first and third monday every month

Mix, mingle and unwind from the day with a martini as you witness magic before your very eyes. Master Magician Rich Bloch will astonish & amaze you with close-up magic - no stage, no curtains - you are the audience and the participant in this one-of-a-kind experience!

— Doors Open: 5:00pm
— Specialty martinis only $10/each
— Magic Show at 7:00 pm (close up)
— Explore themed rooms & exhibits
— Search for secret doors
— Find the hidden speakeasy to see 6 famous magic Houdin clocks (that's right, its behind a secret door)
— Cash Bar
— Includes a deck of cards and a secret so you can do your own magic!

One of the busiest corporate entertainers in the world. Richard Bloch is a frequent headliner on Las Vegas and Atlantic City stages, a motivational speaker (Rich is a two-time recipient of the coveted “Blackstone Award” from the International Platform Association), author and playwright. He has served as scriptwriter and magic consultant to the legendary Orson Welles (who once introduced Rich as “an Edison of Magic”) and to various theater companies, including the Folger Shakespeare Theater in Washington. He has been a five-time nominee for Stage Magician of the Year and is a 2006 Fellowship recipient at Hollywood’s famed Magic Castle.

In 2010, Rich opened Dickens Parlour Theatre in Millville, Delaware, which has quickly become a favorite entertainment spot for both local residents and tourists, as well as a much desired venue for performing magicians from all over the world. And, he is the founder of the highly successful “Magic Castle At Sea” program, exclusive to Crystal Cruises, which provides their vessels with world class magic performers on every cruise.
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Guests are invited to explore the museum's themed rooms and secret doors, 60 signed guitars, memorabilia, art and much more before the event begins. Be sure to bring a shopping bag everything is for sale!

Proceeds go to support the artist-in-residence, heroes and other programs at O Museum in The Mansion

Fourth Sunday of every month

FEATURING 2011 NEA National Heritage Fellow and "Guitar Man" WARNER WILLIAMS

Guitarist and songster Warner Williams is one of the greatest unsung heroes of the Piedmont blues—an Eastern seaboard style that incorporates fiddle tunes, ballads, country and popular songs, ragtime, and gospel.

The son of a cement finisher and a house cleaner, Williams was one of 11 children raised in a musical family. He was a garbage collector in Maryland for nearly 60 years.

By his early teens, Williams was hopping streetcars to get to the District, often paying his fare with a song. He’d wander through the city, playing tunes for change until police shooed him away.

At 22, he won an on-air talent show on WWDC hosted by Jackson Lowe, a white DJ who was an early champion of R&B. Williams started playing juke joints and house hops around the Maryland suburbs soon after.

When Williams married his wife, Karoline, and started his family, he continued to play on weeknights and weekends. All the blues legends tried to get him to go on tour with them — B.B. King the most notable. But he was afraid he would die on a tour bus, and he did not want to leave his family, so he always said no, only playing with them when they came to D.C.

Williams’s major-label debut, “Blues Highway,” was released in 2004 and helped bring him to wider attention. Summerour has also helped guide Williams to bigger gigs at Wolf Trap, the National Folk Festival and other spots in recent years, but Williams is still more likely to be found playing a house party or a small club or busking on a street corner.

At the age of 88 Mr. Williams plays the fourth Sunday of each month at O Museum in The Mansion.

Bring your groupies, entourage and guitar, banjo or whatever you want to play (or not) and participate in a live jam session with Warner.

Musicians no entrance fee. If you would like to attend a jam and you are not a musician, please reserve the "friends & family jam & tour".

Meet The Author: 6:00 pm
— Cash Bar

Andrew Roberts is the bestselling author of "The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War"; "Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West", "1941-1945"; and "Napoleon: A Life", winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize for Biography. He has won many prizes, including the Wolfson History Prize and the British Army Military Book Award. He frequently writes for The Wall Street Journal, and is the Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He lives in London and often lectures in New York.
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Praise for Churchill:
“Fascinating…the most comprehensive single-volume biography of Churchill that we have in print.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“[A]n extraordinary biography…exhaustively researched, beautifully written and paced, deeply admiring but not hagiographic, and empathic and balanced in its judgements
—a magnificent achievement.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review)
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This event is free but reservations are required.

Cash bar.

First & Third Sunday of every month.

