DC/Baltimore /DMV Global Music and More –June 2024
Concert Calendar Gig List
Compiled &
curated list of area gigs by local and touring bands and djs by Steve
Kiviat. List is 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. Calendar is sometimes linked on my Facebook,
Instagram, Bluesky, & Threads. It includes international (mainly African,
Caribbean, Latin, Brazilian), roots, rap, soul, go-go, rock, punk, pop, gospel,
club dj dance and more DMV & Baltimore & Annapolis gigs that I am
interested in. Lots of local Ethiopian
and Go-go. Additional gigs added after
first posting 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
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June 2024 Remaining Highlights (mostly visiting
acts) (then full list below w/ local
& visiting):
Wed. June 5- Swansea Sound , Jeanines, the Owners @
Quarry House (UK twee pop & punk pop headliners)
Istiwanat Live! Arabic Music Ensemble (w/ oud, qanun,
violin, riqq & dad drums) from 12 to 1 pm @ Library of Congress Thomas
Jefferson Bldg. Whittall Pavilion (part of the American Folklife Center Archive
Challenge. The musicians had to choose obscure songs from the Library archives
or Harvard archives and cover them)
Sat. June 8- Ms. Jody, Donnie Ray, LJ Echols, Kevin
Lankford, Big Gee Band, Hardway Connection , Jim Bennett, Jesi Terrell @ 2 pm @
Gray’s Beach, 4250 Gray’s Beach Place, Marbury, MD (Southern soul & Blues)
Taste of Bahia and samba party w/ String Prime 6 to 10 pm @
Church of Pilgrims, 2201 P st NW
Monday June 10- Peso Pluma @ Capital One Arena
(Mexican banda rap)
Friday June 14- Salsa Fest w/ EL Gran Combo, Grupo
Niche, India, Tito Nieves, Rey Ruiz, Los Adolescentes @ Eaglebank Arena
Mokoomba free from 6 to 7 @ Kennedy Center Millennium Stage
(great Zimbabwe afropop)
Frankie Beverly & Maze : Farewell to Frankie @ Capital
One Arena
Saturday June 15-Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted
movie doc (DC /Doxx fest) 8 to 9:45 @ Landmark E St (r& b & Americana)
Saturday June 22 – Home Rule Fest w/ Gary Bartz,
Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids, Rare Essence, Vanessa Rubin, Dupont Brass
Band, Black Alley, Malcolm X Drummers & Dancers free @1 pm till @ The Parks @ Walter Reed
Sunday June 23 & Monday June 24- Mulatu Astatke @
Howard Theatre (Ethiopian keyboard legend)
Thursday June 27-Mdou Moctar @ 930 (Saharan rock )
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June 2024 Full
list (*asterisks will be used to show any additional events added throughout
the month *)
Sat. June 1-
Brazilian Guitar Masters Fest Day 2 w/ Joao Bosco @ Catholic
U Hartke Theatre
Ms. Kim “The Queen Of Go-Go” 50th Birthday Celebration @
Bethesda Theater *
Shannon & the Clams @ Black Cat
Nathan & the Zydeco Cha-chas in Reston
Desanguashington and La Marvela @ Galactic Panther
Blues Brothers movie @ 4:15 @ AFI
Reggae Fest dj night @ Howard Theatre
Chuck Brown Band @ Carlyle Room
Argentine Fest @ Kenmore Theatre Arlington
El Chaval de la Bachata @ Vibe in Annapolis
Tumbao (Latin salsa ) @ 10:30 @ Bossa 1st floor & DJ Lu
Latin Hits upstairs
Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant (Ethiopian)
live Ethiopian music @ Shalla
Ras Band w/ guest singers @ MHL Lounge (Ethiopian)
Ethiopian music @ Black Rose Lounge
Rare Essence @ 11 @
Aqua (go-go)
Deep Sugar Afterhours house and Baltimore club party w/ DJ
Sedrick & DJ Meesh @ 11 pm to 4 am @ Factory 17 (Club 1722) , 1722 N.
