Yeehaw, y’all! Hi-Lawn, the expansive 1000-person rooftop bar atop Union Market, is hosting its inaugural “Boot ‘N Scoot” – DC’s only country music fest, from October 13-15. The open-air green space will host three days of country fun, including live music, bull riding, line dancing, roping, BBQ specials and more.
Kick up your boots to live music from multi-Grammy nominated Frank and Jillian Solivan trio, local country star Wil Gravatt, 4-time Wammie award-winning Melissa Quinn Fox, and more artists to be announced soon.
Learn the boot scootin’ boogie with nightly line dancing classes, and hone your lasso skills with weekend roping lessons.
A mechanical bull will be set up on the lawn, for those who want to get buck wild and impress their friends with how long they can hold on.
For those who work up an appetite at the Hi-Lawn hoedown, DC-based Rocklands BBQ (home to some of the area’s best BBQ for more than 30 years) will serve up its beloved meats and sides throughout the festival. There will also be themed drinks, and other vendors to peruse goods.
Tickets to Hi-Lawn’s Boot ‘N Scoot are $20 per day (but currently just $10 at special “early bird” pricing, with a discount for a 3-day pass at just $25): https://www.eventbrite.
WHO: Hi-Lawn
WHEN: Friday, October 13 – Sunday, October 15
WHERE: Hi-Lawn (on the rooftop of Union Market)
1309 5th St. NE
Washington, DC 20002
Yeehaw, y’all! Hi-Lawn, the expansive 1000-person rooftop bar atop Union Market, is hosting its inaugural “Boot ‘N Scoot” – DC’s only country music fest, from October 13-15. The open-air green space will host three days of country fun, including live music, bull riding, line dancing, roping, BBQ specials and more.
Kick up your boots to live music from multi-Grammy nominated Frank and Jillian Solivan trio, local country star Wil Gravatt, 4-time Wammie award-winning Melissa Quinn Fox, and more artists to be announced soon.
Learn the boot scootin’ boogie with nightly line dancing classes, and hone your lasso skills with weekend roping lessons.
A mechanical bull will be set up on the lawn, for those who want to get buck wild and impress their friends with how long they can hold on.
For those who work up an appetite at the Hi-Lawn hoedown, DC-based Rocklands BBQ (home to some of the area’s best BBQ for more than 30 years) will serve up its beloved meats and sides throughout the festival. There will also be themed drinks, and other vendors to peruse goods.
Tickets to Hi-Lawn’s Boot ‘N Scoot are $20 per day (but currently just $10 at special “early bird” pricing, with a discount for a 3-day pass at just $25): https://www.eventbrite.
WHO: Hi-Lawn
WHEN: Friday, October 13 – Sunday, October 15
WHERE: Hi-Lawn (on the rooftop of Union Market)
1309 5th St. NE
Washington, DC 20002
The Adams Morgan Partnership Business Improvement District (AMPBID) is excited to announce the return of Adams Morgan Fall PorchFest on Saturday, October 14th from 2-6pm! With approximately 100 bands, this event will showcase some of DC’s best local musical talent featuring nearly every musical genre, including classic rock, funk, go-go, rap, reggae, blue grass, classical, and pop. Twenty porches, business patios, parks, and the closed 18th Street will become stages for the day, drawing music-lovers from around the region into the tree-lined streets and small businesses of Adams Morgan. And for the first time during PorchFest, 18th Street NW (between Columbia and Kalorama Roads NW) will be closed to vehicular traffic creating additional safe space for people, performances, and fun! This road closure is part of an ongoing initiative, the Adams Morgan Pedestrian Zone funded by the DC Office of Planning’s Streets for People grant program.
Event patrons can pick up a music map and wristband at two different event headquarters locations. The first location is in the plaza in front of Truist Bank at the corner of Columbia and Adams Mill Roads NW. The second location is in front of 2424 18th Street NW inside the road closure. Event wristbands are FREE and provide attendees with dozens of discounts at various Adams Morgan businesses. After picking up a wristband and event map, guests can stroll through the neighborhood for nonstop musical performances from 2-6pm, enjoy lunch, dinner, or drinks at a neighborhood hangout, and shop for unique gifts at local boutiques.
