DC/Baltimore Global Music and More June 2016 Concert Gig List

DC/Baltimore Global Music and More- June 2016  

Compiled by Steve Kiviat 

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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 

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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 _____________________________________________________________________________    

June is action-packed.

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 Highlights: 

Sat. 6-4- Festival at Lamont's with TJ Hooker-Taylor (his father was the late Johnnie Taylor), J. Red, Hardway Connection, Jim Bennett, Jesi Terrell, Stone Pleasure Band. Gates open at 12 noon (Hardway at 6pm)(southern soul)

Cantigas (DC Latino chorus 25th anniversary and farewell gig)  at River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation 6301 River Road, Bethesda, MD  with Guest Artists

Sun. 6-5- Anthony Hamilton and Fantasia at Pier Six Pavilion (Baltimore)

Mon. 6-6-Gregory Porter at Howard Theatre (Soulful jazz singer)

Sun. 6-12- Verano Zol radio Fest 2016 with La India (salsa & freestyle singer); Frank Reyes; Baby Rasta & Gringo; Lisandro Meza; Ken-Y; Amarfis; La Maquina de El Salvador; 24 Horas; La Sonora; Sencillo at Montgomery County Fairgrounds from 11am to 8 pm

Sat. 6-18-Cécile McLorin Salvant, Eddie Palmieri Latin Jazz Septet, The Chuck Brown Band, DC Jazz Prix finalists. At Yards Park with  Metro Mambo host Jim Byers @ DC Jazz Fest'

Scarface & Bun B featuring WHAT Band –at Fillmore Silver Spring

Thurs. 6-23-Cubanismo at the Howard Theatre

Wed. 6-29- Smithsonian Folklife Festival featuring music and culture from the Basque region and Sounds of California and more  on the National Mall between Fourth and Seventh streets in Washington, D.C. through July 4^th; and July 7 to 10th

Asha Bhosle with Wolf Trap Opera at Wolf Trap Filene Center (from India)

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Ernesto “Gato” Gatell Y Su Banda   6:30 – 8pm for free at Monroe St NE Market near Dance Place

Feedel band at Bossa

DC Highlife Stars at Bethesda Blues and Jazz

Third World at the Hamilton

Charles Bradley at the 930 Club (retro soul)

Jane Monheit (jazz singer) at Blues Alley (through the 5^th)

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Fri. 6-3

Chawa (New Orleans ) at Bayou

John Prine & Patty Griffin at Wolf Trap

DC Jazz Fest Jazz in the Hoods June 3 to 19th

Capital Jazz Fest at Merriweather Post Pavilion Day 1 with r’n’b acts: New Edition, En Vogue, King, and host Donnie Simpson

Henry Butler (New Orleans pianist) at Amp

Team Familiar and Be’la Dona at Diamond Lounge in Annandale

Rafaga at the Palace

Cosculluela Y Justin Quiles at Echostage

Carate Urio Orchestra at Bossa (Belgium post-rock jazz improve)

Bone, Thugs n Harmony at the Fillmore

Eric Brace and Peter Cooper at Jammin Java (folk n country)

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Sat.  6-4

Go-go Symphony with drummer Juju House at 5 pm at Allen Pond Park In Bowie for free as part of Bowiefest (Bowie, MD)

Marcia Ball at the Hamilton

Washington Folk Festival at Glen Echo

Caribbean Heritage Fest at Bladensburg Waterfront Park, 4601 Annapolis Road, Bladensburg, MD

*Washington Jewish Music Festival (through June 15) opening night with  Yemen Blues featuring vocalist Ravid Kahalani at DC JCC on 16th St NW

*Methodman at BlissDC

Capital Jazz Fest Day 2 at Merriweather Post Pavilion-- Capital Jazz Fest, Day 2: Brian Culbertson, Lalah Hathaway, Marcus Miller, Raul Midon, Jazzing Up the Elements: a musical tribute to Maurice White, Take 6, the Isley Brothers, Al B. Sure, SWV, Eric Roberson, Blackstreet , Nao Yoshioka  (Doors @ noon)  sold out

Dance Afrika fest at Dance Place—2pm – Family Series with African Heritage Dancers and Drummers; Ayanna Gregory; Coyaba Dance Theater

