Dee Dee Bridgewater, a three-time Grammy Award winning singer, will headline the Silver Spring Jazz Festival on Saturday, Sept. 9.
The free festival will take place at Veterans Plaza in Downtown Silver Spring from 3 to 10 p.m. Bridgewater will take the stage at 8:30 p.m.
Bridgewater is the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Jazz Masters Award and has a music career spanning four decades, according to a press release about the event. She has performed with jazz artists like Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon and Dizzy Gillespie.
She also won a Tony Award in 1975 for her performance as Glinda in “The Wiz.”
The festival will feature a beer garden selling offerings from local breweries. Restaurants with a variety of food offerings surround the festival site.
Attendees are encouraged to bring their own blankets or lawn chairs for seating.
Learn more about the festival and Bridgewater here.
Feature photo courtesy of Dee Dee Bridgewater and Kimberly M. Wang.
