10:30 am
The Capitol Hillbillies
The Capitol Hillbillies presents New Orleans jazz, blues, and more by a master session of some of the DC area's finest musicians. Leader Joel Bailes is a well-known musical presence on the Hill - rolling his piano on wheels to play with at the Riverby Books patio on Sundays whenever the weather is good. His wife Pearl Bailes, a teacher at Capitol Hill Day School, plays a mean harmonica. Capitol Hillbillies includes piano, harmonica, horns, bass, fiddle, and vocals.
Contact: jbai@loc.gov

1:00 pm
Rio Garage
The Capitol Hill band Rio Garage is grounded in the soft subtle chords of the beach, the clubs, and the favelas of Rio de Janeiro; driven by the pulsing rhythms of late Miles; and founded on the desire for fun and good grooves. Pianist/singer/composer Mary Flannery's musical influences spanning several continents. She gre up in the Chicago suburbs, listening to everything from bossa nova and Ella Fitzgerald to the Beatles and the Monkees. Her serious study of classical music included a summer at Interlochen National Music Camp and a degree in piano performance from Lawrence University in Appleton, WI. In the early 80s, she fronted a band called Kyoto de Mondo Agogo which played clubs in Osaka and Kyoto, Japan. She stuied sitar in Varansi, India with Ram Chakravarty and classical vocal music with Bhonlanath Misra. Later, she studied flemenco guitar with Miguel Perez in Seville, Spail. When she moved to Washington, she started composing and recording music for documentaries and corporate videos. She wrote The Bad Volunteer, with tales of her two years as a Peace Corp volunteer on a tiny island (one mile by one-fifth of a mile) called Oneop in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Her team won Best Original Score in the 2005 Washington DC 48 Hour Film Fest.
Website: www.maryflannery.com/riogarage.html