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Summer of sound: Upcoming music festivals across the DC area

You can’t throw a proverbial rock across the Potomac River without hitting a DMV music festival.

In recent weeks, Maryland hosted the M3 Rock Festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion, D.C. hosted Project GLOW Fest at RFK Stadium and Virginia hosted the Something in the Water music festival in Virginia Beach.

If you missed those events, don’t worry, there are plenty of other music festivals coming to the D.C. area this year.

Here’s a roundup if you want to mark your calendar for the upcoming months:

Upcoming Music Festivals in the DMV:

Glen Hansard, Irish musician who won Oscar for ‘Once,’ dies in motorcycle crash

LONDON (AP) — Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, who won an Academy Award for the 2007 film “Once,” died in a motorcycle crash on the outskirts of Dublin early Wednesday, his management said. He was 56. ATC Management told broadcaster RTE Hansard's family was “deeply shocked and heartbroken.” News of his death brought tributes from fellow musicians including Bruce Springsteen, who said on Instagram he was “heartbroken” at the loss of “a great musician, a good friend and a generous and gracious man.” Irish police said a man in his 50s died in single-vehicle motorcycle crash in Lucan, on the western outskirts of the Irish capital, before 4:30 a.m. Wednesday. The man, who they did not name, was treated at the scene but pronounced dead a short time later.
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