Wednesday, September 4, 2019

DC Baltimore DMV September 2019 Global Music and More Concert Calendar Gig List



DC/Baltimore Global Music and More- September 2019

Compiled by Steve Kiviat 
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September is jam-packed with music.  There’s the Multiflora FLash of the Spirit  Fest, the opening of Kennedy Center Reach, the National Folk Fest in Salisbury and much more.
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September 2019 Highlights –
Fri, 9-6- Boukman Eksperyans (Haitian mizik racin) w/ Crank Lukongo   at Tropicalia (start of 2 month Multiflora Flash of the Spirit global music fest) (polyrhythmic political Haitian dance band)
Mdou Moctar @ Black Cat (North African guitar)
Shreya Ghoshal at MGM Nat Harbor-- India Bollywood singer
Tekno @ Club Elevate (Nigerian afrobeats)
Fri. 9-6 through Sun. 9-8-National Folk Festival in Salisbury, MD  ( w/ Samba Mapangala & Orchestre Virunga; Eddie Cotton Jr.; Terry & the Zydeco Bad Boys & many more)
Sat. 9-7-The Kennedy Center Reach buildings open with special free events all day including Tennessee singer/guitarist Valerie June  with street-rooted hiphop dancer Lil Buck; Chuck Brown Band and more
Sun. 9-8 –Kelela w/ Jason Moran @ Kennedy Center Reach
Les Filles de Illighadad - all women North African Tuareg desert guitar  band @ the Celebrate Africa Festival in Bladensburg Sun. @ 5:25 (first of 3 local shows this month—also on Mon. 9-9 @ Rhizome & 9-19 @ Library of Congress)
Sun. 9-15-Burna Boy at the Fillmore –(Nigerian r'nb/afrobeats star) (1st of 2 nights)
Thurs. 9-19- The Million Moe March (an anti-violence March for peace, hugs not slugs) @ 7 from 7th & F to &th & Madison on the mall for an 8 to 10 concert w/ Backyard Band & host Yaddiya on the national mall (go-go)
Tinariwen  w/ Lonnie Holley @ Lincoln Theatre ( North African Saharan band)
Thurs. 9-26- J. Balvin @ Eaglebank (reggaeton/pop)


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Sun.  9-1
Millie Jackson @ Bethesda Blues
UB40 & Shaggy & Nkula @ Wolf Trap
 Concetta Abbate, Tristan Welch, Teething Veils @ Rhizome

Be'la Dona  (@ 6 on dance floor) and Rare Essence (@ 8 in  Wine Gardens) @ City Winery
BYB & TCB @ Bliss (all white clothes affair)
Chuck Brown Band @ Masonic Temple U St
TOB, ABM, XIB @ Power 10pm to 4 am (bouncebeat go-go)
Junkyard Band @ Hangar Club
Sung Si-kyung @ Warner Theatre (k-pop)
WYD @ Songbyrd
Garrett Gleason (DC guitarist) w/ a drummer @ Gypsy Sally's
Akua Allrich @ Lincoln Theatre
Hothead at Big Bear Café
Reggae fest at Tropicalia early, then DJ Underdog at 11



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Mon.  9-2
Capital House Music Fest with DJ Sam the Man Burns and others 12 -8:30 @ Malcolm X Park
YK Osiris (album release) w/ Mechie So Crazy @ Howard Theatre (rap)
Heart, Spirit, & Soul Blues band @ Westminster Church
 Crank Jam go-go session @ City Winery
 Stormy Weather (Shakespeare's The Tempest w/ Billie Holiday music & poetry) for free from 6 to 7 @ Kennedy Center Millennium Stage
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Tues. 9-3
Mary J. Blige  @ Wolf Trap
Alejandro Sanz @ Eaglebank Arena
Got My Own Sound (GMOS) @ City Winery
Marcia Ball @ Rams Head Annapolis
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Wed.  9-4
Kevin Morby duo w/ William Tyler @ Creative Alliance
Blacks’ Myths (lp release) w/ Sunwatchers, Anteloper @ Comet
Sirius Company @ City Winery
Bambara w/ Cigarette, & Vosh @ Songbyrd

*NSO Pops & Jim James @ Kennedy Center 
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Thurs.  9-5
Jennifer Hudson & the NSO @ Wolf Trap
Natalia Lafourcade @ Warner Theatre (very good Mexican pop & indie & more singer)
Jenny Lewis w/ the Watson Twins @ Anthem
PG County Fair 
Clubz and Girl Ultra @ State Theatre
Dodie @ 930 Club
Phony PPL @ City Winery (sold out)
Hot Club of Cowtown in another room @ City Winery
Marcia Ball @ Amp
Morrissey & Interpol @ Merriweather Post
TCB @ Power
Feedel Band @ Bossa (ethiopian jazz)

*Isabelle DeLeon Experience @ Luce /Smithsonian Museum of American Art 5:30 to 7:30

"Stepping on Geraldo Vandre's Flowers: Early Brazilian punk rock" talk/presentation @ 7 to 9 @ Silver Spring Civic Center  

*Salsa @ Rockville Town Square 6 to 9pm

* Tony Ade @ Pearl St Warehouse (American-Nigerian afrobet from NYC) 

