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It’s our 90th birthday! Join the party as we kick off our yearlong celebration with a concert by stellar jazz pianist Matthew Whitaker at 8:00 p.m. EST tonight on The Library of Congress’s YouTube page at www.youtube.com/LibraryOfCongress. Since 1931, NLS has served eligible patrons with free braille and audio reading materials, which now includes the world’s largest collection of accessible music. Learn more about NLS’s history at https://go.usa.gov/xsRDM. Plus, you can watch Whitaker’s interview with NLS Director Karen Keninger at https://youtu.be/-KZ2L_JU4pc before the concert tonight.

[Image: Karen Keninger and Matthew Whitaker in adjacent frames from virtual interview.]

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