Main Stage Performances
Joyful Sounds: Gospel Across America: Signature Opening Concert
To open Gospel Across America, Grammy Award–winning gospel vocalist Richard Smallwood hosts an all-star gospel concert featuring Grammy-winning vocalists Kirk Franklin and Shirley Caesar and a cappella sextet Take 6.
Sun., Apr. 18, 2010, 8:00 PM
Concert Hall
$20.00 - $50.00
Marietta Simpson, mezzo-soprano
Performing as part of Joyful Sounds: Gospel Across America, mezzo-soprano Marietta Simpson "endows everything she sings with uncommon intelligence" (San Francisco Chronicle).
Wed., Apr. 21, 2010, 7:30 PM
Terrace Theater
$32.00
Nubian Gents + Feminine Fire Gospel Step Teams
The electrifying New York–based gospel step teams Nubian Gents and Feminine Fire perform as part of the Kennedy Center's Gospel Across America celebration. Age 5+.
Apr. 23 - 25, 2010
Family Theater
$18.00
Mavis Staples
Soul and gospel legend Mavis Staples is one of the most recognizable and treasured voices in contemporary music. Part of Joyful Sounds: Gospel Across America.
Fri., Apr. 23, 2010, 7:30 PM
Terrace Theater
$38.00
Harmony and Lead: Gospel Vocal Style
In this free lecture and demonstration, performers including Cedric Dent and Richard Smallwood give a glimpse into the variety of ways vocal gospel music is translated to the world.
Sat., Apr. 24, 2010, 2:00 PM
Millennium Stage
Sacred Sounds: Gospel Across America
Gospel singers Walter Hawkins, Richard Smallwood, and Lecresia Campbell, along with WPAS Men and Women of the Gospel Choir and the National Symphony Orchestra, perform classic and popular gospel repertoire.
Sat., Apr. 24, 2010, 8:00 PM
Concert Hall
$20.00 - $65.00
Joyful Sounds: Gospel Across America is made possible through the generosity of the Charles E. Smith Family Foundation.
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. 
The Fortas Chamber Music concerts are supported by generous contributors to the Abe Fortas Memorial Fund, and by a major gift to the fund from the late Carolyn E. Agger, widow of Abe Fortas.
Performances for Young Audiences is made possible by 
Theater at the Kennedy Center is presented with the generous support of Stephen and Christine Schwarzman.
Additional support for Performances for Young Audiences is provided by the U.S. Department of Education, the President's Advisory Committee on the Arts, the Estate of Joseph R. Applegate, and The Clark Charitable Foundation.