Charles St. Baltimore
Junkyard Band, New Impressionz, Collective Measures @ Geno’s
Ballpark in Lothian, MD
Nartana (a Bharatanatyam traditional Indian dance night) @ 7
@ Dance Loft on 14, 4618 14th St NW
a FREE livestream of The Gathering: A Collective Sonic Ring
Shout. Join Nona Hendryx, Abby Dobson, Toshi Reagon, Joel Thompson, Carlos
Simon, Courtney Bryan, Troy Anthony and more as they take you on a sonic
melodic quest to “The Gathering.” @ 7:30 @ Kennedy Center Millennium Stage
EU feat Sugar Bear @ Uptown Haydee’s reunion @ 9:30 pm ,
6303 Ga. Ave NW
Leon City Sounds djs
@ 10 @ Green Zone
Sir Lando, Carrier Wave,
Apollo 66 @ American Legion Post 41
Homayoun Shajarian & Anoushiravan Rohani @ DAR
Constitution Hall (Iranian/Persian singer & pianist) (show is nearly sold
out)
Fiesta Asia on Penn Ave NW
Dance Place's Dance Africa Fest free 11:30 to 7 w/ Balafon West African Dance
@ 7 near Dance Place around 8th St NE
Both Sides of the Water (Native & African dance) w/
Libations, Candle Bearers, Council of Elders Processional, Nanfoule Mask
Society, Native America’s Protectors,
Keur Khaleyi, Ni Dembaya, and Osagyefo Dance Company @ 8 @ Dance Place
DJ Les 7 to 10:30 pm @ Daikaya Izakaya Restaurant/bar *
(She's there 1st Saturdays)
Leon City Sounds djs @ Green Zone
District Heights Day w/ TOB Band & Top 5 Band & more
District Heights Municipal Bldg
TCB @ Martini's (bouncebeat go-go)
Junkyard Band , Still Familiar @ Fast Eddies (go-go)
Burgers Manassas grand opening 3 to 5 District Kings &
guests Sugar Bear & Steve Roy (go-go)
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Sun. June 2-
Reik @ DAR Constitution Hall (Mexican pop)
Author George Pelecanos & DC punk musician
guests(Brendan Canty, Anthony Pirog, @ 4
@ Palisades Community Center Backstage *
Ruben Moreno & the Zydeco Re-evolution @ 3 to 6 pm @
Glen Echo
Summerfest w/ Eric Bellinger, DCVybe, Top 5, Secret Society,
Sirius Company, Be’la Dona @ 12 noon to 8 pm @ Lerner Town Square Tysons
Jjuujjuu, JMB MFers & Co., Requiem @ Comet P Pong
Beach Boys @ Wolf Trap
Amapiano @ Hook Hall
Godfather & Friends, Go-go Allstars for Lil Benny
Community Day 12 to 6 pm @ Sycamore
& Oak SE
TOB @ Shark Bar
Artist talk, video & Closing reception for Rock Creek
Park exhibition @ 3 to 5 @ Lost Origins Gallery
Taste of Peru @ UDC
21 Savage @ Jiffy Lube Live (rap)
Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla Restaurant in Silver Spring
(through Sunday)
Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria
(Ethiopian)
Ethiopian music @ MHL
Lounge in Falls Church
Ethiopian music @
Black Rose Lounge
Ethiopian music @ Love Lounge Fenton St Silver Spring
Drumming @ 3 to 7 @ Malcolm X Park
Afrobeats dj @ St Ex
1252 Band @ Lamont's (soul)
World Heritage Fest @ Veterans Plaza Silver Spring
Sunny War @ Hill Center
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Monday June 3-
Madaraka Fest w/
Nyashinski, Eddie Kenzo, Savara (Sauti Sol), Dynamq, Naomi Achu, Simon Javan
Okelo & AfroNile (w/ Ethiopian guitarist Selam Woldemariam) @ Fillmore Silver Spring