Each PorchFest location will host up to four 45-minute sets, all of which are free and open for all to enjoy. Due to overwhelming success over the last few years, we are excited to announce that we will have TWO main stages this year – the Plaza Main Stage (in front of Truist Bank) and the Aetna Main Stage (in Hoffman Alley next to Van Leeuwen Ice Cream). And, that’s not all! More stages means more extra-special local talent including headliner, Mark Bryan of Hootie & The Blowfish with the Screaming Trojans. Lead guitarist of the wildly successful 20 million-album-selling, two-time Grammy®-winning rock band, Hootie and the Blowfish, Mark Bryan, is from nearby Montgomery County, MD and plans to deliver a stellar performance featuring original songs off his solo albums plus classic Hootie and the Blowfish songs that we all know and love.
Additional main stage performers include The Experience Band & Show, Airport 77s, Controlled Chaos, Flex Matthews Band, Ari Voxx, Jordan Curls, and a DJ courtesy of Le Mont Royal. The full lineup of performers can be found at AdMoPorchFest.com.
The Adams Morgan Partnership BID is currently recruiting volunteers to assist with staffing Fall PorchFest. Volunteers will receive a free t-shirt, Adams Morgan swag, and complimentary food and beverages the day of the event. Click here to sign up.
“We’re so excited for our Fall edition of PorchFest! This past Spring, we had more than 40,000 people attend the event,” said Kristen Barden, Executive Director of the Adams Morgan Partnership Business Improvement District. “We anticipate another big turnout in October which will ultimately support our neighborhood businesses. We hope the community will join us for this incredible event. We also appreciate our incredible porch hosts, bands, sponsors, volunteers, and small businesses for their contributions – we couldn’t do it without them.”
Adams Morgan PorchFest is brought to you by the Adams Morgan Partnership BID. This event is generously sponsored by Aetna, a health care company that is working to build a healthier world and is contributing to all of the fun, healthy ways to move throughout the pedestrian zone. Aetna is committed to providing individuals, employers, health care professionals and producers with innovative benefits, products and services. Additional supporting Fall PorchFest sponsors include Events DC, Tattoo Paradise, Colonial Parking, Gifted Curators, Lars Etzkorn Law PLLC, and Catoctin Creek.
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Fall Fête A Charity Gala Benefiting My Sister’s Place
Join the Madison of Washington DC in inaugurating the annual Fall Fête – a charity gala benefiting My Sister’s Place, and a celebration of its 20th anniversary.
The night will feature a silent auction, whiskey tasting, open bar, raffle prizes, & more to raise funds for our philanthropic partner.
Location: City Tavern Club | 3206 M St NW, Washington, DC 20007 Dress Code: Black-tie optional |
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Saturday, October 14, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. at The Music Center at Strathmore
Gershwin, Price & Beethoven
Piotr Gajewski, conductor
Michelle Cann, piano
NatPhil’s 2023-2024 Season begins with a trio of enchanting works conducted by Maestro Piotr Gajewski, transporting listeners from the height of the Jazz Age to a pastoral countryside. Sensational pianist Michelle Cann opens the concert with Rhapsody in Blue, George Gershwin’s iconic fusion of classical and jazz styles, followed by the rich melodies and rhythms of Florence Price’s Piano Concerto in One Movement, which beautifully blends classical and African American musical traditions.
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6—the “Pastoral Symphony”—celebrates the beauty of the natural world in five movements that usher audiences through the countryside, painting vivid imagery of a babbling brook, a crashing thunderstorm, and the people that coexist with nature.
Program:
George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue
Florence Price, Piano Concerto in One Movement
Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral)
Yeehaw, y’all! Hi-Lawn, the expansive 1000-person rooftop bar atop Union Market, is hosting its inaugural “Boot ‘N Scoot” – DC’s only country music fest, from October 13-15. The open-air green space will host three days of country fun, including live music, bull riding, line dancing, roping, BBQ specials and more.
Kick up your boots to live music from multi-Grammy nominated Frank and Jillian Solivan trio, local country star Wil Gravatt, 4-time Wammie award-winning Melissa Quinn Fox, and more artists to be announced soon.
Learn the boot scootin’ boogie with nightly line dancing classes, and hone your lasso skills with weekend roping lessons.
A mechanical bull will be set up on the lawn, for those who want to get buck wild and impress their friends with how long they can hold on.
For those who work up an appetite at the Hi-Lawn hoedown, DC-based Rocklands BBQ (home to some of the area’s best BBQ for more than 30 years) will serve up its beloved meats and sides throughout the festival. There will also be themed drinks, and other vendors to peruse goods.