8pm--Sankofa Dance Theater; Dance Place Step Team; Ayanna Gregory; KanKouran West African Dance Company

Free Dance Afrika events-at the Arts Walk At Monroe St. Market: Tam Tam Mandingue  12 – 12:45pm; Dance Place NEXTgeneration Youth Showcase   1 – 1:45pm; DC Casineros  2 – 2:45pm

Sankofa Dance Theater     3 – 3:45pm; Zumba with Wilma Consul         4 – 4:45pm; Village Celebration with Coyaba Dance Theater  5 – 6pm; Sahel     6:30 – 7:30pm

Hardway Connection at  4pm at Beltway BBQ Showdown at Tucker Road Athletic Complex, 1770 Tucker Road, Fort Washington, MD (Team Familiar also time tba)

Festival at Lamont's with TJ Hooker-Taylor (his father was the late Johnnie Taylor), J. Red, Hardway Connection, Jim Bennett, Jesi Terrell, Stone Pleasure Band. Gates open at 12 noon (Hardway at 6pm)

Md Traditions Folklife Fest at Creative Alliance

Shaolin Jazz Ethiopian Edition at Bossa

Los Autenticos Decadentes at the Howard Theatre

Cantigas (DC Latino chorus 25th anniversary and farewell gig)  at River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation

6301 River Road, Bethesda, MD  with Guest Artists: Javier Farías, composer and classical guitarist; Orlando Cotto, Puerto Rican percussionist; Francesca Dugarte, American ballet dancer; The Strings Avenue Quartet.  Cantigas will be doing a Calle 13 song plus  the world premiere of La sangre derramada, a composition for mixed choir and classical guitar by Chilean composer Javier Farías, commissioned for this 25th Anniversary.

 Mr. Farías will accompany Cantigas in the guitar in the performance of his own composition and in Romancero.  This grand finale also features songs for choir and string quartet

*Selena Gomez at the Verizon Center

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Sun. 6-5

Anthony Hamilton and Fantasia at Pier Six Pavilion (Baltimore

Washington Jewish Music Fest in the DC JCC Gym from 11am to 2 pm

Washington Jewish Music festival--Hadar Noiberg Trio at 5 at the DC JCC

William Close and the Earth Harp Collective at the Kennedy Center

Jon Cleary at the Hamilton ( pianist who lives in New Orleans)

Capital Jazz Fest at Merriweather Post Pavilion w/  Will Downing, Toni Braxton, the Brand New Heavies, Kenny Lattimore, Rick James' Original Stone City Band, Tamia

Oddisee at Baltimore Soundstage

Washington Folk Festival at Glen Echo

The Kennedy Center pays tribute to America's immortal Motown hit-maker, the late singer Marvin Gaye, in an evening hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, and featuring Andra Day, Ledisi, Valerie Simpson, Jussie Smollett, and Mary Wilson.

Dance Afrika Fest at Dance Place:

2pm – Family Series--Soul in Motion; POETICS; Farafina Kan Junior Company

8pm--Ezibu Muntu African Dance Theater; Ayanna Gregory; Farafina Kan

Freee Dance Afrika events at the Arts Walk At Monroe St. Market:

East of the River Steel Band 12 – 12:45pm; Dance Place NEXTgeneration Youth Showcase             1 – 1:45pm;

Malcolm X Dancers & Drummers 2 – 2:45pm; Culture Shock, Washington, DC 3 – 3:45pm; Duende Quartet            4 – 4:45pm; Village Celebration with Coyaba Dance Theater 5 – 6pm; Cheick Hamala 6:30 – 7:30pm

Senegalese movie La Noire de . . . (Black Girl) preceded by Borom Sarret at 4:00 at Nat. gallery East Building Auditorium (directed by Ousmane Sembène)

*Marvin Gaye Tribute show at Kennedy Center

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Mon. 6-6

Samuel Torjman Thomas, ethnomusicologist and artistic director of AsefaMusic and the New York Andalus Ensemble, explores the circulation of Moroccan music in America and the place of music in constructing modern Moroccan-American hybrid identities. From 12 noon to 1 pm at the Library of Congress Madison Bldg Pickford Theatre