The Golden Sea Duo with Kahil El'Zabar and David Murray @
Rhizome (jazz)
Steel Pulse @ Vanish Hal, 7704 Old National Pike, Boonsboro,
MD
Big Blues Band 6 to 9 @ Westminster Church SW
Ethiopian music live @ Napoli Lounge
Ethiojazz @ Shalla
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Tues. June 4 –
Shadow Riot @ Rhizome (Jeff Barsky, Dug Birdzell, Kamyar Arsani, Jerry Busher ) w/ Moon by
Moon, & Magnetic Health @ Rhizome (rock)
Kase Cobain, Trilla Kay, Yxng Float, Shad Spitts, Fresh Waters, DJ Bri Mafia @
Songbyrd (rap)
Chained to the Bottom of the Sea, Ninth Realm @ Quarry House
Tavern
X Ambassadors @ 930 Club (sold Out)
John Legend & Orchestra @ Wolf Trap
Ethiopian music @ Lion’s Den in
Falls Church
Blacc Print
Experience @ Martini's White Plains (go-go)
*The Altons, Thee Sinseers @ Union Stage (retro soul)*
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Wed. June 5-
Swansea Sound , Jeanines, the Owners @ Quarry House (UK twee
pop & punk pop headliners)
Negativeland , Sue-C at Tonal Park (art rock) (sold out)
Nourished By Time, Notcharles, Dre Thompson @ 8PM @ Ottobar
(alt-r&b )
John Legend @ Wolf Trap
Tinsley Ellis @ Jammin Java
Marisa Anderson (guitar), Kajwan Ziaoddini (Iranian santour)
@ Rhizome
Leigh Pilzer Startet from 6 to 7 pm for free @ Kennedy
Center Millennium Stage (local jazz)
Songwriter showcase w/ Eleanor Ellis, Ash Devine, Jesse Palidofsky,
Annette Wasilik from 8 to 10 @ Hank Dietle’s (folk & blues)
Blacc Print Experience for free @ Songbyrd (go-go)
Boomscat @ Blues Alley (funky)
What Band 7 to 12 @
Shark Bar (go-go)
Danube Wolves @ 7 @
Bossa (global funky)
Sahel acoustic trio
7 to 10 @ St. Vincent Wine (African & Caribbean )
Sirius Company @
Sobe (go-go)
New Impressionz @
Babylon (go-go)
Live Ethiopian
music @ Napoli Lounge
Kizomba and bachata
dj & dancing @ Crossroads 2
DJ Jamstar @ Tempoo
Lounge (dancehall)
*Altons & Thee Sinseers @ Rams Head Annapolis (retro soul)*
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Thurs. June 6-
Tokischa @ Echostage (reggaeton)
Flowers for the Dead , Milliseconds (members of the
Dismemberment Plan), Hubble @ Songbyrd (rock)
Bill MacKay (Chicago guitarist),Catherine Sikora & David
Menestres, Dave Heumann @ Rhizome
Chris Smither & Peter Mulvey @ Rams Head Live Annapolis (blues, Americana)
Hiphop & international music dj @ 11 @ Zebbies Garden
Diaspora Thursdays w/ DJ Bimshire playing hiphop, dancehall,
soca, Afrobeats, Amapiano @ Pure Lounge
Grandsons @ Hank Dietle’s
DJ Lance Reynolds 6 to 8 pm in front
of the ticket office free @ Carter Barron Amphitheatre (r&b)
Bryson Tiller @
Anthem
Boomscat @ Blues
Alley (funky)
Thrills @ JVs
(roots pop rock)
Swing Prime band w/
Brazilian forro & axe @ 10 @ @ Bossa
Azul Band @ Green
Zone (global sounds)
Live Ethiopian
music w/ on Thursdays guitarist Selamino & band @ Shalla Restaurant in
Silver Spring
Roots Band @ Makeda
Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria (Ethiopian)
Ethiopian
music @ MHL Lounge in Falls Church
Ethiopian
music @ Black Rose Lounge
Ethiopian music @
Love Lounge Fenton St Silver Spring
What Band feat.