*What Band @ Aqua
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Fri.  9-6
Sirius Company free @ 12 noon @ Wilson Plaza Reagan Bldg.
Boukman Eksperyans (Haitian mizik racin) w/ Crank Lukongo   at Tropicalia (start of 2 month Multiflora Flash of the Spirit  global music fest) (polyrhythmic political Haitian dance band)
Shreya Ghoshal at MGM Nat Harbor-- India Bollywood singer
Tekno @ Club Elevate (Nigerian afrobeats)
National Folk Festival in Salisbury, MD (through Sun. 9-8) w/ Bill Kirchen, Cora Harvey Armstrong (gospel),              Kahulanui (Hawaiian swing)  Terry & the Zydeco Bad Boys (zydeco), Adonis Puentes & the Voice of Cuba Orchestra (Cuban son)
Memphis rapper Marco Pave in conversation w/  music scholar and author of Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South, Dr. Charles Hughes. 6-8 pm Free @ Georgetown University, McNeir Hall, New North Bldg. 
Mdou Moctar, Boogarins @ Black Cat (North African guitar band)
Cecily sings Nancy Wilson @ Creative Cauldron in Falls Church
What Cheer ? Brigade (Providence brass band) w/Clear Channel & Cool People @ Rhizome
Team Familiar & What Band @ Diva Lounge
Reggae & soca on the hill @ 5820 Landover Rd., Cheverly
Intocable @ Fillmore
Los Cafres @ Palace
AK-7 @ Rincon Magico Bar (Mexican Duranguense)
Los Iracundos (Uruguay) @ El Aguila Restaurant in Silver Spring
Silver Spoon tasting fest at designated restaurants in Silver Spring through Sunday ($ ticket required, some $ goes to charity)
Lawrence Burney: The Journey Continues exhibit  (includes video, writings, audio clips, and photos by Baltimore based critic who via True Laurels publication & other writing covers Baltimore rap, r’n’b, dance @ the Eubie Blake Cultural Center, 847 North Howard St., Baltimore (through October 12) opening 6-8 pm
Jerry Douglas @ Rams Head Annapolis
BYB, TCB, TOB @ Aqua
DC Legendary Musicians community meeting w/ Chip Ellis @ 6:30 @ Howard Theatre

*Latin band @ 8 and salsa lessons @ 7 presented by International Club of DC on the Embassy Row Hotel, 2015 Mass. Ave. NW 

*New Impressionz & CCB @ Hangar's 

*Be'la Dona @ Babylon Woodbridge 

* Team Familiar @ Diva Lounge in Falls Church

*Rare Essence w/ EU feat. Sugar Bear @ Fast Eddies
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Sat. 9-7
Rosslyn Jazz Fest w/ the Suffers (a Gulf coast Texas retro soul band);  Cha Wa -- a New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian funky brass combo;  Leyla McCalla - a Haitian-American banjo & guitar player who sings French Creole and bluesy folk songs; and the Jo-go Project- DC jazz and go-go band @ 1
National Folk Festival in Salisbury, MD (through Sun. 9-8) w/ Tamburaški Sastav Ponoć (tamburitza); Cora Harvey Armstrong (gospel); Jerry Douglas Trio (Dobro master); African Branches in the Americas—Boukman Eksperyans, Adonis Puentes, Aurelio, Mestre Jelon Vieira (Capoeira Luanda); Terry & the Zydeco Bad Boys (zydeco); Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass (bluegrass); Grupo Nematatlín (son jarocho); Hot Club of Cowtown (western swing and hot jazz); Samba Mapangala & Orchestre Virunga (East African rumba, soukous, and benga); Music from China (Chinese silk and bamboo ensemble); Sheila Kay Adams (Appalachian songs, stories, and ballads);      Andes Manta (Andean); Grupo Nematatlín (son jarocho); Aurelio (Garifuna);  It's a String Thing—Ann Yao, Sun Li (Music from China), Peter Kosovec (Tamburaški Sastav Ponoć), Rahim AlHaj, Sourena Sefati (Rahim AlHaj Trio), Salvador Peña Herrera (Grupo Nematatlín); Eddie Cotton, Jr.; Yamini Kalluri & the Carnatic Ensemble (Kuchipudi dance);            Rare Essence with special guest DJ Kool (go-go); Daryl Davis (boogie-woogie piano) & Lafayette Gilchrist (jazz); Maryland Honky-tonk Masters with Arty Hill & the Long Gone Daddys, Bill Kirchen, & Ann Porcella; Katherine Fahey with Leonard "Felix" Wills (arabber crankie); Marimba Linda Xelajú (Guatemalan marimba); Cheick Hamala Diabate (Malian griot and ngoni player)
The Kennedy Center Reach buildings open with special free events all day including Tennessee singer/guitarist Valerie June doing a special event with street-rooted hiphop dancer Lil Buck ( June solo @1 pm; w/ Buck @ 2:30) ; the Kronos Quartet @ 2:30 and more
GirlAAA djs @ 12 noon on @ Kennedy Center Reach
The Chuck Brown Band w/ Bootsy Collins for free from 6 to 7 pm @ Kennedy Center Reach Plaza stage
Speech w/ Arrested Development @ 7 @ Kennedy Center Reach
Blues & Brews Backyard BBQ w/ Claudette King (BB’s daughter), Jim Bennett, Jose Ramirez Band from 2 to 8 @ Drury Ballpark, 1139 Sam Smith Ln., Lothian, MD
La Cosecha Latin Market opening party w/ food, art, and more including  DC Style Salsa Academy, Con Sabor, Grupo Folklórico Raíces Hondureñas, Lola Jaramillo.,Julio Santamaria. w/ Ozomatli as the headliner@ 1280 4th St NE 
Kacey Musgraves & Yola @ Wolf Trap (sold out)
Greenbelt Blues Fest @ Roosevelt Center
Tony Terry @ City Winery
Summer Breeze Party w/ Estelle, Avant, Team Familiar, Gswagg @ 6:30 to 12 midnight @ Nats Park
Conjunto Bomba @ Bossa
Danny Gatton birthday tribute with Dave Chappell, Tom Principato, more @ Birchmere
Boris @ Black Cat (Japanese psychedelic power rock)
Noche de Rock w/ Misil Stereo, Zelula, Mundial, Tres Minutos @ Fillmore
Uptown Rhythm Kings reunion w/ Eric Shoutin  Sheridan @ Glen Echo Spanish Ballroom
PJ Sin Suela @ Tropicalia
Akua Allrich @ Port-au-Prince Haitian Cuisine (jazz & African music singer)
Batida Brazilian vinyl dance party @ Songbyrd
Tropical beats w/ Leon City Sounds @ Green Zone on 18th St
Crown Vic’s Weird World dj @ Daikaya
Jean Paul Strauss and Dayan Aldana @ Don Churro in Chantilly (Peruvian singers)
Zacarias Ferreira @ Club One
Estilo Chihuahua in La Casa Del Patron in Cambridge, md  (Huapangos, Norteañas, Merequetengues)
The songs of Joaquín Sabina sung by Carlos Ruano @ Marx Café
Hot Chip, Holy F @ 930 Club (sold out)
Twerkfest 4 @ Howard Theatre
Rare Essence @ Aqua
Jason Aldean w/ Kane Brown, Carly @ Jiffy Lube
Benefit for Raices w/ Swoll, Tooth Choir & others @ Rhizome

