from an earlier CP article
MacKaye says she was given two explanations for the requirement being imposed: She says NPS told her that all events for more than 100 people are required to have officers assigned. And she says Park Police told her that that there has been "heightened crime" in Fort Reno Park during the concert series. "I dispute that, because I’m there and I don’t see that going on,” she says.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 June 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
She says NPS told her that all events for more than 100 people are required to have officers assigned.
this is the important part. it sounds like she ignored that and then focused on the anecdote that there was "heightened crime", which yeah, is bullshit.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 30 June 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
But NPS never followed that in the past to the degree they now have decided to do
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 June 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, the shows I've been too are always pretty chilled out. It seems the sensible thing would be to have a cop drive past once or twice, maybe hang around at the end to make sure people leave. I don't know what you need a guy parked there all night. (Though there was that thing at the zoo where a kid started dancing . . . they needed some cops to make him stop. Dancing. At a show.)
― a-lo, Monday, 30 June 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link
http://www.fortreno.com/
Schedule posted -- Mondays and Thursdays in July
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 14:28 (nine years ago) link
From the link:
MONDAY, JULY 7 2014CaptivatorsMalatese
THURSDAY, JULY 10 2014Peanut Butter & DaveGolden LooksCalavera Skull
MONDAY, JULY 14 2014Baby Bry BryAlonersTiger Horse
THURSDAY, JULY 17 2014PriestsSotanoPuff Pieces
MONDAY, JULY 21 2014Alarms & ControlsTalk ItDissonance
THURSDAY, JULY 24 2014Title TracksThe EffectsMyrrh Myrrh
MONDAY, JULY 28 2014Black SparksStereosleepThe Raised by Wolves
THURSDAY, JULY 31 2014GiveProtect-U
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
Any Fort Reno act recommendations?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
i like aloners & baby bry bry are a+ bros
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
Thanks.
NPS said Fort Dupont and Carter Barron schedules (based on same shortened sequestration calendar from last year) would be announced "around July 1." Still waiting
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 July 2014 15:53 (nine years ago) link
shocked the City Paper and others haven't been up in arms about the Fort Dupont schedule being up in the air, I know from all the Fort Reno coverage that they're huge fans of long-running free concert series on NPS land in DC
(haha I'm kidding I know why)
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Thursday, 10 July 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
(i dont know why)
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 10 July 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
(what is fort dupont)
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 10 July 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
I'm hoping you're kidding. Free concert series in Anacostia that has existed for 40 some years. Old-school soul, funk and jazz fusion bands play there. I've written some reviews of shows there for the Post (back when it had more freelancers) and done a few things for the City Paper. Yes, only a tiny handful of white folks go there.
Actually Jon Fischer mentioned Fort Dupont in his Fort Reno cover story (and they are hoping for a follow-up piece from me)
Around town, other free concert series on National Park Service land have had much closer contact with federal authorities.
Roger “Flash” Gordon stage-managed Fort Dupont’s summer shows for eight years with the Annapolis-based National Artists Corporation, and he still runs the D.C. Blues Society concerts at Carter Barron. At the beginning of each season, the Park Service paid the company to produce six Saturday concerts with a local opening act and a big-name headliner. “For people who didn’t have vacation money” in the neighborhood, he says, “that was their vacation.”
National Artists Corporation held the Fort Dupont contract from 2002 to 2012. Due to sequestration, in 2013 NPS booked the talent for a slimmed three-show schedule, replacing some funk and go-go favorites with U.S. military bands and shying away from larger, national acts. “[NPS has] done a piss-poor job taking it over,” says Gordon. “People in that area of Southeast don’t wanna see [those bands]. That’s crap to them.” NPS is currently accepting bids to run four shows this summer. A spokesperson says the Fort Dupont series will begin on July 19.
Since the shows are run by the Park Service, National Artists Corporation didn’t have to pay for security. Gordon says U.S. Park Police presence has increased, however.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 July 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
Interestingly, friends of fort dupont has a few more details beyond what been announced. Definitely not the same scope as most prior years.
http://www.foftdupont.org/Summer_Concert_Series.html
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Thursday, 10 July 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
I'm not kidding! I'd honestly never heard of it.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 10 July 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
I do radio work in Anacostia on weekends, but I don't have a lot of friends or colleagues EOTR otherwise.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 10 July 2014 21:19 (nine years ago) link
I reviewed old-school soul band the Dramatics there in 2005 I think; saw P-Funk offshoot Original P there in 2010 (there were a crowd of about 5,000 there). I heard someone once refer to it as "the Black Wolf Trap" (although arguably Carter Barron used to book more national r'n'b acts). Pretty sure Sun Ra once played there.
Plus as I kid I went to the Fort Dupont Ice rink that is in the park (I think) to watch my brother play hockey!
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 July 2014 21:25 (nine years ago) link
there was a crowd
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/07/11/chris-grier-experimental-guitarist-and-former-d-c-musician-dies/
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 12 July 2014 04:41 (nine years ago) link
http://bandwidth.wamu.org/d-c-s-modern-day-punk-scene-captured-in-a-new-photo-exhibit/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 14 July 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
Curm, haven't you mentioned a church in SE that gets soul acts and puts on a weekly concert? I'd love some details on that.
