Grammy Award winner Dan Zanes and Haitian-American jazz vocalist Claudia Zanes perform Dan’s greatest hits as well as folk and blues classics from their popular new songbook entitled Dan Zanes’ House Party!: A Family Roots Music Treasury. Concerts also include selections from their KennedyCenter commissioned folk opera, Night Train 57, which premiered in 2017.

Connect and create while sharing community on Sunday, December 15, 2024, at our Mount Rainier location. We're bringing in the Kwanzaa season with special performances, hands-on craft workshops, demo classes, diasporic food, and more. See you there!

It’s that time of year! The Mt. Rainier Holiday Craft Fair is back and ready to bring all the wonderful crafters and shoppers to Joe’s.

¡Únase a nosotros para nuestra celebración del Día de los Muertos!

After the party, it's the OFFICIAL Hot Joe's Summer After Party at miXt Food Hall! Gather with us at miXt for $5 food and drink specials and Latin beats by DJ Aldo Andres.

Happy Summer! Hot Joe's Summer Festival Series will be one for the books: Join us outdoors at Joe's this summer for a festival vibe complete with craft and food vendors, hands-on art activities for kids, and performances from some of our summer favorites! "We outside" this summer!

Bring your own chair and good energy to add to the vibe! Event parking will be limited. Stay tuned for a parking location update. *Biking and walking recommended*

Este taller será una introducción completa al género de música más antigua de Puerto Rico conocido como bomba. Al terminar el taller, los participantes tendrán un entendimiento básico de la historia de bomba, conocimiento básico de algunos pasos de baile y ciclos de percusión para los ritmos básicos de bomba, y comprensión de canto por medio de la práctica de coro. Este taller será facilitado por Ivelisse Díaz, directora de Las Bompleneras Unplugged, quien tiene más de 30 años de experiencia practicando y 15 años de experiencia enseñando bomba, y  que nos visitan desde Chicago gracias a Semilla Cultural.

El último concierto de la Serie Cultural Pa’lante se enfocará en la música y cultura del Caribe por medio del arte de Taisha Estrada, cantautora, vocalista, y cuentista Puertorriqueña basada en Washington, DC. Acompañen a Taisha por un viaje musical en la que se explora música e historias influenciada por su crianza con sus abuelos quienes sintieron gran devoción a la patria, y por los ritmos Puertorriqueños de bomba y plena que corren por sus venas. Por medio de su música, pinta imágenes de las islas para explorar la vida, el amor, y la bella relación entre la humanidad y la tierra.

Join us as we welcome Marcus Isaiah, a versatile professional dedicated to highlighting the arts' significance in contemporary culture.

JChris, un cantautor urbano conocido por una voz suave y actuaciones de alta energía. Su música trasciende fronteras, infundiendo nostalgia del pop latino, su herencia brasileña-peruana y explorando temas de la cultura queer.

Joe's Movement Emporium with the Mount Rainier Nature Center will celebrate this Earth Day with a Garden Crawl! This is an effort to bring people together and show how strong the environmental community is here in Mount Rainier. Our various partners and host sites will have nature-based workshops, hands-on green activities, giveaways, gardening tips, and so much more!

Este taller usará música de películas de Disney como Coco, Saludos Amigos, y Encanto, para enseñarle a los niños a cantar y tocar instrumentos de percusión mientras también aprenden sobre los diferentes ritmos, estilos, y géneros de Latinoamérica. El taller será presentado por JChris, cantautor, pianista, y productor de pop Latino reconocido como los mejores de Washington, DC.

Acompáñenos para un evento comunitario con algunos de los mejores representantes de la música Latinoamericana en el área de DC. Desde mariachi y son jarocho de México, a cumbia Colombiana, y música Andina, esta presentación le dará la oportunidad a la comunidad de conocer la amplia diversidad, variedad y talento que vive y crece en nuestra área de Washington, DC.

El primer concierto de la Serie Cultural Latinoamericana Pa’lante, se enfocará en la cultura de Centroamérica por medio de la música de Elena La Fulana, instrumentalista nominada al Latin Grammy y líder del grupo Elena & Los Fulanos. Acompañen a Elena quien con su música explorará sus raíces y explica el viaje que tomó con su arte para encontrar su propia voz e identidad. Por medio de esta dinámica presentación, exploraremos el sabor incomparable de la cultura y folklore Centroamérica con música original y tradicional intercalada con poesía y baile.

Join Joe's to create and participate in amazing hands-on quality craft workshops, performances to get the season started! Join us to creatively prep for Kwanzaa celebrations with the entire family! Kwanzaa gifting is all about hand-made gifts from the heart and Joe's wants to help with the principal of Kuumba Creativity!

