This year, mostly due to last winter's exasperating government shut down, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival will be Really Short and Very Local. The festival runs just two days this weekend with a go-go concert featuring activists from the Don't Mute DC movement on the docket as well as a punk rock "story time" given by a DC librarian. A music market Saturday afternoon provides an unusual chance to shop home grown labels from the well known Dischord to This Could Go Boom! Hit the link for the full schedule.
Coincidently, another Smithsonian event goes native on Sunday with the "Space Was the Place" lecture at the National Gallery of Art at 2 pm. Seating is a first come first served kind of affair.
(Maybe the ever swelling tourist population will learn a thing or two about our fair city this weekend.)
Also lots of musical choices on the DC ROCKS calendar as June sneaks on out of here:
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Dave Chappell Band @ JV
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King Soul @ Mason District Park
Billy Coulter @ Rockville Town Square
Billy Coulter @ Rockville Town Square
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Punk the Capitol @ AFI
Beanstalk Library/Nitepool @ Pie Shop
Laurel Canyon Tribute @ Birchmere
Ruthie and the Wranglers @ Soundry
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Fuzz Queen/ Kosari @ Galaxy Hut
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