JusticeAid Tackles Tough Issues to Help Children at May 15 Show at Washington’s Historic Lincoln Theatre

JusticeAid returns to Washington’s historic Lincoln Theatre on Sunday, May 15 at 7pm for an incredible evening featuring Grammy Award winning, multi-genre powerhouse Ozomatli and local go-go legends Trouble to benefit the National Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC) and the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth (CFSY). These amazing groups are winning major battles nationwide to expand access to justice for America’s youth. Tickets are on sale right now via the Lincoln Theatre’s website and JusticeAid.org.

“JusticeAid is proud to make 2016 our ‘Year of the Child’ by setting our sights on eradicating barriers to justice for young people,” said retired DC Superior Court judge, JusticeAid founder and current President Steve Milliken. JusticeAid’s campaign kicks off immediately on social media, where the group is highlighting its efforts and urging others to share their stories using the hashtag #WhatJusticeMeansToMe. You can find JusticeAid on , Twitter, Instagram, and Vine.

“The is the only country in the world that sentences children to life in prison without the possibility of parole, a sentence to die in prison,” said Jody Kent Lavy, Director of the CSFY. “We are grateful to JusticeAid for elevating this issue with its ‘Year of the Child’ concert, and for recognizing the importance of holding children accountable in age-appropriate ways.”

The NJDC was founded in the late 1990’s to address the critical need to improve access to counsel and quality of representation for children in juvenile courts. “NJDC promotes justice for all children by supporting the legal counselors who help them, and we’re so appreciative of JusticeAid for standing by us and raising awareness for our work. We need more groups like JusticeAid,” said NJDC Executive Director Kim Dvorchak.

Ozomatli is a multi-genre, multi-cultural Grammy winning band that has released eight critically acclaimed albums over the past 18 years. Shifting gears from electro-cumbia to garage rock, hip-hop, and Pérez Prado mambo, Ozomatli infuses a dance party mix with dynamic live band chops and attitude. Over the years, Ozomatli has become the ultimate jam band, pulling together the strands of creativity into a unique rhythmic machine.

Trouble Funk’s unique sound commands crowds and compels them to dance. Born on and from the streets of Washington, D.C., they have taken their music nationwide and to festivals all over the world. Trouble Funk’s sound is synonymous with the emergence of the non-stop, percussion driven, best-seen-live, homegrown music called go-go. For more than 30 years, they have served as the worldwide ambassadors of this unique genre, a distant, but older cousin of hip-hop.

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