See Shannon Live!

Friday, August 30th, 2024 – Kennedy Center – 6 – 7 pm Millenium Stage, free, reservations available 2 weeks prior

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Saturday, October 5th, 10:45 am, Art on the Avenue in Alexandria, VA, free and open to the general public

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Saturday, May 3 and Sunday, May 4, 2025. at 4 pm, Cathedral Brass Featured Soloist. Saturday I will be at the Sherwood Center and Sunday at the Vienna Presbyterian Church. More details coming soon, with hopefully a new composition and/or arrangement as well!

Shannon Gunn has performed as a leader at the following venues:

  • Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (2016, 2024)
  • DC Jazz Festival (2016, 2018, 2019, 2024)
  • Levine Jazz Fest (2021)
  • Blues Alley (2018, 2019)
  • Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival (July 2021 Summer series at Takoma Station)
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum (2019, 2018)
  • Washington Women in Jazz Festival (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
  • Jazz and Freedom Festival (2015 – 2022)
  • National Jazz Workshop at Shenandoah University (2013, 2019)
  • Big Band Jam (2019) (National Mall)
  • Lake Anne Blues and Jazz Fest (2018)
  • Montpelier Arts Center (2017)
  • Takoma Park Jazz Festival (2017)
  • Jazz on Jackson Place (2015)
  • Castleton Theatre (2015)
  • An Die Musik (2018, 2019, 2021)
  • CBS Morning Show Richmond (2015)
  • DCTV (2016)
  • Gallery O on H (2016, 2018, 2019)
  • Capitol Hill Jazz Foundation Hill Fest (2017)
  • National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden (2019)
  • Kreeger Museum
  • Jazz Girls Day DC Producer and Performer (2019)
  • Presented Apps for Jazzers at the Jazz Education Network in Reno, NV on Friday, 2019
    • Big Band Jam (2019) (National Mall)
    • JoJos 2019
    • Twins Jazz 2018, 2019
    • Sotto on 2018, 2019
    • Glen Echo 2018, 2019
    • DCLX on 2018, 2019
    • Bin 1301 2018
    • Dardanella 2016, 2017, 2018
    • Great Gatsby Inaugural Ball 2017
    • Westminster Presbyterian Church (2011 – 2016)
    • Northern Virginia Community College/Reunion Music Society (2011)
    • Carlyle Club (various dates on Tuesday nights in 2015)
    • Nomadic Jazz (2015)
    • Twins Jazz Club (sextet) (2011)
    • WPFW-FM DC’s Jazz and Justice Radio Station (2015)
    • WJLA ABC Morning Show DC (promotion for Dardanella) (2017)
    • Bethesda Blues and Jazz Club (2012)
    • Goethe Institute as part of the Blue Note at 75 Series (quintet) (2012)
    • Bohemian Caverns (2012)
    • Gallery O on H St (2016)
    • Arts on the Avenue Alexandria (2016, 2017)
    • Villain and Saint (12017)
    • Mr. Henry’s (2017)

    Leadership / Awards

    • Spoke at SXSW on a panel hosted by the European Union Delegation to the United States, “C’mon, Can Art Really Change the World?” (2022)
    • Judge, Chantilly Jazz Fest (2022, 2023, 2024)
    • Presented at the Jazz Education Network conference (JEN) (2019, 2022)
    • Clinician and adjudicator, JEN (2019 – present)
    • Presented at the Virginia Music Educators Association Conference (2022, 2023)
    • Artistic/Executive Director, Jazz4Justice (2017 – present)
    • Co-Founder, Jazz and Freedom Festival (2016 – present)
    • Founder, Jazz Girls Day DC (2019 – present)