DC / Baltimore DMV Global Music and More June 2023 Concert Calendar Gig List

 

DC/Baltimore /DMV Global Music and More – June 2023

  Compiled & curated by Steve Kiviat and edited and updated frequently (go-go shows are often just announced the week of the show). Work your way down day by day.

Calendar is posted, updated, and viewable here on the blog, and events tweeted @stevekiviat. International (mainly African, Caribbean, Brazilian), roots, rap, soul, go-go, indie-rock, punk, pop, club dj dance and more DMV & Baltimore & Annapolis gigs that I am interested in.  Additional gigs added after first posting have been added at bottom of each day and have an *asterisk. Events listed have been found on websites, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, email, postcards, flyers, tik-tok, What’s app, & club voicemails.

 To submit events (for posting) or comments (that are not posted) e-mail stevenkiviat @ gmail.com

 Lots of good free outdoors shows this month and next…Stay safe, have fun ...

Some Highlights:

Friday June 2-Billy woods and Kenny segal  at dc 9 (underground rap) (sold Out)

Sat. June 3- DC Afro Latino Fest free @ Malcolm X Park acts include Afro-Peruvian band Kumanana @ 1:25 ; Joel Santiago @ 2: 15; La Laberinto del Coco from Puerto Rico @ 4:30; Cimafunk @ 6 .

Doo-Wop under the Street Lamp photo exhibit opens  2 to 4 @ Harmony Hall, Ft Washington , MD (runs through July 27)

Leon City Sounds djs 5 year anniversary of providing tropical dj sounds celebration w/ special guests El Frenetico (Lima , Peru) & Utter a Mutter (Brooklyn) @ 10 @ Green Zone 

Sunday June 4- Sirius Company 2 to 4 @ MLK Library Rooftop free (go-go)

Wednesday June 7-  Doo-Wop in DC : From the Street Corner to the Stage photos and more exhibit opens w/ Sounds of Harmony (featuring Ron Poozie Miles of the Rainbows) singing some songs plus “Checking Out Mingering Mike: Washington DC’s Imaginary Soul Superstar artwork exhibit opens from 5:30 to 7:30 (exhibits run through July 24) @ MLK Library         

Tinariwen @ Lincoln Theatre  (north African guitar led band)

Saturday June 10 -Southern soul at Lamont’s with Ms Jody, Jeff Floyd, Hardway Connection, JRed the Nephew

Sunday June 11- Memorial Tribute to late DC soul singer Eddie Jones w/ the Young Bucks Band feat. Earl Jones, Patti Hatchett and more guests . Plus dinner at 7. 6pm to 10 pm @ VFW Post 8950, 9800 Good Luck Road., Lanham  (202)-702-8049

Rare Essence 2 to 4 @ MLK Library Rooftop free (go-go)

Saturday June 17-The Home Rule festival with EU, Brian Jackson (the leader of Gil Scott-Heron’s 1970s bands), Doug Carn and the Home Rule Band, Kahil El'Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, The Experience Band & Show, and Mark G. Meadows & The Movement at the Parks at Walter Reed. The day will include an outdoor record fair, food trucks, local vendors

Afram fest w/ Isley Brothers @ Druid Hill Park Baltimore

Juneteenth benefit celebration of Du-Drop Inn in Emery Grove, MD & fundraiser for Scotland Baptist Church w/ Hardway Connection, Shirleta Settles, Daryl Davis, Ray Apollo Allen, Jay Sumerour, Jimi Dougans, Robbin Kapsalis, Tom Cliford doing soul and more w/ dinner @ 5 and show from 7 to 11

Sunday June 18-Re: Set w/ LCD Soundsystem Jamie XX, Idles, L’Rain @ 4  @ Merriweather Post Pavilion (rock & electronic)

Inner Ear Studio celebration w/ Scream, Bed Maker, La Machetres @ 3 @ Lamont Park (DC punk) (Antonico Tricarico Inner Ear book release)

Thursday June 29 to July 9 – Smithsonian Folklife Fest -Ozarks, Ukraine, Gospel, Faith , blues, folk, Afro-Brazilian, Puerto Rican

 

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Thurs. June 1-

Taj Mahal, Los Lobos, North Mississippi Allstars @ Wolf Trap

Big Boi (Outkast rapper)  w/ Kari Faux @ the Bullpen

Hot Chip @ 930 (sold Out)

Bucky Malone @ Pie Shop

Sirius Company @ Union Oyster (go-go)

TCB @ Power (bouncebeat go-go)

New Impressionz playing “classic throwbacks” @ Restaurant 55 (go-go) cancelled

What Band @ Martini’s (go-go)

Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla Restaurant in Silver Spring (through Sunday)

Afrobeats dj Jamstar @ Spectrum Lounge in Beltsville

Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria (Ethiopian)

Ethiopian music @ MHL Lounge in Falls Church

Local Latin jazz @ Simple Bar

Asmae & Chakib @ Cloud Lounge in Arlington (locally based Arabic/Middle Eastern)

Black Bohemian w/ drummer Trae Crudup @ Mr Braxton’s 8 to 11

“Chuck & Eva” jazz in-series at true reformers bldg. (later in Baltimore) 1 & 2

WPFW r’n’b Dj Lance Reynolds birthday and family friendly 6 to 8 event at Carter Barron parking lot, 4850 Colorado Ave (Thursdays in June via the Rock Creek Conservancy)

Go-go Spring string Jam w/ violinist Michelle Winters, Youth Orchestra, go-go musicians  from 6 to 8 @ Bell Multicultural School

*Sirius Company @ Union Oyster (go-go)

*La Marvela w/ djs Tonik, Rellybelly, Daniel Diaz, Annya plus dj workshop @ Artemis, 3605 14^th St NW

Jo-go Big Band @ Keystone Korner in Baltimore (jazz & go-go)

Phillips after 5 with Be Steadwell

Solo guitar w/ Anthony Pirog, Jeremy Hairston, Ivan Liptak, Mike Gassman @ Rhizome

Djs Jay Swann & Bri Mafia @ 9 @ Current Space in Baltimore;

Pure , Berra @ Comet P Pong;

Verny Varela @ Bossa ( dc based Colombian salsa);

Cherub Tree, diet lite, dyeboy @ Runaway

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Fri. June 2-

 John Legend @ Wolf Trap

Billy woods and Kenny segal  at dc 9 (underground rap) (sold Out)

Paramore @ Capital One Arena

454, *Wifigawd, & more  @ Comet (rap)

Dance Africa Fete w/ Coyaba Youth Ensemble, Kankouran West African Dance Company, Diemensions Dance Tap Ensemble @ 7:30 @ Dance Place (sold out)

Jonny Cohen Love Machine record release at dew drop inn

 Oud Night with Chakib Hilali @ Phoenicia Restaurant and Lounge

Rare Essence @ Fast Eddie’s

Backyard Band @ Restaurant 55

Junkyard Band @ Nipseys (go-go)

Brothers 7 Band w/ guest singer Toni Love (from Hardway Connection) @ Lamont’s 

Alfredo Mojica Group @ Bossa (salsa)

Peace Band @ Twist Lounge (Ethiopian music Fri. through Saturday)

Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria (Ethiopian)

Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla

Ethio Band @ Black Rose Lounge

Dina Paucar @ Papassitos Bar

Sirius Company and Top 5 Band @ Air w/ host Marsha Ambrosius

Lifters (w/ Razz drummer Doug Tull) w/ special guest Abaad Behram from Razz @ Hank Dietle’s (garage and roots rock)

Old School Hiphop & R’n’b djs Jiggamann, Dec, & DJ 100 @ Fatburger in Manassas

2^nd annual Chocolate City Bicycle Ride @ 5 pm w/ a set from TOB and youth bike giveaway @ Anacostia Park

DJ Kayydrizz, DJ Beast and rappers FMG Dez, 36Nokutz, Elonthe Don, Rare Mystik, Wyrm Star, Smooth Water 4 Am @ The Crown

Faycez U Know @ Babylon Falls Church

Natalie Macmaster and Donnell Leahy @ Birchmere

Kinda Evil, Alex Jonestown Massacre @ Runaway

Save your Soul dj event w/ Baby Alcatraz and Rob Macy @ Lithuanian Hall Baltimore

TCB & TOB @ Power

Still Familiar @ 11 @ Shark Bar Waldorf

*Techno in the Park w/ Kotic Couture 7 to 10 @ Malcolm X Park ( a Black Techno Matters event) 

*Afropolitan dc @ St Yves

*DJ Basbousa @ Green Zone

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Saturday June 3-

DC Afro Latino Fest free  @ Malcolm X Park acts include Afro-Peruvian band Kumanana @ 1:25 ; Joel Santiago @ 2: 15; La Laberinto del Coco from Puerto Rico @ 4:30; Cimafunk @ 6 .  Mayor Bowser is speaking briefly @ 3.

