February 7: Sweet Cherie at Washington International School
During a middle school assembly, there wasn’t an empty seat in Washington International School’s theater — unless the students and teachers were up dancing to Sweet Cherie’s music!
Lauren Wright, middle school humanities teacher, shared that this wasn’t the first time the school experienced Sweet Cherie. Many saw her at the Kennedy Center family programming in March of 2022, and they just knew they had to have her facilitate a visit to their school!
With this visit, Cherie dove deeper into the history of go-go, speaking to students about the different sub-genres and their many bands. Students asked Cherie how long she’d been a musician, what inspired the name for her all-women’s band Be’la Dona, and how well she knew Chuck Brown.
Middle schoolers, often shy to dance and participate in group activities, rushed to the theater’s center so they could dance along with Sweet Cherie when she wrapped the session and dismissed them to enjoy the rest of their school day!
Wright shared:
THANK YOU! We had a great time, and I got tons of great feedback from the kids.