The DC Jazz Festival, originally the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival, is a jazz festival held in early to mid June for nearly two weeks in Washington, D.C., United States. It was established in 2004 by jazz manager Charles Fishman and changed to its current name in 2010. It is sponsored "with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts". At least 100 musicians perform annually in venues across the city.
References
- Edleson, Harriet (1 February 2012). Little Black Book of Washington DC, 2012 Edition. Peter Pauper Press, Inc. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-4413-0661-6.
- Matthew Dicker (2013-06-06). "DC Jazz Festival 2013: 'Don't understand it, just enjoy it,' says founder". Washington Times. Retrieved 2016-08-04.
- "DC Jazz Festival". Dc.about.com. Archived from the original on 20 April 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
- Frommer's (30 May 2012). AARP Washington, D.C. 2012. John Wiley & Sons. p. 262. ISBN 978-1-118-26863-6.
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