Dance Africa DC village celebration w/ Malcolm X dancers @ 10 am; and more through the day including Ni Dembaya @ 2; Soka Tribe @ 5; Elikeh from 6 to 7:30 @ Marist Hall Lawn @ Catholic U

Lagos to Soweto Afrobeat-Amapiano day party @ 3 pm @ Lydia on H St (1427 H St NE)

Doo-Wop under the Street Lamp photo exhibit opens  2 to 4 @ Harmony Hall, Ft Washington , MD (runs through July 27) (there’s also a related DC Doo-wop in DC: From the Street Corner to the Stage exhibit opening at MLK Library on June 7  plus a Mingering Mike Imaginary Soul Superstar one opening June 7)

Washington Folk Fest 12 to 7 @ Glen Echo (Sunday too) (Saturday includes Christylez Bacon, Phil Wiggins & Ian Walters , Sol Roots, Jay Summerour, DC Tango Orchestra Orchest er Prazevica, Bulgarian dance and more . See their website)

Chinatown Community Fest w/ K-pop dancers and more @ 11 am @ Chinatownark , 6^th St NW

Greek Fest with food and a dj at night at St Katherine’s in Falls Church (dj just Sat. night; fest is Friday through Sunday)  

Feid @ MGM National Harbor (Colombian reggaeton/r’n’b/ rap)

Feid after-party at Public Bar Live

John Legend @ Wolf Trap

Eladio Carrion @ Fillmore (Latin trap rap) (resale tix only left)

Hardway Connection (dress western theme party) @ Lamont’s (southern soul)  

Leon City Sounds djs 5 year anniversary of providing tropical sounds celebration w/ special guests El Frenetico (Lima , Peru) & Utter a Mutter (Brooklyn) @ 10 @ Green Zone 

Me & the Boys NRBQ tribute band w/ singer Dave Chappell plus  Johnny Spampinato & the Value Leaders @ 5 and @ 9:30 @ Hank Dietles  After Dark Fund shows)

Argentino Fest @ 3 @  Kenmore middle school in Arlington

Christopher Prince “Loud as the rolling Sea- Songs of Resistance and Recognition” @ 4 pm @ Atlas

Ron Recinos singing Bob Marley’s Exodus @ 7 @ Simple Bar

Orquesta alto Comando, JC Aleman @ Club One  

Sirius Company & Friends @ Fast Eddie’s (go-go)

DMV 18^th annual car, truck, bike, sling shot cruise in  show w/ Junkyard Band, Blacc Print Experience, Project 360, Prosperity Band, Pocket 3 @ 1 to 9pm  @ Geno’s Ballpark in Lothian, MD

Tumbao @  10 @ Bossa (DC Latin dance band)

Peace Band @ Twist Lounge (Ethiopian music Fri. through Saturday)

Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria (Ethiopian)

Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla

Rare Essence @ Aqua

Rock-a-Sonics 8 to 10 @ Capitol Cider House

Subhumans , Upchuck, Little A @ Black Cat (punk)

Shana Tucker (singer /cellist) w/ Amy K Bormet & others @ Montpelier Arts Center ( “ChamberSoul”)

Capital Jazz Fest w/ George Benson, Ne-yo, Corinne Bailey Rae, Stokley, Robert Glasper, and more @ Merriweather Post

Prince birthday party w/ Junie Henderson @ Bethesda Blues and Jazz

Mike’s Dead, the Haunt, Breezy Supreme @ Comet P Pong

Gregory Uribe @ Bossa

Radiator Hospital @ Joe Squared in Baltimore

Smithsonian American Art Pride Family Day w/ Different Drummers, Batala, Snowday 11am to 3.

TCB @ Hangars

Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes @ Birchmere

*Soundscene 2023 @ the Hirshhorn 10 am to 5  

*Freq Flag, Club USA, Bitter Wish @ Slash Run 

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Sun. June 4-

Celebration of Women in Hip Hop w/ host MC Lyte, plus Rapsody, Kash Doll, Bahamadia, Mama Sol @ Kennedy Center

Kaleta & Super Yamba Band free outdoors at 4:30 pm @ Hill Center (old-school afropop)

Harold Melvin’s Blue Notes and Blue Magic @  Bethesda Blues and Jazz (soul) 

Sirius Company 2 to 4    & Relentless Band 1:30 to 4:30@ MLK Library free (go-go)

Dance Africa Fest closing celebration w/ Griot Mama Sylvia Soumah, DC Casineros, and more from 1 to 6 @ Edgewood Arts Center

Washington Folk Fest 12 to 7 with Esther Haynes, Stephen Wade, Chinese Lion Dance, Rock-a-Sonics, Mrs Toretsky’s Nightmare, Machaya Klezmer and many more @ Glen Echo

Queering Sound 23 w/ Ari Voxx, Julie Outrage and more @ Rhizome

Capital Jazz Fest w/ Isley Brothers, Dianna Reeves, Marsha Ambrosius, Jonathan Butler, PJ Morton, Loose Ends, Chelsey Green @ Merriweather Post

El Gato Peter @ Champions Sports Bar

1252 Band @ Lamont’s (soul)

Seven Voices tribute to Patsy Cline @ 4 & 7:30 @ Tonal Park Studios Allyworld

Corey Arceneaux & Zydeco Hot Peppers @ Hank Dietles

Stacy Brooks Band @ Madams Organ (blues/soul)

Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria (Ethiopian)

Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla

Afro X dj party (afrobeats, amapiano, soca, dancehall, rap) 5 to 10 @ Gazuza Lounge

Over Easy Queer dance party  w/ Dj Clamazon, Kristy La Rat, Mothershiester 1 to 6 @ Songbyrd  

Fenne Lily @ Black Cat (indie-folk-pop)

Modern English @ Atlantis (sold out)

Sampa the Great @ 930

Radiator Hospital , Paper Bee , *Clear Channel @ Comet

Pagode y samba @ Bossa

Open streets Brookland on 12^th st NE between Franklin St & Michigan Ave

Backyard Band @ Society Lounge (go-go)

*World Heritage Fest @ Veterans plaza Silver Spring from 1 to 7 pm

*Extended Play w/ djs Ge-ology, Adrian Loving, Bamantha Francesca, Martin Miguel from 3 to 9 @ Mess Hall DC loading dock

*TOB, the Men @ Union Oyster (bouncebeat go-go)

*Ras Band @ Black Rose Lounge in Bailey's Crossroads Falls Church (Ethiopian)*

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Mon June 5

Nucleus and Friends Band 5 G from 6 to 9 @ Westminster Church SW Blue Monday Blues

Franz Ferdinand @ Atlantis (sold out)

*Salsa dance @ the Renegade in Clarendon

*experimental music @ Rhizome

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Tuesday June 6 –

DJ Mesay @ Champion Lounge in Falls Church (Ethiopian)

Temples, Post Animal @ Black Cat (Brit psych rock headliners)

Palace @ 930 Club

Pixies @ Atlantis (sold out)

*Bruno Mars @ MGM National Harbor 

*Blacc Print Experience @ Martini's in White Plains (go-go) 

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Wed, June 7-

Tinariwen @ Lincoln Theatre  (north African guitar led band)

Doo-Wop in DC : From the Street Corner to the Stage photos and more exhibit opens w/ Sounds of Harmony (featuring Ron Poozie Miles of the Rainbows) singing some songs plus “Checking Out Mingering Mike: Washington DC’s Imaginary Soul Superstar artwork exhibit opens from 5:30 to 7:30 (exhibits run through July 24) @ MLK Library  

Teen Mortgage, Grady, Fantazma @ DC Punk Archives show @ MLK library roof  6:30 to 8:30

Sirius Company @ Sobe (go-go)

New Impressionz @ Babylon Café Falls Church (go-go)

Salsa and bachata dancing at Fells Point Tavern in Baltimore

Jo-go Project @ Songbyrd (jazz & go-go)

*Kumana! Opening night of production about the Santa Cruz siblings who led the resurgence of Afro-Peruvian music, dance, art in Peru ; @ 8 @ Gala Hispanic Theatre

Amazons, Dot Dash, Kinda Evil @ Quarry House

*Bruno Mars @ MGM night 2

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Thurs. June 8-

Valerie June @ the Howard Theatre ( afro-folk-r’n’b) w/ Nate Bergman opening

Las Cafeteras @ Merriweather Colorburst Park (East LA Afro-Mexican roots music ) CANCELLED DUE TO SMOKE IN AIR *rescheduled for Tues June 13 Las Cafeteras @ 7 @ LakeFront Park in Columbia, MD

Johnny Rawls & guests @ 9 @ JVs (blues and soul)

Cheick Hamala & Griot Street @ Bossa

Larry and Joe @ Hill Center (Latingrass & Venezuelan sounds)

Logic, Fat Trel, Ade @ Echostage (DMV rap)

 WPFW r’n’b Dj Lance Reynolds family friendly 6 to 8 event at Carter Barron parking lot, 4850 Colorado Ave (Thursdays in June via the Rock Creek Conservancy) CANCELLED DUE TO SMOKE IN AIR

Irene Jalenti & band (includes Elijah Balbed ) @ Blues Alley (Jazz singer recording live album)

Sirius Company @ Union Oyster (go-go)

What Band @ Martini’s (go-go)

Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla Restaurant in Silver Spring (through Sunday)

Afrobeats dj Jamstar @ Spectrum Lounge in Beltsville

Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria (Ethiopian)

Ethiopian music  w/ *Ethio Band & guest vocalists  @ MHL Lounge in Falls Church

Local Latin jazz @ Simple Bar

Asmae @ Cloud Lounge in Arlington (locally based Arabic/Middle Eastern)

“One Hand Don’t Clap” @ 7:30 @ AFI Silver (  Kavery Dutta Kaul's newly-restored 1988 documentary traces the history of calypso and soca music from their birth in the African and East Indian traditions of Trinidad and Tobago to their spread through the country's worldwide diaspora) 35th Anniversary screening with filmmaker Kavery Dutta Kaul and reception hosted by Camella’s Kitchen (June 8 screening).