*Wailers w/ Junior Marvin @ the Hamilton

Luv’s Art Project Block Party w/ @ 9:30 Oshun, Kelow Latesha , Ghostie
for free at Hollins Market, Baltimore (rap)

*Hatchie & Orchin @ DC 9

*TOB & JYB @ Barry farms at 2
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Sun .  9-8
CJ Chenier and band at Hill Center  on Capitol Hill(Louisiana born, Texas raised zydeco accordionist and his band combine Afro-southern r'n'b with French Creole folk to make lively upbeat dance music
National Folk Festival in Salisbury, MD w/  Voice(s) of the Nation: From Soukous to Swing—Samba Mapangala; Cora Harvey Armstrong; Lena Naipo (Kahulanui); Terry Domingue (Terry & the Zydeco Bad Boys); Salvador Peña Cadeza, Héctor Luis Ochoa Reyes, Elhuikaj Hernández Ramírez (Grupo Nematatlín)  plus Eddie Cotton, Jr. (soul blues) and much more (see list of Saturday acts—many perform both days)
Les Filles de Illighadad - all women North African Tuareg desert guitar  band @ 5:25 @the Celebrate Africa Festival in Bladensburg Waterfront Park (first of 3 local shows this month) also appearing Tolumide @2:35; Amadou Kouyate @ 3:25; Feedel @ 4:10; Urban Foli @ 6:20
Brandee Younger: Music of Alice Coltrane for free @ 6 @ Kennedy Center Reach or Mill. Stage
Kelela (Artsy r'n'b singer) w/ jazz band Jason Moran & the Bandwagon @ 7 @ Kennedy Center Reach.
Flying Lotus @ 8:45  @ Kennedy Center Reach
I Love Bachata Festival" w/ Oro Solido, Bachata Heightz, Karlos Rose, Alexandra 'La Reina' y mas! For free @ Silver Spring Veterans plaza from  11am to 8pm;  After Party con Don Chezina 8pm a 2am @ Silver Spring Civic Bldg.
Festival Guanaco 2019 w/ Sonora Dinamita, Joe Veras, Roberto, Zully, Los BKs, Los Sabaneros, Walex Cotete & more @ Russo Farm,  15901 Old Columbia Pike, Burtonsville, MD
Gipsy Kings @ Wolf Trap
Deerhunter and Dirty Projectors @ 930 Club
Takoma Park Folk Fest
La Fiesta del Barrio @ 3166 Mt. Pleasant St NW 12 to 2pm
Adams Morgan Day * w/ Batala ,Chopteeth, Dupont Brass, the Experience, Empressarios 12 to 6 
Feelin the Funk Band w/ Raydio @ Elequent Touch Ballroom in Suitland
Shellshag, Lung,  Chill Parents @ Comet
Howard Hewett @ Bethesda Blues
Baby Metal @ Anthem
TOB @ Power (bouncebeat go-go from them every Sunday)
Stone Pleasure Band @ Lamont’s
Doc Watson Tribute @ Birchmere
92 Q End of Summer Jam @ Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore
Ryley Walker and Wild Pink @ Songbyrd

*Sirius Compnay @ Society Lounge
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Mon.   9-9
Les Filles de Illighadad (all women North African Tuareg desert guitar band) w/ Sihasin  (Navajo from Arizona)  Rhizome
Shirley Murdock acoustic night @ City Winery
Alcione M. Amos talk about Civil Rights Activism & the Barry Farm/Hillsdale Community @ Anacostia Library from 6:30 to 8pm
Smallwood Vision Choir performance followed by panel discussion w/ Rev. Barber and Alan Elliot , producer of Aretha Franklin Amazing Grace gospel in 1972 movie doc @ 6 2 Kennedy center Reach Skylight Pavilion
Amazing Grace (Aretha Franklin) movie screening @ 8 @ Kennedy Center Reach
Two Door Cinema Club & Overcoats @ 930
Girl in Red – World in Red @ U St. Music Hall (sold out)
Quinn Christopherson w/ Angelica Garcia @ Songbyrd

