DC Sharon Clark returned to the festival for the 3rd time by popular demand.Sharon is considered an amazing, phenomenal, exceptionally gifted talent having performed at the Kennedy Center, Blues Alley, with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra and for President Bill Clinton and can be seen weekly in clubs and hotels in the DC area. Her performances include jazz standards but also lesser known songs performed by her heroes and heroines of the jazz world -- Ella, Sarah, Johnny Hartman and Nancy Wilson to name a few.