Gregory Porter at Howard Theatre (Soulful jazz singer)

Waxahatchee and Allison Crutchfield - Black Cat (Mainstage)

“Space is the Place” (movie starring Sun Ra) at AFI (through the 9^th)

*the New York Andalus Ensemble at 7 at the DC JCC (multiethnic, multi-faith group that performs in Arabic, Hebrew, Spanish, and Ladino)

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Tues. 6-7

Prince Birthday celebration at Bethesda Blues and Jazz

Prince Birthday celebration at Creative Alliance in Baltimore

*Prince birthday celebration at the AFI

*Prince birthday event showing Purple Rain at the Howard Theatre

Descarga ( Impromptu jam session between musicians on Cuban music themes) at Songbyrd with  Cuban timba musician Barbaro Fines (Director and Pianist of the group Barbaro Fines y Su Mayimbe), and his guests:  vocalist Gloria "La Niña" Rivera, daughter of legendary Niño Rivera (one of the fathers of the Cuban Descarga); and Frank Rivery,  Cuban percussionist, vocalist and hiphop artist.

Roy Hargrove at Blues Alley (through the 12^th)

Cheik Hamala Diabete at Bossa (Malian based in DC)

Luray, Citrine, and Louis Weeks at DC9

* Every Word has Power (concert film shot at Lincoln Center, featuring musician Basya Schechter (of Pharaoh’s Daughter)) at 7  at the DC JCC

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Wed. 6-8

The Revelers (swingin and rockin Louisiana Cajun ) for free from 7:30 to 8:30pm at Lee District Park Amphitheater, 6601 Telegraph Road, Franconia, VA

Festival Afro-Bahia through June 12 in DC

Feast Your Ears: The Story of WHFS 102.3. Join the filmmakers, DJ's for film clips, stories, and laughs at 7 at the Watha T Daniel Shaw Library

Bryson Tiller at Pier Six Pavilion (Baltimore) (r’nb)

Dolly Parton - Wolf Trap Filene Center (country)

*Geulah Trio at Tropicalia (as part of DC Jewish Music Fest)

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Thurs. 6-9

*JoGo Project w/ singer Deborah Bond from 12 to 2pm for free at Franklin Park, 14th & K

Hanba (from Poland –punk rocking acoustic instruments) with Big Lazy at Bossa

Dirty Dozen Band at the Hamilton

King Khan & the Shrines and Giorgio Murderer at Black Cat (South Asian via Canada garage soul)

Secret Society at Bethesda Blues and Jazz

Nistha Raj (India meets jazz fusion) at Westover Library in Arlington

 Enanitos Verdes and Hombres G –at Fillmore Silver Spring

Green Velvet at U St Music Hall

* Zion80 at Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center, 7995 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, (Jewish music melded with Fela like afrobeat; part of DC Jewish Music fest)

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Fri. 6-10

Tinner Hill Blues Festival Blues and Soul Divas night at the State Theatre with Mable John (great singer), Trudy Lynn, Gaye Adegbalola & The Wild (festival goes through the 13^th)

Beyonce at M & T Bank Stadium in Baltimore

Coolots and Mundy at noon for free at MLK Library

Billy Joe Shaver at Hill Country

DC Jazz Fest through the 19^th

Luke Bryan, Little Big Town, and Dustin Lynch at Jiffy Lube Live (country)

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Sat.  6-11

Metro Mambo-  "MADison Avenue Mambo," joined via Skype by 4-time Grammy-winner Arturo O'farrill. He'll discuss a lesser known aspect of the career of his father, Chico O'Farrill - among the first Latinos composing for Madison Avenue! The event is from 2 to 4 pm for free at Anacostia Arts Center, 1231 Good Hope rd SE

76 Degrees West Band With Sugar Bear  at Bethesda Blues and Jazz

Luke Bryan, Little Big Town, and Dustin Lynch at Jiffy Lube Live (country)

*Girls in  Trouble at 10:30 pm at DC JCC (Jewish indie-rock used to teach the Book of Ruth)