*Moonshine Society @ Westminster Church Blues Monday
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Tues.  9-10
 Hawaiian musician and master hula teacher Keali'i Reichel, for free from 6 to 7 pm @ Kennedy Center Reach Plaza stage
Vibrators w/ Dot Dash at DC9 ( 1977 UK pop-punk vets, with DC local openers)
Che Apalache ( Latingrass from Argentina) @ Hill Center
A Tribe Called Red w/ Uptown Boyz @ Kennedy Center Reach  (Native American rap)
Luke Temple w/ Meernaa @ Songbyrd
Cheick Hamala’s Griot Street  @ Bossa

* Ceremony @ U St. Music Hall
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Wed.  9-11

 Dr. ShanaRedmond  who recently wrote about singer Marian Anderson for NPR will be speaking @ Georgetown U. McNeir Aud. from 12:30 to 1.45 w/ a talk entitled The Next Jubilee : Black Music and the Possible Impossible
Supersuckers & the Hangmen @ City Winery
Sirius Company in another room @ City Winery

*Backyard Band @ Lucky Strike
Low @ Metro Gallery, Baltimore
 Messthetics, Janelle Lepin, Mock Identity @ Black Cat
Sugr Candy Mountain, Bottled Up, Empire Plum @ Comet
Fontaines DC @ U St Music Hall
The National Parks w/ Wild @ Songbyrd
Ed Rush & Optical @ U St Music Hall
Subhumans @ Ottobar
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Thurs.  9-12
2019 Marian Anderson Vocal Award Winner Soloman Howard, Howard University’s  vocal jazz ensemble Afro Blue, and the Mellow Tones of Duke Ellington School of the Arts for free from 6 to 7 pm @ Kennedy Center Skylight Pavilion
Opera singer Renee Fleming is joined by Benin afropop vocalist Angelique Kidjo  plus Kennedy Center jazz leader/pianist Jason Moran at the Kennedy Center Reach  at 8 :15    
Celebration de la Herencia Hispana @ Columbia Hights civic plaza
Black Pumas @ U St. Music Hall
Jlin @ 10:30 @ U St. Music Hall
Seven Voices: A Tribute to Patsy Cline @ Creative Alliance
La Chamba (Los Angeles band that plays Peruvian chicha surf rock & funk) w/ La Chicha de tu Madre & djs Leon City Sounds @ Bossa
Roots & Raices Fest Gala w/ dinner, live act, movie in Baltimore
"Summer Jam: Klezmer" lead by Howard Unger & Seth Kibel @ Library of Congress from 7 to 9pm
Sammi Lanzetta, Minor Poet, Pagan Reagan @ Songbyrd
Black Cat 26th anniversary party
Mashriq Maghrib jam session  @ Bossa

Big Chair Sessions: Don’t Mute DC.”  at 5 pm
Location:Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference at the Washington Convention Center 
What:Roundtable conversation featuring Don’t Mute DC Pioneers: Metro PCS owner Donald Campbell, D.C. activistsTony Lewis Jr.and Ronald Moten, Howard University professor Dr.Natalie Hopkinson and  Producer Tone P. 
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Fri.  9-13

*Rare Essence & Re-up Band @ Fast Eddies

*Backyard Band , TOB @ Aqua 

*New Impressionz @ Hangars 
Roots & Raices Fest at 406 N. Howard St . Baltimore  (free before 9 pm when ticketed portion begins)
Elena & Los Fulanos ( DC-based Nicaraguan folk record release) w/ Cissa Paz  (Brazilian) @  Pearl St. Warehouse
Manhattans featuring Gerald Alston at Birchmere
Guaynaa @ Diamond Lounge
Movie “Dark City Beneath the Beat” (Baltimore club music w/ exec. Producer Rose DiFerdinando and TSU Terry of the TSU Dance Crew who will host “rock off, shake off,” a workshop that will show the top 5 Baltimore club dance moves ; @ 7:45 @ Kennedy Center Reach
Black Folks Don’t Swim ? @ 7:30  for free; J.Poe @  9:30  @ U. of MD Clarice Smith; Snail Mail @ 10 for free @ Clarice Smith Center (reservation required) ; Priests @ 11
The Growlers & Pinky Pinky @ Black Cat
Discipline 99/Twin Jude, Rachel Foley & Kamyar Arsani & Bushmeat @ Rhizome

*Shemekia Copeland @ Amp (soulful blues singer)
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Sat .   9-14 
A conversation on women in hiphop @ 1; a DJ RBI set; a breaking workshop; Hip Hop: The songs that Shook America screening @ 3; DJ Miss Her; Ill Camille; Large Professor;Kokayi; Shaolin Jazz:Can I kick it screening;  Muma Fresh; DJ Bobbito Garcia; De La Soul @ 8:30 & more   …all  @ Kennedy Center Reach;
J.PERIOD presents his performance series, The Live Mixtape— for free from 6 to 7 pm @ Kennedy Center Studio K
Baltimore Rhythm Fest 12 to 7 @ Baltimore Montessori Publc Charter School, 1600 Guilford Ave., Baltimore w/
Art and Music all night from 7 to 12 midn. In Dupont Circle area
La Gran Banda @ Club One
Roberto Blades @ Palladium
Newmyer Flyer: Allen Toussaint Dance Party @ Hamilton w/ Tom Principato, Black Betty, Carly Harvey, Alan MacEwan, Ray Apollo Allen, Beat Hotel, Dixie Power Trio
Tamia @ Bethesda Blues and jazz
Tribute to sax player Ron Holloway w/ Ron @ 4 pm @ Shaw Mainstreet Fest across from the Howard Theatre
April + Vista @ 6, JPegMafia @ 8 for free @ Clarice Smith

*Bomba y Plena Puerta Rcan music hosted by Cultura Plenera @ Sandy Spring Museum 12 to 6 pm

