Boulanger Initiative Presents
WoCo Fest 2025: Uplift All Day in The Mansion
Co-presented by Strathmore
The Mansion
Sat, May 31, 2025 | Doors open 1:30pm
All Day Pass $100 | $30 per individual concert
Location
The Mansion at Strathmore
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All ticket types on sale March 26 at 10am.
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Fulfill your wanderlust with a day of musical discovery and community connection at the second day of WoCo Fest 2025: Uplift at The Mansion at Strathmore and the Strathmore Lawn! In a time when we need it most, come together to uplift artists and one another through vibrant concerts, live composer workshops, and inspiring discussions with musicians, composers, and scholars. Experience uplifting music’s evolution from medieval renaissance to experimental electronics.
Be enthralled by performances from PUBLIQuartet, Seraph Brass, and Tapestry in the Mansion’s music room, classical guitar/cello duo Boyd Meets Girl during live composer workshops, and an electrifying festival finale by composer/performer and media artist Pamela Z. As an official Partner Event of WorldPride 2025, enjoy free outdoor performances by The QUEENTET Project featuring chamber ensemble District5 & DC-based drag artist Tara Hoot, The National LGBTQIA+ Flute Choir, and the International Pride Orchestra Brass Ensemble.
Your pay-what-you-can ticket includes entry to the Mansion, access to community booths, composer workshops, educational programs with the BI team, and more! Food trucks will be on site and don’t forget to bring your blanket or lawn chairs for the outdoor performances. Each performance in the Mansion’s music room is ticketed separately. Outdoor performances are free and open to all—no ticket or registration required.
Music Room Concerts
2pmPUBLIQuartet
Applauded by The Washington Post as “a perfect encapsulation of today’s trends in chamber music,” and by The New Yorker as “independent-minded,” multi-Grammy nominated PUBLIQuartet is an improvising string quartet whose repertoire blends genres and highlights American multiculturalism. PUBLIQuartet rose on the music scene as winner of the 2013 Concert Artists Guild New Music/New Places award, and in 2019 garnered Chamber Music America’s prestigious Visionary Award for outstanding and innovative approaches to contemporary classical, jazz, and world chamber music. PQ’s genre-bending programs range from newly commissioned pieces to re-imaginations of classical works featuring open-form improvisations that expand the techniques and aesthetic of the traditional string quartet.