Featuring DC Bluegrass Union

Channel your inner rock star with other musicians in the business. You know who you are: lawyers, doctors, lobbyists by day - but around the clock, always a rock star in your heart.

Bring your groupies, entourage and guitar, banjo or whatever you want to play (or not) and participate in a live jam session with seasoned artists.

If you would like to attend a jam and you are not a performer please reserve a friends & family jam & tour pass

— Cash Bar
— Includes a deck of cards and a secret so you can do your own magic!

In 1946, famed comics Bud Abbott and Lou Costello asked Billie Bloch, Rich’s mom, for permission to have her three year old son stay in Hollywood and begin a career in show business under their tutelage. Billie declined, whisking her son back to the safety of the east coast. But the hook was set. By age seven, Rich was hanging around stage doors and doing magic shows. At eight, he landed his first T.V. gig, as assistant to Dick DuBois, T.V.’s first Magic Clown, on the DuMont television network in New York City. And so it began.

Rich has become one of the busiest corporate entertainers in the world. He is a frequent headliner on Las Vegas and Atlantic City stages, a motivational speaker (Rich is a two-time recipient of the coveted “Blackstone Award” from the International Platform Association), author and playwright. He has served as scriptwriter and magic consultant to the legendary Orson Welles (who once introduced Rich as “an Edison of Magic”) and to various theater companies, including the Folger Shakespeare Theater in Washington. He has been a five-time nominee for Stage Magician of the Year and is a 2006 Fellowship recipient at Hollywood’s famed Magic Castle.

Rich also has a long history in magic as an inventor, (out of magic, too -- he holds a patent on a device to assist disabled ice skaters), builder and performer. He is the originator of more than a hundred effects used worldwide by professional magicians.

In 2010, Rich opened Dickens Parlour Theatre in Millville, Delaware, which has quickly become a favorite entertainment spot for both local residents and tourists, as well as a much desired venue for performing magicians from all over the world. And, he is the founder of the highly successful “Magic Castle At Sea” program, exclusive to Crystal Cruises, which provides their vessels with world class magic performers on every cruise.

At home in Washington, D.C., he lives with his wife, Susan, a Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University, a Golden Doodle and a parrot that does card tricks.

Proceeds go to support the artist-in-residence, heroes and other programs at O Museum in The Mansion

Susie's Songwriter Series is proud to present Nora Jane Struthers in a Duo Acoustic Show with Joe Overton.

Nora's latest release "Champion" was listed among the best albums of the year in No Depression Staff Picks, NPR's list of "Most Underheard Albums of The Year" and Rolling Stone’s “12 Great Country, Americana Albums You Probably Didn’t Hear” in 2017.

Nora Jane Struthers has written "some of the most quietly powerful narratives within the new wave of Americana artists," says Ann Powers of NPR Music. The songs that last decades and weave themselves into the fabric of listeners' lives are usually the
ones in which an artist lays her soul bare for the world to hear.

Struthers has built her career on these kinds of songs. There’s an honesty and energy to Nora Jane’s stage presence; a vulnerability that is part and parcel of great artistry. In one moment, she joyfully leads the audience in a dance party … in the next, she lays her soul bare for the world to hear.

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Cash bar.

Proceeds of this concert go to support the artist-in-residence, heroes and other programs at O Museum in The Mansion

HOSTED BY SUSIE'S SONGWRITER SERIES:
www.shcmusictribe.com

ABOUT DAVID OLNEY
www.davidolney.com

"Americana Pioneer” singer-songwriter/recording artist, stream-caster and actor David Olney is well-known worldwide for his indelible songs and powerful live performances.

Recorded by Emmylou Harris, Del McCoury, Linda Ronstadt, Steve Young, Slaid Cleaves, The Wailin’ Jennys & many others, David shares his songs and the story behind it in his weekly “You Never Know” Songwriter Series videos posted every Tuesday on DavidOlney.com

Jerusalem Tomorrow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=8bMaaac032k

David will be joined by the gifted Nashville bass player Dan Seymour

ABOUT ELLEN CHERRY - www.ellencherry.com

ellen cherry (lowercase letters intentional!) is an award winning song and story alchemist, musician and performer, based in Baltimore, MD. Mixing equal parts of pathos and humor throughout her songs, ellen cherry is mysterious and powerful on stage and her banter gives audiences a peek into a whimsical, curious mind. She seamlessly fuses her love of History, Poetry, and Literature with the Usual Suspects of Love, Loss, and Despair, all expressed with a singular voice and skill on both guitar and piano. Her latest project was a new touring program called "Portraits in Song" that showcased her love of storytelling and her passion for history and women's equality.

