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2024 NEA Jazz Master Amina Claudine Myers performing at the Tribute Concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. Photo by Jati Lindsay
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2023 NEA National Heritage Fellow Hill Country blues musician R.L. Boyce. Photo courtesy of Hypothetical
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The Theater Offensive presented Queer Purgatory at the Liberty Hotel for Fashionably LATE Thursdays in October 2021.
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2024 NEA Jazz Master Terence Blanchard performs at the 2024 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on April 13, 2024. Photo by Jati Lindsay
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Almeta Ingram-Miller leading the 2022 NEA National Heritage Fellows the Legendary Ingramettes performance. Photo courtesy of Hypothetical
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Toby MacNutt during the Dancing Queerly Festival 2019. Photo by Robyn Nicole Film
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Winning Songs to be Performed in Concert on June 17. Watch at arts.gov.
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