Photo credit: Janet Donovan
There’s bad news and there’s good news. The bad news is that our favorite rodent, Punxsutawney Phil, emerged on February 2nd indicating that winter will last for another month and a half. The good news is that the Cherry Blossoms survived.
“Ok everybody, it can snow on the first day of spring, but it cannot snow on the first day of the Cherry Blossom opening,” said Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton at the welcome ceremony of the 2015 National Cherry Blossom Festival at The National Theater. “You see, it didn’t.” Each year the Festival commemorates the 1912 gift of 3,000 cherry trees from Tokyo to Washington, DC symbolizing rebirth and renewal through a showcase of great American and Japanese talent produced for the third year by The Webster Group in collaboration with The Embassy of Japan and WUSA*9 as media partners.
Deborah Bond & her band Third Logic
Fox Mill Elementary School Choir
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WUSA*9’s Andrea Roane & Mike Hydeck: Let the festivities begin.
Manami Morita
The very talented jazz pianist Manami Morita:
