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event website URL: http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millen...

start date and time: Friday, May 15, 2009 at 6:00 PM

end date and time: Friday, May 15, 2009 at 7:00 PM

categories:   music

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The Millennium Stage at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. presents the 2009 Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Competition for piano. The competition includes finalists Carmen Staaf, Shimrit Shoshan, Rema Shimamura, and Julia Brav.

The Millennium Stage at The Kennedy Center offers free daily performances. The program includes a range of art forms, with performing artists and groups from all 50 states as well as an Artist-in-Residence program with artists performing several evenings in a month.

The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. opened in 1971. The center makes every effort to fulfill President Kennedy's vision to producing and presenting a wide array of theater and musicals, dance and ballet, orchestral, chamber, jazz, popular, and folk music, and multi-media performances.

sponsor's website: http://www.kennedy-center.org/