Community Calendar

One never knows what type of seed is planted until that flower blooms. The vocal botanics that emerge from Karen Linette was recognized long after her first presentation to her mother, when she and her older brother would perform songs that were played during her childhood. That radiance developed into an organic sound, establishing Karen as the go-to person for vocals in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Giving her fellow local musicians more than twenty years of experience as a singer and collaborative artist, she has also shared the stage with national recording artists such as Norman Connors, Dawn Robinson of En Vogue, Cece Peniston, Club Nouveau, Case, Miles Jaye, Anthony David, Miki Howard, Regina Belle, Tom Browne, Dexter Wansel and numerous others.

Joining choir opened the door for her to experiment with her range; known for her four-octave climb, her gentle-jazzy approach can quickly go from soft and singular to deep and encompassed which puts her in the top requested of her class not only for background vocals but as an opener for classic and contemporary acts. Karen has also been called upon quite frequently to perform the National Anthem at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts as well as the Verizon Center for both of the districts NBA teams: the Washington Wizards and the Washington Mystic (WNBA). Meeting the call for excellence, Karen took the breath of the audience during a 2013 Inauguration Celebration performance honoring President Barack Obama.

Walter Beasley is considered to be the Highest selling full-time Professor/Recording Artist in modern history. He is an award winning soprano saxophonist and singer, composer and producer, founder and CEO of Affable Publishing and Affable Records and was a professor at Berklee for several years.

Walter has been in the top 10 best-selling African American saxophonists in the world since 1998. Also, he released 12 educational DVD's, a book and 8 APPs. Later this year, Walter will be releasing a new album. After many years of his career, he continues to be an inspiration and role model for many people, including people from the new generations.

"Walter Beasley is an anomaly: a successful performing musician who possesses the rare skill of understanding the musical process beyond the intuitive. This special ability enables Walter to communicate with aspiring musicians in a way that removes the sense of mystery that sometimes enshrouds our profession." - Branford Marsalis

Keystone Kards are not applicable for this show.

Renowned for his deep swing feel, masterful phrasing, and blues-infused touch, Dutch jazz pianist Peter Beets will make his Keystone Korner debut, alongside bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Willie Jones III. With a career that includes collaborations with jazz greats like Chick Corea and Wynton Marsalis, and accolades such as the Prix Martial Solal and multiple Edison Jazz Award nominations and one win (Netherland's Grammys), Beets is celebrated for his electrifying performances and inventive reinterpretations.

Imbued with both groove and spirit from birth, Reuben Rogers combined the calypso and reggae
rhythms of his native Virgin Islands with the gospel sounds of the church and the freedom and
improvisation of jazz to create the unique chemistry that would make him one of the most distinctive and in-demand bassists in modern jazz. Rogers’ versatile mastery of both the acoustic and electric bass has led to opportunities on stages around the world alongside some of the music’s most renowned artists, including Charles Lloyd, Wynton Marsalis, Joshua Redman, Tomasz Stanko, Roy Hargrove, Marcus Roberts, Nicholas Payton, Mulgrew Miller, Jackie McLean and Dianne Reeves, among many others.

Shriver Hall Concert Series presents Richard Goode, who has set an international standard of musicianship for decades with his "unfailingly beautiful tone, effortless technical command, interpretive insight and total emotional commitment to the music" (The Washington Post). A lauded performer of Classical and Romantic repertoire, he presents the vast emotional landscape of Beethoven’s magnificent Diabelli Variations, as well as Mozart’s Baroque-inspired Sonata in F major and astonishingly wild Fantasia.

Richard Goode, piano

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Fantasia in C minor, K. 475
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Sonata No. 15 in F major, K. 533
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120

Featuring a pre-concert talk at 4:30 PM

“...A legend...” – Robert Glasper
“...the best...” – New York Times
“Both old school and cutting-edge at the same time.” – The Wall Street Journal

2022 NEA Jazz Master Big Chief Donald Harrison Jr. is a musician/composer dedicated to mastering every era of jazz, soul, and funk and composing orchestral classical music. He has been called a "One man music festival" because his performances cover the history of music and show his knowledge of many styles is the basis for his innovations. According to geniuses Eddie Palmieri, Nicholas Payton, Carl Allen, and Mike Clark, he is a genius. Harrison is the recognized Big Chief of Congo Square in Afro-New Orleans culture, where he keeps alive one of the root contributors cultures to Traditional jazz. Harrison is also the innovator of three influential jazz styles, including a modern jazz twist to New Orleans' second-line music that blends classic jazz with hip-hop, funk, and soul music, called “Nouveau Swing.”

Joshua Redman is one of the most acclaimed and charismatic jazz artists to have emerged in the decade of the 1990s. The early influences of John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Cannonball Adderley, and his father, Dewey Redman, as well as The Beatles, Aretha Franklin, the Temptations, Earth, Wind and Fire, Prince, The Police, and Led Zeppelin drew Joshua more deeply into music. After graduating from Harvard College with a B.A. in Social Studies, he had already been accepted by Yale Law School, but deferred entrance for what he believed was only going to be one year to join friends in Brooklyn. Redman almost immediately found himself immersed in the New York jazz scene. In November 1991, five months after moving to New York, Redman was named the winner of the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition.

Keystone Kards are not applicable for this show.

GRAMMY® Nominated NEA Jazz Master Hubert Laws is the premier musician on the flute in jazz. With a career spanning over 50 years, he has also mastered pop, rhythm-and-blues, and classical genres; moving effortlessly from one repertory to another. Session work also remains a staple of Hubert Laws’ schedule, and includes collaborations and recordings with such artists as Quincy Jones, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Freddie Hubbard, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Aretha Franklin, Lena Horne, Sergio Mendes, Bob James, Carly Simon, James Moody, Clark Terry, Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. He was selected as THE #1 FLUTIST FOR 24 YEARS: Down Beat readers’ polls ten years in a row and was the critic’s choice seven consecutive years.

Keystone Kards are not applicable for this show.

Dive into the beating heart of electronic dance music (EDM) and techno at The Fillmore Silver Spring in Silver Spring, Maryland on Tuesday 16th December 2025! Become one with the rhythmic pulse of house music, the relentless energy of techno, and the uplifting melodies of trance for a night that is much more than a concert. No other experience matches a complete EDM and techno show like Damiano David — nothing else comes close.