After a devastating car wreck caused by an intoxicated driver in 2013, cherry was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and has spent the last five years fostering recovery and resilience, her own and others, through performance, music, and storytelling.

Pickett's Charge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=kSNteECG6JU
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Cash bar.

Proceeds of this concert go to support the artist-in-residence, heroes and other programs at O Museum in The Mansion

Fourth Sunday of every month.

Featuring Caroline Ferrante

West norfolk radio's americana radio show hosted by caroline ferrante & the whole magilla, featuring dc's best americana songwriters, musicians, & characters.

If you would like to attend a jam and you are not a performer please reserve a friends & family jam & tour pass

Channel your inner gospel star with other musicians in the business. You know who you are: lawyers, doctors, lobbyists by day - but around the clock, always a rock star in your heart.

Bring your groupies, entourage and guitar, banjo or whatever you want to play (or not) and participate in a live jam session with seasoned artists.

If you would like to attend a jam and you are not a performer please reserve a friends & family jam & tour pass

PRESENTED BY SUSIE'S SONGWRITER SERIES

— Concert Starts: 4:00pm
— Cash Bar

Jimmy Davis has been named "Premier Male Vocalist" five times by the Memphis Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. His genuine "Memphis Sound" includes influences from The Beatles to the Eagles, Johnny Cash and Gram Parsons to Jackson Browne. His songs have been recorded by Martina McBride, Restless Heart, Joy White, Johnny Rivers, as well as many other independent artists.

Proceeds of this concert go to support the artist-in-residence, heroes and other programs at O Street Museum

Top 5 historic venues to explore - in the world! -Smithsonian.com

Decorated for Halloween just for this hunt - come celebrate the BOO season on this zany treasure hunt. Have fun searching for Autumn & Halloween themed items found only at The Mansion. Prizes additional.

We have over 100 rooms and 70 secret doors (yes 70!). We guarantee you can see at least 60 of our legendary rooms — but be warned secret doors are tricky to find — if you find 2 or 3 you are an above average sleuth.

Prizes additional. Includes self-guided tour through our themed rooms and secret doors.

Cash Bar

Children under 17 must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

Bring your own shopping bags. Everything is for sale!

MUSEUM CLOSES AT 5pm

— Halloween night only —
last admittance 10PM
MUSEUM CLOSES AT MIDNIGHT

Entire balance is paid in full when you place your reservation.

Top 5 historic venues to explore - in the world! -Smithsonian.com

This Halloween night celebrate the BOO season on this zany treasure hunt. Come in costume and have a spooktacular time exploring our 100 room Mansion — decorated special for Halloween.

— Chocolate fountain
— Cash bar
— Happy Hour from 5-7

Halloween night done in style.

O Museum in The Mansion has over 100 rooms and 70 secret doors (yes 70!). We guarantee you can see at least 60 of our legendary rooms — but be warned secret doors are tricky to find — if you find 2 or 3 you are an above average sleuth.

Children under 17 must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

Bring your own shopping bags. Everything is for sale!

— Halloween night only —
4PM - last admittance 10PM
MUSEUM CLOSES AT MIDNIGHT

Entire balance is paid in full when you place your reservation.

Top 5 historic venues to explore - in the world! -Smithsonian.com

Available November ONLY

Give thanks and learn a bit about Thanksgiving traditions on this heartfelt treasure hunt. Have fun searching for Thanksgiving themed items found only at The Mansion. Prizes additional. Includes self-guided tour of our themed rooms and secret doors.

Prizes additional. Includes self-guided tour through our themed rooms and secret doors.

Bring your own shopping bags. Everything is for sale!

MUSEUM CLOSES AT 5pm

Entire balance is paid in full when you place your reservation.