Cinema Hearts , the Endlings @ Songbyrd (pop-rock)

Flack @ VFW 350 Hells Bottom

MDC @ Runaway

Grandsons @ Hank Dietles

*Yob, Cave In, Darsombra @ Ottobar 

*Danube Sessions w/ Orchester Prazevica live @ Green Zone

*Nag Champa Art Ensemble 7 to 10 @ Shanklin Hall, 2325 18th St NW 

*Cory Townes talkin about N.E.R.D.'s "In Search: of album @ 7 Eaton 

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Fri. June 9-

Anthony Hamilton @ MGM

Dawn Richard @ Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (free but advance registrations full)

Las Cafeteras @ 8 @ Lubber Run (East LA Afro-Mexican roots music )

Hello Seahorse! @ Union Stage (Mexican alt-rock)

Sharpoorji Pallonji’s Mughal-E-Azam stage drama @ Lyric in Baltimore (through the 11th)

Combinacion de la Habana Giancarlo Rodriguez y la Tremenda @ the Palace

Rakim y Ken-y @ CocoCabana  in Adelphi

Lauryn Hill @ Wolf Trap

Tank and the Bangas @ Atlantis (sold Out)

TLC, Shaggy, En Vogue and Sean Kingston @ Jiffy Lube

Sabor Sabor, Histeria, Bonanza @ 9 @ Whitfield Studios

Ricardo Arjona @ Capital One

Booty rex queer pride party w/ Kristy La Rat, Natty Boom, Mothershiester and more  @ Black Cat

Oud Night with Chakib Hilali @ Phoenicia Restaurant and Lounge

Rare Essence @ Fast Eddie’s

Backyard Band @ Restaurant 55

Junkyard Band @ Nipseys (go-go)

TCB & *TOB*  @ Power

Brothers 7 Band w/ guest singer Toni Love (from Hardway Connection) @ Lamont’s 

Alfredo Mojica Group @ Bossa (salsa)

Peace Band @ Twist Lounge (Ethiopian music Fri. through Saturday)

Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria (Ethiopian)

Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla

DAB Family Jam w/ Dior Ashley Brown , DJ Rachi, Farah Flosscett, Riz da Great, DJ Franky J, Pink Moni, DJ Face for a fundraiser for the DC Music Summit @ 6 pm @ the Anacostia Sandlot

Hast de Feuer presents Aurora Halal, James Bangura, Ron Jackson, Native Sun, Sir E.U. rapping, Scop13 @ 10 pm @ 618 H St NW

Earth, Wind & Fire Tribute Band @ 7:30 @ Grist Mill Park

Cumbia Heights @ Songbyrd

Still Familiar @ 11 @ Shark Bar Waldorf

*Black Techno Matters presents Show Me Love pride happy hour w/ dj Dee Clark playing all vinyl set of 1990 to 1993 records that were played at the New Eagle Creek Saloon, from 6 to 8 @ Stable, 336 Randolph Place NE  

*Seth Kibel album release @ An Die Musik (klezmer)

*Samara Joy @ Keystone Korner (jazz singer) 

*Ko-C, Libianca and more @ Karma 

*DJ Remi Hassoun @ Green Zone (Arabic)

*Pianist Lafayette Gilchrist & Masonic Trip Masters band 6 to 9 @ Westminster Church SW (jazz w/ a touch of old-school go-go & more) 

*Blacc Print Experience @ Takoma Station (go-go)*

*Dance Club Pride Event DJ Delish w/Joyce Lim, Tommy C, Baronhawk Poitier @ Owl Room*

*Fadi Jano @ Cloud Lounge Arlington (Middle Eastern)

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Saturday June 10 -

Southern soul at 2 @ Lamont’s with Ms Jody, Jeff Floyd, Hardway Connection, JRed the Nephew

All Souls Church NW DC –*Songs of the Living Community Sing with Toshi Reagon 6 to 8  afro futurist woman event sponsored by Strathmore w/ free registration on Strathmore Parable of the Sower page

Pixies, Franz Ferdinand, Bully @ Anthem (sold out)

Yo La Tengo @ Atlantis (sold out)

Tim Woodson & the Heirs of Harmony , Chevela & the Spiritual Voices & more gospel @ 6pm @ Greater Foundation Holiness Temple, 3816 Bexley Place, Suitland- Silver Hill , MD

Sharpoorji Pallonji’s Mughal-E-Azam stage drama @ Lyric in Baltimore (through the 11th)

Tinner Hill Blues fest w/ Dumpstaphunk, Joe Louis Walker, the Boneshakers, Gaye Adegbalola, Shamans of Sound, Gordon Sterling,  from 12 to 8 pm @ Cherry Hill Park in Falls Church

Seventh Stanine Fest w/ Matt Cohen, Bushmeat Sound, Theftable, DJ PJ Brownlee, Poem-emcees, Brian Harnetty, Timothy Bailey & the Humans, Marcus J. Moore, Devin Ocampo w/ * Jerry Busher, The Caribbean, Bill Nace, DJ Michael Berstein, Boat Burning, Savak, Zwei Null Zwei 12 to 8:30 @ Rhizome

Caribbean Wine , music , and food fest w/ Etana  through the 12^th @ Muldoon Farms/Potomac Polo Arena, Poolesville, MD

Backyard Band @ 5 Sisters Lounge

Karl Straub Combo @ VFW Hells Bottom

Taste of the Islands block party @ Sandlot Anacostia 

El Chaval de la Bachata @ VIP Room Baltimore

Los Rolands de la Ceiba @ Pappasitoos Bar (punta rock)

La Autoridad de La Sierra @ Bar Azul in Gaithersburg

Messiah @ Mangos in Hyattsville

Ceky Viciny @ Leyla’s

Junkyard Band, DC Vybe, Sirius Company , Top 5 12 to 8 pm @ John Hensley Park, 4200 Eisenhower Ave. (Eventbrite)

Tumbao @  10 @ Bossa (DC Latin dance band)

Peace Band @ Twist Lounge (Ethiopian music Fri. through Saturday)

Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria (Ethiopian)

Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla

Rare Essence @ Aqua (go-go)

Mega Bolivian fest  w/ Sabor Sabor, Histeria, Bonanza @ Bull Run Park

Pressure Busspipe and Munit Mesfin @ Crossroads 2

Cymone Lovett and the Dream doing Prince @ 8 @ Party HQ in Bowie Town Center

Daryl Davis (swing blues and rock pianist) @ 7:30 @ Lorton Workhouse Arts Center

Eastern Standard Time,  Scotch Bonnets for Jump Up Records anniversary @ Songbyrd (neo-ska)

Lucy Kaplansky @ Jammin Java (folk)

*Ottobar punk rock flea market 11am

*New Birth: The Baltimore Club Revolution w/ Rod Lee, DJ Boobie, Brightstar Nature, Kade Young @ Crown Pink Room

*WTMD 20th anniv. w/ Dan Deacon and more @ B &O Railroad Museum

*Kix @ RamsHead Baltimore (rock) 

*Samara Joy @ Keystone Korner (jazz singer)

*DJ Kristy La Rat @ 500 8th St SE 

*Jogo Project @ 5 @ Good Hope Community Center Silver Spring (jazz & go-go) 

*Crown Vic's Weird World vinyl dj @ Green Zone 

*DJ False Witness @ collective Noxeema Jackson's Rage event @ 10 @ 618 H St NW 

*TCB @ quick Flight Live, Hotel Charles Bar *

*book & vinyl swap w/ vinyl djs and Dior Ashley Brown @ 2 to 6pm @ Eaton , 1203 K St NW

*Corcoran Holt w/ Farafina Kan Percussion Ensemble 5 to 8 @ lawn @ Walter Reed (rsvp encouraged at the parks dc dot com) (jazz and African dance) 

*What Band, New Impressionz, Obsession @ 9 @ Fast Eddies

*Capital Pride parade starts @ 3 @ 14th & T Sts NW & finishes @ 21st & P 4 hours later

* The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra honors the centennial of the Duke Ellington Orchestra with an all-Ellington program featuring works from across the broad spectrum of his output, from the early days in Harlem to his later “Sacred Concerts.” 7 pm @ Smithsonian Natural History Museum

*Saturday Night Rumba @ Simple Bar 

*The Tunde Fitila Band @ 8  to 2 am @ Eko House (DMV) in Rockville (Nigerian music band) 

*Drain @  Baltimore Soundstage

*TOB @ Hangars 

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Sunday June 11-

Memorial Tribute to late DC soul singer Eddie Jones w/ the Young Bucks Band feat. Earl Jones, Patti Hatchett and more guests . Plus dinner at 7. 6pm to 10 pm @ VFW Post 8950, 9800 Good Luck Road., Lanham  (202)-702-8049

Sharpoorji Pallonji’s Mughal-E-Azam stage drama @ Lyric in Baltimore

Yo La Tengo @ 930 Club  

Me: You (a collaboration between 2 founding members of Mourning a BLKstar) (punky jazzy r’n’b);  Crate O(atmospheric metal); Zottoh (Argentina drone noise) @ Rhizome  

