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WASHINGTON, DC (August 10, 2022) – This year’s 18th Annual DC Jazzfest — the largest jazz festival in the mid-Atlantic region — will feature an extraordinary assemblage of performers, ranging from DC legends and emerging talents to NEA Jazz Masters and international superstars, with concerts at a variety of venues. This year, the Jazzfest has invited the Chien Chien Lu from Taiwan and her group to join the festival, and they will be performing on Sept. 3 and 4.
Chien Chien Lu is a vibraphonist, contemporary percussionist and composer whose Taiwanese upbringing, classical music education and passion for R&B grooves crystallize into a fresh and distinctive approach to contemporary jazz.
Lu’s fierce authenticity and jazz mastery shine bright on her September 2020 debut solo project, “The Path,” which spent 20 weeks on the Jazz Week Charts Top 20, earned Best Jazz Songs in Golden Indie Music Awards and three Golden Melody Awards nominations, four Golden Indie Music Awards nominations and led to Lu’s being named the “vibraphone rising star” in Downbeat Magazine’s 69th Annual Critics Poll. Lu’s band has also played many prestigious festivals, including the Clifford Brown Jazz Festival, and toured extensively in Europe, Asia and the United States.
Accompanied on “The Path” by an elite cast of musicians, Lu offers a unique, intersectional perspective on modern jazz as a female, Taiwanese-born vibraphonist with a Masters in Classical Music from Taipei National University of the Arts as well as in Jazz from University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
Please find information on the Chien Chien Lu Quintet’s performance below:
Saturday, Sept. 3, at 2:45 at the Wharf (760 Maine Ave SW, Washington, DC)
https://www.dcjazzfest.org/event-details/dcjfwharf9322
Sunday, Sept. 4, at 4:00 at the Union Stage: (740 Water St SW, Washington, DC)
https://www.dcjazzfest.org/event-details/chien-chien-lu
