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En Vivo at MLK: Jonathan Acosta

Hispanic Heritage Month Concert

The DC Public Library is excited to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with live performances at the MLK Library featuring Jonathan Acosta in partnership with Mars Art DC.

For reasonable accommodations, please contact the Center for Accessibility at 202-727-2142 or DCPLaccess@dc.gov. For ASL or tactile interpretation, please allow at least seven (7) days notice.

Mars Arts D.C. is Washington Performing Arts’s signature community engagement initiative. The product of a partnership between Washington Performing Arts, Jacqueline Badger Mars, and Mars, Incorporated, Mars Arts D.C. carries out its mission of presenting and elevating the dynamic vibrancy found in the local arts community and business economy through ever-growing artist engagement and long-term communal partnerships. With programmatic elements highlighting the uniqueness and beauty across all eight wards of the District, Mars Arts D.C. offers distinct performance opportunities, artist residencies, signature education programs, and robust integration with the Washington Performing Arts main stage series, all for the benefit, enjoyment, and growth of both the artist community itself and the D.C. community as a whole.

Venezuelan singer-songwriter Jonathan Acosta, A violinist and cuatro player, Acosta received training at the Vicente Emilio Sojo Conservatory of Music in Venezuela and spent twelve years as a violinist for the National System of Symphonic Orchestras of Venezuela (“El Sistema”). His work sheds light on the best of Venezuelan culture and seeks to integrate the vibrant Venezuelan diaspora around the world. He transmits an optimistic message with the firm intention of promoting positive values through art and music.

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