Tickets to Hi-Lawn’s Boot ‘N Scoot are $20 per day (but currently just $10 at special “early bird” pricing, with a discount for a 3-day pass at just $25): https://www.eventbrite.
WHO: Hi-Lawn
WHEN: Friday, October 13 – Sunday, October 15
WHERE: Hi-Lawn (on the rooftop of Union Market)
1309 5th St. NE
Washington, DC 20002
Calico is celebrating the changing of the seasons with its 3rd Annual Late Harvest Festival on Sunday, October 15 from 1pm to 9 p.m. The urban backyard in Blagden Alley once again hosts its welcome party for cooler weather, with a free-to-attend Sunday afternoon fall fest complete with pumpkin painting, caramel apples, hot cocktails, autumnal fare and more festive seasonal fun.
There’s no need to head to the pumpkin patch this year. Guests can pick their very own pumpkins from Calico’s pop-up patch and decorate them with complimentary painting supplies.
The fall fest will serve as the preview of Calico’s new seasonal menu, featuring autumnal cookout fare from Chef Nathan Beauchamp, such as such as mugs of soup and chili. There will also be fresh local apples with sweet, buttery caramel for dipping.
Seasonal libations will range from hot drinks from bar director Ian Fletcher such as spiked cider, Oktoberfest and fall beers, plus non-alcoholic hot cider.
Rounding out the lively festivities will be a festive photo area complete with leaves, pumpkins and corn stalks for the perfect photo-op.
Local DC Brau will pour complimentary seasonal beer tastings for adults (21+) from 4-7pm, who can also purchase cans to take home.
Calico’s Late Harvest Festival is free to attend and open to the public, with all pumpkins, food and beverage sold a la carte. Guests can place a free RSVP on Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/
WHO: Calico
WHEN: Sunday, October 15, 2023
1 pm – 9 pm
4pm-7pm – DC Brau beer tastings (21+)
WHERE: Calico
50 Blagden Alley NW
Washington, DC 20001
Beginning Tuesday, September 5, the AC Lounge in Capitol Hill / Navy Yard will launch Tito’s Tuesdays Yappy Hour! Every Tuesday through Halloween, the ground level patio will welcome dogs and their humans to enjoy a range of specials in partnership with Tito’s Vodka.
WHEN
Tuesdays, September 5 – October 31 (weather permitting)
5:00pm – 8:00pm
WHAT
In addition to the AC Lounge’s daily happy hour, guess will enjoy:
$10 Tito’s drink specials
$1 Pup Cups
*A portion of the proceeds each week will benefit the Humane Rescue Alliance
Each week the team will raffle Tito’s dog accessories and toys. On Halloween a Dog Costume Contest will take over the patio with an on-site dog caricature artist making pet portraits for patrons. That evening a final raffle of all entries will award a grand prize of an impressive box of Tito’s pet products including bowls, chew toys, clothes and accessories.
WHERE
867 New Jersey Ave SE (ground level patio)
Washington, DC 20003
Actress and comedian Michelle Buteau brings her highly-anticipated tour to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area in her first time headlining the Kennedy Center.
As the star and creator of her own scripted series Survival of the Thickest, which premieres on Netflix on July 13, Buteau shares her unique perspective with audiences this fall on the Eisenhower Stage.
Tickets go on-sale to the members on Tuesday, June 20 and to the public on Friday, June 23.
Michelle Buteau: Full Heart, Tight Jeans, Eisenhower Theater
October 20, 2023, 8 p.m.
Michelle Buteau is the creator/star of the TV series Survival of the Thickest, inspired by her book, which premieres on Netflix on July 13. She is also the host of two popular reality competition shows: The Circle and Barbecue Showdown on Netflix. Other film and TV credits include Marry Me, First Wives Club, Always Be My Maybe, Awkwafina is Norma From Queens, Russian Doll, and Someone Great. She is also the Modern Manners columnist for Real Simple and hosts the popular podcast Adulting. Michelle’s one-hour comedy special Welcome to Buteaupia is streaming on Netflix and won the Critics Choice Award for Best Comedy Special.
Spooky Pooch Howl-o-ween Celebration
Saturday, October 21, 2023, 4-6 p.m.
Hightail it to Hillwood with your four-legged friend for some Halloween fun! Explore the gardens and participate in the annual costume competition.
4155 Linnean Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20008
