Willard InterContinental Hotel
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Phone: 202-628-9100 or 800-827-1747
A major force in the social, political, cultural, and business life of Washington, DC and the nation for more than 150 years, the Willard InterContinental Washington combines heritage and luxury with contemporary comfort and the latest technology.
The classic hotel has been described by author Nathaniel Hawthorne for the Atlantic Monthly as “...much more justly called the center of Washington than either the Capitol, the White House or the State Department...” Walt Whitman immortalized its bar in a poetic appeal to union troops, and Charles Dickens wrote about the hotel during his American travels.
It has also hosted almost every U.S. president since Franklin Pierce, in 1853. It was at the Willard that Julia Ward Howe wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic, where President Ulysses S. Grant popularized the term "lobbyist," and where Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King wrote his renowned "I Have A Dream" speech.
The Willard continues to reinforce its central position in the nation’s capital, anchoring and supporting the revitalization of the city’s bustling new downtown and epitomizing world-class hospitality as the hotel of choice for heads of state and leaders of the world’s business, cultural, social, and political sectors.
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“The DC Jazz Jam has provided a tremendous boost to DC’s indigenous jazz scene. [The] cadre of fine musicians at Dahlak have managed to create a warm, inviting, encouraging, and creative environment at their weekly jam sessions, which is no small accomplishment. Experienced professionals, like myself, attend the jam to relax, stretch out musically, and network with other players. But at the same time, the DC Jazz Jam has proved to be the perfect setting for younger talent to come out, and have some of their first experiences playing in front of an audience and to learn their craft in the laboratory of a nurturing jam session. In this manner, the DC Jazz Jam is but the latest chapter in Washington’s long history with America’s classical music, jazz.”