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June 11 – Jubilee Voices at Woodlawn Visitor Center

By Jo Rasi on June 11, 2016 / Jubilee Voices - Past Events, Past Events

Celebrate the Grand Opening of Woodlawn Visitor Center Join Jubilee Voices in this spirited celebration filled with songs, stories, history, and more! Montgomery Parks is opening a historic gem — the Woodlawn Visitor Center — to the public. Jubilee Voices will be featured in the opening ceremony

June 21 — Solstice Sing at Park with Accordions

By Jo Rasi on June 4, 2016 / Community Sing - Past Events, Past Events

June Theme: Celebration of the Summer Solstice & National Accordion Awareness Month Kick off the summer with us! Our monthly Community Sing will be a celebration of the solstice and includes a potluck dinner — please join us and bring a dish to share. We will sing

July 4 — 127th Takoma Park 4th of July Parade

By Jo Rasi on June 1, 2016 / Parades - Past Events, Past Events

Tags: Parade, Takoma Park

[custom_frame_right shadow=”on”][/custom_frame_left] March with us — and sing if you like — in the 127th Takoma Park Independence Day Parade! All revelers, all ages, both veteran and new, are invited to march with us — let’s show thousands of spectators something of what Washington Revels is all about!

July 16 — Jubilee Voices at Mt. Pleasant

By Jo Rasi on May 29, 2016 / Jubilee Voices - Past Events, Past Events

Special Event with Jubilee Voices at Walter Pierce Park (Mt. Pleasant Plains Cemetery) In this commemoration and name reading ceremony, Jubilee Voices will share songs in honor of the escaped slaves who are buried in the cemetery. Join in for a memorable day in a park filled

May 31-June 21: Ukes on the Move at Revels!

By Jo Rasi on May 27, 2016 / Past Events

Carpe Diem Arts, presenters of the Ukes on the Move program, bring their fabulous ukulele workshops to our Revels Studio Space. Classes available for all ages, with a special Tweens & Teens workshop at 4 pm. Join some Revels friends in learning songs (Revels songs and other songs) on ukulele. You’ll be able to play dozens of songs in no time!

June 4 – Jubilee Voices at Washington Folk Festival

By Jo Rasi on May 26, 2016 / Jubilee Voices - Past Events, Past Events

Washington Revels Jubilee Voices will perform African American spirituals, folk songs, ring shouts and songs from the Civil Rights era, along with spoken word and plenty of audience participation.

June 4 — Gallery Voices at Cheverly Community Market

By Jo Rasi on May 26, 2016 / Gallery Voices - Past Events, Past Events

Celebrate the opening day for this local community farmer’s market with Washington Revels!

June 4 — Maritime Voices at C&O Canal

By Jo Rasi on May 25, 2016 / Maritime Voices - Past Events, Past Events

Maritime Voices will present songs of the Canal and the ships that carried its products out to sea to celebrate 19th-Century life on the Canal. Enjoy the music, and take a ride in a full-scale mule-pulled replica of the boats that plied the canal. See the C&O

May 7 at 4pm – May Revels at the National Cathedral

By Jo Rasi on April 30, 2016 / Past Events

Celebrate Spring with Washington Revels at the 2016 Flower Mart, sponsored by the National Cathedral All Hallows Guild! We will once again “bring in the May” as part of the annual All Hallows Guild Flower Mart – a popular two-day festival since 1939. DC’s favorite spring outdoor

April 30 – Madrigals and Maypole at the National Arboretum

By Washington Revels on April 30, 2016 / Gallery Voices - Past Events, Past Events

Celebrate the arrival of Spring at the annual Friends of the National Arboretum (FONA) Garden Fair and Plant Sale. Washington Revels’ Gallery Voices will entertain with madrigals and some traditional Revels songs for a morning of merriment. And that’s not all — we will dance the Maypole several times throughout the day and invite fair-goers to join us in more Maypole dancing. Don’t miss this annual tradition and, while you are at it, pick up some wonderful green stuff for your garden.