*Proper Utensils @ Lucky Strike

*EU, Trouble Funk, new Soul Searchers, N.R.G., Proverbs reggae band, Jessie Marie @ Drury Ball Park, Lothian , MD

*Diplo @ Echostage 

*Lil Baby & BYB @ Bliss

*Stop the Bullying rally w/ TOB band and speakers including Anwan Big G Glover @ Anacostia Park 11 am -5pm

*Sirius Company black tie event for Congressional Black Caucus @ Hard Rock Cafe  

* Quando Rondo @ Milkboy Arrthouse (rap) 
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Sun. 9-15
Burna Boy at the Fillmore –(Nigerian r'nb/afrobeats star) (1st of 2 nights)
Banda MS at Capitol One Arena- Mexican stars
Catracho fest 2019 w/ Polache, Javier Monthiel,  Moises Canelo,  Manrike,  El Sheriff, Jenni D,  Kandela show, Banda blanca,  banda Ibanez,  lempira star band,  los intipuquenos,  Daniel Moncion,  Miramar, Sonora Dinamita, Los iracundos,  Animando, Nelyi Larice @ Russo Farm,  15901 Old Columbia Pike, Burtonsville, MD
Dan Zanes, along with his wife Claudia Zanes, Pauline Jean—both Haitian American jazz vocalists—and Mexican percussionist Yuriana Sobrino do famly-friendly roots music  for free from 6 to 7 pm @ Kennedy Center Reach Plaza stage
Chiquitania region of Bolivia tribute event 11 am to 5  @ Palladium
Salvadorean Fest w/ Hector Acosta El Torito, Orquesta San Vicente, Marito Rivera Y Su Grupo Bravo, La Maquina De El Salvador, Jhosse Lora @ Montgomery County Fairgrounds in Gaithersburg
La Gran Banda y La Sonora Dinamita @ VIP Room in Baltimore
Tamia @ Bethesda Blues and jazz
Gridlock Band @ Lamont’s
Lloyd Cole doing 2 sets @ City Winery
Potty Mouth @ Songbyrd upstairs (rock) ; Marlon Craft @ Songbyrd downstairs (rap)
Forgetter, Anna Connolly, Swoll @ Black Cat

*Stacy Brooks @ Madams Organ

*John Sebastian @ Amp ("Do You Believe in Magic")

*BYB @ St YV, 1220 Conn Ave NW 

*TOB @ Power


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Mon. 9-16
Burna Boy at the Fillmore –(Nigerian r'nb/afrobeats star)
Los Wemblers de Iquitos  at Songbyrd - Peruvian psychedelic chicha surf band
Bloc Party doing Silent Alarm album and more @ Anthem
Church Girls & the Osyx @ Galaxy Hut
Ezra Furman & Shilpa Ray  @ Union Stage

*13th Anniversary Blues Monday blues jam session @ Westminster Church

*Bat House @ Songbyrd

* Sirius Company @ DC for Statehood rally @ Busboys & Poets lot, 2029 MLK Ave SE @ 6:30 pm 

*Billy Bragg book reading free @ Politics & Prose 7 to 8 pm w/ Dave Weigel moderating
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Tues. 9-17
"Our Latin Thing (Nuestra Cosa)" (Fania salsa movie doc) with introduction by Jim Byer’s host of The Latin Flavor on WPFW at Suns Cinema
Sir E.U & KAG (from Priests) @ Black Cat Red Room
B-52s, OMD, Berlin @ Anthem
The Lox @ Howard Theatre
Team Familiar @ City Winery
Leigh Nash in another room @ City Winery
Bleached @ U St Music Hall
Eli Winter, Yasmin Williams, Kevin Coleman @ Rhizome (fingerstyle guitar )
Mannequin Pussy @ DC 9 (sold out)

*Future, Meek Mill, Megan the Stallion  @ Jiffy Lube (rap)

*Sigrid @ 930 Club
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Wed.  9-18
Maxwell w/ NSO Pops @ Kennedy Center (r’n’b singer) (through the 21st) (few tickets left)
Black Uhuru (reggae) @ Howard Theatre
Sirius Company @ City Winery
Native Sons acoustic featuring Steve Azar & Cedric Burnside @ Union Stage
The Ar-Kaics & Des Demonas @ Black Cat
Sheena, Anika, & Augusta @ Rhizome
Brent Cobb @ Rock n Roll Hotel
Conflict @ Ottobar

*Marina @ Anthem

*Backyard Band @ Lucky Strike

*Clear Channel & Taciturn on roof of Woodridge Library for free @ 6:30pm @ 1801 Hamlin St. NE

*NEA Awards 5:30 to 6:30 for free # Library of Congress Coolidge Aud. 

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Thurs. 9-19
The Million Moe March (a March for peace and DC statehood, hugs not slugs) at 7 pm w/ the Eastern High Band and more from 7th & F NW to 7th & Madison St NW on the national mall for a Moechella rally/concert with Backyard Band & host Yaddiya until 10 pm

*First ladies of Go-go concert 8 to 10 @ Eaton Workshop Rooftop (w/ Ms. Kim, Michelle Blackwell, Maeisha Rashad and more) 

*What Band @ 11 @ Aqua
Tinariwen  w/ Lonnie Holley @ Lincoln Theatre ( North African Saharan band)
Les Filles de Illighadad - all women North African Tuareg desert guitar  band at a lunchtime show at Library of Congress
 Maxwell w/ NSO Pops @ Kennedy Center (r’n’b singer)
DC Hand dancing showcases, panel discussion, and lessons from 6:30 to 10 pm @ Ivy City Smokehouse 
Ray Wylie Hubbard @ City Winery

