DC/Baltimore
Global Music and More- January 2016
Compiled
by Steve Kiviat
To submit
events (for posting) or comments (that are not posted) e-mail: ritmika (at)
hotmail.com
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International,
roots, rap, soul and more at top and
***indie-rock
and non-music stuff is at the bottom. Most sold-out shows omitted.
Look for
additional shows & more info to be added through the month at my blog:
stevekiviat.blogspot.com
Sorry
this is very late. February will be late also.
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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 2016, Rolling Afrobeats
Afropop2016, the Rolling Afro-Latin & the Capital Swamp & Chitlin
Circuit threads
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Remaining
Highlights:
1-18-Let
Freedom Ring! Featuring Yolanda Adams and the Let Freedom Ring Choir at the MLK
Tribute at 6 at Kennedy Center
1-25- Lil
Margie and Jacque Johnson, Bobby Felder and more at Westminster Church SW DC
(DC soul)
1-30-Ebi
at the Warner Theatre (Iranian singer)
1-31-
Sir Joe
Quarterman and the Hardway Connection at Bethesda Blues and Jazz Club (soul)
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1-6
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Ethiopian
Christmas/Genna
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1-9
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. 1-11
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. 1-12
Meklit
for free from 6 to 7 at Kennedy Center Millennium Stage
Travis Tritt at Birchmere
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1-13
Ozomatli
at State Theatre
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. 1-14
Ella and
Louie Tribute Band for free from 6 to 7 at Kennedy Center Millennium Stage
Dirty
Dozen Brass Band at the Hamilton
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. 1-15
Dakha
Brakha (Ukrainian international) for free from 6 to 7 at Kennedy Center
Millennium Stage
Young
Thug at Bliss DC
Gladys
Knight with the O’Jays at DAR Constitution Hall (r’n’b/soul)
Jeffrey
Broussard & the Zydeco Cowboys at Glen Echo
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. 1-16
KRS-One
(25th anniv. Tour) at Rams Head Live
Reggae vs
soca dj event at 10 at Howard Theatre
The Dhol
Foundation for free from 6 to 7 at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage
Monica at
Bliss DC (r’n’b)
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. 1-17
Royal
Height at 2 pm at Woodridge Library,
1790 Douglas St NE (DC soul singer)
Bishop
Hezekiah Walker At 6:30 at First Baptist Church of Glenarden (Worship
Center), 600 Watkins Park Drive, Upper Marlboro, MD
Fisk
Jubilee Singers singing spirituals at 3:30 p.m. at the National Gallery, West
Building, West Garden Court
Rare
Essence with Junkyard Band & EU at Howard Theatre (go-go)
Christian
Scott at Amp (New Orleans born jazz horn player whose stretch music adds djembe
and midi drum beats)
Cabruera
(Brazilian rock/funky tropical rock steady dub ska) for free from 6 to 7 at the
Kennedy Center Millennium Stage
Cabruera
at 9 pm at Bossa
Zusha
(Hasidic soul) at Tropicalia
Winstons,
Intruders, Frank Washington, Kim Glaude at Bethesda Blues & Jazz Club (R’n’b/soul)
Conjunto
Azabache y Los Compas del Terre at The Palace Night Club, Woodbridge, Virginia
David
Bowie Tribute at Creative Alliance
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. 1-18
Let
Freedom Ring! Featuring Yolanda Adams and the Let Freedom Ring Choir at the MLK
Tribute at 6 at Kennedy Center
Phil
Wiggins, George Kilby Jr., and Sherman Holmes at IMT @ Saint Mark Presby., 10701
Old Georgetown Rd., Rockville
Shalanda
Bond Hansboro & The Sounds of Kindred Spirits Tribute to MLK at the
Creative Alliance
MLK Day
Parade in Baltimore
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. 1-19
the
Battle of Santiago for free from 6 to 7
at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage (Toronto Afro-Cuban instrumental
post-rock)
Monchi y
Nathalia at El Carbonero, Hyattsville, Maryland
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. 1-20
Jazzmeia
Horn (Thelonius Monk Jazz vocals competition winner) for free from 6 to 7 at the Kennedy Center
Millennium Stage
Billy
Gibbons and the BFGs at Lisner Auditorium
the
Battle of Santiago at Bossa (Toronto Afro-Cuban post-rock)
SWV at
the Howard Theatre (r’n’b)
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. 1-21
Eliades
Ochoa y Barbarito Torres at Fillmore Silver Spring (from Buena Vista Social
Club) (cancelled?)