“One Hand Don’t Clap” @ 7:30 @ AFI Silver (  Kavery Dutta Kaul's newly-restored 1988 documentary traces the history of calypso and soca music from their birth in the African and East Indian traditions of Trinidad and Tobago to their spread through the country's worldwide diaspora)

“Bebo” @ 7:30 @ AFI Silver (documentary tells the story of  influential Cuban Latin jazz pianist/bandleader  Bebo Valdés)

Stone Pleasure Band @ Lamont’s

Backyard Band 3 to 8 @ Babylon Falls Church

Requiem @ the Crown (drone music)

Taste of Peru @ 11 am @ UDC

Carnival nation Caribbean American Heritage Fest @ Veterans Plaza in Silver Spring (Eventbrite)  

Buddy Guy, Samantha Fish, & Robert Randolph  at Wolf Trap (blues legend guitarist/singer headliner on final tour)

Rare Essence @ 2 to 4pm @  MLK  Library

Haitian Heritage & Cultural Festival w/ band Lokal 2 to 6 @ Dacha Navy Yard

Stacy Brooks Band @ Madams Organ

Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria (Ethiopian)

Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla

Afro X dj party (afrobeats, amapiano, soca, dancehall, rap) 5 to 10 @ Gazuza Lounge

Friendship gathering honoring Dave Elliott w/ Memphis Gold, Big Joe Maher band & more 12 noon to 8 @ VFW Post 8241,  1051 Spring Hill Rd , Mclean

R’n’b club talks Prince at 12 noon @ Songbyrd

Alex Lahey @ 7 @ Songbyrd

Tweet @ Birchmere (r’n’b)

*Caribbean American Heritage Fest at Veterans Plaza Silver Spring

*Soweto global dj's amapiano music 3 pm to 12 mdt @ Eaton Workshop Wild Days

*Samara Joy @ Keystone Korner 

*Caribbean and cumbia music w/ Pan Masters, Los Nuevos Diablos de la Cumbia, Eclipse International  3:30 to 6 pm @ @ Fairwood Community Park in Glen Dale, MD

* The Funset's annual Prince birthday celebration w/ djs & maybe a movie  @ 5 @ Dew Drop Inn

*DJ Lunch Money & Grits event returns, spinning soul, funk, reggae 8 to 12 @ All Souls Bar  

*Ethiopian music w/ *Ethio Band & guest vocalists @ MHL Lounge in Falls Church

*Ras Band @ Black Rose Lounge in Bailey's Crossroads Falls Church (Ethiopian)*

* Bese Saka 5th anniversary w/ djs Timmy Regisford (Shelter NYC), Michael Jorner, DJ Myty, Ed Ramsey @ Baltimore Soundstage (danceclub music) 

*Backyard Band @ 3 to 8 @ Babylon Falls Church (go-go)

*TOB @ Union Oyster

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Monday June 12

B4 Brothers from Other Mothers from 6 to 9 @ Westminster Church SW Blue Monday Blues

Bebo” @ 5 @ AFI Silver (documentary tells the story of  influential Cuban Latin jazz pianist/bandleader  Bebo Valdés)

*Phony Ppl @ Union Stage (soul-funk) 

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Tuesday June 13-

Sir EU  & Pinky Killacorn @ Songbyrd

DJ Mesay @ Champion Lounge in Falls Church (Ethiopian)

Black Midi @ Howard Theatre

*Blacc Print Experience @ Martini's in White Plains (go-go) 

*Las Cafeteras @ 7 @ LakeFront Park in Columbia, MD (East LA Afro-Mexican roots music )

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Wednesday June 14-

Sirius Company @ Sobe (go-go)

New Impressionz @ Babylon Café Falls Church (go-go)

Salsa and bachata dancing at Fells Point Tavern in Baltimore

Tank and the Bangas @ Atlantis (sold Out)

Dim Wizard (David Combs) @ Quarry House w/ Trust Fund, American Poetry Club

*Kassa Overall w/ Black Assets @  Creative Alliance (jazz and funk)

* Teach Me How to Dabke w/ Jinan @ Green Zone 

*William Wardlaw & Keith Busey & the Unit Band @ Eloquent Touch Ballroom in Marlow Heights, MD

* 930 Club Memorial for soundperson Shawn Gus Vitale @ 6 @ 930 Club for friends and family 

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Thursday June 15-

Angelique Kidjo @ Strathmore (afro-pop)

WPFW r’n’b Dj Lance Reynolds family friendly 6 to 8 event at Carter Barron parking lot, 4850 Colorado Ave (Thursdays in June via the Rock Creek Conservancy)

Sirius Company @ Union Oyster (go-go)

What Band @ Martini’s (go-go)

Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla Restaurant in Silver Spring (through Sunday)

Afrobeats dj Jamstar @ Spectrum Lounge in Beltsville

Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria (Ethiopian)

Ethiopian music w/ *Ethio Band & guest vocalists @ MHL Lounge in Falls Church

Local Latin jazz @ Simple Bar

Asmae & *Chakib  @ Cloud Lounge in Arlington (locally based Arabic/Middle Eastern)

Elikeh @ 7 @ Lakefron Live in Columbia

Stuck, Sensor Ghost, Power Washer @ Quarry House

Juneteenth event w/ storyteller & roots musician Robert B Jones @ Library of Congress Coolidge Aud.

*Reggae and ska dj @ Eaton Workshop Wild Days 

*Erphaan Alves @ Karma (soca) 

*Soul Sauce vinyl dj night w/ Kenny M @ Green Zone

*Kate Davis @ Songbyrd (indie-alt singer/songwriter) 

*Suttle 7 to 11  @  Takoma Station (go-go) 

*Verny Varela @ 9:30 @ Bossa (salsa )

*West Kensingtons , Dunia & Aram @ Wonderland Ballroom (ska )

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Friday June 16-

Re: Set Fest w/ Boygenius, Clairo, Dijon, Bartees Strange @ Merriweather Post

Home Rule Music Fest w/ Kassa Overall @ Songbyrd

Water From Your Eyes, Ecstatic International,  Emotional World 2 Comet P Pong

Luis Angel el Flaco, Marco Flores, Banda Jerez, & Polo Gonzales @ CocoCabana

Maelo Ruiz @ Diamond Lounge

Bad Moves w/ Ekko Astral @ Ottobar

Intense Dhamaka with Mika Singh @ MGM National Harbor

Lakefest Live w/ Shamarr Allen from 6 to 7:15 ; Judith Hill 7:30 to 9; Dupont Brass 9:15 to 10:30;  in Columbia, MD

Oud Night with Chakib Hilali @ Phoenicia Restaurant and Lounge

Rare Essence @ Fast Eddie’s

Backyard Band @ Restaurant 55

Junkyard Band @ Nipseys (go-go)

TCB , *TOB @ Power

Brothers 7 Band w/ guest singer Toni Love (from Hardway Connection) @ Lamont’s 

Alfredo Mojica Group @ Bossa (salsa) & *DJ Lu upstairs (reggaeton, Latin Pop) 

Peace Band @ Twist Lounge (Ethiopian music Fri. through Saturday)

Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria (Ethiopian)

Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla

Be’la Dona @  Bethesda Blues and Jazz

Portside in Old Town Alexandria music fest through Saturday . Friday includes jazz singer Sharon Clark 8:15 to 9pm

Rose Moraes Forro Party @ 8 @ Lubber Run (accordion driven northeastern Brazilian dance music)

NRBQ @ Birchmere

Still Familiar @ 11 @ Shark Bar Waldorf

Pile 'o Rocks @ 9 @ Hank Dietles (Rockpile, Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds pub rock cover band) 

* Gilbert Torossian dj @ Green Zone * ( Arabic /Armenian)

*Rare Essence appearance @ 4 pm @ Mystics Fan Fest @ Sycamore & Oak, 1110 Oak Dr SE

* Jah Izreal live reggae sound system performance @ 10 @ Appioo African Bar 

*Monica Giraldo @ Hamilton Live (Colombian singer-songwriter) 

*DC Mayor's Office on Caribbean Affairs presents Caribbean Cultural Concert:  @ 5:00 p.m. @  Freedom Plaza (1301 Pennsylvania Avenue NW)

*Fadi Jano & *Rawi @ Cloud Lounge Arlington (Middle Eastern)*

*Akua Allrich  & the Tribe 5 to 8 @ the Parc Tysons, 8508 Leesburg Pike (Jazz & African)  

*Dance Club w/Tommy Cornelis, Baronhawk Poiter @ Jimmy Valentine's (techno, electro) 

*Sirius Company @ Ivy City Smokehouse (go-go) 

*New Impressionz, ABM @ Hangars 

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Saturday June 17-

Kehlani, Syd & UMI @ jiffy Lube Live

Re:set Fest w/ Steve Lacy, James Blake, Toro y Moi, Foushee @ Merriweather Post

The Home Rule festival with EU, Brian Jackson (the leader of Gil Scott-Heron’s 1970s bands), Doug Carn and the Home Rule Band, Kahil El'Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, The Experience Band & Show, and Mark G. Meadows & The Movement at the Parks at Walter Reed. 1 to 9 .The day will include an outdoor record fair, food trucks, local vendors

Afram fest w/ Isley Brothers @ Druid Hill Park Baltimore

Juneteenth benefit celebration of Du-Drop Inn in Emery Grove, MD & fundraiser for Scotland Baptist Church w/ Hardway Connection, Shirleta Settles, Daryl Davis, Ray Apollo Allen, Jay Sumerour, Jimi Dougans, Robbin Kapsalis, Tom Cliford doing soul and more w/ dinner @ 5 and show from 7 to 11 @ Bethesda Blues 

Annapolis Juneteenth Parade and Festival with Rakim and Be ‘la Dona and gospel singer Le’Andria Johnson

Juneteenth @ Black Rock with Chuck Brown Band

Trombone Shorty, Ziggy Marley, Mavis Staples @ Wolf Trap

Motown explosion w/ Dynamic Superiors , Jimi Smooth, Kammy Kearse, Linda Harris , Jeannete Harris David Cole @ 7 @ @ Westminster Church

Queering Sound closing night @ Rhizome

Silver Spring blues fest

Lakefront Live Fest w/ Wilde Lake Steel Drum Band @ 1 to 1:45; Buffalo Nichols @ 3;15 to 4:15; Quitapenas Afro-Latin 7:30 to 8:45 pm; Garifuna Collective from 9 to 10:30 pm free in Columbia

Taiwanese Cultural Heritage Night w/ music & dance @ 7:30 @ Ossian Hall Park in Annandale

Grupo Ladron, Los Cumbianberos de Morazon @ Papasitos Bar

Los Rolands de Honduras @ Club One

Tumbao @  10 @ Bossa (DC Latin dance band); *Maggie Yacoub Egyptian jazz @ 8; DJ Lu upstairs @ 10:30 w/ reggaeton, Latin pop, bachata, salsa

Peace Band @ Twist Lounge (Ethiopian music Fri. through Saturday)

Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria (Ethiopian)

Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla

Rare Essence @ Aqua (go-go)

Backyard Band @ Fast Eddies

TCB, Raw Image, UCB, Reaction, New Impressionz, TOB @ 9 m @ ECC, 2154 24^th Place NE

Columbia Pike Blues Fest w/ Judith Hill, Annika Chambers & Paul DesLauriers, Bobby Thompson, Gayle Harrod Band,  Spice Cake Blues 1 to 8:30 in Arlington

Juneteenth celebration w/ DC Vybe 12 to 4 @ Safeway, 2845 Alabama Ave. SE

Portside in Old Town Alexandria music fest w/ flamenco 1:15 to 2pm;  Ethiopian singer & dancer Kalkidan Meshesha 2:30 to 3:15; Oh He Dead 3:45 to 4:30; Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble 6:15 to 7:15; Hermanos Galvin Orquesta Latin 7:45 to 9

Veronneau w/ guest musicians @ 8 @ Lubber Run (world-jazz)

Home Rule Fest after party @ Songbyrd

NRBQ @ Ottobar

Atlantic Starr @ Birchmere

*Crown Vic's Weird World vinyl dj'ing @ Eaton Workshop Allegory Room 

*Curating Sound: The Inner Ear of Don Zientara book by Antonia Tricarico release and exhibit opening 7 to 10 pm

*Johnson Lee from Joe's Record Paradise vinyl dj @ Green Zone*

*Juneteenth 12 to 5 with Rare Essence @ Watkins Regional Park in Upper Marlboro, MD 

*Loudon Juneteenth w/ Mature Clientele (go-go) & Sir Mikey & Eclipse Band (reggae) 12 to 6 @ Ida Lee Park, Leesburg, VA 

*Corvo @ Slash Run 

*Teknocumbia w/ Ultrathem, Wannabe, Kristy La Rat, Cybersyn, Lasokko, & more @ Haydees 6303 GA Ave NW 

*Bed Maker, Teen Mortgage @ 8 @ Ka-Chunk Records in Annapolis (punk) 

*DJ Nitekrawler w/ funk 45s @ 10 pm @ Showtime Lounge 

*Caribbean Charity Event  w/ Barbados soca monarch Mikey, Trevon Vibez (Guyana ), Image Band @ 4pm  @ Canopy on the Boardwalk @ National harbor

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Sunday June 18-

Afro Soca wine, food, and music fest 11 am to 5 @ Anne Arundel Fairgrounds (Eventbrite)

Meshell Ndegeocello  @ Kennedy Center (r'n'b) 

Wednesday , Tenci @ Black Cat (rock ) (sold out)

Re: Set w/ LCD Soundsystem Jamie XX, Idles, L’Rain @ 4  @ Merriweather Post Pavilion

Bar-Kays @  Bethesda Blues and Jazz

Neptune, Model Home, Special World  @ Rhizome

Inner Ear Studio celebration w/ Scream, Bed Maker, La Machetres @ 3 @ Lamont Park (DC punk) (Antonico Tricarico Inner Ear book release

Lakefront Live Fest w/ G4L the Wilde Lake High School Step team from 12  to 12:20pm; Line Dancing w/ Dancing diva April 12:35 to 1:50; Deborah Bond 2:05 to 3:20; JoGo Project @ 4 to 5:15; Delfeayo Marsalis 5:30 to 7 free in Columbia

Trombone Shorty, Ziggy Marley, Mavis Staples @ Wolf Trap

Heavenly songs gospel fathers day show w/ the Fantastic Violinaires, Donny Darryl & the Joyboys, the Mcduffies, 4 His Glory, James Hillian and more @ 4 pm @ Meridian Hill Baptist Church, Capitol Heights, MD  

Grupo Miramar @ La Villa in Gaithersburg

Grupo Exterminador @ VIP Room

Fathers Day

Black Alley @ 2 to 4pm @  MLK  Library roof

Stacy Brooks Band @ Madams Organ

Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria (Ethiopian)

Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla

Afro X dj party (afrobeats, amapiano, soca, dancehall, rap) 5 to 10 @ Gazuza Lounge

Afram Fest day 2 @ Druid Hill Park Baltimore

Adamare and Jru Anthony @ Union Stage

Proverbs reggae Band @ 7 @ Allen Pond Park Amphitheatre in Bowie

Atlantic Starr @ Birchmere

Dave Chappell Band 2 to 4:30 @ Hank Dietles 

*Ethiopian music w/ *Ethio Band & guest vocalists @ MHL Lounge in Falls Church*

*Ras Band @ Black Rose Lounge in Bailey's Crossroads Falls Church (Ethiopian)*

*Liber8 DC w/ Black Techno Matters dj Bernard plus Nia Wave, Suzi Analogue, Deforrest Brown Jr., DJ Underdog, Jahsonic and more @ the Owl Room *

*Suttle @ 5 Sisters Lounge

*Homeless benefit show w/ Malik Dope, Nims, Alex Purdy, Cam Murdoch, DJ Bri Mafia , Valley Delinquent, Scolla @ Songbyrd *  

*Hailu Amerga, Dibekulu @ Privilege (Ethiopian) 

*TOB @ Union Oyster 

*Still Familiar @ Restaurant 55 

*Hookie Weekend soca and Caribbean closer-Riddim & Road: House of Cards 2 to 8 @ Rosecroft Raceway, Ft. Washington. MD 

*Remodeled outdoor basketball court ribbon cutting 1 to 5 with New Impressionz (maybe @ 3:30) @ 1330 V St NW (13 & V st NW) (bouncebeat go-go) 

*Backyard @ Aqua

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Mon. June 19-

 Step Afrika step Xplosion  w/ 5 local step teams @ Strathmore

Juneteenth Don’t Mute DC go-go crank and conversation honoring DC urbanwear and sneakers pioneers event w/ TOB & *Black Alley* from 2 to 6 at new retail location Sycamore & Oak, 1110 Oak Dr SE  next to ESA Arena  

Juneteenth w/ Experience Band & Show and Too Much Talent Band, *Fly Zyah, Dev Duf plus family activities 11 am to 4 pm @ Anacostia Museum

Wyclef Jean and Tarrus Riley, *Patrice Roberts, *Gyptian, *Ricardo Dru & djs Ablaze, Ricky Platinum, Destiny Sound & more @ 12:30  Juneteenth @ was Howard County Fairgrounds (Caribbean)  *Moved to Anthem DC at 5 pm *

Blues *w/ Clarence Turner & the Muleman & band from 6 to 9 @ Westminster Church SW Blue Monday Blues

Sylvan Esso @ Atlantis (sold out)

Cindy Blackman Santana trio @  Bethesda Blues and Jazz

* EU, gospel singer Anthony Brown, EWF tribute band, Image Band (Caribbean ) @ 12 noon @ Black Lives Matter Plaza 

*Jazz4 Justice fest w/ Alison Crockett, Herb Scott, Brent Birckhead w/ Jazz 4 Justice Allstars 6 to 9 pm @ Busboys & Poets Brookland, 625 Monroe St NE 

*Juneteenth show w/ BWC Chorus, Ras Lidj Reggae-go-go, Rythm & Crank go-go, spoken word, fire dancers, dj craig @ One DC Black Workers Ctr & Lot, 2500 MLK Jr Ave SE 

*dj Jahsonic & Salah Ananse @ Owl Room*

*Integriti Reeves @ Blues Alley (jazz singer)*

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Tuesday June 20-

CeCe Wynans w/ National Symphony Orchestra @ Kennedy Center

Protomartyr @ Black Cat (postpunk)

