Kevin Bacon with City Blossoms!

Kevin Bacon and his brother Michael gave a surprise pop-up show Saturday at the Girard Children's Community Garden in Columbia Heights.

They teamed with City Blossoms, a nonprofit fostering healthy communities using gardening, food and art to develop creative, kid-driven green spaces. Here, Michael and Kevin Bacon are bookended by City Blossoms co-executive directors Rebecca Lemos-Otero and Lola Bloom.

The Bacon Brothers Band performed a short set for 40 staff, volunteers and kids from the neighborhood. The band did this pop-up show between their three shows in Alexandria.

Kevin Bacon's nonprofit Six Degrees links celebrities to grassroots efforts like City Blossoms to help highlight their good work.

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