Tarara Winery Summer Concert Series
Credit: Alex Mangione Photography
SEPTEMBER
THE REACH OPENING FESTIVAL
September 7–22
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
GREAT COUNTRY FARMS APPLE GALA & CIDER FEST
Every weekend from August 31 to September 29
Bluemont, VA
It’s apple season, and one of Loudoun’s most well-known farms is
celebrating all through September. Enjoy apple picking, cider press
demonstrations from both a modern press and one that dates back to
1865, cider donuts, a corn maze, wagon rides, and more. After, head
across the street to Bluemont Vineyard to sip on some autumn apple
wine. greatcountryfarms.com
ADAMS MORGAN DAY FESTIVAL
The John F. Kennedy Center will celebrate its first-ever campus
expansion — a new center called The REACH on Sept 7 — in a
16-day arts festival that connects audience and artist with innovative
performances, interactive installations, hands-on activities, and visual
art by more than 400 creators of all stripes. There’s plenty of music
on the bill, too. Highlights include a two-week residency by four-time
Grammy-winning pianist Robert Glasper, while 2018 Kennedy Center
Honoree Wayne Shorter joins forces with bassist Esperanza Spalding
on a new jazz opera. cms.kennedy-center.org
FIESTA DC
September 22
September 8 Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues
Columbia Road NW, and along 18th Street NW Up to 200,000 revelers fill Constitution and Pennsylvania
Avenues with energy, fun, and celebration of Latino culture for
a full weekend, highlighted by a Parade of Nations that features
traditional costumes and entertainment from several, if not most,
Latin countries, from Mexico in the north to Argentina in the
south. The fun continues the next day with a beauty pageant,
a science fair, arts and crafts, sizzling food fare, and music and
dance galore, including salsa, merengue, bachata, cumbia,
reggaeton, duranguense, and mariachi. Even if you don’t claim a
Latin heritage, the rhythm is going to get you. fiestadc.org
Now in its 41st year, Washington, D.C.’s longest-running
neighborhood festival shows no sign of slowing down, with live
music, interactive visual arts performances and demonstrations,
hula hoop contests, and, of course, plenty of local food vendors —
and the most delicious churros in town — lighting up the historic
Adams Morgan neighborhood. The Dance Plaza remains the fan
favorite, thanks to performances of rumba, Mexican folk, Bolivian,
salsa, and more. A Family Fun Zone adds soccer, flag football, and
games for kids of all ages. Best of all, it’s entirely free. admoday.com
AUTUMN 2019 65 FLYWASHINGTON.COM