*Raheem DeVaughn in another room @ City Winery (sold out)
Billy Bragg “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back” @ Birchmere (first of 3 nights)
Caroline Rose @ Union Stage
Jerry Paper @ Songbyrd (synth pop)
Black Moth Super Rainbow & Taraka (of Prince Rama) @ Black Cat
Agent Orange @ Ottobar

*Ruben Moreno & the Zydeco Re-Evolution @ Waverly Brewing in Baltimore

*Dee Dee Bridgewater @ Blues Alley (through Sun. 9-22) (jazz singer)

* Be Steadwell "A Letter to My Ex" the musical @ Meyer Performance Theater Thursday, September 19 - Sunday, September 22 at 8 pm and 4 pm at 3309 Bunker Hill Road, Mount Rainier, MD

*Band of Skulls @ 930

*Vasen @ Jammin Java (Swedish folk)

*Ceylon Mitchell Afro-Latino Chamber music @ Bowie Center for the Performing Arts
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Fri. 9-20

#DontMute DC meets #DontMuteNoLa with DC's Proper Utensils old school go-go vs Big 6 New Orleans Brass plus Black Alley, DJ Supa Dan, and New Orleans and DC cuisine @ Gateway Pavilion at St Elizabeth's , 2700 MLK Ave SE 7 pm to 11:30pm (eventbrite free reservation ticket recommended)
El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico @ Diamond Lounge  (salsa Legends)

*Lightshow & friends @ Fillmore 
La Inedita @ Bossa ( Peruvian cumbia/reggae/Chichamuffin)

*NEA concert w/ Las Tesoras de San Antonio &  Balla Kouyate @  Sidney Harmon Hall
Conversations with singer Nick Cave @ Lincoln Theatre (sold out)
Shonen Knife @ City Winery (Japanese garage rock)
Octo Octa  w/ Eris Drew & Lauren Lo Sung @ Flash (electronic dance music from Brooklyn, Chicago, Liverpool)
Billy Bragg “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back” @ Birchmere
Lipstickfables, Mr jc, Aaron bodden, El packy, Jenni d at Club One
Maxwell w/ NSO Pops @ Kennedy Center (r’n’b singer)
Boy Harsher, Olivia Neutron-John @ Ottobar

*Detroit Cobras @ Hill Country

* The Long Ryders w/ Joe Nolan @ Pearl St Warehouse

*Rebecca Gates @ 12:30 pm in Georgetown University McNeir Hall for free 

*  lecture, which features various members of the Future of Music Coalition, on “The Value of Music to US Society.” The lecture will begin at 10:30 am in the Barbara L. Jones Classroom in Booth on the 5th floor of Georgetown University’s Lauinger Library

*Chuck Brown Band @ Soundry (sold out)
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Sat. 9-21
Tyler the Creator, Jaden Smith, Goldlink @ Merriweather  Post Pavilion –(rap)   

* Latin Fiesta Parade 1 to 5 pm on PA Ave NW


*Sami Dan and Nhatty Man w/ the Ras Band @ Karma (Ethiopian) 
Morgan Heritage at the Howard Theatre (roots reggae family act)
DeSanguashington @ Bossa
H St. Fest NE w/ Sirius Company @ 12 & H Sts NE @ 6 pm ; UCB @ ? pm ; Malcolm X drummers & dancers 7th & H @ 6 

*Wiki & WifiGawd, Ankhljohn, Nappy Nappa @ Comet
Washington Social Club (reunited) , Bad Moves, the Osyx @ Black Cat
Banda Los Sebastianes de Mazatlan at Club One
Maxwell w/ NSO Pops @ Kennedy Center (r’n’b singer)
African dance class and showing of Fela! The Concert @10:30 also Indian dance @ 11:45am ; Robert Glasper’s “Everything’s Beautiful “ Tribute to Miles Davis feat. Bilal @ 7  ; Fela! The Concert again @ 8 @ Kennedy Center reach
Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds,  Jackson Dean & the Outsiders @ Hamilton
Robbie Fulks @ Jammin Java
Funkateers Ball w/ Clip Payne's 420 Funk Mob, Michael Hampton & Kash Waddy @ Bethesda Blues
Billy Bragg “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back” @ Birchmere
Orville Peck @ Union Stage (sold out)
Free Throw @ Songbyrd
Pop Will Eat Itself, Chemlab @ Ottobar
Klezmer dance party @ Creative Alliance

*Clarendon Day

*Hyattsville Arts & Ale Fest

*Pan Africa Day 12 to 9 pm @ Veterans Plaza in Silver Spring 

*Yam Jam/ yoga and DC Highlife Allstars 6:30 to 11 @ Milkboy Arthouse 

*BYB and What Band @ Fast Eddies 

* 2019 Glow Twerk Fest w/ TCB, TOB, ABM @ Hangars 10 pm 

*Robbie Fulks @ Jammin Java


*Ceylon Mitchell Afro-Latin chamber music @ 7 @ PG Comunity College
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Sun. 9-22

*Latin Fiesta on Pa Ave. with Fuego, Sonora Dinamita, edi Mora and many  more 11am to 7 pm

*The Sound of Chocolate Cities : Exploring gentrification through music and culture 6 to 10 pm @ Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture with a panel with Dj Soul Sister/Melissa Weber; Dr. Natalie Hopkinson; Maurice Hobson, author of The Legend of Black Mecca, Atlanta. Plus Backyard Band and cuisine inspired by DC, New Orleans & Atlanta   (*Invitation only)

