Outdoor concert season will be here soon enough, even though it’s hard to believe during gloomy February. But today is an excellent day to lock in your summer concert-going calendar, as tickets for the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts’ first batch of summer shows go on sale this morning at 10. More concert announcements will come as we get closer to warm weather, but these are some of the highlights so far.
John Legend
One of Hollywood’s biggest stars — with the EGOT to match — croons hits like “All of Me” and “Ordinary People” with the backing of a full orchestra for three consecutive nights. June 4-6, tickets start at $52.
Patti LaBelle and Gladys Knight
Hear two divas of soul for the price of one when longtime friends Patti LaBelle and Gladys Knight grace the Filene Center stage on the same night, with classics such as “Lady Marmalade” and “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” sure to be on the set list. June 8, tickets start at $45.
Advertisement
Out & About Festival
Wolf Trap’s music festival celebrating LGBTQ+ artists and allies returns for a Saturday packed with performances including Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon and LA-meets-Americana singer-songwriter Jenny Lewis. Brittany Howard, the powerhouse Alabama Shakes vocalist and guitarist turned solo artist, headlines. June 22, tickets start at $50.
National Symphony Orchestra
It’s a busy summer for the NSO, which begins its Wolf Trap season July 12 with a celebration of the 200th anniversary of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and also performs the live scores during film screenings of “Star Wars: A New Hope” and “Ghostbusters” in July. For something completely different, the NSO plays with Bobby Weir and Wolf Bros on Aug. 28 and 29, drawing on Weir’s work with the Grateful Dead and his solo projects for different sets each night. Various dates and prices.
Advertisement
Wolf Trap Opera
Share this articleShareWolf Trap Opera’s first fully staged opera, Mozart’s comedic “Così Fan Tutte,” opens the season with performances between June 21 and 29. That’s followed by Puccini’s “La Bohème” on July 19 with the National Symphony Orchestra, and for something more contemporary, you can see “Silent Night,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning opera based on World War I’s famous Christmas truce, between Aug. 9 and 17. Various dates and prices.
This outsider dance company, founded at Dartmouth in 1971, continues to wow audiences with acrobatic moves, and the “Re:Creation” tour showcases some of Pilobolus’s greatest choreography. July 10, tickets start at $25.
Black Pumas
Austin rock duo Black Pumas bring their throwback soul sound to the Filene Center for the first time, touring behind their second studio album — which includes some candidates for song of the summer, like the joyful “Ice Cream (Pay Phone).” July 28, tickets start at $45.
Advertisement
Washington Ballet
New artistic director Edwaard Liang’s “Murmuration,” echoing the flight of starlings, sits alongside George Balanchine’s “Stravinsky Violin Concerto” and the premiere of a work from Jennifer Archibald during the Washington Ballet’s only announced Wolf Trap outing. Sept. 5, tickets start at $34.
Waxahatchee
Settle in for plaintive, Southern-tinged ballads from indie band Waxahatchee, joined on tour by Baltimore rocker Lindsey Jordan’s Snail Mail and musical comedian Tim Heidecker. Sept. 6, tickets start at $29.
Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming
These Tony-winning Broadway darlings — and co-stars on Apple TV Plus’s “Schmigadoon!” — each perform individual sets during their evening at Wolf Trap, and perhaps a duet or two. Sept. 13, tickets start at $29.
ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7uK3SoaCnn6Sku7G70q1lnKedZLGkecydZK%2BZX2d9c4COaWloaWZkxLC4xWarq5mgYsC2ucyeqWabn6Owpr7TrGRraGJpfA%3D%3D