Morris
Day & the Time at Birchmere (funk)
Joe Keys
& the Late Bloomer Band at Bossa (P-Funk meets Joe Bowie, Sun Ra & Gil
Scott-Heron)
Dhol Foundation
(bhangra) and Black Masala (Balkan Gypsy rock) at Tropicalia
DC Cuban
Allstars at the Salty Dog Tavern
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. 1-22
Tony Dize
at the Palace
Yo Gotti
(rap) at Bliss DC
Arturo
O’Farrill and his Afro-Jazz Octet at Black rock in Germantown, MD
Marcia
Ball at Rams Head Tavern Annapolis (roots r’n’b)
Marshall
Crenshaw and the Bottle rockets at the Birchmere
Robyn
Hitchcock at the Barns of Wolf Trap
Michael
Formanek Ensemble Kolossus (jazz large band) at Creative Alliance
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1-23
Chopteeth
at Amp
O.T.
Genasis at Bliss DC
Eric
Brace and Peter Cooper at Jammin Java (folk tribute to 70s DC folk, bluegrass
& more)
* New Orleans Suspects with Glenn David Andrews at the Hamilton
* New Orleans Suspects with Glenn David Andrews at the Hamilton
The
Toasters at Ottobar
Majah
Hype at Howard Theatre
Curtis
Johnson and the Band Eternity (old-school go-go & funk) for free from 6 to 7 at the Kennedy Center
Millennium Stage
Marcia
Ball at the Barns of Wolf Trap
“California
Twang” with w/ Arty Hill & the Long Gone Daddys, Caleb Stine & the
Brakemen, The Stone Hill All Stars, Rodney "Pieman" Henry, The
Highballers, The Hello Strangers, The Racket, Karen Collins, The Blue Moon Cowgirls,
L'il Mo, Teri Joyce, Patsy Stephens at Creative Alliance (tribute to the
Bakersfield country sound)
The
Toasters at Ottobar
* Kiti Garner & the Deceits at the College Park American Legion
* Kiti Garner & the Deceits at the College Park American Legion
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1-24
Howard
Gospel Choir for free from 6 to 7 at the
Kennedy Center Millennium Stage
Francesca
Blanchard (French-American singer/songwriter) at Bossa
Alessia
Cara at the 930 Club (sold out)
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1-25
Lil
Margie and Jacque Johnson, Bobby Felder and more at Westminster Church SW DC
(DC soul)[POSTPONED DUE TO THE SNOW]
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1-27
Kelly
Willis at Rams Head Tavern Annapolis (alt-country)
Raul Malo
at the Birchmere (Roy Orbison like w/ a Cuban tinge)
Eric
Owens at Kennedy Ctr. Terrace Theater
stage for an evening of jazz standards by Billy Eckstine and Johnny Hartman
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Garland
Jeffreys at Rams Head Tavern Annapolis
Kelly
Willis at the Birchmere
Grant Lee
Philips at Jammin Java
Slick
rick (old-school rap) at the Howard Theatre
*Coat drive benefit with Black Alley at Ultra Bar
*Backyard Band at Capitale
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1-29
Garland
Jeffreys at Jammin Java
Renee Marie:
Tribute to Eartha Kitt at Kennedy Center Jazz Club
Chuck
Brown Band at Bethesda Blues and Jazz Club
Fulanito
at the Palace, Woodbridge, VA
Loudon
Wainwright at Creative Alliance
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. 1-30
Ebi at
the Warner Theatre (Iranian singer)
Chinese
New Year family celebration at Smithsonian American Art
*afropop dance contest at Fire Station 1 in Silver Spring
*afropop dance contest at Fire Station 1 in Silver Spring
Bilal at
Bethesda Blues and Jazz Club
Garth
Brooks at Royal Farm Arena
Frank
Wess jazz tribute at Kennedy Center
Elle
Varner at 7:30 at Howard Theatre (r’n’b)
Birthday
Bash with Team Familiar, Sugar Bear and DJ Amp C at 11:30 at the Howard Theatre
(go-go)
Christylez
Bacon: Sound Museum at Atlas Theatre, H St NE (with instrumentalist, songwriter
and singer in 6 languages, Jean-Francis Varre, to explore the intersections of
Hip-Hop, Go-Go, and the music of Senegal backed by the Washington Sound Museum
Orchestra)
10th
annual Viva Brazil Carnival at Creative Alliance
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1-31
Sir Joe
Quarterman and the Hardway Connection at Bethesda Blues and Jazz Club (soul)
Raul Malo
at Rams Head Tavern Annapolis
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Feb. 1-- Union Arts DC (411 NY Ave DC) eviction hearing--The hearing is THIS MONDAY, FEB 1ST, AT 6:30 PM, at the Office of Zoning and Planning, Jerrily R. Kress Memorial Hearing Room, 441 4th Street NW, Suite 220-South, Washington, DC.
