For More Information about In Your Neighborhood, Contact:
Xavier Joseph, Manager of Community Engagement
Phone: (202) 416-8257
Cell: (202) 339-1881
NSO In Your Neighborhood
Celebrating local communities through music
NSO In Your Neighborhood 2024: Riverfront
March 18-24, 2024
Southwest Waterfront | Navy Yard | Capitol Riverfront | Buzzard Point | BEllevue
This March, the NSO will focus on the neighborhoods along the “Riverfront” in Wards 6 & 8. These areas have a rich legacy of community but have also experienced several waves of urban renewal and gentrification beginning in the 1940s. Marvin Gaye, Denyce Graves, and Thurgood Marshall all had ties to these neighborhoods.
NSO In Your Neighborhood 2023: Edge of the City
BRENTWOOD | BROOKLAND | ECKINGTON | FORT LINCOLN | TRINIDAD | UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS | WOODRIDGE
The NSO’s In Your Neighborhood program brought the power of music to unite, empower, and celebrate the legacy and tradition of Ward 5. Performances were given in partnership with Wells Fargo, DC Department of Parks and Recreation, The National Shrine of the Basilica, Woodridge Library, Dunbar High School, Busboys and Poets, Joe’s Movement Emporium, Boundary Stone Pub, Buebird Sky Yoga, 11:Eleven Art Gallery, District Clay Center, Lincoln’s Cottage, Creative Grounds, The Spice Suite, American Poetry Museum, La Cosecha, and Art Enables.
NSO In Your Neighborhood 2023: Edge of the City
BRENTWOOD | BROOKLAND | ECKINGTON | FORT LINCOLN | TRINIDAD | UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS | WOODRIDGE
The NSO’s In Your Neighborhood program brought the power of music to unite, empower, and celebrate the legacy and tradition of Ward 5. Performances were given in partnership with Wells Fargo, DC Department of Parks and Recreation, The National Shrine of the Basilica, Woodridge Library, Dunbar High School, Busboys and Poets, Joe’s Movement Emporium, Boundary Stone Pub, Buebird Sky Yoga, 11:Eleven Art Gallery, District Clay Center, Lincoln’s Cottage, Creative Grounds, The Spice Suite, American Poetry Museum, La Cosecha, and Art Enables.
NSO In Your Neighborhood 2022: East of the River
Anacostia | Barry Farm | Bellevue | Congress Heights | Joint-Base Anacostia-Bolling
The NSO’s In Your Neighborhood program brought the power of music to unite, empower, and celebrate the legacy and tradition of Ward 8.
Performances and activities were given in partnership with Wells Fargo, Events DC, Ballou Senior High School, Horton’s Kids, Busboys and Poets, DC Department of Parks and Recreation, Anacostia Neighborhood Library, Anacostia Arts Center, Levine Music @ THEARC, Parklands-Turner Neighborhood Library, The Phillips Collection @THEARC, and Congress Heights Arts & Culture Center.
In Your Neighborhood Over the Years
The NSO Performs with the String Queens at Turkey Thicket Recreation Center in March 2023.
The Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy, a community-based organization that uses baseball and softball to foster positive character development and academic acheivement, hosts an NSO string quartet in their All-Star Pavilion in September 2019.
NSO harpist Adriana Horne performs for the staff and job seekers at the D.C. Department of Employment Services headquarters in September 2019.
An NSO wind quintet performs a chamber concert on the grounds of the U.S. National Arboretum in September 2019.
While waiting for the doors to open at Turkey Thicket Recreation Center, NSO Youth Fellows, Christian León, Haley Gruwell, and Mira Kim, perform in the lobby as part of a greater activation with NSO swag bags, Ward 5 Mutual Aid grocery bags, an art workshop by Stephanie Kiah, and more!
The NSO presents a chamber concert in collaboration with the GoGo Symphony at Chuck Brown Memorial Park in September 2019.
The DC Eagle, one of D.C.'s oldest and largest LGBTQ bars hosts a string bass quartet in September 2019.
NSO musicians perform at Marvin Gaye Recreation Center in September 2019.
An NSO string quartet pays homage to the District's legacy of Marvin Gaye in an intimate performance of selected arrangements featuring local vocalist and songwriter Cecily at the Riverside Center in September 2019.
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Sponsors
The Dr. Gary Mather and Christina Co Mather Fund for Under-Resourced Youth
Tina and Albert H. Small, Jr.
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation