DC/Baltimore Global Music and More March 2017 Concert Gig Calendar List

DC/Baltimore Global Music and More- March 2017  

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 2017, Rolling Afrobeats Afropop 2017,  the Rolling Afro-Latin & the Capital Swamp & Chitlin Circuit  threads _____________________________________________________________________________   

Late again.  Busy with dayjob, other writing and more.

Seek out music throughout the area…In addition to the below live and dj events, there are more international dj dance events both in DC and in Maryland (African ones--Golf lounge, Swahili Village, Fire Station One, Stonefish, Crystal) and Virginia

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Remaining Highlights

Tues.  3-7- Noura Mint Seymali (Mauritania band):  at 8 PM at Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre (free but evite suggested)

*Sat. 3-11 - Orquesta El Macabeo with Mirimar (Puerto Rican salsa headliner, bolero openers) at Atlas

Sat.  3-18 - Hamid El Kasri and band (a maalem, a master musician in the gnawa Afro-Islamic spiritual tradition from Morocco) for free from 6 to 7 at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage

BM at Fire Station One, Silver Spring, MD at midnight (Congolese afropop club music)

Thurs.  3-23-Clarence Carter at Bethesda Blues and Jazz (old-school Southern soul)

Sun. 3-26- DC Street Corner Harmony-The Clovers, The Spaniels and The Jewels at Bethesda Blues and Jazz

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.  3-1

12 noon Larry Appelbaum interview of Harvard prof and jazz book author Ingrid Monson at Library of Congress

Ballake Sissoko (Malian kora player) and Vincent Segal (French cellist) at Barns of Wolf Trap

English Beat at 930 Club

Dionne Warwick at Bethesda Blues and Jazz

Gospel at Colonus at Gunston Arts Center in Arlington (through March 26th)

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. 3-3

Cedryl Ballou and the Zydeco Trendsetters at the Glen Echo Ballroom Annex (Cancelled)

Kokayi (DC rap) for free from 6 to 7 at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage

WPA panel at Mexican Cultural Institute at 7 with Kronos Quartet’s David Harrington; Jim Thomson (MultifloraProd.); Huda Asfour (DC musician); Cynthia Vidaurri(Nat. Museum of American Indian)

Tierra Cali, Grupo Exterminador & Revancha Norteña at Rio Cantina - Sterling, Virginia

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Sat.  3-4

Dobet Gnahore at Barns of Wolf Trap (Coite D'Ivoire singer)

Maleek Berry at Cities DC (UK Nigerian)

Liberian Entertainment Awards from 5 to 11 pm at GW Lisner

Cedryll Ballou & Trendsetters  zydeco(canceled) Scott Ramminger instead at Baltimore Blues Society event

DC Music Download's Sounds of the City Fest at Black Cat

Darryl Davis present the Wonder Women Blues Festival at Bethesda Blues and Jazz

Banda Magda for free from 6 to 7 at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage (samba to French chanson, from Greek folk tunes to Colombian cumbia and Afro-Peruvian lando)

Pavel Urkiza & Congri Ensemble- Songs of Cuba 1851 to 1941 at Atlas Theatre

Trebol Clan and DJ Joe at Club One in Alexandria

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Sun. 3-5

Liberian Rntertainment Awards day event at Fire station One in Silver Spring, MD

Tekno at Bliss DC (Nigerian afropop)

Sierra Leone Refugee Allstars at Amp

Musicians Sahba Motallebi, tar; Naghmeh Farahmand, tonbak and daf 11:30am; 1:30; 3pm at Freer/Sackler for Nowruz celebration

Sweet Honey in the Rock at Bethesda Blues and Jazz

Booker T. Jones (Stax r’n’b organist) at the Hamilton

Jeezy, Lil Durk, and YFN Lucci at Rams Head Live! Baltimore

Ben Sollee at Creative Alliance (cellist/songwriter with drummer)

DC Music Download panel

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 3-6

GZA (rapper from Wu-Tang) at Howard Theatre

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. 3-7

Noura Mint Seymali (Mauritania band): Global-Phonic Music Series at 8 PM at Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre

Ricke Lee Jones and Madeleine Peyroux at Bethesda Blues and Jazz

Go-go Social media hall of fame induction of Andre Johson and others at Fast Eddies

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3-8

Gypsy Soul Party at Bossa

Brett Young at Lisner (country)

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   3-9

Los Gaiteros de SanGuashington and and Sonic Castaways at Bossa

Be Steadwell at Amp

Valerie June at 6^th & I

“Swing” at 7:30 at Creative Alliance (movie about infatuation with musician Django R)