Feb. 1-- Union Arts DC (411 NY Ave DC) eviction hearing--The hearing is THIS MONDAY, FEB 1ST, AT 6:30 PM, at the Office of Zoning and Planning, Jerrily R. Kress Memorial Hearing Room, 441 4th Street NW, Suite 220-South, Washington, DC.
Feb.
2 through 4th- Richard Thompson at Barns
of Wolf Trap
Feb. 5th-Fetty
Wap at the Fillmore (sold out); Bob Marley Tribute at Ottobar
Feb. 5
through 7th-Carmen in Havana at the Atlas Theatre (Bizet meets Buena
Vista w/ Washington Ballet)
Feb. 5th-Chinese pop groups at Kennedy Center
Feb. 5th-Chinese pop groups at Kennedy Center
Feb. 6th-Buddy
Holly Tribute at Bethesda Blues and Jazz; Israel Vibration at the Hamilton (Bob Marley's birthday) ; King (r'n'b group) at U St. Music Hall
Feb. 8th- Chinese New Year Celebration: Beijing Opera,
Acrobats, and Chinese Traditional Music by Henan Arts Troupe at Kennedy Center
Millennium Stage)
Feb. 9th-Nathan & the Zydeco Cha-Chas at the Hamilton
Feb. 9th-Nathan & the Zydeco Cha-Chas at the Hamilton
Chinese New Year Celebration: Shenzhen
Symphony Orchestra - Kennedy Center (Concert Hall)
Feb. 10th -DC Music Salon re guitarist John Fahey at Shaw Library
Feb. 10th -DC Music Salon re guitarist John Fahey at Shaw Library
Feb.
12-Valentine’s Soul Jam at DAR Const. Hall with the Stylistics, Dramatics, New
Birth & Blue Magic
Ladysmith
Black Mambazo at GW Lisner Aud.
Feb. 13th
& 14th-Contra Tiempo (Los Angeles Latin urban dance) at Dance
Place
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Other
cool stuff (mostly indie-rock): 1-11- Bless, Turnip King, Foul
Swoops, & Jimi Lucid @Bathtub Republic's New Location,2511 10th Street NE,
WDC; Metz & Bully @ Rock & Roll
Hotel; 1-14- Heavy Breathing, the Effects, and Puff Pieces at Black Cat
Backstage; Holy Holy w/ Tony Visconti & Woody Woodmansey performing David
Bowie's The Man Who Sold the World @ Birchmere; 1-15-the Casual Dots,
Governess, and Sneaks @ Comet Ping Pong; 1-16-Lower Dens @ Ottobar; rockabilly @ Hank
Dietles; Cinema Hearts @ Comet P; 1-19-Laughing
Man, Martin Bisi, & History Repeated @ Comet P. Pong; Torres @ RnRoll Hotel; 1-23-Sunwolf cd release
gig w/Savak @ Songbyrd; 1-24-The Go! Team @ Black Cat; 1-28-Coup Savage & Foul
Swoops @Capitol Fringe;*1-30 -Johnny Bombay & the Reactions @ The Raven Inn in Baltimore
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