The CHUCK BROWN BAND and all things CHUCK BROWN

Join us for this powerful lineup of performances on the Main Stage for the Juneteenth Freedom Celebration!

🎤 Host: Sir Harvey Fitz @thesirharveyfitz (12PM–7PM)

🎵 DJ Heat @djheatdc (12PM–7PM)

🎵 1:00PM — Playback Theater

🎵 2:00PM — Black Alley @weareblackalley

🎵 3:20PM — Autumn LaBella @autumnlabella

🎵 4:30PM — IDK @idk

🎵 6:00PM — Chuck Brown Band @chuckbrownband

✨ Beyond the main stage, get ready to enjoy a full day of family-friendly programming, including:

🖼️ "We Make History" — our newest exhibition, on view all day 🌿 Everyday Herbalism & Modern-Day Pickling Workshop 🥕 Rooted Recipes Interactive Recipe Exchange 🛼 The Art of Roller Skating: "Style" Roller Skating as American Folk Art 🦀 What's Cracking: History and Culture of the Black Community and Shellfish 🛼🎵 After the main stage, close out the night with a late skate experience in the museum parking lot featuring music by DJ B Sharp.

✨ Join friends, family, and neighbors on June 19 from 10AM–10PM as we commemorate Juneteenth through storytelling, music, foodways, movement, and shared community experiences that honor the resilience, creativity, and culture of our people.

🔗Head to the link in @smithsonianacm to to learn more and let us know you're joining. We recommend registering to stay up to date on all the details. In the event of extreme weather, the event will move to Saturday, June 20.

Carrying forward the legacy of the Godfather of Go-Go, Wiley Brown leads the Chuck Brown Band in delivering the signature DC sound—funk-driven, percussive, and built for the people.
Home Rule Music Festival is more than just a stage—it’s a space where our history, creativity, and community come together to create something lasting. Every year, we honor the legacy of Black music while building a future that’s rooted in culture and powered by people. Each festival day features live performances spanning jazz, go-go, hip-hop, soul, and contemporary Black music, alongside a curated Music & Record Fair highlighting top record shops and local vendors, live art murals, a Kids Zone, and a wide selection of the city’s best local food and merch vendors.

Pepsi Lay's Art to Go-Go Stage 11:00 AM Pock3t Band 12:30 PM Perfe3tion Band 1:30 PM Spoken Word to Go-Go Finals / Experience Band 3:00 PM Junkyard 4:30 PM The Kim Michelle Experience 6:00 PM The Chuck Brown Band 7:45 PM Rare Essence

Chill out with good vibes and cool tunes as we soak up the summer breeze together.

Concert that features The Chuck Brown Band with the Go-Go sound, United Souls Band, Raggae, Phase II Band R & B and special guest Fortresses. Food trucks and vendors present. $50 ticket includes tshirt or tank top. After purchase of ticket with shirt please let us know size and which shirt in contact event organizer section of this app. Bring Lawn Chairs. No coolers allowed

DC JazzFest 2026 will once again deliver a veritable cornucopia of jazz flavors and vivid colors, presenting a tantalizing bounty of the music that makes 21st century jazz an evolving, multi-stylistic expression. As an international jazz festival, one of our primary responsibilities is to showcase an appealing and mind-expanding range of the stylistic nuances that make jazz such a broad and vibrant art form, including presenting various musical streams that are stylistically jazz-adjacent and reflect the influence of jazzAnd there is no better way to musically celebrate DC’s 250th than through the music of legendary DC funk & jazz go-go pioneer Chuck Brown, as embodied by the ever-popular Chuck Brown Band. They will be joined by a “very special guest” to be announced shortly. Where else but DC JazzFest are you going to find such a broad range of tantalizing jazz expressions? Nowhere….