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Fri.  3-10

EU at Bethesda Blues and Jazz

DC Bluegrass Fest at Sheraton  Tysons

Roseanne Cash at the Birchmere

Tony Vega at Rio Cantina in Sterling

Sonora Dinamita at the Diamond Lounge

Bronco, Grupo Bryndis y los Mismos at the Palace

Thomas Rhett at Royal Farms Arena

Vanessa Williams at Howard Theatre

Letitia VanSant, Anne Watts, Queen Earth, J. Pope at Creative Alliance (Baltimore singer-songwriters)

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Sat. 3-11

Ghana Independence Celebration Ball at 11pm  at Howard T. with DJs: DJ Claude Di Martian; DJ Sam I Am ; Dj Akuaa and more

*Orquesta El Macabeo with Mirimar (Puerto Rican salsa headliner, bolero openers) at Atlas

*Afrobeats Day Party 5 to 10 at the Park, 14th St. NW

Be’la Dona at Bethesda Blues and Jazz

“Drumline” Live at the Modell Performing Art Center at the Lyric Theatre

Luis Vargas at Los Amigos in Baltimore

Laurie Anderson at Birchmere

Boys for Pele - 21st Anniversary Tribute show to Tori Amos album at Creative Alliance

*Shamrock Fest at RFK 

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.  3-12

Go-go brunch with Be’la Dona at 1:30pm at the Howard Theatre

Mousey Thompson & his James Brown Experience at the Howard Theatre at 8

Hans-Joachim Roedelius at Creative Alliance

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Ladysmith Black Mambazo at the Birchmere

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. 3-15

Amadou Kouyate (Malian) and Nathaniel Braddock (guitarist who lived in West Africa) at Bossa

Mariah Carey and Lionel Ritchie at Royal Farms Arena, Baltimore

Nicholas Payton (Cd release gig) at Blues Alley

*A Tribe Called Red, Basscamp; & Kristy La Rat at U St Music Hall

*Kodo Drummers at Strathmore

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  3-16

Funk Parade Kickoff Jam: Reesa Renee, Joe Keyes  & the Late Bloomer Band, Alex Vaughn, Kazaxe by Azuka Bom, and more at Tropicalia

Method Man & Redman  at Rams Head Live! (Baltimore)

Nicholas Payton (Cd release gig) at Blues Alley

Jens Lekman at 7 at U St. Music Hall

*Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Celtic Celebration at Strathmore

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 3-17

“Celia the Queen”-Celia Cruz movie doc at 11am at the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum

Ethiopian-Israeli singer and songwriter Aveva Dese for free from 6 to 7 at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage

Bell Biv Devoe and DJ Money at Verizon Center after Wizards game (Wizards Friday Night Concert Series)

Dikki Du and the Zydeco Crew at Creative Alliance

*Mali Blues at AFI Theatre as part of New Africa Film Festival

*Dungeon at DC9 (Scandanavian rock)

*Nathaniel Braddock (guitarist in West African sounds and Fahey acoustic) at Georgetown U

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  3-18

Hamid El Kasri and band (a maalem, a master musician in the gnawa Afro-Islamic spiritual tradition from Morocco) for free from 6 to 7 at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage

BM at Fire Station One (Congolese afropop club)

Maluma at Eaglebank Arena

Holi Celebration from 11:30 am to 2pm at India International School, 4433 R Brookfield, Corporate Drive Chantilly VA

Jose James: "Love in a Time of Madness" featuring Nate Smith at U St Music Hall (Early show at 7 PM)

O'Malley's March 2 shows at Creative Alliance (Irish)

*Lamont's Birthday Bash with the Stone Pleasure Band at Lamont's in Pomonkey, MD

*Mali Blues at AFI Theatre as part of New Africa Film Festival

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3-19

Rhonda Vincent & the Rage at  the Hamilton

Ronnie Milsap at Rams Head On Stage Annapolis

38^th Anniversary Gospel concert with  "Patrick Lundy & The Ministers of Music";  the "Voices of Hope Youth Choir", "The Vintage Saints", and more at First  Baptist Church of Highland Park (FBCHP), 6801 Sheriff Road, Hyattsville, MD

*Hardway Connection at Lamont's

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. 3-21

King (r’n’b group) for free from 6 to 7 at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage (recommended)

Simrit at St. Francis Hall in DC (Greek folk meets the Dead meets yoga )

*They (r'n'b w/ rap & ppop-rock) at Songbyrd

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. 3-22

Valerie Simpson at Bethesda Blues and Jazz

Jamal Gray and other DC musicians pay tribute to The Soulquarians, comprised of such artists as Common, D’Angelo, Erykah Badu, Q-Tip, J Dilla, The Roots, Mos Def and more) for free from 6 to 7 on the Millennium Stage

NSO Pops performance with rapper Common at 8 in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall.

