Live music, great movies and more coming up in Greenbelt, College Park and Bowie – all Prince Georges Proud – over the next 10 days.
Friday, April 1
At the New Deal Cafe
At the Old Greenbelt Theatre
Summer of Soul opens! 5 and 8 pm on Main Screen. Winner of 2021 Best Feature Documentary Oscar! It’s part music film, part historical record created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park. The footage was never seen and largely forgotten-until now. SUMMER OF SOUL shines a light on the importance of history to our spiritual well-being and stands as a testament to the healing power of music during times of unrest, both past and present. The feature includes never-before-seen concert performances by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King, The 5th Dimension and more.
At the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College Park
Comfort & Embrace: Brahms’ Human Requiem. 7:30 pm. Pay What You Wish. Often known as a Requiem for the living, Brahms’ masterpiece has touched concertgoers for over 150 years. In Comfort & Embrace, the UMD Chamber Singers join forces with the Washington, D.C.-based professional choir The Thirteen to remake this beloved work into a fully staged theatrical production designed to move each and every member of the audience. This production will feature the audience interspersed among the performers, creating a new relationship between audience, musicians and this touching work. Featuring exceptional pianists Derrick Goff and Rachelle Jonck, this production will be performed with its original and intimate orchestration—piano for four hands.
Saturday, April 2
In Roosevelt Center
Community Drum Circle with Katy Gaughan. Connect with community and have fun with friends by playing awesome world drums with drum circle facilitator Katy Gaughan. Drums will be provided or bring your own. All ages. No experience necessary. (4 to 5pm)
At the New Deal Cafe
At the Old Greenbelt Theatre
Infinite Storm – One night only!. 5 pm on Main Screen. Cast: Naomi Watts, Billy Howle, Dennis O’Hare.
As Pam, an experienced climber ascends Mt. Washington, she turns back before she reaches the summit as a huge blizzard approaches. But on her way down, she encounters a lone, stranded, and ill-prepared man, and takes it upon herself to get them both down the mountain before nightfall arrives and they succumb to the storm. Infinite Storm is based on a true story.
Summer of Soul 5:30 & 8:30 pm in the Screening Room
West Side Story at 7:30 pm on Main Screen
Sunday, April 3
At the New Deal Cafe
The Music of Lennon & McCartney – all the BEST of the Beatles catalogue from one performer, with world class impersonations of John and Paul in a thrilling theatrical evening of music, celebration and storytelling. (6 to 8pm)
At the Old Greenbelt Theatre
Summer of Soul. 2:30 & 6:00 pm in the Screening Room
At the Greenbelt Community Center
Artful Afternoon! 1-3. Enjoy FREE all-ages art workshops at the Greenbelt Community Center! Also May 1, and June 5. Pre-registration is required.
Monday, April 4
At the Old Greenbelt Theatre
Sunset Boulevard is today’s FREE Monday Matinee. 1 pm. Cast: William Holden; Gloria Swanson; Erich von Stroheim; Nancy Olson; Fred Clark; Lloyd Gough; Jack Webb. An aging silent film queen refuses to accept that her stardom has ended. She hires a young screenwriter to help set up her movie comeback. The screenwriter believes he can manipulate her, but he soon finds out he is wrong. The screenwriters ambivalence about their relationship and her unwillingness to let go leads to a situation of violence, madness, and death. Preregister here for the free ticket.
Summer of Soul 2:00 & 5:00 pm in the Screening Room
West Side Story at 4 pm on the Main Screen
Tuesday, April 5
At the New Deal Cafe
S.A.W. (Songwriters Association Of Washington) Open Mic hosted by Lynn Hollyfield. Sign-ups begin at 6:30pm. Performers will have 2 songs and then an opportunity for a third once everyone on the list has played. Featured act plays from 8 to 8:30pm. (7 to 9:30pm)
Wednesday, April 6
At the New Deal Cafe
The Potecasi Slade Experience : a funky Blues band whose roots run deep into DMV GoGo and Gospel, with a touch of Rock. Their songs have emotional and moving lyrics with swinging rhythm, so prepare to want to move, whether you’re standing or seated. (7 to 9pm)
Thursday, April 7
At the New Deal Cafe
At the Old Parish House in College Park
Friday, April 8
At the New Deal Cafe
The Big Boy Little Band – the deep, deep blues…..The kind of blues you used to hear on a distant radio station broadcasting from somewhere down south, late at night. The kind of blues where you wake up early in the morning and all you can think of is your lover and you wonder, “where did you go?”. The kind of blues that makes you want to go somewhere and dance or shout or just be alive. Those kinds of blues. (8 to 11pm)
At the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College Park
Later the Same Evening: Maryland Opera 7:30 p.m. Pay What you Wish. Repeated April 10, 13 and 16.
In a reimagining of Pulitzer Prize-nominated composer John Musto’s one-act opera, which first premiered at The Clarice in 2007 in a joint project with the National Gallery of Art, audiences are transported to 1932 New York City for one extended evening. Co-commissioned by the UMD School of Music and The Clarice, Later the Same Evening is inspired by figures in five Edward Hopper paintings of Manhattan. As the opera unfolds, the characters from the paintings vividly come to life to intertwine in interesting ways centered around the solitude that a large, bustling city can invoke.
At the Old Greenbelt Theatre
The theater is open, but details aren’t available yet.
Saturday, April 9

At the New Deal Cafe
At the Greenbelt Museum
Free WalkingTour at 10 a.m.From the museum’s newsletter:
Our next free walking tour is scheduled for April 9, 10am. If you’re interested, please sign up via Evenbrite. Tours are limited to 12 people and take place outdoors. In the event of inclement weather, the tour may be rescheduled.
We are also booking walking tours for small groups. These must be scheduled in advance by emailing Education/Volunteer Coordinator (E/VC) Sheila Maffay-Tuthill at education@greenbeltmuseum.org. Walking tours take approximately 90 minutes and cost $10 per person. Our E/VC took the photograph above while leading a group tour earlier this month. Pictured are students in Virginia Tech’s Master’s Program in Urban and Regional Planning.
At the Old Greenbelt Theatre
The theater is open, but details aren’t available yet.
Sunday, April 10
At the New Deal Cafe
Art Reception (3 to 5pm), a reception for Gaby Nobody, whose work is currently on display in both the front and back rooms of the Cafe.
In Greenbriar Park
In Greenbelt National Park
At the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College Park
At the Old Greenbelt Theatre
The theater is open, but details aren’t available yet.
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