The DC Jazz Festival proudly touts its expansion into new neighborhoods for its 2025 edition—and indeed, that’s always a good thing.

Ever since its founding in 2005, the festival has insisted on being a citywide event, not concentrated in the usual prestige venues or jazz hubs. That goal necessarily contracted some as the pandemic—and its fallout—first made space, then budgets, a limited proposition. These are still ongoing issues, to a degree, but with this year’s programming, which kicks off on Aug. 27 and runs through the 31, we can see that the fest is doing what it can to broaden its footprint again.

Even so, if you were to start guessing at the additional locations to the itinerary, you’d probably run through a few before you got to the Palisades.

That doesn’t just apply to jazz:

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