PAST: It's the last week for the Fringe Festival! You can still check out the Bar, the Free Store, or enjoy Multi-pass discounts! Now - July 25th

Hard to not give a shout out to the Fringe Festival even though the events are more than ten bucks. Regular tickets for shows are $15 each but you can get multi-pack discount Festival Passes as small 4 for $50 (which you can also share with friends) and you also get Free Fringe Button with it which also gets you Fringe Button discounts at various places throughout the city. You can read a brief write up about the festival here or search their main website for events at info at CapFringe.org

Not wanting to check out any of the shows? You can still hop over to enjoy the Festival spirit at the Free Store and hang out at the Fringe Festival's outdoor Baldacchino Gypsy Tent Bar, where you can also enjoy some performances and special events which I am listing below!

The bar will remain open through July 25th and hosts a Happy Hour from 5:00pm - 7:00pm. Some happy hours have themes such as this one from the WNO.

Thursday, July 22nd

5:00pm - 7:00pm

Happy Hour with Washington National Opera

"Generation O" at the Baldacchino Gypsy Tent Bar

Come mix and mingle with artists and art-lovers at the Baldacchino Gypsy Tent Bar. Enjoy $3 Lagunitas Pils Draft. Food and regular drink specials will also be available for purchase. You must of course be 21+ to attend.

Also taking place in the tent on

Thursday, July 22nd

6:00pm – 7:30pm

Musical Experiments: Experiment 3a: Accordiology – accordion, bass, guitar, and percussion and 3b: Blue Judy; The Continuing Adventures of Blue Judy – vocals, guitar, bass, mandolin, quatro, flute, harmonica

Additional events taking place in the tent: (which I believe are free when you hang at the bar)

Friday, July 23rd

9:00pm - 10:30pm

Variety and Vagabond Amusements with Nicolo Whimsey - Shakespeare Juggler- six balls, a machete and an aerodynamic fruit, just like Hamlet did it. Karen Beriss - one of America's top female magicians + a clown on this night! Matt Paulie - Crossbow toting clown and a graduate of Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Clown College and Seaton Smith - Comedian.

Saturday, July 24th

2:30pm - 4:00pm

Variety and Vagabond Amusements with Karen Beriss - one of America's top female magicians, The Asters - Mark Jaster & Sabrina Mandell of Happenstance Theatre - Bringing their baggage to the stage with cheery songs form the great depression Izzy & Diz Aster. Saw. Ukulele. Red Hair. Bald Guy. Fun and Jenny Lares -Spoken Word, along with The Malodorous Pit Band -swingin' wacky standards from way back.

Baldacchino Gypsy Tent Bar is open:

Tuesday - Friday

5:00pm - 1:30am

Saturday and Sunday

12:00pm - 1:30am

The Bar is next to Fort Fringe

607 NY Ave, NW

Metro: Walking distance from both Mt Vernon Sq and Chinatown Metro