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AFRICAN RHYTHMS: ACROSS BOUNDARIES

Wed, Apr 12

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Sitar Arts Center

Jazzin’ AfterSchool Master Class

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AFRICAN RHYTHMS: ACROSS BOUNDARIES
AFRICAN RHYTHMS: ACROSS BOUNDARIES

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Apr 12, 2023, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Sitar Arts Center, 1700 Kalorama Rd NW #101, Washington, DC 20009, USA

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DC Jazz Festival Education is proud to bring another great season of jazz and music education programming: “African Rhythms, Across Boundaries,” A Master Class, in partnership with Sitar Arts Center. This class is open to students and the neighborhood community.

Teaching Artist: bassist Corcoran Holt, bassist; and Kweku Sumbry, percussionist. African Rhythms: Across Boundaries will present traditional African Rhythms using jazz and various genres of music from Duke Ellington to Curtis Mayfield, to the Summer of Soul era.  The master class is open to all Sitar students and teachers. 

This Jazzin’ AfterSchool program, part of DC Jazz Festival Education, is made possible, in part, by a major grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities; with additional funding from the Galena-Yorktown Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, The John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation, Venable Foundation, and the Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation. ©2023 DC Jazz Festival. All rights reserved.

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The DC Jazz Festival®, a 501(c)(3) non-profit service organization, and its programs are made possible, in part, with major grants from the Government of the District of Columbia, Muriel Bowser, Mayor; DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities; National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs program of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts; DC Office of Cable Television, Film, Music & Entertainment, the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development; and with awards from Mellon Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Gillon Family Charitable Fund, Galena-Yorktown Foundation, Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Leonard and Elaine Silverstein Family Foundation, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts, Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Mid Atlantic Arts, Venable Foundation, Ella Fitzgerald Foundation, and HumanitiesDC. ©2025 DC Jazz Festival. All rights reserved.

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