* Trey Songz at Bliss DC

*Beth Orton at U St Music Hall

* Alicia Smith at 930

*Honfest in Baltimore

*Kurt Elling (jazz vocalist) at the Hamilton

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Sun. 6-12

Verano Zol radio Fest 2016 with La India (salsa & freestyle singer); Frank Reyes; Baby Rasta & Gringo; Lisandro Meza; Ken-Y; Amarfis; La Maquina de El Salvador; 24 Horas; La Sonora; Sencillo at Montgomery County Fairgrounds from 11am to 8 pm

*go-go brunch with Be'la Dona at the Howard Theatre

*GZA at 8 at the Howard Theatre

Shadz of Soul at Bethesda Blues and Jazz

Batala DC drummers (Brazilan style) for free from 6 to 7 at Kennedy Ctr. Mill. Stage

*Royce da 5'9" at U St. Music Hall

*Honfest in Baltimore

*Sankofa Video Store Roots fest noon to 8

*Afro-Bahia Fest closing ceremony 6 to 7 at Kennedy Ctr Mill Stage

* Caz Gardiner and Shannon Gunn at Gallery O

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Mon .  6-13

Ellie Goulding with Matt and Kim at Merriweather Post

*LennY Robinson's Madcurious at 6 at Kennedy Center Millennium Stage

*DC Jazzfest salutes Howard U Jazz at Kennedy Center at 8  with many jazz musicians including Greg Osby & Cyrus Chestnut plus gospel singer Richard Smallwood

*Phil Wiggins Duet at the Anacostia Playhouse

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Tues.   6-14

Steve Coleman and Five Elements at 6^th & I

*Mali Music at the Howard Theatre

*Archie Edwards Blues Foundation Jam at Gallery O

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Wed. 6-15

* Artolerance ( Jewish-Israeli cellist Udi Bar David, Arab-Israeli violinist Hanna Khoury, and Venezuelan/Syrian percussionist Hafez Javier Kotain perform a special concert fusing sounds from throughout the Middle East and Israel.) at 7 pm at DC JCC (closing night of DC Jewish Music Fest)

*Ben watt at RnR Hotel

*Cymanade and Chelsey Green at the Hamilton

*Joe Budden at the Howard Theatre

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Thurs.  6-16

*Ernest Ranglin & Avila with guest Yotam Silberstein at the Hamilton (Jamaican ska guitarist with Israeli jazz one)

Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals - Fillmore Silver Spring

*Tame Impala & M83 at Merriweather Post

* Dizzy Gillespie Allstars with Terrell Stafford, Cyrus Chestnut, Lewis Nash and more at the Howard Theatre

* Rose Moraes (Bossa nova and jazz) at Grill from Ipanema

*Thaylobleau (DC rap-funk-rock album release event) w/ Cornel West Theory, Laughing Man & Leftist at Velvet Lounge

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Fri.  6-17

Miki Howard at Bethesda Blues and Jazz

Skints and Scotch Bonnets at Tropicalia (ska)

*Maceo Parker at the Hamilton (funk and jazz hornman)

*Ringo Starr and his AllStar Band at the Warner Theatre

* Michele Rosewoman  & New Yor-uba (Afro-Latino orchestra) (at 10:30) and Amadou Kouyate (9pm) at Arris in the Navy Yards part of SE DC

*Akua Allrich & The Tribe (9PM) , Sharel Cassity & Elektra (7:30 PM);  Cissa Paz (6PM)​ at Yards Park for free

* Abinnet Berhanu & Hibret Musica (Ethiopian jazz) at Sotto

* John Doe's rock n roll band at Jammin Java (from x)

* AlunaGeorge at 930 Club

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Sat. 6-18

Cécile McLorin Salvant, Eddie Palmieri Latin Jazz Septet, The Chuck Brown Band, DC Jazz Prix finalists. At Yards Park with  Metro Mambo  @ DC Jazz Fest' (Yards Park)

Jim Byers conducts a pre-Concert "Meet the Artist" Talk with the legendary  Eddie Palmieri(*note: this event is ticketed)rk at Capitol Riverfront, 355 Water Street, SE

Hailu Mergia (Ethiopian keyboardist and accordionist)  + Wume at Creative Alliance in Baltimore

