You’ve seen her on the big screen in “88 Minutes” and “Mr. Holland’s Opus” as well as on TV during her recurring roles on “Friday Night Lights” — but have you heard actress Alicia Witt sing? If you haven’t, you can get your chance on Thursday night when the radiant redhead takes her mini-tour to the District, performing at the P.O.V rooftop bar at the downtown W Hotel at 9 p.m.
“I basically wanted to come to D.C. because I have a friend here and it’s a place I have spent a tiny bit of time in and somewhere I really wanted to do a show,” Witt told Yeas & Nays.
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This isn’t the artist’s first visit to the area. Witt’s first trip to the District was back in ’96, when she performed in an arrangement of “Stars and Stripes Forever” for the Kennedy’s Center’s 25th anniversary. Witt returned for President Obama’s inauguration, which was she says made her feel more patriotic than she ever has in her life.
“It was an amazing time to be in the capital, that’s for sure. I have never experienced in my life anything like the swarms of people and the passion that I felt for the country. The diversity, people from all over the country, all ages and money groups — it was just astonishing and overwhelming and still gives me chills even though the darkness has sort of overcome our country again,” she recalled.
Witt, a registered independent, admits that she does lean to the left and thinks the president has a “tremendously difficult job right now.”
The Massachusetts native did, however, give us her take on her former governor and current Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney. “I would vote for Obama over Romney. but I think there are worse candidates over Romney.”
After Thursday night’s performance, Witt heads back to New York to record more songs for her new album.
