Press Clippings

• Library of Congress, Event preview, 09/05/2024, Live! At The Library: Acoustic Jam Session with Christylez Bacon

• WTOP, Event preview, 08/29/2024, National Symphony Orchestra spotlights local music at Labor Day weekend concert in DC

• Folklife Today (Library of Congress), Feature story, 08/31/2023, Homegrown Plus: Christylez Bacon’s Progressive Hip Hop

• WOUB, Feature story, 10/05/2022, Wheeling Symphony Orchestra blend hip-hop and classical with guests Yo-Yo Ma and Christylez Bacon

• WTOP, Feature story, 01/24/2022, How a DC beatboxer turned Strathmore resident program into Grammy acclaim

• The Washington Informer, Feature story, 08/12/2020, D.C.’s Christylez Hosts Strathmore Concert Series

• NPR - Morning Edition, Feature story, 08/05/2020, Rapper Christylez Bacon On His New Song About Inequality In Quarantine

• District Fray Magazine, Feature story, 03/07/2020, D.C.’s Most Wordly M.C. Christylez Bacon

• Smithsonian Magazine, Feature story, 08/03/2017, Christylez Bacon on Finding His Voice through Music

• PRI, Feature story, 07/04/2017, Beatboxer Christylez Bacon takes globalization seriously

• The Washington Post, Feature story, 07/23/2015, Meet Christylez Bacon, the hip-hop artist who stays ahead of the beat

• The Washington Post, Feature story, 01/11/2015, NSO hits the club, and scores

• PBS, Feature story, 04/07/2014, Hip-Hop Artist Christylez Bacon

• NPR -- Morning Edition, Feature story, 03/10/2014, The Education of Christylez Bacon

• THAT MAG, Feature story, 02/16/2014, Hip-Hop Artist Christylez Bacon Is Redefining A Genre

• The Washington Post, Article, 02/13/2014, Woolly Mammoth’s ‘We Are Proud to Present …’ gets its rhythm from Christylez Bacon

• The Washington Post, Feature story, 01/26/2010, Christylez Bacon of Southeast Washington has a Grammy-nominated album