*Team Familiar from 1 to 2 and 3 to 4 at Smithsonian American History with panel discussion from 2 to 3 with Biz Markie, Donnell Floyd, D-Nice and author Charles Stephenson ...FREE

* Petworth Jam with Ultra Naté // Lisa Moody // DJ Lisa Frank // Chris Burns // Trev-ski from 5 to 9:30 for free at Petworth Rec Center, 801 Taylor St NW

*Carimi and Lokal (Haiti) at Cococabana

*Delfonics featuring Wil Hart at the Howard Theatre (70s soul greats)

Colombia Pike Blues Fest 

Silver Spring Blues Fest

* Colombia Heights Day in DC 11 am to 6 with music tba

Elikeh (DC based Togo and more band) at Lubber Run in Arlington for free at 8 pm

Scarface & Bun B featuring WHAT Band –at Fillmore Silver Spring

Jayhawks with Folk Uke at Lincoln Theatre

Chris Stapleton and Jason Isbell and frank Turner at Merriweather

Harry Connick at Wolf trap

Queen Esther & the Hot Five for free from 6 to 7 at Kennedy Ctr. Mill. Stage

*Trina at Bliss DC

* 2016 fest with Jazmine Sullivan; L!SSEN Reunited; The Fix; DJ Kool; DJ Glam; DJ Dynomight; DJ Big John; A Special Musical Guest at Nats Park 

*Steam the Block party free 12 noon to 4 at 4103 Benning rd with Visto and Pinky Killacorn and 2 more

*Diplo at Echostage

*Around the World Cultural food fest at 11 am near Wash. Monument

*Anti-Gentrification storytelling night at Black Cat

*Harold Mabern Quartet plus Eric Alexander and Steve Turre Quartet at  the Hamilton Live

*Orrin Evans' Captain Black Big Band (10:30 pm) and the Washington Renaissance Orchestra Octet (9pm) at Arris , near Yards Park

*Art Soiree's Fete de la Musique DC Summer Solstice music event at Sofitel Washington DC Lafayette Square - 806 15th Street NW 

*Biz Markie at Smithsonian American History 7 to 11 pm We the People party

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Sun. 6-19

Father’s Day Brunch with Harold Melvin’s Blue Notes at Bethesda Blues and Jazz

Don’t Blink (movie doc about director Robert Frank) at 4 at Nat. Gallery

Brantley Gilbert, Justin Moore, and Colt Ford at Jiffy Lube (country)

*Grace Jamaican Jerk Festival w/ reggae & soca, food (plus cooking demos), and dance from noon to 9 on PA Ave NW between 12th & 14th streets. $ (under 12 free) with Freddie McGregor, young hit maker Christopher Martin, female sensation Ikaya, Barbados’ soca star Edwin Yearwood, the  No-Maddz band and DC’s Image Band along with DJ G-Nice.

A Cultural Stage will showcase the group Sounds of Culture, Pan Lara Youth Steel Orchestra, Malcolm X Drummers and Dancers, Author and playwright Judith Falloon-Reid, Richards Carnival with masqueraders in 2016 DC Carnival costumes plus the antics of popular comedian Michael Campbell. 

*Jason Eady at Hill Country Live

*Kiko Rodrigues at Cococabana

* Kamasi Washington, Igmar Thomas & Revive Big Band with Talib Kweli, Bilal, and Ravi Coltrane, E.J. Strickland & Transient Beings,  Fred Foss' homage to NEA Jazz Master Jackie McLean. Yards Park, 355 Water St SE,  Gates 2:00PM, music 'til 10:00PM. 

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Mon. 6-20

World Refugee Day with Gabby Moreno for free from 6 to 7 at Kennedy Ctr. Mill. Stage

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Tues. 6-21

Jazz trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire performs with vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant in the world premiere of a Kennedy Center–commissioned work centered on the theme of "family." At the K. Ctr

*Ziggy Marley at the Fillmore

*Fete de la Musique at the French Embassy

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Wed. 6-22

*Yael Naim (Israeli-French vocalist) with Kokayi (DC rapper) at Hamilton

Mandolinist  Chris Thile and guitarist Michael Daves at Kennedy Center Terrace theatre

Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle @ the Birchmere

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Thurs.  6-23

Cubanismo at the Howard Theatre

*Go-go Symphony and the Great Noise Ensemble come together during earling morning rush hour from 9am to 10:30 am at the Carter G. Woodson Memorial Park, intersection of 9th Street and Rhode Island Avenue NW.  

