Next Sunday I'll be hosting a variety show at the Kennedy Center on the Millenium Stage. I am excited. It's to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Huffington Post D.C., my very excellent (I just re-watched "Wayne's World") employer since April. Please stop by. It's a free show, I got to curate it and it's on a very neat stage at a very neat venue.
Here's the program listing.
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Huffington Post D.C.’s Top 5
Celebrating one year of Huffington Post D.C., the Top 5 brings
together some of D.C.’s finest in comedy, storytelling, sideshow,
music, and more.
Hosted by Brandon Wetherbee
House band Ian Walters
Reading from Jodi Lynn Anderson
Music from Janel and Anthony
Sideshow from Mab, Just Mab
Story telling from SM Shrake
Stand up from Jenn Tisdale
Brandon Wetherbee is the Assistant Editor of Huffington Post D.C. and the host of the talk show You, Me, Them, Everybody. "The You, Me Them, Everybody podcast feed is a treasure trove of conversations with funny, insightful, or otherwise interesting people from across the cultural spectrum." - A.V. Club
Ian Walters is a blues piano player and singer that has performed over 1,000 gigs over the last ten years. He can be seen regularly throughout the East Coast.
Jodi Lynn Anderson is the New York Times bestselling author of Peaches, The Secrets of Peaches, Love and Peaches, the popular May Bird trilogy, and Tiger Lily.
Janel and Anthony are a two-piece avant-garde music duo that splits their time between Washington D.C. and New York City. "If your soul is downright weary from the burdens of everyday life, cellist Janel Leppin and guitarist Anthony Pirog present an ideal antidote with their intimate, intuitive music. In both bucolic acoustic numbers and immersive dronescapes, the duo offers transport from mundane matters of the world." - Time Out New York
Mab Just Mab is a nationally touring sideshow performer who combines theatre, music, movement, comedy. She was this year's winner of the 2012 Americana Burlesque & Sideshow Festival’s Artist of the Year. She is also the recipient, along with the Cheeky Monkey Sideshow, of the Circus Historical Society’s Candlelight Award for keeping the sideshow tradition alive.
SM Shrake founded Story League in Washington, D.C. He has been heard on This American Life and has won story slams at The Moth and First Person Arts. Shrake has performed in New York at 92YTribeca, the Tank, Union Hall and the Bitter End; in Washington at DC Improv, Black Cat and Phillips Collection; in Philadelphia at the Annenberg Center, Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts; in Baltimore at Centerstage, in Boston at Oberon and the Comedy Studio, at the Makeout Room in San Francisco, and at the Gem Theatre in Detroit, his hometown.
Jenn Tisdale is a Washington D.C. based stand up comic that has performed at the National Geographic Museum, Baltimore Comedy Factory, Artisphere and more. She is a regular writer for Brightest Young Things. Follow her on Twitter at @Jenn_Tisdale.