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Upcoming Events

WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL

08/30/2008 - 4:00pm
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Music Festival Brings the World to Our Door
Mark your calendar for Labor Day weekend

FREE – Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008
4 - 10 p.m.
Netherlands Carillon
Route 110 and Marshall Dr. in Arlington (beside the Marine Corps War Memorial/Iwo Jima)

Transportation
Four blocks from the Rosslyn Metro Station, where shuttles will circulate to and from the festival site. Reasonable accommodations will be made upon request for people with disabilities.

More Information
Call 703-228-1850
TTY: 703-228-1855
www.planetarlington.com
Save some gas and stick around town over Labor Day weekend. Bring a picnic, bring your family and enjoy the 3rd Annual Planet Arlington World Music Festival on Saturday, August 30.

With the monuments on the National Mall as a backdrop, you'll experience Solas, the most acclaimed Celtic band to emerge in America; China's Yang Ying, "the Jimmy Hendrix of the erhu" (New York Times); the Congolese-Angolan Salsa star Ricardo Lemvo and Makina Loca; and Lebanese vocalist Tania Saleh.

Between acts, several regional heritage arts groups will perform. The World Playground area features a musical-instrument "lab," a World Clothing closet with global garb to try on and activities clustered around a second stage of familyfriendly performers. There will be an array of food ven