― Heez, Monday, 14 July 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
Westminster Church in SW (not SE) puts on weekly Monday night 6 to 9 "blues" concerts that sometimes are more soul than blues. They do Friday night jazz ones. Many of the surviving old-school DC soulsters do not gig that much.
http://www.westminsterdc.org/blues_schedule.htm
I think Shirletta Settles who is there next Monday is kinda soulful. I don't know the August lineup that well. Little Margie from the Jewels (who opened a tour for James Brown in the '60s) who is there Labor Day Monday is soulful.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 14 July 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
Awesome thanks!
― Heez, Monday, 14 July 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/07/16/fewer-shows-smaller-acts-at-fort-dupont-and-carter-barron-this-year/#more-113277
Some of the details on the latest National Park Service episode
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 22:33 (nine years ago) link
good piece, Steve!
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 22:58 (nine years ago) link
Thanks. I can't believe the National Park Service said that planning 1 weekend of Fort Stevens on Ga. Ave civil war anniversary events meant they couldn't put out a bid for Fort Dupont concerts in a timely fashion.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 July 2014 13:42 (nine years ago) link
DC rap overview in Pitchfork
http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/403-the-rise-of-dc-street-rap/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 July 2014 15:25 (nine years ago) link
chanranjit singh coming to tropicalia!
http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=25554
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 17 July 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
Puff Pieces (ex- the wildly underrated Antelope) tonight at Fort Reno.
http://lovitt.bandcamp.com/album/4-song-7
― Walter Galt, Thursday, 17 July 2014 18:32 (nine years ago) link
I don't even live in D.C. anymore, I just wish I was seeing Fort Reno shows....
Was there Monday, as I seem to be busy or away on most Fort Reno nights this year.. Definitely still enjoyable. Observation and not a criticism-- I think on some nights the percentage of parents with little kids there is much larger than the number of teens through uh 50-somethings without little ones with them...
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
Hey I Died, what's the U St. Music Foundation?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
Other than WKYS's 9:30 pm to around 9:50 pm Mon. to Thurs. go-go crank sessions is this genre getting any attention, these days? DC rap may be bigger these days, but I guess I gotta look at instagram to find more re go-go
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 July 2014 15:41 (nine years ago) link
I found some go-go and bouncebeat tweets, the detective work continues.
Meanwhile, there's plenty to read re house music shows (mostly indie/experimental but a few token mentions of bluegrass and classical Indian-South Asian ones).
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/46108/ace-of-basements/
http://bandwidth.wamu.org/in-the-d-c-area-houses-open-doors-to-small-time-musicians/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 July 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
WKYS probably spends more time on go-go than the 10 minutes 92Q spends on club every day :(
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 25 July 2014 05:02 (nine years ago) link
I remember when now Atlanta-based DJ Frankski used to spin Baltimore club music on weekend nights on Baltimore radio...The late K-Swift later...I have lost track since her passing. I guess there's not much left
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 July 2014 15:01 (nine years ago) link
My brother's band is getting some local press:
http://bandwidth.wamu.org/track-work-thaylobleu-locked/
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Friday, 25 July 2014 15:04 (nine years ago) link
Nice. Impressive background too:
The 1991 graduate of the Corcoran School of Art—who went by Sub-Z in one of D.C.’s first noteworthy hip-hop groups, the jazz-influenced Opus Akoben (with Kokayi and Black Indian, both still active as MCs)— plus one-half of the pioneering Poem-cees, and Hall and Vaughn have been musicians in the scene for years.)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 July 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
(fyi "one-half of the pioneering Poem-cees" = my brother)
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Friday, 25 July 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
I figured that but thought you might not want the name spelled out
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 July 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
i might've mentioned this before but poem-cees opened for saul williams when he performed at my college and they totally stole the show from him
a bit later i wrote about "fat white men in suits" in a paper
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Saturday, 26 July 2014 06:15 (nine years ago) link
somehow this thread fell of SNA and I missed zachlyon's frankly amazing post
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Friday, 1 August 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
Washington Post has a big story on a Dewey Beach cover band today, and the City Paper has a Dewey Beach cover story. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 2 August 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
Roy Ayers is at Fort Dupont tonight btw, and Carter Barron starts shortly
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 2 August 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
http://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/08/anwan-glover-actor-in-the-wire-stabbed-in-d-c-nightclub-105713.html
His status as leader of the Backyard Band is near the bottom of the piece
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 August 2014 13:32 (nine years ago) link
I am liking some of the Michael Andrade photos on Bandwidth even if I don't know the bands...
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 14:00 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/08/11/all-what-jazz-or-how-to-declare-something-dead-without-listening-to-it/
Discussed elsewhere on ilm--2 guys who have in Dischord bands talk about the state of jazz
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/one-last-wind-up-for-the-godfather-of-go-go/2014/08/21/a76b43b4-294a-11e4-86ca-6f03cbd15c1a_story.html
Marcus Moore interview piece with Chuck Brown bandmenbers and others
Also I reviewed the album in City Paper.
Friday is Chuck Brown Day in DC with the memorial park opening and a tribute show/album release event at the Howard
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 August 2014 02:19 (nine years ago) link
No "Roam" house & techno dance party at Uhall for me last night, we did the Chuck Brown tribute event at the Howard. Fun time...
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 23 August 2014 15:12 (nine years ago) link
Gonna have to miss the Metro Mambo thang at the Anacostia Museum today Saturday from 2 to 4. Dj Jim Byers will be getting his guest to drop knowledge about the ocassional mambo music played on the 1950s Capital Caravan live music tv show that was filmed in the 930 Club building when it was called something else (even before it was called WUST). Then a live salsa band will play for dancers...
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 23 August 2014 15:16 (nine years ago) link