad and Tobago National Music Festival. Presented in cooperation with the Embassy of Trinidad and Tobago.
Featured Artist(s): New Dimension Performing Arts Company
August 17, 2010 -
Watch this Performance Traditional Persian music and Rumi poetry.
Featured Artist(s): Nava Ensemble
August 16, 2010 -
Watch this Performance The Austin, Texas–based band plays a blend of gutbucket soul, N’awlins funk, and Motown pop.
Featured Artist(s): Mingo Fishtrap
August 15, 2010 -
Watch this Performance A showcase of up-and-coming youth talent as part of Washington Performing Arts Society's Summer Performing Arts Academy. Led by members of Step Afrika!, the young performers will explore the traditions of stepping and other percussive dance styles.
Featured Artist(s): Step Afrika! Washington Performing Arts Society
August 14, 2010 -
Watch this Performance Participants in the Gulfport, Mississippi Lynn Meadows Discovery Center program perform.
Featured Artist(s): WINGS Performing Arts
August 13, 2010 -
Watch this Performance The group is comprised of the best high school and college jazz musicians in the greater Philadelphia and New Jersey regions.
Featured Artist(s): Philadelphia Jazz Orchestra
August 12, 2010 -
Watch this Performance The U.S. Navy’s seven-member country-bluegrass group is their premier country music ensemble and has been playing since 1973.
Featured Artist(s): U.S. Navy Country Current
August 11, 2010 -
Watch this Performance The chamber group and graduates of Curtis Institute of Music—pianist and clarinetist Teddy Abrams, fiddler and oboist Harrison Hollingsworth, and clarinetist Johnny Teyssier—present varied musical styles.
Featured Artist(s): sixth floor trio
August 10, 2010 -
Watch this Performance Voice of America presents Sierra Leone Theatre’s production of True Friendship, a play about Sidique, who is sentenced to die in two days. Only the son of the man he tried to harm—his best friend Abu—can save Sidique…by giving up his own life in the place of Sidique’s.
Featured Artist(s): Sierra Leone Theatre
August 9, 2010 -
Watch this Performance Members from the cast of the national tour of Mary Poppins strut their high-belting, energized, tap dancing stuff in an evening of song, led by Jacob ben Widmar with pianist William Johnson.
Featured Artist(s): Jacob ben Widmar William Johnson
August 8, 2010 -
Watch this Performance Latin jazz trombonist and historian Christopher Washburne plays with renowned percussionist and Apollo Theater house band member Candido Camero. Sponsored by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in association with its exhibition, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment.”
Featured Artist(s): Candido Camero Christopher Washburne