UpSpring's annual winter show is another ridiculous romp with your favorite peddlers of pizzazz. This year's performance, based on the Hieronymus Bosch painting "Garden of Earthly Delights," will feature many delights (and one or two demons). Wind your way through an evening filled with treats and tricks, and stick around to chat with our artists. Featuring new work on trapeze, sling, and more. If the weather permits, we'll have fire spinning outdoors. This is a drop-in performance, so pop by anytime between 6 and 8pm to enjoy festive refreshments and catch an act or two.

It’s that time of year! The Mt. Rainier Holiday Craft Fair is back and ready to bring all the wonderful crafters and shoppers to Joe’s.

Join us outdoors at Joe's this summer for a festival vibe complete with craft and food vendors, hands-on art activities for kids, and a performance from Pan Masters Steel Orchestra! From Calypso to Jazz, Soca to R&B, Pan Masters utilizes an outstanding musical repertoire that reflects the unique musical arrangements of several of its members to showcase their creativity and with the ultimate goal of enticing and pleasing any audience.

Join us outdoors at Joe's this summer for a festival vibe complete with craft and food vendors, hands-on art activities for kids, and a performance from Proverbs Reggae Band! Proverbs is a positive unique, rootz reggae band utilizing strong lyrical content and musical expressions to uplift Rasta livity. It’s the only reggae band in the DC Metropolitan area to maintain the authentic sound of Rasta Roots Reggae Music.

Join us and the Juneteenth Family Celebration Committee at JUNETEENTH FEST! Games, vendors, food, music, family, friends, and FUN will ensure a good time—rain or shine—as we remember this historic day.

Baba Ras D is pleased to offer this original ‘musical enlightenment’ for your group of children to explore. Think of it as your little one’s first opportunity to express his or her voice (into a microphone), dance, play a drum or percussion instrument, shout, or sing-along to songs that build character, confidence and community.

Experimental Art is a class that emphasizes process over product, guiding students ages 2-5 (and their caregivers) on an investigation of physicality through art materials, and creating awesome abstract art. Crumpling, tossing, folding, dropping, wetting, rolling, rubbing, turning inside out, and upside down are just some of the ways we will explore physical properties. We will also read books, sing, and dance our way to developing our fine and gross motor skills.

Experimental Art is a class that emphasizes process over product, guiding students ages 2-5 (and their caregivers) on an investigation of physicality through art materials, and creating awesome abstract art. Crumpling, tossing, folding, dropping, wetting, rolling, rubbing, turning inside out, and upside down are just some of the ways we will explore physical properties. We will also read books, sing, and dance our way to developing our fine and gross motor skills.

Experimental Art is a class that emphasizes process over product, guiding students ages 2-5 (and their caregivers) on an investigation of physicality through art materials, and creating awesome abstract art. Crumpling, tossing, folding, dropping, wetting, rolling, rubbing, turning inside out, and upside down are just some of the ways we will explore physical properties. We will also read books, sing, and dance our way to developing our fine and gross motor skills.

Experimental Art is a class that emphasizes process over product, guiding students ages 2-5 (and their caregivers) on an investigation of physicality through art materials, and creating awesome abstract art. Crumpling, tossing, folding, dropping, wetting, rolling, rubbing, turning inside out, and upside down are just some of the ways we will explore physical properties. We will also read books, sing, and dance our way to developing our fine and gross motor skills.

Experimental Art is a class that emphasizes process over product, guiding students ages 2-5 (and their caregivers) on an investigation of physicality through art materials, and creating awesome abstract art. Crumpling, tossing, folding, dropping, wetting, rolling, rubbing, turning inside out, and upside down are just some of the ways we will explore physical properties. We will also read books, sing, and dance our way to developing our fine and gross motor skills.

Experimental Art is a class that emphasizes process over product, guiding students ages 2-5 (and their caregivers) on an investigation of physicality through art materials, and creating awesome abstract art. Crumpling, tossing, folding, dropping, wetting, rolling, rubbing, turning inside out, and upside down are just some of the ways we will explore physical properties. We will also read books, sing, and dance our way to developing our fine and gross motor skills.

Take a magical trip to the continent of Africa to visit Kofi’s village! This exciting adventure dances and sings its way through instruments, harvesting a treasure map and more! Ages 2+

Experimental Art is a class that emphasizes process over product, guiding students ages 2-5 (and their caregivers) on an investigation of physicality through art materials, and creating awesome abstract art. Crumpling, tossing, folding, dropping, wetting, rolling, rubbing, turning inside out, and upside down are just some of the ways we will explore physical properties. We will also read books, sing, and dance our way to developing our fine and gross motor skills.

EducArte and Joe's Movement Emporium are are proud to present this eclectic, virtuosic, and charismatic duo. Upon seeing Larry & Joe at an intimate house concert, EducArte's co-founders Kate Spanos and Pablo Regis knew they had to bring Larry & Joe to the wider public in the Washington, DC area. Larry & Joe exemplify EducArte's mission to expand vibrant and boundary defying mission for equity in the arts.