— Meet & Greet: 6:30pm
- General Admission: $50/per
- Young Adults & Students: $25/per

Join us for a very special meet & greet with with Thao Nguyen at this benefit for women’s refugee commission & o museum

Thao Nguyen is a songwriter and musician based in the Bay Area. She was born and raised in Virginia, the daughter of Vietnamese refugees. She has toured nationally and internationally for over thirteen years, supporting a succession of critically acclaimed albums. Thao's music has been described by The New Yorker as "music that makes you move from your bones out...[it's] keenly intelligent and original". Her most recent album, A Man Alive, was released in March 2016. In the fall of 2017, PBS aired Nobody Dies, a film documenting Thao's trip to Vietnam with her mother. It was the musician's first visit to the country, and it was her mother's first time back in 43 years.

Thao is an active advocate for many intersecting social justice causes, including prison reform, women's rights, immigrant rights, and LGBTQ equality. She has partnered closely with Oxfam America since 2008 and has served as an Oxfam Sisters on the Planet Ambassador since 2009. Since 2013, Thao has been a member of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners, a grassroots organization that fights for the rights and release of women and trans people in the California women's prisons. She is at work on a new record and is the current host of the award-winning podcast Song Exploder.

Guests are invited to explore O museum's themed rooms and secret doors, signed guitars, memorabilia, art and much when they visit. Be sure to bring a shopping bag everything is for sale!

Proceeds of this event go to support the Women’s Refugee Commission and the artist-in-residence, heroes and other programs at O Museum in The Mansion

PRESENTED BY SUSIE'S SONGWRITER SERIES

ABOUT DARDEN SMITH
“Darden Smith is one of the most respected American musicians working today.” — Daily News critic Jeffrey Sisk

Darden Smith is a singer-songwriter based in Austin whose thirty-year career redefines what it means to be a musician. His music remains rooted in the songwriting traditions of his home state of Texas, while reflecting influences of rock, folk, and Americana rhythms and melodies.

His latest album, Everything, carries a timely message of unity. In addition to fifteen critically acclaimed albums, Smith continues to break new ground using the craft of songwriting in education, entrepreneurship and service. He is the founder and creative director of Songwriting With:Soldiers, a nonprofit organization that pairs professional songwriters with veterans and service members in retreat settings to craft songs about combat and the return home.

ABOUT BRUCE SUDANO
Singer-songwriter Bruce Sudano has a storied history in the world of music. The tale includes an early songwriting mentor in Tommy James, chart success in the 70’s with his NYC neighborhood bands (Alive N Kickin' - “Tighter Tighter” and Brooklyn Dreams - “Heaven Knows”), and hearing his songs recorded by iconic artists like Donna Summer (“Bad Girls”), Dolly Parton (“Starting Over Again”) and Michael & Jermaine Jackson (“Tell Me I’m Not Dreaming”).

Today Bruce mainly writes for himself, and has found his voice expressing the internal challenges central to everyday life. His 2016 release, "With Angels On A Carousel", was a heartfelt farewell to his late wife Donna Summer, which he followed up in 2017 with "21st Century World", an album filled with hard questions, some well-aimed finger pointing and poignant observations about the human experience. Billboard Magazine has now premiered Bruce’s latest single “Forbidden Fruit”, a “stark folky” duet with NYC singer Dina Regine, produced by Mike Montali of the band Hollis Brown.

Bruce Sudano “Forbidden Fruit”
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8469311/bruce-sudano-forbidden-fruit-video
http://www.brucesudano.com/
https://www.facebook.com/brucesudanomusic/
https://www.instagram.com/brucesudano/
https://twitter.com/brucesudano
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Proceeds of this concert go to support the artist-in-residence, heroes, and other programs at O Museum in The Mansion

Top 5 historic venues to explore - in the world! -Smithsonian.com

enjoy a gourmet buffet feast with traditional items and unexpected twists! explore — after eating — our themed rooms and search for secret doors, while you celebrate with family and make new friends.

We have over 100 rooms and 70 secret doors (yes 70!) to explore. We guarantee you can see at least 60 of our legendary rooms — but be warned secret doors are tricky to find — if you find 2 or 3 you are an above average sleuth.

Kids under 5 are free.

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ENTREES
— bbq brisket
— brown sugar ham
— fresh whole salmon
— hot dog station — YUM!
— peanut butter station
— turkey - fried & traditional
— wild mushroom pasta

SALADS & MORE
— homebaked breads
(including gluten free)
— beet salad
— caprese salad
— cole slaw
— cucumber salad
__ organic salad bar
— potato salad

MORE VEGETABLES
— baked beans
— bourbon glazed sweet potatoes
(with & without marshmallow)
— brussels sprouts
— carrots & pineapple
— collard greens
— macaroni & cheese
(with & without bacon)
— mansion signature potato
— stuffing (chestnut, oyster & traditional)

DESSERT
— spectacular cakes & sweets
— fresh fruit
— sugar free jello

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- Cash bar
- Beverages additional

Entire balance is paid in full when you place your reservation.