DJ Mesay @ Champion Lounge in Falls Church (Ethiopian)

Wavves, Cloud Nothings @ Union Stage

Califone @ Quarry House

Happy Together tour w/ Turtles, Little Anthony, Gary Puckett & the Union Gap, the Vogues, the Classics IV, Cowsills @ Birchmere

*Christone Kingfish Ingram @ 8 x 10 in Baltimore (blues)

*The Waco Brothers (Jon Langford of Mekons) w/ Highballers @ Pearl Street Live

*Blacc Print Experience @ Martini's in White Plains (go-go) 

* Caseroloops , La Pia Paez @ 7 @ Simple Bar 

*Dev Duff @ Sankofa , 2714 GA Ave NW 

*Afro-Latin Dance Party w/ Kizomba dj Charlie Devine & dance lesson 7 to 9pm @ Veterans Plaza Silver Spring 

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Wed. June 21-

Sirius Company @ Sobe (go-go)

New Impressionz @ Babylon Café Falls Church (go-go)

Salsa and bachata dancing at Fells Point Tavern in Baltimore

*Souls of Mischief @ Baltimore Soundstage (rap) 

*Habbina Habbina (Middle Eastern surf music) w/ Soroche (DC cumbia psych ska rock) @ Rhizome 

*Saleka @ Songbyrd (r'n'b) 

*TCB @ Martini's in Ft Washington (bouncebeat go-go) 

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Thurs. June 22-

Souls of Mischief -93 til Infinity  30^th anniversary tour @ Howard Theatre (hiphop) 

Christone Kingfish Ingram blues guitarist opening for Steve Miller band @ Wolf Trap

“Pieces of Me: Music, Memory, and Club Photography”- Dr. Natalie Hopkinson & panelists Dr Symone Campbell, Thomas Sayers Ellis (go-go photographer & author of Maverick Room), Maleka Glee, & Latoya Patterson all talk go-go photography @ 7 pm @ Busboys and Poets on 14^th street  

Jerry Harrison & Adrian Belew  and band doing Talking Heads Remain in Light @ Lincoln Theatre

WPFW r’n’b Dj Lance Reynolds family friendly 6 to 8 event at Carter Barron parking lot, 4850 Colorado Ave (Thursdays in June via the Rock Creek Conservancy)

Boza w/ Mach & Daddy @ Rio Cantina

 Sirius Company    Mab 2,0 @ Union Oyster (go-go)

What Band @ Martini’s (go-go)

Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla Restaurant in Silver Spring (through Sunday)

Afrobeats dj Jamstar @ Spectrum Lounge in Beltsville

Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria (Ethiopian)

Ethiopian music   w/ *Ethio Band & guest vocalists @ MHL Lounge in Falls Church

Local Latin jazz @ Simple Bar

Asmae @ Cloud Lounge in Arlington (locally based Arabic/Middle Eastern)

Live Skull, Quattracenta, J Robbins @ Ottobar

*Bucky Malone @ Crown Back Bar (rap) 

*Gladys Knight @ MGM National Harbor 

*Mazboota w/ Fady D all vinyl dj @ Green Zone *

*DJ Grand Ancestor spinning dub @ Owl Room

*Nag Champa @ Shanklin Hall 

*Rare Essence @ @ Merriweather Colorburst Park (free but evite registration suggested) POSTPONED tba 

*Bonny Doon, John Andrews & the Yawns @ Comet P Pong 

*Pablo's Brazilian Pagode night @ Bossa 

*Brandee Younger (black jazz harpist) @ Creative Alliance 

*Elikeh @ Veterans plaza Silver Spring

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Friday June 23-

Witch w/ Death Valley Girls, & Abraxas @ Black Cat (Zambia garage rock w/ one original member)

Charlie Wilson and Babyface @ Wolf Trap (r'n'b)

The Revelers @ 7:30 @ Grist Mill Park, 4710 Mt Vernon Mem Highway in Fairfax County part of Alexandria.(Cajun swamp pop w/ members of Red Stick Ramblers  & Pine Leaf Boys)

Nathan Williams zydeco band @ NGA jazz in the Garden series Cancelled

Hubby Jenkins @ Archie Edwards Blues Workshop in Hyattsville

La Banda Blanca of Honduras @ Diamond Lounge

Lupillo Rivera, Oscar Maydon & Betillo Guerrero @ the Palace (corridos)

Mariela Shaker and Riyad Nicolas free from 6 to 7 @ Kennedy Center Millennium Stage (& streamed on KC FB & Youtube) (Syrian refugees violinist and pianist )

Oud Night with Chakib Hilali @ Phoenicia Restaurant and Lounge

Rare Essence late  @ Fast Eddie’s

Backyard Band @ Restaurant 55

Junkyard Band @ Nipseys (go-go)

TCB  & *TOB* @ Power

Brothers 7 Band w/ guest singer Toni Love (from Hardway Connection) @ Lamont’s 

Alfredo Mojica Group @ Bossa (salsa)

Peace Band @ Twist Lounge (Ethiopian music Fri. through Saturday)

Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria (Ethiopian)

Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla

Eric Scott @ 8 @ Lubber Run (pop-soul)

The Set r’n’b dj party @ Howard Theatre

Still Familiar @ 11 @ Shark Bar Waldorf

Tarsha Fitzgerald presents voices of Motown tribute @ Birchmere

*Dj Saba @ Green Zone (Arabic) *

*Fadi Jano @ Cloud Lounge Arlington (Middle Eastern)

*Legado, La Septima Banda, novel codeciado @ Mexico Lindo, 5652 Annapolis Rd., Bladensburg 

*Dj Kristy La Rat, and others @ As You Are  

*Burial Waves, Teen Mortgage @ Comet P Pong

*The Inner Ear of Don Zientara panel w/Don Zientara, Joe Lally, & Alec Mackaye @ 7 @ Lost Origins Gallery * 

*Madison Mcferrin soul-appella @ Creative Alliance 

*What Band , All Star Blend @ Aqua (go-go) 

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Saturday June 24-

Summer Days Fest w/ r’n’b singer Lucky Daye, Muni Long, Redveil @ Pier 6 Baltimore

Latin Fest 2023 w/ La Sonora Dinamita, Los Adolescentes, Zona Band desde El Salvador, Bad Hombres, Explosion Tropical, from 11 am to 9 pm @ Patterson Park Baltimore

Home Rule Fest closing event w/ Hear in Now (Tomeka Reid); Hmid Drake’s Turiya : honoring Alice Coltrane; Nag Champa Art Ensemble; Jamal Moore @ Black Cat

Indonesian Cultural heritage Night w/ dance and music @ 7:30 @ Ossian Hall Park in Annandale

Adobo DMV Caliente featuring Bombon Texas day party w/ *djs ActBadd, All Day Ray, ill-Set, Pedro Night 2 to 10 @ The Bullpen, 1201 Half St Se

Out and About Fest w/ Brandi Carlisle , Yola , Rufus Wainwright , Oh He Dead, Bad Moves @ Wolf Trap

Kane Brown @ Jiffy Lube Live

Carnival Cruceno @ Bull Run

Victor Manuelle @ Eaglebank Arena (salsa singer)

“Chuck & Eva” jazz in-series at Baltimore Theatre Project (jazz musicians and singers do Chuck Brown & Eva Cassidy songs)

Giant Food National Barbeque Battle day 1 w/ Experience Band, Mambo Sauce, Be la Dona, Backyard Band, Experience Unlimited, Ras Slick, Clones of Funk, Jru Anthony , DJ Jazzy Jeff 2:30 to 4  On PA. Ave NW 

Junkyard Band, Members Only Band Denim & White 2 to 8 pm day party @ Babylon Falls Church

Junkyard Band, Still Familiar, Changing Phaces band @ Fast Eddie’s

Tumbao @  10 @ Bossa (DC Latin dance band)

Peace Band @ Twist Lounge (Ethiopian music Fri. through Saturday)

Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria (Ethiopian)

Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla

Rare Essence @ Aqua (go-go)

Joe Keyes & the Late Bloomer Band @ 8 @ Lubber Run (funk and jazz )

Flea Bop trio rockabilly @ Runaway

*Jerome Baker & Friends on Mars @ Eaton Hotel Wild Days 

*Nectar w/ V:Shal Kanwar & Dhakfu djs @ Green Zone

*J'ouvert National Caribbean Heritage Month celebration @ Harlot  

*One Journey fest w/ Cambodian hiphop dancer Sokeo Ros, Afghan rock band Kabul Dreams, Batala Washington percussion free from 11 am to to 6 @ Washington National Cathedral 

*Columbia Heights Day 

*DJ Crown Vic & Leon City Sounds @ Marx Cafe (tropical global sounds) 

*Proper Utensils w/ Zyona ft Michael Muse @ 9 @ Union District Oyster (old-school go-go & r'n'b) 

*Ghost Funk Orchestra, Rudy De Anda, Light Beams @ Comet P Pong 

*Joseph @ 6 @ 930 Club (indie-pop-folk) 

*Summer Peace Jam w/ TOB @ 12 noon @ Marvin Gaye Park NE 

*TCB, Big Action, XMB @ Hangars *

* master guitarist Iuri Bittar and mandolin player Almir Cortex from Rio de Janeiro, who play choro, samba, baiao, and bossa nova/Brazilian jazz are @ Creative Alliance in Baltimore

*The Elements of House @ Simple Bar, 5802 GA Ave. 

