On LOCation
Concerts from the Library of Congress go on location at the new Atlas Performing Arts Center at the heart of the H Street Corridor, which runs from 12th to 15th Streets, NE, now known as the Atlas District—Washington’s newest arts and entertainment neighborhood. For ticket information, directions, parking, free shuttle service, restaurants, and other information, go to www.atlasarts.org. 
Atlas Performing Arts Center <view map>
1333 H Street, NE -
Washington, DC 20002
Administrative Office: 202-399-7993
Box Office: 202-399-7993
with guest artist, Christian Howes, violin
“Prieto’s music explodes with energy… original compositions with a singular passion and intensity.”
Cuban-born composer and drummer Dafnis Prieto is unquestionably one of the important leaders of the New Latin Jazz movement. He has wonderfully blurred the line between traditional Latin-jazz and twenty-first-century postbop, fusing Afro-Cuban rhythms and modern jazz harmonies.
6:15 pm – Atlas Center for the Performing Arts (no tickets required)
Pre-concert presentation: Host of WPFW's "Sound of Surprise" Larry Appelbaum, Music Division,
interviews Dafnis Prieto.
“eminently cosmopolitan. . . a new benchmark in Arab-Western fusion”
Recipient of the prestigious NEA National Heritage Award, this violin and oud virtuoso and celebrated genre-exploring composer appears with members of Qantara, his all-star group that fuses Arab, jazz, Western classical, and Latin American music. Featured in this program is the world premiere of a work by Shaheen commissioned by the McKim Fund in the Library of Congress.
“spontaneous, surprising forays into adventurous improvising”
Admired for original compositions and reinventions, jazz pianist and composer Uri Caine brings an eclectic array of disciplines and influences to his music. His classical and jazz training and his poetic sense combine in ambitious hybrids that are often challenging but always inventive.
6:15 pm – Atlas Center for the Performing Arts (no tickets required)
Pre-concert presentation: Pianist composer Uri Caine talks with Larry Appelbaum before appearing with
his Trio.
