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More than 30 vendors will be selling vintage vinyl in the Ballroom at the Artisphere in Rosslyn on Sunday, February 13th for the DC Record Fair. Guest DJs will be spinning tunes and there will be food and drinks available. Admission is $5 for early bird time slot from 11am-noon and $2 from 12-5. Take the Metro or free parking in the building garage on weekends with validation.
Celebrate Black History Month with a Gospel Concert from the Macedonia Baptist Church. They will be performing at Walter Reed Community Center at 11 am on Wednesday, February 9th, 2011. Free.
A Women’s Quartet from the Potomac Harmony Chorus will go to your special someone’s home, place of work, or a restaurant to deliver two songs in a cappella four-part harmony Barbershop style and present your sweetheart with a box of candy and a card from you. $50 for an in-person s…inging valentine and $20 for a telephone greeting. Deadline to order is February 9, 2011.
International singer/songwriter Dar Williams, “long a luminous presence in today’s pop-folk-indie music scene,” will be performing in a crossover concert with local Arlington talent IBIS Chamber Music Society January 30, 2011 at the Spectrum Theatre at the Artisphere with shows at 4:30 and 7:30. Tickets are $35 and can be ordered online here or at The Artisphere box office. The program will feature an exciting mix of original arrangements of Dar’s music as well as works by Gershwin, Piazzolla and Bernstein arranged for string quartet, voice and harp. This program was performed to a sell-out crowd in Boston last summer. Here’s the Facebook page for more info. You can also read the Boston Globe’s article about this collaboration here or see a video of their August concert together below.
For other concerts at The Spectrum, check the Arlington Arts website.
The Washington-Lee High School choral department will be hosting a Pyramid Concert for students in grades 4-8 at elementary and middle schools that feed into W-L performing along with the W-L students. The concert will be held on Thursday, January 13th, 2011 at 7 PM in the W-L auditorium. Yorktown High School will be performing a similar concert in May 2011.
La Tasca, a Spanish tapas bar and restaurant in Clarendon has a live Flamenco show every Friday from 7:30-9 PM. On Saturdays they have Karavan Gipsy Music beginning at 9 PM.
Editor’s Note: La Tasca is now closed.