Top 5 historic venues to explore - in the world! -Smithsonian.com

We've decked the halls and filled the stockings with seasons greetings and holiday cheer that will create lasting memories for the entire family.

Enjoy a decadent assortment of tortes, cakes & sweets at our spectacular dessert buffet then tour through our themed rooms and search for secret doors.

Includes hot coffee & hot tea. Cash bar.

Bring your own shopping bags. Everything is for sale!

Entire balance is paid in full when you place your reservation.

Top 5 historic venues to explore - in the world! -Smithsonian.com

We've decked the halls and filled the stockings with seasons greetings and holiday cheer that will create lasting memories for the entire family.

Enjoy our delicious continental breakfast (sweet breads, yogurt, granola, fresh fruit hot coffee, hot tea, hot chocolate) then tour through our themed rooms and search for secret doors.

Bring your own shopping bags. Everything is for sale!

Entire balance is paid in full when you place your reservation.

— Concert Starts: 4:00pm
— Cash Bar

Hailed by SPIN Magazine as “the most powerful all-female band in rock history” in the hard rock “tribute” bands genre, Lez Zeppelin has gained worldwide critical acclaim for the musicianship, passion and gender-bending audacity they bring to the music of Led Zeppelin.

They have been featured on The BBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, MTV, VH-1, FOX and radio shows worldwide, including SIRIUS XM and NPR.

Jimmy Page attended their show in London and said of the group, “They played the Led Zeppelin music with an extraordinary sensuality and an energy and passion that highlighted their superb musicianship.”

HOSTED BY SUSIE'S SONGWRITER SERIES:
www.shcmusictribe.com

ABOUT JEFF PLANKENHORN
Jeff Plankenhorn plays a soulful, distinctly Austin brand of roots rock that, over the past several years, has gained him a devoted national following and a seat among the very best contemporary Americana songwriters. His confident, catchy-as-hell fourth studio album, Sleeping Dogs was released to rave reviews (Rolling Stone Country, the Boot, Twangville, among others) and spent a good chunk of 2018 on the Roots Rock and Americana radio charts (#5 and #44). The four-piece band that bears his name has become a favorite on the festival circuit, scoring spots at Old Settlers Music Festival, Kerrville Folk Festival, Telluride Americana Music Festival, and Austin’s annual New Years Eve blowout at Auditorium Shores.

Well before he started rocking festival stages as a solo artist, Plankenhorn was already in the musical DNA of his adopted home of Austin, Texas. His bluesy, slide-driven guitar style was born out of jam sessions, residencies and house shows played for local audiences eager for the electricity and edge-of-your-seat musicianship that makes Austin the live music capital of the world. “In Austin,” he says, “few players rehearse. You show up and you play, for better or for worse.”

That freewheeling philosophy, and the disciplined songwriting craft that underpins it, is the result of Plankenhorn’s almost ten-year run as a member of the Resentments, a supergroup of sorts that hosts one of the longest running residencies in Austin.

Plankenhorn is a magnet for diverse ideas and collaborators, and his genius is in bringing them together. Sleeping Dogs merges styles effortlessly, juxtaposing sweet-hearted anthems like “Love is Love” (a response to the Pulse nightclub shooting) against ominous, weathered tunes like “Tooth & Nail”, which he co-wrote with Ray Wilie Hubbard. Several of the album’s standouts are the result of collabs with Americana royalty, including “Holy Lighting”, which features a duet with Patty Griffin. Tying it all together is a big-heartedness that speaks to a worldly approach to Americana music.

Today, he lives half the year now living with his wife on Vancouver Island, Canada, where he spends idyllic days writing and playing with their dogs. The other half he spends in Austin, where he remains in demand as a session player, cowriter, and producer. The success of his last two albums have brought international interest in his music, and full tours of Europe and Canada are in the works.

WATCH:
http://www.jeffplankenhorn.com/videos
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Cash bar.

Proceeds of this concert go to support the artist-in-residence, heroes and other programs at O Museum in The Mansion