Amanda of Fort Reno concerts is looking to document the whole history of the concerts there since 1968.
I think she’s also waiting on a permit from National PRk Service for later this summer 2021 shows.
Meanwhile Fort Dupont Park’s online only 2021 series is still tba
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 21:28 (three years ago) link
rapper IDK is busy
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 1 July 2021 17:04 (three years ago) link
Lamont’s club 30th anniversary show today in Pomonkey md. No website. Owner once snail mailed me a schedule. It’s an outdoor event today with Sons of Soul; and O’Jays tribute band; Hardway Connection; Jim Bennett
Nellie Travis of “Hey Mr Sexy Man” fame is at the Pomonkey American Legion July 17
There’s go-go at Lamont’s July 31
Black Cat reopened w/ DJ Baby Alcatraz
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 10 July 2021 13:28 (three years ago) link
DMV rap and go-go together Wednesday at Hanger's in Camp Springs , MD
rappers Big Flock and 30H Black plus go-go bands CCB, XIB, Ambition Band, Drastic Measures Band
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 04:00 (three years ago) link
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/524361/city-lights-ellie-walton-la-manplesa-premieres-this-week/
La Manplesa movie doc about 1991 Mt Pleasant uprising debuts tonight at Gala Hispanic; then for free Thursday at Kennedy Center Reach. Movie focuses a lot on DC Latinx activists & musicians
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 14:11 (three years ago) link
Songbyrd will take over Coconut Club’s former location on Penn Street NE …The exact date of its grand opening in Northeast is still to be determined, but in the meantime, Edmonson and Lapan will reopen Songbyrd’s original location on Aug. 16
https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/joe-lapan-alisha-edmonson-dc-dream-day/2021/07/16/9fc92c3c-e416-11eb-8aa5-5662858b696e_story.html
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 25 July 2021 04:07 (three years ago) link
https://dcist.com/story/21/07/23/velvet-lounge-dodge-city-u-street-close-permanently/
Velvet Lounge and Dodge City permanently closing
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 25 July 2021 04:08 (three years ago) link
Fast Eddie's in Maryland got in trouble for having live go-go music before they were legally allowed to have live music under Covid rules. Prince George's County is not allowing them to have live music for now, but is letting them be open as a bar.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 25 July 2021 04:11 (three years ago) link
Jazz singer Aaron Myers has a song called “The New Jim Crow” on his new album. He’s at the Eaton Hotel Friday July 30
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/525868/city-lights-aaron-myers-fourth-album-balances-pain-with-joy/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 July 2021 03:30 (three years ago) link
https://www.fortreno.com/
Six August Fort Reno gigs starting Monday with Clear Channel, Nice Breeze, & Black Rails
Also , virtual online only Fort Dupont starts this weekend . I forget who
Sirius Company & Jo-go Project Saturday August 7 online
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 July 2021 14:23 (three years ago) link
Mask up if you're going I guess--
Thurs. Aug. 5 – Feedel Band at Bossa Raga at the Reach 5:30 p.m. DJ set with DJ Anandroid8:30 p.m.-Raga: A Film Journey to the Soul of India film screening on the Video Wall
Fort Reno
Fri. August 6 –Raga at the Reach 5 & 7 p.m.-DJ sets with Shuno Re!6 p.m.-Performance by Rini7:15 p.m.- Performance by Deepak Ram
Kundalika ( global jugalbandi- inspired by traditional Indian ragas plus jazz, bluegrass, Western drums, and Latin rhythm.) @ Rhizome
Sunstoney and Sir EU @ DC9
8:00 pm La Marvela (women, African-rooted Columbian/Caribbean @ Lubber Run Amphitheater, N.2nd & Columbus Sts., Arlington,VA 22203; free
Rafael Ponde samba band @ Bossa DC @ 8; Alfredo Mojica salsa group @ 10:30pm
Sat. August 7- Sirius Company & Jo-go Project virtual show @ Fort Dupont Park
Ethiopian music fundraiser for city of Ataye, Ethiopia @12 noon in Barcroft Park, 4200 S. 4 Mile Run, Arlington, Va
Crazy Doberman (free jazz) , Model Home (DC rapped voice & electronics), Lazuli (DC noise) @ Rhizome Raga at the reach 5 & 7 p.m. DJ sets with Shuno Re!
