Rosslyn Jazz Fest 2024
Date and Time
- Saturday, Sep 7, 2024 1pm - 7pm
Location
Gateway Park
1300 Langston Blvd
The community’s most popular free outdoor music festival returns Saturday, Sept. 7! Join the Rosslyn BID and Arlington Arts for the 32nd Rosslyn Jazz Fest at Gateway Park for an afternoon of music, food trucks, yard games, community table experiences, and more.
Registration opens Aug. 1!
Jazz Fest is FREE and registration is not required, but encouraged, to help us produce the best experience for all in attendance, as there are capacity limits at Gateway Park.
For more information, check out our press release here and get ready for the festival by listening to the Spotify playlist below featuring this year's artists.
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Jazz Fest 2024 Lineup
EL LABERINTO DEL COCO
Fresh from their appearance on NPR’s Tiny Desk, 2024 looks to be the year of El Laberinto del Coco - a dynamic Bomba Fusion band hailing from Puerto Rico with roots in Washington, DC. Combining traditional Afro-Puerto Rican rhythms with contemporary genres, the band recently tore the roof off Lincoln Center as the explosive headliner for the prestigious annual globalFEST showcase in New York. “With their sprawling presentation and big, percussion driven sound […they] had the crowd in rapture,” exclaimed Afropop Worldwide magazine, calling them a “…fitting finale for what is now New York’s premier global music showcase.” Since their 2017 founding by former DC percussionist Hector Barez, El Laberinto del Coco has released a critically acclaimed self-titled album, an EP entitled El Laberinto del Coco Virtual, and six new singles. This fast-rising ensemble has captivated audiences at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage in Washington, DC; SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas; Global Fest at Lincoln Center; Drom NYC; and Chicago’s Summer Concert Series at Millennium Park, among others.
THE RUMBLE
This 2024 Grammy-nominated band (“Best Regional Roots Album”) was created in 2021 by seven members of multi-Grammy-nominated band Cha Wa. After its mass exodus, the collective vowed to both preserve and further a musical vision that blends New Orleans culture from past, present and future. Fronted by Second Chief Joseph Boudreaux Jr. of the legendary Golden Eagles Indian tribe, The Rumble boasts some of the next generation’s most prolific artists.
RANKY TANKY
This two-time Grammy award-winning, Charleston, SC-based quintet performs timeless music born from the Gullah culture of the southeastern Sea Islands. Their debut album was featured on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross and the TODAY Show. It also soared to the #1 position on the Billboard, Amazon, and iTunes Jazz Charts. Playful game songs, ecstatic shouts, and heartbreaking spirituals can all be found on their latest release Good Time, which also offers the groups first original songs inspired by Gullah tradition.
CECILY
DC-based vocalist and songwriter Cecily, (pronounced ses-suh-lee), is known for her agile soprano and honest lyrics. Her sound, as soothing as it is rich, is rooted in a deep appreciation for mid-century soul and jazz, 90’s R&B, and re-imagined folk music. Her debut album Songs of Love and Freedom garnered her a 2019 Wammie Award for Best Soul Album and was named “Best New Soul on Bandcamp” by the Bandcamp editorial team, who described the project as “stirringly timeless and modern.”
