Music
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Mixing It Up
''It was really great. Lots of new people, younger people, and a lot of the performances sold out.'' Scott Kenison is still basking in the...
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Winds of Change
When Valerie Coleman was forming what became the Imani Winds quintet, Mariam Adam says, ''she wanted the players to look like her.'' Specifically, Coleman, a...
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Cultural Crossroads
''There's so much stuff going on,'' says Scott Kenison. ''It's really like multicultural on steroids.'' Kenison, chief operating officer of the Atlas Performing Arts Center,...
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Soul Fire
You want a telling sign that Adele Adkins, known by just her first name, has talent to spare, that she's the genuine article? How about...
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Keeping the Faith
Twenty-four years ago, George Michael launched Faith with an organ playing the melody from ''Freedom,'' a hit he had with Wham! a couple years prior....
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Military Serenade
Mike Almy only came out to his parents after he became a leading activist pushing repeal of the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. ''I...
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Winds Power
''We're a family,'' says Laura Harris, president of D.C.'s Different Drummers. ''We try to take care of each other, we look out for each other.......
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Classical Treatment
''Until very recently, I went out of my way in all of my songs to... in the second person,'' says singer-songwriter Dar Williams. ''Because then...
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Swinging Standards
''It's all right for younger people to like older music,'' says pianist John Eaton, an expert of the Great American Songbook and jazz music from...
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On the Wright Track
Life after coming out may be liberating, but that doesn't mean there won't be some speed bumps along the way. When Chely Wright came out...
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Beat It
''This is the best one yet, and I'm so happy,'' Stacy ''Fergie'' Ferguson boasts toward the end of The Beginning. Regardless of how much you...
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The Year in Music
Twenty-ten will go down as the year of gay pop. Oh sure, at least a couple openly gay pop stars have gotten our attention most...
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Gift of Hits
What is this, another ABBA greatest-hits set? (All together now: ''Money, money, money; must be funny; in a rich man's world.'') Every year record labels...
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Pretty in Pink
Six years ago, Craig Cipollini was the Nutcracker prince in a Gay Men's Chorus of Washington production. Now, he's the king. That is to say,...
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Loving Lucy
Lucy Wainwright Roche was going to be the exception. ''I had grown up with all around me, and grown up being on the road,''...
