Enjoy an evening of live blues music with Clarence Turner. An infectious, rhythmic, gritty, and soulful, feeling sparked a fire into Clarence Turner while listening to his father’s collection of LP’s, every wailing stroke of the guitar spoke to Clarence. It was no question the guitar chose Clarence.

Watch the performances in the Bumper Car Pavilion or on YouTube.

Enjoy an evening of live music with I&I Riddim. I&I Riddim thrills audiences with an arsenal of your favorite reggae standards, the best modern reggae, and a few reggae-style pop-rock and calypso/soca tunes.

Watch the performances in the Bumper Car Pavilion or on YouTube.

Join us for the opening reception of Animal Magic: Stephen Kohashi. 

The Stone Tower Gallery features the exhibition Animal Magic, which introduces the phenomenal sculptural range of expression found in the works of Stephen Kohashi in a variety of materials including ceramics, paper-mache, and cast metal. As a whole the exhibition presents a menagerie of animal sculptures that engage and entertain the viewer through provocative gestural expressions, eliciting degrees of emotional empathy in the viewer, bringing to mind our relationships with our own domestic pets as sentient beings.

The various materials and methods utilized in the making of these works also requires an understanding and mastery of empathy of material expression to effectively animate the various mediums to reach their lively presence and communication through body language and creating reciprocal empathy in the viewer. We invite you to experience this immersive fantastical exhibition and to feel the magic. — Robert Devers, Curator

Join us for the opening reception of Surviving with Clay by Glen Echo Pottery.

Centering a ball of clay on the potter's wheel is one of the most basic and important skills we learn in ceramic craft. For this past year in particular, the act of "centering" has become a larger metaphor, first, for pursuing our craft as a way of staying sane in the face of the pandemic and, second, for creating an alignment and rhythm in our pottery community that enables both collaboration and inspiration, even as we work together under restricted conditions. What we have observed over the year is that, while the pandemic has forced constraints on our quotidian lives, it has also provoked a surprising and welcome degree of innovation and invention in the making of our pots. From exquisite glaze layering effects, to "pushing the envelope" component structures, to elegant stretched vessels, to impossibly delicate bowl and teapot designs, to bold surface treatments. We proudly demonstrate that we are not only "surviving", but in fact thriving with our clay.

The marketplace will take place throughout the park outside several of our resident artist's studios.

Presented by the Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture, this outdoor sale features the work of Glen Echo Park resident artists and includes works in a wide range of artistic media, including:

• Ceramics
• Blown Glass
• Art Glass
• Two-Dimensional Media, including paintings and drawings

The Folklore Society of Greater Washington and Glen Echo Park Partnership will present a live-streamed music and dance event from Glen Echo Park. There will be a livecast of two simultaneous streams of entertainment from Glen Echo’s Spanish Ballroom and other park locations. There will be no in-person audience or dancers so be sure to tune in from home for this special event

The cyber "doors" will open at 7pm, and while you won't need to find a parking place or struggle to get a good seat, you might tune in early to visit with friends and fellow festival-goers.

This is a free event, but there is a suggested $10 donation.

Watch teaching artists and youth artists paint an amazing mural at the Park! The Partnership has formed a collaboration with Future History Now (FHN) to bring to life a mural on the grounds of Glen Echo Park that will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Park’s Dentzel carousel. The mural will depict and celebrate the carousel as a place of fun and childhood memories, as well its role in history as part of the Washington, D.C. civil rights movement.

Join the Yellow Barn Gallery this weekend for their first in-person exhibition of the year, as they celebrate the work of artist Bill Johnson.

Join the Yellow Barn Gallery this weekend for their first in-person exhibition of the year, as they celebrate the work of artist Bill Johnson.

Join the Partnership at the opening reception of the exhibition 100 Years in the Present, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Park's iconic Dentzel carousel. This exhibition honors the historic origins of Glen Echo Park as a theme park--exploring feelings of nostalgia, outdoor recreation, nature, and play. A year unexpectedly spent indoors has reminded us what we miss about gathering, particularly outdoors, and how we're looking forward to engaging when the time is right. This exhibition invites the audience to reminisce about childhood fun and outdoor play. It also invited view to ponder: "How will we remember our present-day leisure in the future? What outdoor spaces do we miss the most? How can we 'travel' in our own city? How do we interact in the present as vessels of time and space? How so honor symbols of memory and belonging?" This exhibition features local Metro DC-based artists exploring these themes.