6 p.m. Performance by Deepak Ram7:15 p.m.Performance by Rini
August 13, Friday Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble @Peerless Rens Club, 406 Chester Ave, Annapolis, MD 21403 FFIC: http://www.peerlessrensclub.com
August 13- BAD MOVES, OCEANATOR, BACCHAE at Black Cat
75th India Independence Day Celebration w/ Sukhbir Singh is a Bhangra singer. He is often referred to as the "Prince of Bhangra" plus Kajal Aggarwal is an Indian film actress and model. Sun, Aug 15 3:00 PM Bull Run Regional Park, 7700 Bull Run Dr, Centreville, VA 20121
OUTDOOR CONCERT: Vivien Goldman / Dunia & AramAug 19, 2021 6:30 PM – 9:00 PMThursday August 19 * doors at 630pm * outside at Rhizome * TICKETS
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 August 2021 03:21 (three years ago) link
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/527163/city-lights-sirius-company-brings-new-sounds-classic-style-to-fort-dupont-park-concert-series/
Frank Scooby Sirius talking about how go-go bands need to reinvent while still maintaining classic sound
Saturday night Fort Dupont streams their show
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 August 2021 03:58 (three years ago) link
James Jas Funk, vocalist w/ DC go-go bands Rare Essence and Proper Utensils is also a @WPFWDC DJ where he usually plays old school soul. But he’s filling in for jazz DJ Myuki today & playing Betty Carter, Freddie Cole, Nancy Wilson plus jazz instrumentalists as well.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 8 August 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
RIP dc raised producer Chucky Thompson at 53 from Covid complications. Also produced Chuck Brown and many others
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 August 2021 18:56 (three years ago) link
https://digdc.dclibrary.org/islandora/object/dcplislandora%3A305086
Lots of Chip Py go-go photos here
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 16:16 (three years ago) link
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/528332/go-go-musicians-remember-and-mourn-producer-chucky-thompson/
Chucky Thompson go-go history
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 16:17 (three years ago) link
Final Fort Reno gig of summer 2021 tonight Monday. Mark Cisneros & DJ Baby Alcatraz will be spinning records in between bands Interstate Rivals and Grumbler
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 August 2021 18:19 (three years ago) link
August 28 is March on Washington and a Moechella
Washington Women in Jazz hosting events at K Center next Thursday through Saturday plus Spacycloud Djs
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 August 2021 18:22 (three years ago) link
http://stevekiviat.blogspot.com/2021/09/dc-baltimore-dmv-global-music-and-more.html
Did my first DMV DC Baltimore concert calendar gig list since March 2020. Lots of fall events including many many today:
Ethiopian New Year
End of Summer Soul Fest w/ JR Walker Allstars Band & Show, Stylistics Revue feat. Van Field, Might Mighty Dells Revue, Dr Salaam Love honoring Smokey Robinson, Hardway Connection, Kevin Langford Band @ Drury Ballpark, 1139 Smith Ln., Lothian, MD
CultureFest DMV (Caribbean music) @ 1 @ National Harbor
Free Kennedy Center outdoor event--Dupont Brass (5-6pm), DC Legendary Musicians Gospel (6:15-7:15pm), Ragamala Dance Co on Kennedy Center Lower lawn 7:30 to 9pm
Proper Utensils, 4 Life Project, X Factor, Pump Blenders, West Mob 12 noon to 7 pm 2 Fort Circle Park/Fort Totten (Between Galloway St. & Gallatin St. NE DC)
Ambition Band (go-go) for free @ 6 pm @ Moechella Gallery in Eastern Market
Fiesta DC 11am to 7 pm on Pennsylvania Ave w/ Mala Fe & Orquestra; Optimo;
Long Branch Festival with Cheick Hamala Diabate @ 6 pm & La Colombopercutivo @ 7 pm in Long Branch, MD
CCB go-go band at halftime of 7:30 pm Howard U. at U of MD football game
Black Cat 28th Anniversary party w/ Algiers; Ted Leo; The Owners; Teen Cobra; Anna Connolly (w/ Hannah Burris) @ Black Cat
Raheen DeVaughan @ City Winery
Kush: Sitali w/ Eliot Seppa @ Bossa @ 7:30 (afro-folk); Latin Night w/ Tumbao @ 9 @ Bossa
Dave Chappell Band @ Hank Dietle’s
Embassies of embassy row tour @ 12 noon
Crown Vic’s Weird World Dance Party at the Green Zone @ 10 pm
BYB & New Impressionz @ Hard Rock Café
Rare Essence @ Aqua
TOB @ 4 pm @ Marvin Gaye Park
Still Familiar @ Masonic Temple on U St NW
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 11 September 2021 15:20 (three years ago) link
Thanks!!!