*UCB @ Dupont Underground 5 to 9pm
Amazing Grace (1972 Aretha Franklin’s gospel in church movie) @ Washington National Cathedral (sold out)
Roy Buchanan tribute at Birchmere --  roots rock/Americana salute w/ Billy Price, Pete Kennedy, Tom Principato and more  to a late DC old-school guitarist from the 1960s and 70s who died tragically
Waterboys @ Lincoln Theatre
Aldo Trujillo y Los Pikadientes @ the Palace
Soundclash: Sister Nancy x DJ Greena Marie x DJ K-Meta @ 4 pm ; Junior Marvin’s DC Lovers Rock @ 6 ; Howard U marching Band and Robert Glasper’s Tribute to Miles Davis feat. Bilal in 2 different rooms @ 7 @ Kennedy Center Re Beyonce’s Homecoming movie doc for free outdoors @ Kennedy Center The Reach 7 to 9:45 pmach
Ride, Spirit of the Beehive @ 930
Raveena & Diana Lopez @ U St Music Hall
Rise Band & show @ Lamont’s
Shirley Murdock acoustic evening @ City Winery
Tasha @ Songbyrd

*Wild Up (Los Angeles ensemble playing avante-afro-classical Julius Eastman music) @ National Gallery of Art 

*HERA womens music fest @ City Winery

* Lady Mary & the Indahouse Band @ Bethesda Blues  & Jazz 

* Sirius Company 3 to 9 @ Fast Eddies 
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Mon.  9-23
Adam Ant @ Lincoln Theatre
Jason Eady & Courtney Patton @ City Winery
Pond & the Muckers @ Black Cat

*Sisters that Swing- rare film footage of Josephine Baker, Billie Holiday, Hazel Scott, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Lena Horne and more @ 7 @ Eaton DC Screening Room presented by Stuart Hudgins 

*Shirleta Settles & friends @ Westminster Church Blues Monday

*Whitney @ 930 (rock)
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Tues. 9-24
Polish Yiddish tango for free from 6 to 7 pm @ Kennedy Center Millennium Stage
Daniel Caesar (r'n'b singer) w/ Koffee (reggae) @ Echostage  (sold out show)
Massive Attack @ Anthem
Patti Smith- Year of the Monkey book reading @ Lisner

*Film-The Remix: Hip Hop x Fashion -Are You Down? @ 4 to 6 @ George Washington Univ. Jack Morton Aud.   

*Sol Roots & guests @ JVs

* Lucinda Williams @ Strathmore 

*Injury Reserve @ Milkboy Arthouse (rap)

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Wed. 9-25
Toko Telo is a Madagascar supergroup w/ D’Gary, national diva Monika Njava; and Joël Rabesolo,  Malagasy guitarist for free from 6 to 7 pm @ Kennedy Center Millennium Stage
Cat Power w/ Arsun @ Lincoln Theatre
Weyes Blood @ Ottobar
Stereolab w/ Bitchin Bajas @ 930
Lizzo & Ari Lennox @ Anthem (sold out)
Midnight Hour w/ Ali Shaheed Muhammad & guests @ City Winery
Sirius Company in another room @ City Winery
Daniel Norgren ,  Jake Xerxes Fussell @ Black Cat
Abigail Washburn (banjo)  and Wu Fei (guzheng)  special show w/  storytelling & music for kids & families  @ Rhizome

*District of Raga w/ Nistha Raj @ Bossa 


*Backyard Band @ Lucky Strike
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Thurs. 9-26
J. Balvin @ Eaglebank (reggaeton/pop)
Rhiannon Giddens w/ Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi @ Kennedy Center
Robert Cray band @ Birchmere
Lizzo @ Anthem (sold out)
Ala Jaza @ Diamond Lounge
Bob Mould solo @ City Winery
Abigail Washburn (banjo)  and Wu Fei (guzheng) @ Milkboy Arthouse
The Hu @ Black Cat
Pablo’s Brazilian Pagode @ Bossa

* Robert Glasper's Black Radio with special guest Yasiin Bey @ Kennedy Center Reach

*Miranda Lambert @ Royal Farms Arena 

*Jazz take on music of Raymond Scott @ Alexandria History Museum @ Lyceum

*Jake Clemons @ Jammin Java 

*Madlib @ U St Music Hall

* What Band @ Aqua 

*Be'la Dona @ Half Note 
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Fri.  9-27
Blisspop Disco Fest featuring DJ Crazy P @ U St. Music Hall
Blisspop Disco Fest featuring Black Madonna @ 930 Club
Psychedelic Furs @ Baltimore Soundstage
Snoop Dogg & Wu Tang Clan @ Jiffy Lube
A Tribute to Music of Donny Hathaway, Bobby Womack, & Frankie Beverly & Maze, by Jamar Dukes @ Carlyle Club in Alexandria
Abdu Ali @ Ottobar
Toby Love & Bachata Heightz @ The  Palace
Tito Puente Jr @ Bethesda Blues and jazz
Eric Roberson @ City Winery
Frankie Cosmos @ Black Cat
Daryl Davis & Lafayette Gilchrist @ Creative Alliance

*Gloria Trevi & Karol G @ MGM 

*Shirleta settles & Wicked Jezabel @ JVs

*EU at 12 noon @ Wilson Plaza Reagan Bldg. for free

*New Impressionz @ Hangar Club 

*BYB & TOB @ Aqua

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Sat. 9-28


*A music festival celebrating the life of legendary bluesman John Jackson will be held in Woodville, Virginia—where Jackson was born.   The event begins at noon and features performances by Piedmont blues musicians: 

 harmonica player Phil Wiggins, singer-guitarist Eleanor Ellis, guitarist Wayne Henderson and the Virginia Luthiers.  Also performing is Jackson’s nephew Jeffrey Scott, blues artist Robert Glasker and the Rappahannock Unity Choir. The Festival will be held at Eldon Farms, 4432 Sperryville Pike (Route 522), Woodville, VA