*Billie Marten @ Union Stage (indie-pop)

*Solstice Saturday w/ Joe Tohonnie Jr & Apache Crown Dancers 1 to 8  @ National Museum of American Indian 

*Solstice Saturday w/ Les the DJ 6 to 8 in Haupt Garden sponsored by Asian/Freer/Sackler Smithsonian & 8 to 12 mdt. performances by DJ Marauder, DJ Malcolm Xavier, and Black Alley curated by Smithsonian African Art in Haupt Garden * Rain or shine  

*DMC regional dj battle @ Flash 

*Voices 24/7 Band @ Lamont's

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Sunday June 25 –

The Cure and the Twilight Sad @ Meriweather Post

X @ the Atlantis (sold out) POSTPONED

Feeble Little Horse @ Songbyrd (indie rock w/ shoegaze accents) CANCELLED

Cedric Ballou & the Zydeco Trendsetters @ Hank Dietles Postponed 

Giant Food National Barbeque Battle day 2 w/ DC strings go-go symphony, Sean Stormm, Crank Crusaders w/ Raheem Devaughn, Black Alley, Chuck Brown Band, Jahfam Jamaican dancers, Grufolpawa- Panama,  Empresarios on PA. Ave. NW

Porfi Baloa y Sus Adolescentes @ Diamond Lounge

Ada Chura  & Ruth Karina @ Rvash in Chantilly

Rare Essence w/ Jas Funk plus Sirius Company from 6 to 11 @ Karma

Backyard Band @ Nottinghams

Chike @  Zebbie’s Garden, 3^rd Floor @ 1223 Conn Ave NW (Afropop)

Ensemble Volcanic Ash and Kim Sator @ Rhizome (*CANCELLED due to family emergency)

A praise celebration event by Eric Bossman Graham  w/ Highway QCs, Gospel Legends, Doc McZenzie & Hilites  @ First Christian Community Church @ 4 pm in Annapolis

Crank Caviar w/ *Go-Go Mickey , Jammin Jeff, Bo-Jack, TOB Chris & more feat. Buggy of Junkyard  Shauney Baby from Pleasure Band @ 2 to 4pm (1 flyer says 1:30 to 4:30) w/ Relentless Band, DJ Big John @  MLK  Library roof

Stacy Brooks Band @ Madams Organ

Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria (Ethiopian)

Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla

Afro X dj party (afrobeats, amapiano, soca, dancehall, rap) 5 to 10 @ Gazuza Lounge

Praisabration with the Singing Angels @ the Blue Dolphin in Gambrills, MD

Out and About Fest w/ Brandi Carlisle , Yola , Rufus Wainwright , Oh He Dead @ Wolf Trap

*Ethiopian music w/ *Ethio Band & guest vocalists @ MHL Lounge in Falls Church*

*Ras Band @ Black Rose Lounge in Bailey's Crossroads Falls Church (Ethiopian)*

*Wanted Man, Freaky Wilderness, Ex Reverie, Anthony Pirog @ 12 noon @ the Pocket (rock) 

*Rum n Jerk Fest 5 to 10 @ Privilege 

*Hailu Amerga, Dibekulu after 10  @ Privilege (Ethiopian) 

*Asiantque Market w/ food and music  5 to 9 pm

*Baby Rose @ Howard Theatre (DC to North Carolina retro soul r'n'b) 

*El Salvador fest @ 12 noon @ Lamont Park in Mt Pleasant DC *

*Rise Band & Show @ Lamont's *

*Nathan & the Zydeco Cha-chas @ 3:30 @ Peerless Rens in Annapolis (dance lesson @ 3) 

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Monday June 26 –

 Sergio Mendes @ MD Hall in Annapolis (Brazilian)

Blues w/ the Nighthawks  from 6 to 9 @ Westminster Church SW Blue Monday Blues

Zoh Amba & Chris Corsano/ Luke Stewart @ Rhizome (avante-garde jazz)

X and Squirrel Nut Zippers @ 930 POSTPONED

*Larry's Market Run (Larry June) @ Fillmore (rap)

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Tuesday June 27-

 Sloan @ Union Stage (pop-punk)

DJ Mesay @ Champion Lounge in Falls Church (Ethiopian)

Golden Seas Duo w/ percussionist Kahil El’Zabar and David Murray @ Rhizome (jazz) 

Jeff Tweedy & Le Ren @ 930

Shania Twain @ Merriweather  

*Herbie Hancock @ Kennedy Center 

*Blacc Print Experience @ Martini's in White Plains (go-go) 

*Larry's Market Run (Larry June) @ Fillmore (rap)

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Wednesday June 28-

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower at Strathmore (with musical input from Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon)

Jeff Tweedy , Le Ren @ Atlantis (sold Out)

Sirius Company @ Sobe (go-go)

New Impressionz @ Babylon Café Falls Church (go-go)

Salsa and bachata dancing at Fells Point Tavern in Baltimore

Live Skull and Continuals @ Black Cat (post punk rock)

*Jungle Brothers @ Baltimore Soundstage (rap) 

*Eels @ Fillmore

* US and Korea friendship event w/ Rami Seo's World Music Ensemble (Korean & jazz) w/ Sirius Company (go-go) free  @ 6 @ MLK Library (rsvp requested for this Mayor's Office on Asian & Pacific Islander Affairs gig)  

*Son Little from 6 to 7 free @ Kennedy Center Millennium Stage 

* Free Layover Party w/ DJs Mathias & NativeSun spinning Afro-electronica @ 9 @ The Owl Room

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Thursday June 29-

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower at Strathmore (with musical input from Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon)

La Santa Cecilia free from 6 to 7 @ Kennedy Center Millennium Stage (& streamed on KC FB & Youtube)

June 29 to July 9 – Smithsonian Folklife Fest  on national mall-Ozarks, Ukraine, Gospel, Faith , blues, folk, Afro-Brazilian, Puerto Rican

12 noon -Bomba Yemaya bomba music & dance from Puerto Rico ; Hampdem Mennonite Church hymn singing @ 1; Ozark Highballers string band music in the pickin parlor @ 2; Native American, Brazilian, & Puerto Rican percussion together @ Encounter stage @2: ; Shape-note singing w/ Brockwell gospel Music school @ 3 ; Egbe Omo Alara Afro-Brazilan  music @ 5; Ozarks Women w/ Pam Setser, Cindy Woolf, Marideth Cisco, Melissa Carper  @ 6 to 8

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss & JD McPherson @ Wolf Trap (sold out)

WPFW r’n’b Dj Lance Reynolds family friendly 6 to 8 event at Carter Barron parking lot, 4850 Colorado Ave (Thursdays in June via the Rock Creek Conservancy) CANCELLED due air quality issue

Sirius Company @ Union Oyster (go-go) (cancelled I think)

What Band @ Martini’s (go-go)

Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla Restaurant in Silver Spring (through Sunday)

Afrobeats dj Jamstar @ Spectrum Lounge in Beltsville

Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria (Ethiopian)

Ethiopian music  w/ *Ethio Band & guest vocalists  @ MHL Lounge in Falls Church

Local Latin jazz @ Simple Bar (cancelled?)

Asmae @ Cloud Lounge in Arlington (locally based Arabic/Middle Eastern)

Ab-soul @ Union Stage (hiphop)

Dave Chappell Band @ JVs (roots) 

*Sharon Clark tribute to Ethel Ennis @ Keystone Korner (jazz vocals)   

*DJ tba @ Green Zone*

*Soul Fyne w/ Anissa Twinky-Hargrove, Shawn Allen & others @ Blue Dolphin

*Sky Ferreira @ Fillmore (pop) 

*David Murray Quartet w/ Marta Sanchez on the piano, Luke Stewart on the bass and Kassa Overall on the drums @ Blues Alley (jazz) 

*Cumbia reggae night w/Bongo District @ Bossa *

*Experience Band @ 5 @ Overlook Park, 1365 Conn. Ave NW 

*The Owners @ DC 9 (punky rock) 

*Glosser w/ Alfred Jones & See Plus @ the Pocket 

*Cinema Hearts dj night free @ Runaway

*DJ Pedro Night @ St Ex (from Adobo DMV) 

*Sahel 7 to 9 @ Mansa Kunda 

*Amapiano djs @ Gazuza 

*Azul Band @ 8 @ Soussi 

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Friday June 30-

Smithsonian Folklife Fest from 11 am to 7 w/ various music styles including gospel @ 6 to 9 pm w/ *Legendary Ingramettes; Fran Lady Strings Grace ; Kingdom Fellowship AME Church

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower @ Strathmore (with musical input from Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon)

 Marisa Monte w/ Rodrigo Amarante  @ Wolf Trap (Brazilian singer)

Sparks @ Lincoln Theatre

Newmyer Flyer presents songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David w/ Lynn Veronneau, Desson Thomson, Steve Washington, Anita King , Shuga Shang & more @ Birchmere

K Rose, Danny D (of  Xtreme), Monchy, Jay Heightz  @ the Palace

Bulin 47 @ Mangos Hyattsville (dembow) 