― Derek and Clive Get the Horn Street (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 11 September 2021 15:30 (three years ago) link
https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/inner-ear-studio-label-profile
Inner Ear Studio history article with lots of Ian Mackaye quotes about the place and Don Zientara. The Arlington location is closing but Don says he will reopen elsewhere. He had a studio in his home basement before Inner Ear.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 03:12 (three years ago) link
Don will be playing music himself at Epicure Cafe in Fairfax on October 2. I am adding that to my concert calendar along with a bunch of other gigs I have noticed
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 03:14 (three years ago) link
Yay
― Richard Marxist (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 10:11 (three years ago) link
Looking ahead —September 25 has that cool jazz meets go-go event in Malcolm X Park and late that several nice Art all Night events
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 19:23 (three years ago) link
Broccoli Fest cancelled this year
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 19 September 2021 05:10 (three years ago) link
RIP 91-year old blues guitarist Warner Williams whose duo group Little Bit of Blues used to play around in the 1990s. Williams was known for his Piedmont blues styleBlues Here’s an old article about him. Saw on FB that he passed
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/music/brace14.htm
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 September 2021 19:14 (three years ago) link
https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/08/30/think-you-know-dc-music-a-huge-new-compilation-reveals-treasures-from-a-bygone-era/
German Bear Family label releases 16 cd plus huge book in a box of 1940 to 1960 DC r’n’b
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 03:33 (three years ago) link
RIP Melvin Deal at 75, leader of the DC based African Heritage Dancers and Drummers
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 13:52 (three years ago) link
thanks curm for that blogspot you posted with local shows. bookmarked
― Heez, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 14:44 (three years ago) link
I keep updating it too.
Some ones that interest me—Cameroon’s Petit Pays Friday night in Burtonsville; Next Fest jazz & go-go w/ specific times listed for Saturday, some Saturday Art all Night events; Erykah Badu; Sept 30- 75 Dollar Bill opening for Mac M at DC 9
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 September 2021 15:21 (two years ago) link
yeah gonna take the family out for nextfest
― Heez, Thursday, 23 September 2021 15:26 (two years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/randb-in-dc-box-set-washington/2021/09/21/1ca21e2c-1aee-11ec-a99a-5fea2b2da34b_story.html
Chris Richards re the $200 16 cds plus huge coffee table book of 1940-1960 dc r & b
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 September 2021 14:29 (two years ago) link
An Amazon reviewer savaged the remastering as flat but I may buy this anyway.
― Porking level G4 (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 24 September 2021 14:37 (two years ago) link
Some tracks are from 78s and some from tape and yeah some of it does sound muffled and flawed . But I am just going to deal with that .
