DC Music Review Staff are headed to/covering some of these incredible shows this week: 

• Washington Women in Jazz hosts the spectacular Washington Women in Jazz Festival (WWJF) from March 10-18 in various venues across DC. This annual festival celebrates the women of the DC jazz community with a wide array of concerts, jam sessions, lectures, panels, discussions, and masterclasses including the Young Artist Showcase, where high school and college women are given a platform to perform with well-known jazz artists. There is SO MUCH goodness at this festival, be sure to get details on the when and where at http://washingtonwomeninjazz.com/events/. 
• Although it's sold out, if you can get a hot ticket to see I'm With Her at the 9:30 Club on March 13, do it. Musicians Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O'Donovan have been gaining attention for weaving  gratifying, melodic harmonies sweet harmonies in ways that, as the New York Times describes, “... could be sweetly ethereal, or as tightly in tandem as country sibling teams like the Everly Brothers, or as hearty as mountain gospel.” Worth checking on Craigslist day of to get your lucky ticket. 
• If you missed the infectious groove of Dumpstaphunk this past Sunday, you have another chance to get awash in dirty funk with them on March 13 at Baltimore's 8x10.  Dumpstaphunk stands out among New Orleans' best as one of the funkiest bands to ever arise from the Crescent City. These soldiers of funk ignite a deep, gritty groove that dares listeners not to move. I can promise you, you will dance until you're a puddle. 
• On March 14, head to Hill Country Live to see two amazing bluegrass bands, Gangstagrass and The Dirty Grass Players. Ganstagrass knows how to get crazy with hot beats and banjo, sick emcees and laser dobro blasts, and Baltimore's up-and-coming Dirty Grass Players mix well-known covers and solid originals with their own special blend of bluegrass.
• DCMR staff are excited for Widespread Panic to return to the DMV for some solid, reliable, in-the-pocket, good time jams. Catch them on March 15-17 at the MGM National Harbor.
• Want to see an insanely innovative, free show? Catch  DCCIT presents Suzanne Ciani on March 16 from 6-7 at the Millenium Stage at the Kennedy Center. Suzanne Ciani is a five-time Grammy nominee pioneering artist who offers a unique synthesizer performance in quadraphonic sound on her Buchla modular synthesizer system. (You know it's going to be good when there's quadraphonic sound on a Buchla modular synthesizer system.) It's only an hour long so make it your pre-show show on Friday night. 
• Check out Anders Osborne with special guest Ryan Montbleau on March 16 at The Hamilton and again on March 17 at The Broadberry. His detailed songwriting delivered with soulful vocals and expert guitar work has Guitar Player calling him, "the poet laureate of Louisiana’s fertile roots music scene.”
• Ann Wilson, the powerful lead singer and songwriter of the rock band Heart, is giving a charity concert to raise money for the NIH Children's Inn -- a residential “Place Like Home’’ for families with children participating in research studies at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. Hear her larger than life voice fill this smaller scale venue at the Ann Wilson of Heart Charity Concert on March 17 at the Fillmore.  
• The DMV is lucky to have virtuoso and Baltimore-native Cris Jacobs perform back home on March 17 at Rams head. If you haven't seen his "inspired, poignant songwriting, virtuous guitar playing, and soulfully transcendent voice," get to this show and be a part of the the giant homecoming hug that only Baltimore can give to Cris.