* Janka Nubay and the Bubu Gang at Bossa

* 2 Movie docs---Nina Simone – Live at Montreux 1976, with US premiere of 2016 Lisa Simone in concert film  (her daughter) at the French Embassy( free but advanced online registration is required

Mandolinist Chris Thile and a group of musicians--singer-songwriter and composer Gabriel Kahane, jazz/folk guitarist Julian Lage, and vocalist and leader of the band Tune-Yards, Merrill Garbus at Kennedy Center Terrace Theatre at 7:30pm

Chris Thile jam session at 9:30 at K. Ctr.

Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives at Bethesda Blues and Jazz

Nicholas Payton at Blues Alley (New Orleans jazzman) (and on 24^th)

Angie Stone @ Birchmere

English Beat, Soul Asylum, and the Scotch Bonnets at Baltimore Soundstage

Sting & Peter Gabriel at Verizon Center

*Robert Ellis (singer/songwriter) at the Hamilton

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Fri.6-24

Chris Thile's closest musical friends and frequent collaborators: Punch Brothers, banjoist Béla Fleck and bassist/composer Edgar Meyer, and Americana acoustic trio I'm With Her at Kennedy Ctr Terrace Theatre

Miss Sharon Jones! Movie DOC at AFI Docs at Landmark at 9

Salsa and cumbia djs at Songbyrd at 10pm

Locos Por Juana and Juanita Cash at Creative Alliance in Baltimore

Ultraglow Wicked in Wite with Ricardo Drue & Sprang Int. at DC Bliss

*Dr John at the Howard theatre at 8

* Reggae vs soca dj'ing at 11pm

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Sat. 6-25

"Short Pants Fete-Color Me Krazy Mas Band Launch" with Lyrikal at Ocassions Banquet Hall, 9375 Wash. Blvd (rt One) in Laurel

XEN, Hypa Sounds, 3rd Bass for Caribbean Carnival  at 11 at  the Howard

Be'la Dona from 4:45 to 6:15 at Giant Food BBQ Battle in DC

TroubleFunk from 6:30 to 7:30 at Giant Food BBQ Battle in DC

Feedel Band (DC-based Ethiopian) at Lubber Run in Arlington  for free

Seldom Scene from 7:30 to 8:30 at Arrowbrook Centre Park  2351 Field Point Rd, Herndon for free

Miss Sharon Jones! Movie Doc at AFI Docs at 6:30 at Silver 2

Billy Stewart and Van McCoy Tribute at MLK Library  with live music and panel discussion

Capital Fringe Music Fest--2PM: Juanita Ca$h, 3PM: Dos Santos Antibeat Orchestra, 4PM Kino Musica, 5:30PM 178 Product featuring Sal P. of Liquid Liquid, 7PM Shark Week, 8PM Rufus Roundstree and Da Bmore Brass Factory

Balkan Beat Box at the 930 Club

Bonnie "Prince" Billy + Bitchin' Bajas (together and apart) with Highlife - 6th & I

Broncho - DC9

*Jerry Rivera at Bravo Bravo

*Dixie Chicks, Anderson East, Josh Herbert at Jiffy Lube

*Bonnie Prince Billy at 6th & I

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Sun. 6-26

Capital fringe Music fest Day 2 with 12PM Nag Champa, 1PM Daniel Bachman, 2PM Big Lazy, 3PM Future Generations, 4:30PM Ed Hamell, 6PM Beninghove’s Hangmen, 7PM Sitali, 8PM Underground System

 *YFN Lucci at Bliss DC

*Lil Uzi Vert, Kodak Black, 21 Savage & YFN Lucci at Fillmore (rap)

*EU & Sugarbear at Giant BBQ Battle in DC 7:30 to 9

*Fiesta Asia Silver Spring

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Mon.  6-27

Paul Simon at Wolf Trap

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Tues.  6-28

Ceu at the Howard (Brazilian singer)

