About the DC Jazz Festival
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With more than 100 performances in dozens of venues across the city, the DC Jazz Festival is the largest music festival in Washington, D.C. and one of the most highly anticipated cultural events in the nation. The Festival presents year-round music education programs and concerts for DC students and residents by local, national and internationally-known talent at venues across D.C., promotes music integration in school curricula, and supports outreach to expand and diversify the audience of jazz enthusiasts
Mission
The DC Jazz Festival fulfills its mission to:
- Provide enriching and entertaining jazz programs for the broadest possible demographic - locally, regionally, nationally, and even internationally;
- Further illuminate the enduring legacy of Duke Ellington and other jazz greats;
- Provide jazz education programs to serve thousands of DC public and charter school students;
- Further enhance Washington, DC as a vibrant cultural destination with year-round programming that will establish the DC Jazz Festival among the finest jazz festivals in the world; and
- Boost economic development and tourism
DCJF Board of Directors
Michael R. Sonnenreich, Chairman
Chairman and CEO, Kikaku America International
Michelle I. Galler, Vice Chairman
Realtor, Sotheby's International Realty
Conrad D. Kenley, Treasurer
President/CEO, LCG Systems/LCG, Incorporated
Claude E. Bailey
Partner, Venable, LLP
Peter Bell
President, Dworbell, Inc.
Dwight W. Crawford
CFO, The Seed Foundation
Gus DiMillo
Principal, Passion Food Hospitality
Charles Fishman, President
Founder and Executive Producer, DC Jazz Festival
Roberta Flack, GRAMMY Award-winning Artist
Founder, Roberta Flack School of Music
David Gorodetski
CoFounder and COO, Sage Communications
Julian Anthony Haywood
Member, Heather Podesta + Partners, LLC
Marcia Mayo
Arts and Embassies Program, US Department of State
Harriet Sanford
President/CEO, National Education Association Foundation
Sunny Sumter, ex-officio
Executive Director, DC Jazz Festival
Carmencita Whonder,
Policy Director, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
David Woolley-Wislon
Executive Director, Green Building Institute
The DCJF Team
Charles Fishman, Founder and Executive Producer
Sunny Sumter, Executive Director
Daniel Baez, Marketing and Development Manager
Marissa Evans, Intern
Anu Thapa, Program Coordinator
Vivek Adhikari, Bookkeeper
Danna Reynolds of the Grants Company, Grantswriter
Jeff Anthony, Producer
Michelle Day, Logistics Producer
Bill Winn, Supervising Producer
Leslie Whipkey, Artist Relations Coordinator
Patton Boggs, LLP – Legal Counsel and Representation
Sage Communications – Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations
