& Dining

Tedeschi Trucks Band At The Warner

Tedeschi Trucks Band is a Grammy Award-winning 12-piece rock and soul powerhouse that holds a well-deserved reputation as one of the best live acts touring today. From sold-out multi-night residencies across America to barnstorming tours through Europe and Japan to their flagship Wheels of Soul annual summer tour, the band’s shows are an eagerly anticipated highlight of the live music calendar. Tedeschi Trucks

Band performs at the Warner Theater, 13th and E streets. NW, at 8 p.m. (doors at 7 p.m.), on Feb. 16, 17 and 18 and March 2, 3 and 4. livenation.com.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo At The Barns At Wolf Trap

“POUR, TEAR, CARVE” AT THE PHILLIPS

“Pour, Tear, Carve” explores the role methods and materials can play in evoking personal memories, conveying time and place, and stimulating the senses. Presenting 65 works from the permanent collection–spanning paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, prints, textiles, and mixed media, and including some works on view for the first time–this exhibition considers how artists have utilized historic and contemporary art materials to act as conduits of meaning. “Pour, Tear, Carve” is at The Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW, from March 18 to May 14. The Phillips is open daily except Monday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Adult admission is $16; 18 and under, free. phillipscollection.org.

Dindga McCannon, Charlie Parker and Some of the Amazing Musicians He Influenced, Painting from 1983, mixed media quilt from 2010, 54 x 44 in., The Phillips Collection, Director’s Discretionary Fund, 2022

JOHN AKOMFRAH: FIVE MURMURATIONS AT THE MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART

Internationally renowned artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah addresses the global COVID-19 pandemic, murder of George Floyd, and worldwide protests in support of Black Lives Matter in this visual essay of our times. Drawing upon an extensive archive of images that mix iconic works of art with scenes shot and gathered in the globally fraught 18-month period between 2019 and 2021, Five Murmurations considers Akomfrah’s insights into post-colonialism, diasporic experience, and memory. Five Murmurations opens at the Smithsonian Museum of African Art on April 20. Africa.si.edu.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo, one of South Africa’s premier vocal-harmony groups has warmed the hearts of audiences worldwide with their rich, uplifting vocal harmonies, signature dance moves, and charming onstage banter for over 50 years. They’re at the Barns at Wolf Trap, 1635 Trap Rd., Vienna, VA on Tuesday, March 21 and Wednesday, March 22, 8 p.m. (doors at 6:30 p.m.). $42 to $47. wolftrap.org.

A.W. MELLON LECTURES IN THE FINE ARTS AT THE NGA

Stephen D. Houston, Dupee Family Professor of Social Science at Brown University, will give the 72nd annual National Gallery of Art’s A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts this spring. Houston’s lecture series, entitled Vital Signs: The Visual Cultures of Maya Writing, will take place in the East Building Auditorium on Sundays from April 16 through May 21, at 2 p.m. Over six lectures, Houston will explore Maya writing (“glyphs”) of ancient Mexico and Central America, uncovering the essence of a system of script and picture that never quite split apart yet never quite fused. Recent decipherments of glyphs enable us to probe how language intersected with visual experience, who devised these innovations, by what means, and for what reasons. (Visit nga.gov/press/mellon-lectures for further details.) nga.gov.