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link
If like most people, you've been jonesing to read the origin story of the music biz in DC, and hear its first sixteen volumes, we got you!Now in stock, hand delivery citywide, free delivery on #capitolhill .https://t.co/tTAxLi0FHq— Spin Time Records (@SpinTimeRecords) September 13, 2021
https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/music/don-zientara-inner-ear-closing/2021/09/29/672c1e46-1c7b-11ec-a99a-5fea2b2da34b_story.html
Chris Richards on Don Zientara and Inner Ear studio.
At the end it notes Zientara is doing a free gig himself Friday at 6 at a brewery and one Saturday night in Fairfax
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link
Oh no. Singer Julia Nixon has died of Covid. She used her soulful voice and theatrical power in DC music clubs and onstage in Dreamgirls and other shows on and off from the 80s. She used to play little Mr Henry''s a lot. Then moved back to her native North Carolina in early 2000s
― curmudgeon, Friday, 1 October 2021 04:39 (two years ago) link
Hey DC locals, I am trying to talk my teenage son to seeing an All Ages show with my wife and myself at the Black Cat and he asked me if there was a place to sit. I told him I was dubious since it's a club but I would ask the locals.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 1 October 2021 16:30 (two years ago) link
There are a few tables and seats in the back of the room, yes.
― Chris L, Friday, 1 October 2021 17:21 (two years ago) link
Now a City Paper writer on Inner Ear Studio
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/534537/end-of-an-ear-a-the-legendary-inner-ear-studios-closes-a-chapter/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 October 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link
There are a few tables and seats in the back of the room, yes.― Chris L, Friday, October 1, 2021 1:21 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Chris L, Friday, October 1, 2021 1:21 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink
And benches and stools on the side of the room opposite the bar.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Thursday, 7 October 2021 21:05 (two years ago) link
La Marvela and Leo Rua, dc based acts from Colombia are part of the free Down in the Reeds fest Saturday at the old Walter Reed Medical Center ( now the Parks at Walter Reed)
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/534443/city-lights-feel-good-feel-great-at-down-in-the-reeds/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 October 2021 19:16 (two years ago) link
There’s also Saturday in the Parks event at the reopened Franklin Square park ( now with less trees) with club dance music and jazz.
This Saturdays in Franklin Park DC dance music & more series is impressive. OCTOBER 9thAfrofuturism Meets JazzRon Trent (Music and Power, Chicago)Live Performance & DJ Set ByBrad Linde’s Tribute To Sun Ra / Adrian Lovinghttps://www.downtowndc.org/event/rocktheparkdc/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 October 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link
https://www.arlnow.com/2021/10/13/county-to-ask-public-what-arts-programming-should-replace-inner-ear-studios/
After Inner Ear studio is demolished they might build an outdoor stage and name it after Inner Ear ( or maybe not).
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 20:26 (two years ago) link
Outer Ear
― juristic person (morrisp), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 20:41 (two years ago) link
Zientaraweather Post Pavilion
― Extinct Namibian shrub genus: Var. (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link
All great names!
so there's a new (academic?) book coming out about 1978 to 1983 DC hardcore punk
Politics as Sound: The Washington, DC, Hardcore Scene, 1978-1983 (Music in American Life) Paperback – October 19, 2021by Shayna Maskell (Author)
She has an American Studies degree from U of Md and now teaches at George Mason U I see online.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 14 October 2021 17:55 (two years ago) link
https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Sound-Washington-Hardcore-1978-1983/dp/0252086228
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 14 October 2021 18:00 (two years ago) link
Due allegedly to complaints about noise from Ellington condo building residents , the Bin 1301 wine bar did not have its lease renewed in September and is out. I started following that place on IG awhile back because awesome drummer Trae Crudup ( who plays with Luke Stewart and has dc gospel, marching band, gogo roots) was playing along with musicians and hiphop djs together at same time . The IG stories from there were great. They had a Monday night live music series more recently. But now place is closed. Boo.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 October 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link
Bin 1301 wine bar was on U Street btw
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 October 2021 15:42 (two years ago) link