Opening night always means something. But this year, it means more. On Saturday, May 23, the Tarara Summer Concert Series begins its Final Encore season with So Fetch! – The DMV’s Ultimate 2000s Dance Party taking the stage at 6:00 PM, with gates opening at 5:00 PM. That alone would be enough reason to pay attention. But opening night is never just about the band. It is about the first crowd of the season. The first walk through the gates. The first time the lawn starts to fi

Now it gets real. Opening night of the Final Encore season is almost here, and on Saturday, May 23, the Tarara Summer Concert Series presented by Bruster's Ice Cream and the Bow Tie Fund begins its last run with So Fetch! - The DMV's Ultimate 2000s Dance Party taking the stage at 6:00 PM. That matters for an obvious reason. It is opening night. But this year, it matters even more because it is not just the start of another season. It is the first chapter of the farewell. Whic

These friends energetically dance and sing along to their favorite hits. The announcement is out. People know now. This season is the Final Encore for the Tarara Summer Concert Series, and that reality is starting to land in a very specific way. Not as information. As feeling. Because it is one thing to hear that something is ending. It is another thing entirely to realize what that means for you. For your Saturdays. For your summer. For the tradition you kept assuming would

The Final Encore Season Kicks Off on Saturday, May 23 with So Fetch! Dear Tarara Family, Well… this is the email we always knew would come someday, but still hoped we could somehow avoid. After 27 years of music, memories, dancing, picnics, parking field adventures, wine glasses, glow sticks, weather watching, singing along loudly, and pretending we still know every word to every song, the 2026 Tarara Summer Concert Series presented by Bruster’s Real Ice Cream and the Bow Tie