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Banding Together: School Bands as Instruments of Opportunity
Ongoing Exhibition , 10 am - 5 pm
Anacostia Community Museum

This highly visual exhibition presents a history of instrumental music education in Washington, D.C., from the 1880s to the present. Special emphasis is placed on the story of school cadet, or military, bands and their evolution into the marching and show bands of today.

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