El Yaki, Oscar Maydon, Carlos Sarabia, La Kumbre & Juanma @ CocoCabana  

Oud Night with Chakib Hilali @ Phoenicia Restaurant and Lounge

Rare Essence @ Fast Eddie’s

Backyard Band @ Restaurant 55

Junkyard Band @ Nipseys (go-go)

TCB, *Reaction, TOB  @ Power

Brothers 7 Band w/ guest singer Toni Love (from Hardway Connection) @ Lamont’s 

Alfredo Mojica Group @ Bossa (salsa)

Peace Band @ Twist Lounge (Ethiopian music Fri. through Saturday)

Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria (Ethiopian)

Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla

*Ras Band w/ guest singers @ MHL Lounge (Ethiopian)*

Sean Heely Celtic Trio @ 7:30 @ Mason District Park Amphitheatre in Annandale

Kiti Gardner & the Drifting Valentines @ 8 @ Lubber Run (rockabilly, western swing, roots country)

You and Me and You , Lotion Princess @ Black Cat (folk-rock headliners)

Cheakity @ Union Stage

Still Familiar @ 11 @ Shark Bar Waldorf

*The FCTRY djs @ Eaton Workshop Wild Days *

*DJ TBA @ Green Zone *

*Kindred & the Family Soul @ Baltimore Soundstage 

*Fadi Jano & guests @ Cloud Lounge Arlington (Middle Eastern)

*Ashraf Bashah, Asmae, Manaf Alameer, DJ Basbousa, Rhia @ 9:30 @ Martini Lounge Falls Church 

*Divine Sweater, Dorinda, M Andy @ Comet P Pong

*David Murray Quartet w/ Marta Sanchez on the piano, Luke Stewart on the bass and Kassa Overall on the drums @ Blues Alley (jazz) 

*Tito Mira, La Sonora Dinamita @ VIP Room Baltimore 

*Los Andantes Caminantes @ Mi Pueblo Bar in Falls Church

*Bachata Heightz @ Diamond Lounge 

*Conjunto Alazar , La Sexta Norteña @ 90 Degrees in Manassas 

*Proper Utensils ft. Jas Funk @ 10 @ Union Oyster (old-school go-go) 

*Afro-Caribbean djs @ the Park 

*"Rhizome is Home" doc screening @ 7 @ Takoma Park Community Center preceded by 6pm party and then parade over from Rhizome 

*EU and Allstar Project free 6 to 9 pm @ MLK Library rooftop (go-go) 

*Ozark Highballers free from 6 to 7 @ Kenn Ctr Millennium Stage (streamed also on K. Ctr youtube & Facebook) 

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Saturday July 1-

Diana Ross @ Wolf Trap

Smithsonian Folklife Fest from 11 am to 7 w/ various music styles including next generation Ozarks @  6 to 8 w/ Pure Coco, Kalyn Fay, Sylamore Special, Grace Stormont, MARK Harmony @ Rinzler Main Stage 12th St NW & National Mall plus Community Square Dance w/ Ozark Highballers 8 to 9:30 pm 

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower @ Strathmore (with musical input from Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon)

Davido  at Capital One Arena (Nigerian afrobeats)

Los Lara @ El Ranchon

Tumbao @  10 @ Bossa (DC Latin dance band)

Peace Band @ Twist Lounge (Ethiopian music Fri. through Saturday)

Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria (Ethiopian)

Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla

Rare Essence @ Aqua (go-go)

Munit Mesfin band from 6 to 7:30 @ Mosaic District , 2985 District Ave., Fairfax (Ethiopian jazzy r’n’b)

Irish Breakfast Band @ 7:30 @ Ossian Hall Park in Annandale

Lauren Calve @ 8 @ Lubber Run

Reggae Fest dc dj party @ Howard theatre

*DSA Sound System party 10am to 8 pm @ Howard County Fairgrounds 

*A celebration of the life & career of the late Joshua Culbreath, aka Black Indian , a longtime DC rapper w/ the dc hiphop community from 3 to 8 @ Eaton  

*TCB, *Simplicity Band, the Men  @ Ivy City Smokehouse 

*Devin the Dude (rap) w/ Backyard Band, New Impressionz & more (go-go) @ Lamont's 

* Wrizzards (Filipino DC r'n'b-pop) @ Songbyrd 

 *Afrocentric night w/ DJ Claude di Martian @ 10 @ Citizens Rooftop Silver Spring

*DJ Toddophonic (Todd of WFMU) @ Showtime Lounge 

*What Band @ 5 Sisters Lounge 

*Summer Breeze Line and Hand Dance Social from 1 to 5 pm @ Lamond Rec Ctr , 20 Tuckerman St NE 

*Their / They're / There, Short Fictions, Pretty Bitter @ Comet P Pong

*Basher (New Orlean improv free jazz party band) w/ Throat Play @ Rhizome  

*Korinn Walfall sings Burt Bacharach songbook w/ Eric Felten Quartet @ Blues Alley

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Sunday July 2

Smithsonian Folklife Fest from 11 am to 7 w/ various music styles including “Singing together: Riyaaz Qawwali and the Jones Family Singers gospel @ 5:30 to 7

Manolito & Su Trabuco w/ Hermanos Galvin & Orquesta @ the Palace

Stacy Brooks Band @ Madams Organ

Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria (Ethiopian)

Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla

Afro X dj party (afrobeats, amapiano, soca, dancehall, rap) 5 to 10 @ Gazuza Lounge

*Afrobeat Sunday dj party @ 10 @ Ultra Bar

*Ethiopian music w/ *Ethio Band & guest vocalists @ MHL Lounge in Falls Church

*Ras Band @ Black Rose Lounge in Bailey's Crossroads Falls Church (Ethiopian)*

*Northeast Groovers, Suttle @ 5 Sisters Lounge *

*Amapiano Sunday w/ djs Da Towel, Mobu, Thato, MixmasterZulu, Outlier.MP3 @ 2pm Sandlot Georgetown, 2715 PA Ave. NW 

*Be la Dona , Sirius Company, Blacc Print Experience @ Lamont's

*Junkyard Band, Still Familiar @ Restaurant 55

*El Chapo de Sinaloa @ Vibe in Annapolis

*Los Andantes Caminantes @ Club One 

*Afrobeats and Amapiano dj @ St Ex

Thai Fest on the national mall between 3rd & 4th Sts 10 am to 8 pm with food, music,  and dance and more 

*Brunch w/ DJs Jahsonic, Adrian Loving, Stylus  @ 12 to 5 pm @ Le Mont Royal, 1815 Adams Mill Rd. NW

*Korinn Walfall sings Burt Bacharach songbook w/ Eric Felten Quartet @ Blues Alley

*Anees @ Echostage

*"305 to Go-go" w/ New Impressionz, DJ KD, DJ Spinser Tracy from 5 to 10 @ Sandlot Anacostia 

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Monday July 3

Smithsonian Folklife Fest from 11 am to 7 w/ various music styles

Blues w/ Dave Chappell Band from 6 to 9 @ Westminster Church SW Blue Monday Blues

Rare Essence and EU @ Hamilton Live

*TCB, TOB, Reaction, Big Action @ Club One in Alexandria (bouncebeat go-go) 

*Northeast Groovers @ Longtime No Sea , Festival lane Manassas 

*New Impressionz 1 to 8 w/ Sukihana  @ Lamont's ( go-go & pool party) 

*Bachata Heightz @ VIP Room Baltimore 

*Abraham Gebremedhin w/ Eden Gebreselassie  @ Privilege (Ethiopian ) 

*Grand Scheme, Consec, Caustic Agent, Relief @ Rhizome (hardcore punk)

*Barry Farms doc @ 6:30 @ Busboys and Poets Brookland

* Junkyard Band at Nottinghams

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Tues. July 4-

Smithsonian Folklife Fest presents De Libertate : Sounds of Ukraine w/ Bozhychi & Shchuka Ryba 2:30 to 4;  Singing through the Dark w/ Carrie Newcomber & Gary Walters 5 to 5:45pm; Ozark Mountain DareDevils 6:30 to 7:30

Fireworks

DJ Mesay @ Champion Lounge in Falls Church (Ethiopian)

*Blacc Print Experience @ Martini's in White Plains (go-go) 

*Afroamp fest w/ Afrobeats & Amapiano w/ dj Mambo, Guiltybeatz, Caltonicsa @ Culture, 2006 Fenwick St NE 

*Cherry Hill Arts & Music waterfront fest 1 pm to late w/ David Smooth's Temps cover revue @ 3:30; Monie Love @ 6 (old school rap) Mychal Rose from Black Uhuru @ 8, fireworks @ 9 @ Middle Branch Park, Waterview Ave Baltimore 

*Jo-go Project from 7 to 8pm @ Takoma Park free concert on Maple Avenue 

*A Capital 4th with Boyz II Men & others 

*Independence Day Parade on Constitution Ave

* Wale, Sirius Company, Black Alley, US Air Force Band  free for DC govt &(covered by  CNN) 4th of July event @ 5 pm @ 13th & PA Ave. NW 

* Frederick Douglass house reopening event

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More lists-- Capital Bop has jazz; Mary Cliff has folk; Fools Night Out has roots music; tickeri has Latinx, Mi Gente DMV has Latin dance (salsa, bachata, zouk), Kesta Happenings DC Facebook has Latinx too, and baltshowplace.tumblr has Baltimore punk & more; Elliot Gross on Facebook has DC blues & blues-rock

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