Palestinian musician/composer Ramzi Aburedwan and the Dal’Ouna Ensemble partners with the Atlantic Reed Consort to present together a traditional Arabic ensemble and a Western chamber music reed quintet for free from 6 to 7 pm @ Kennedy Center Millennium Stage
Grupo Exterminador Y Viry Sandoval @ Coco Cabana in Hyattsville
Alex Bueno @ Tipico Dominicano
The Good Ones (Trio of Rwandan genocide survivors who play acoustic songs) w/ the Mauls, & Time is Fire @ Rhizome

*Record Producer Ian Brennan w/ a performance by The Good Ones and talking w/ John Waters from 6 to 7 @ Politics & Prose 
Sudor Fest w/ La Chicha de tu Madre , Son La Lucha, La Marvela, Leon City Sounds and more 10 am till @ Columbia Hts Green, 3323 11th St NW
Bluebird Blues Fest 11 am to 5 @ PG Community College w/ 11:00 – 11:30 Full Power Blues; 11:40 – 12:00 David Cole & Main Street Blues; 12:10 – 12:35 Jesi Terrell; 12:45 – 1:15 Memphis Gold; 1:30 – 2:00 Antone “Chooky” Caldwell; 2:15 – 2:45 Clarence “Bluesman” Turner; 3:00 – 3:45 Earth, Wind, and Fire Tribute Band 4:00 – 5:00 Vanessa Collier;   plus inside : 12:30 – 1:15 Mark Puryear, Eric Selby, Jay Summerour;  1:30 – 2:30 Piedmont Bluz
Blisspop Disco Fest w/ Cerrone, Jellybean Benitez,  the Blackbyrds, Sam the Man Burns  @ U St Music Hall
Blisspop Disco Fest w/ Chromeo dj set, & Dam-funk dj set @ 930 Club
Be’la Dona @ Bethesda Blues (keyboardist Cherie’s birthday)
Dressy Bessy, Big Eyes @ Comet
Eric Roberson @ City Winery
Sir Babygirl @ Songbyrd
Vundabar @ Milkboy Arthouse
Generationals @ Black Cat
Outcalls @ Ottobar

*Kunta Kinte Heritage Festival with music 10am to 7 @ Annapolis City dock 

* Proper Utensils @ Takoma Station 

*BYB @ Hashtag Lounge 

*Rare Essence & Suttle @ Aqua 

*Team Familiar 's Familiar Faces reunion show @ Fast Eddies

*Laurence Burney "True Laurels" audio-video  and more music related exhibit by Baltimore music critic @  Eubie Blake Center in Baltimore (through October 12)

*City Paper Crafty Arts and Makers Fest @ Akridge Lot @ Buzzard Point 10am to 5 pm 

* Washington Sound Museum movie (Christylez Bacon goes to Brazil) 5 pm @ Eaton followed by 5:45 Q & A w/ filmmaker & 7 to 8:30 live music by Cissa Paz (DC based Brazilian singer) w/ Pablo Fagundes & Valerio Xavier from Brazil

*Ciara @ Fillmore

*Entertain DC 12 to 4 pm @ 2241 MLK Jr Ave Se w/ DJ Dirty Rico, Englishman, The Experiance Band, Queen over Kings, Verny Varela, Be'la Dona, Side by Side police band
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Sun. 9-29
Cape Verde’s Lucibela (Afro-Portuguese  morna music) for free from 6 to 7 pm @ Kennedy Center Millennium Stage
Stylistics at Birchmere (70s soul harmony)
Turkish Fest on Penn. Ave. DC (between 12th & 14th sts.)
Paulina Rubio @ Warner
Team Dresch, Des Ark, Princess @ Black Cat
WPOC Sunday in the Country w/ Old Dominion, Michael Ray, Jordan Davis, Lauren Alaina, Dylan Scott, Jimmie Allen, Brandon Lay, Filmore @ 2pm @ Merriweather Post
Stone Pleasure Band @ Lamont’s
Landon Cube @ Union Staage
Mulatto @ Songbyrd
Snow tha Product @ Fillmore
Sriram Gopal & friends @ Bossa

* The Zombies @ Montgomery Community College in Rockville 

*Stacy Brooks @ Madams Organ

*salsa & bachata block party @ Veteran' Plaza, Silver Spring 1 to 9pm


*City Paper Crafty Arts and Makers Fest @ Akridge Lot @ Buzzard Point 10am to 5 pm 

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Mon. 9-30
Sintesis (Cuba) for free from 6 to 7 pm @ Kennedy Center Millennium Stage
Los Loney Boys w/ Billy Coulter duo @ Birchmere
John Moreland @ Creative Alliance

*Veronneau @ Blues Alley (jazzy Brazilian) 

*Phum Viphurit @ U St Music Hall (Thailand indie)
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Tues. 10-1
John Moreland @ Birchmere
B Boys w/ Clear Channel @ Songbyrd
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Wed. 10-2
Kokoko @ Rock n Roll Hotel (Congolese and French percussion w/ synths)

47 Soul @ Union Stage ( Palestinian electro)

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Online you should also check out the I Love Music forum/chatboard at ilxor.com and look for the Rolling Outernational World Music 2019, Rolling Afrobeats Afropop 2019,  the Rolling Afro-Latin & the Capital Swamp & Chitlin Circuit  threads
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