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Thurs.  3-23

Clarence Carter at Bethesda Blues and Jazz (old-school Southern soul)

*Zombies at the 930 Club

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. 3-24

Blind Boys of Alabama at 8 at the Howard Theatre

UCB and What Band at 11 pm at the Howard Theatre

*Sizzla and Lady Flame (dancehall reggae) at Bliss DC

May J (J-pop singer from Japan) for free from 6 to 7 at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage

Sounds of Kolachi at Tropicalia (Pakistan)

Lil Margie Clark and friends at the PG Publick Playhouse (DC soul)

Lily Meka at Hampton Conference Center

Frankie Beverly and Maze, Keith Sweat, K-Ci & Jo-jo, Avant at Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore

Rahsaan Patterson and Nao Yoshioka.at the Birchmere

NSO Pops with  Sy Smith, Capathia Jenkins, and Montego Glove in a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald (100^th birthday) at Kennedy Center

Jonatha Brooke at Creative Alliance

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Sat. 3-25

Sounds of Kolachi for free from 6 to 7 at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage (Pakistan)

Atlantic Rhythms release party at Ten Tigers Parlour, 3813 GA Ave. NW

Tribute to Teddy Pendergrass with Stan Hampton at Harmony Hall

Chicano Batman, 79.5, and Sadgirl  at Rock & Roll Hotel

Leo Sandoval + Eduardo Belo (Brazilian tap dancer w/ Brazilian bassist) plus Nic Gareiss + Cleek Schrey (Appalachian dance) at Creative Alliance

*Post Carnival Relief at Karma Sound Stage DC with Linky First  * Lady Flame at Sweet Home Jamaica, Brooklyn, MD (reggae)

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Sun. 3-26

DC Street Corner Harmony-The Clovers, The Spaniels and The Jewels at Bethesda Blues and Jazz

Stevie Nicks and the Pretenders at Royal Farms Arena

*The Righteous Brothers at the Birchmere

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.  3-28 

Angie Stone at Bethesda Blues and Jazz

Chuck Prophet & the Mission Express and the Bottle Rockets at the Hamilton

James McMurtry & Tift Merritt at Birchmere (sold out)

*Raul Midon at Reston Community Center (jazzy-soul guitarist/singer)

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3-29

Angie Stone at Bethesda Blues and Jazz

*Raul Midon at Reston Community Center

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3-30

The Wiz (through April 2^nd) at Morgan State

*  the New Orleans pianist James Booker movie doc-Bayou Maharajah for free at 7:30pm at Georgetown Univ. New South Film Screening Room,

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3-31

Elikeh at Gypsy Sally’s j

Princess Nokia at Songbyrd (soldout)

Dianne Reeves sings Ella at the Library of Congress Coolidge Aud.

Falu's Bollywood Orchestra at Wolf Trap (the Barns)

Larry Graham & Graham Central Station at Birchmere

Vince Staples at 930 Club (rap)

*Carl Craig at Flash (Detroit techno dj)

*Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers at Strathmore

*  Yaadein.. a tribute to one and only Jagjit Singh by Tausif Akhtar and his orchestra at McLean High

*YBS Skola (Baltimore rapper) at Cities

*Soundclash (djs spinning Jamaican oldies) at Marx Cafe

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Sat. 4-1

*New Orleans sax player Charles Neville and band at Georgetown University McNeir Hall New North Bldg at 8 follwed by panel discussion

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Other cool stuff (mostly indie-rock)-3-5-Anna Connolly @ Bossa;  Potty Mouth @ DC 9; 3-6- Downtown Boys, Sneaks, Snail Mail, Joe Biden, and DJ Brandon Carlo @ Ottobar; 3-7-Landlady @ K. Ctr. Mill. Stage; 3-9-Los Campesinos! & Crying @ 930; Mal Blum, Shondes & Hemlines @ Black Cat Backstage; 3-11- Priests (record release) and Coup Sauvage & the Snips (record release) @ Black Cat ; 3-12-Sunn O)) @930; Deafheaven @ Baltimore Soundstage; 3-13-Green Day & Against Me @ Verizon Ctr.; 3-14-Agent Orange, the Queers @ Baltimore Soundstage; 3-18- the Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir (Night 1: Songs 1-25) at Lincoln Theatre; 3-22- Downtown Boys and Sneaks @ Rock & Roll Hotel; Kasey Chambers @ Rams Head On Stage Annapolis;3-25- Big Thief, Palehound, and Snail Mail @Songbyrd; 3-25-Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain reading/q &a for reissued punk book Please Kill Me @ Slash Run; *Bad Moves @ Comet; 3-27-Pretenders at the Fillmore; Ne-hi @ DC9; *3-30-Escapism (Ian S.) w/ SelectorDubNarcotic (C. Johnson) @ Ottobar; 4-1-Jay Som @ DC9;

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