Paul Simon at Wolf Trap

Aesop Rock at the 930 Club

* Ethiopian movie "Lamb" at DC JCC movie festival (recommended. I liked it)

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Wed. 6-29

Smithsonian Folklife Festival featuring music and culture from the Basque region and Sounds of California and more  on the National Mall between Fourth and Seventh streets in Washington, D.C., June 29–July 4 and July 7–10 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, with special events beginning at 6:30 p.m

Kepa Junkera, a Basque trikitixa (accordion) player  with the Sorginak, an all-women group whose name translates as “witches.” Their music promotes the use of traditional Basque instrumentation while exploring new fusions of rhythm and sound. At 6:30 pm at the Smithsonian Folklife Fest evening concert (rain location in Arts & Industries bldg.)

Asha Bhosle with Wolf Trap Opera at Wolf Trap Filene Center (Legendary Indian Bollywood singer)

Beres Hammond (reggae singing legend) at the Howard

Rodrigo and Gabriela at Kennedy Ctr.

Mayer Hawthorne at 930

Taj Mahal at Rams Head Live Baltimore

The Soul of Afghan Music: Homayoun Sakhi and Salar Nader for free from 6 to 7 at Kennedy Ctr. Mill. Stage

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Thurs. 6-30

Patti Labelle at Strathmore

Our Point of View featuring Robert Glasper, Lionel Loueke, Derrick Hodge, Kendrick Scott, Marcus Strickland, Ambrose Akinmusire – Birchmere (jazz)

Beres Hammond at the Howard

Naughty by Nature , MC Lyte, EPMD, Slick RIck, Junkyard, EU and more at Classic hiphop night at DAR Constitution Hall

audio-visual performance, Home Within is the newest project of Syrian composer and clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and Syrian Armenian visual artist Kevork Mourad at 6 pm at the Kennedy Center Family Theatre

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Fri.7-1

At 6:30 pm at the Smithsonian Folklife Fest evening concert (rain location in Arts & Industries bldg.) NOKA is a trio of Basque American women based in Chino, California: they specialize in songs about Basque culture, gender, and identity.

The Biotzetik Basque Choir will kick off the evening with both traditional folk songs and sacred music. Founded in Boise, Idaho, in 1986, the thirty-one-person choir consists of native Basques and first- and second-generation Basque Americans.

Jouwala Collective blends Gnawa music, traditional African and spiritual song with Black Masala at Tropicalia

* "Born for This: the Bebe Winans Story" musical at the Arena Stage features Juan and Deborah Joy Winans in their Arena Stage debuts as BeBe and CeCe Winans.

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Other cool stuff (mostly indie-rock)- 6-2-Loud Boyz, Heavy Breathing, Governess @ MLK Library 6:30; Aaron Leitko @ Union Arts;  6-3-Horse Lords, Cigarette & more @ Union Arts;  Hamilton Leithauser @ DC9; Pink Wash & Flashers @ Bl. Cat; 6-7-Subhumans at Metro Gallery;   6-8-Wax Idols; King Woman, Dot Dash at Songbyrd Café; *6-10-Lea Bertucci, Anthony Pirog, Halo Valley @ 3rd Floor;  6-11-Celebrate Fairfax Fest w/ B52s; 6-17-  Nalinee Darmrong: The Smiths: 1985-1986 (photo exhibit) at Studio 1469 ; 6-18-Gauche at 2 at Mt Pleasant Library; *Dungeon @ RnR Hotel; *Heavy Metal Parking Lot screening & party, 1700 Union Ave., Balt. @ 7pm; 6-21-So So Glos @ OttoBar; 6-22-The Cure (sold out) @ Merr. Post;  Wye Oak @ RnR Hotel; *6-23-Tone @ DC9;  6-24-Peru Ubu & Obnox @ RnR Hotel; * Soak @ DC9; 6-25-Mitski @ RnR Hotel; 6-26-Deerhoof @ Ottobar; *Mikey Erg; Hemlines, Worriers, Art Society for Girls @ DC9; 6-27-*Quasi @ RnR Hotel;  6-28-Modern Baseball @ Baltimore Soundstage;

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