Billboard-charting recording artists violinist Chelsey Green and The Green Project make their Washington Performing Arts debuts, fusing traditional classical technique with various genres including R&B, pop, soul, funk, jazz, alternative, hip hop, and gospel. Green is familiar to local audiences as an active performer, creative entrepreneur, and arts educator, and has been an artistic ambassador through the American Music Abroad program of the U.S. State Department.

The Mars Urban Arts Initiative is generously supported by Jacqueline Badger Mars and Mars, Incorporated.  Washington Performing Arts performances at Sixth & I are made possible by the Abramson Family Foundation.