Killa Cal @ Martini's Ft Washington (go-go)
Afrobeats w/ DJ
Jamstar @ Spectrum Lounge
Afro-Caribbean dj @
Kaldis
Afrobeats @ Gazuza
Lounge
*Daryl Davis Band 6:30 to 8:30 @ 8525 Chevy Chase Lake Terrace, Chevy Chase, MD (blues, roots rock & r& b)*
* Leon City Sounds tropical music (cumbia & mas) djs @ Mercy Me*
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Fri. June 7-
End Gun Violence Citywide conference & fest 12 to 4 w/
TOB performing @ 2:30 @ Franklin Park NW
Guided by Voices, Birthday Girl DC @ Atlantis (sold out)
Save Your Soul dj night w/ Baby Alcatraz & That Rob
Macy @ Lithuanian Hall Baltimore
Chris Stapleton’s All American Road Show @ Jiffy Lube (country)
Jason Moran and Alicia Hall Moran: Family Ball @ Kennedy
Center Terrace Theatre (jazz& theatre)
Bill Kirchen & Too Much Fun w/ Dale Watson & the
Lone Stars @ Birchmere
Club USA, Freq Flag, Joy Viver @ Rhizome
Breezy Supreme presents Woo Da Savage & more @ Songbyrd
Bob Marley : Is This Love @ 9:45 pm part of Caribbean Film Fest (June 7
through 12 @ AFI)
Capital “Jazz” Fest w/ r& b acts Anthony Hamilton,
Chrisette Michele, Teedra Moses @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
Melt Banana, The Flying Luttenbachers, Tomato Flower,
Babybaby_Explores. @ 6:30PM @ Metro Gallery Baltimore (punk )
Booty Rex @ Black Cat
Flo Rida post Washington Nats baseball game concert @ Nats
Park (rap)
Soul Meets Body, Spring Silver, Faded Home @ the Pocket
(rock)
Baltimore Record Bazaar Vinyl Nite. 6pm free @ Peabody
Heights Brewery
Joe Falero Latin Band @ 7:30 for free @ Grist Mill Park
Aaron Myers live recording @ Blues Alley (jazz vocals)
Historically
Speaking: Alice Randall: My Black Country book talk about Black country
musicians 7 to 8 @ Smithsonian National Museum of
African American History and Culture
Step Afrika “The Migration: Reflections on
Jacob Lawrence” dance @ Arena Stage through July 14
Luis Vega @ Diamond Lounge
Luis R Conriquez, Hermanos Espinoza @ Cococabana
El Leon Y Su Tripulacion - K'llao Salsa-
Engenberth Tapia @ Lima de Veras Restobar Sterling
Banda Toro and Banda Los Montoyo @ 90
Degrees
Dance Club presents Diyanna Monet , Joyce
Lim, Baronhawk Porter, Tommy C @ 11 pm @ DC 9 (techno)
Elijah Balbed quartet @ 9:30 @ Roofers Union
(jazz, funk)
Sirius Company @ 10
@ Rooftop of Citizens & Culture, GA Ave , Silver Spring
DJ
Mambo Soul’s Ya Tu S.A.B.E. party @ 10
(w/ salsa dance lessons @ 9:15) @ Twin Valley Distillers Rockville
Arab
music dj @ Green Zone
After
Thought Band @ Lamont’s (soul)
Rare
Essence @ Fast Eddie’s (go-go)
Backyard
Band @ Restaurant 55 (go-go)
Junkyard
Band @ Nipseys (go-go)
TCB @ Power (bouncebeat go-go)
Alfredo Mojica Group @ 10:30 @ Bossa (salsa)
plus DJ Lu w/ Latin hits upstairs, Son Cubano Subterrano @ 8
Roots
Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria (Ethiopian)
Live
Ethiopian music @ Shalla
Ras
Band w/ guest singers @ MHL Lounge (Ethiopian)
Ethiopian
music @ Black Rose Lounge
Live
Ethiopian instrumental music w/ guitarist Selamino & band 9 to 12 mdt. @
Meleket
*Eleanor Ellis & Ash Devine @ School of Musical Traditions , 7112 Willow Ave., Takoma Park, MD*
*Purple Rain Prince tribute w/ Junie Henderson @ Bethesda Theater*
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Ms. Jody, Donnie
Ray, LJ Echols, Kevin Lankford, Big Gee Band, Hardway Connection , Jim Bennett,
Jesi Terrell @ 2 pm @ Gray’s Beach, 4250 Gray’s Beach Place, Marbury, MD
(Southern soul & Blues)
Taste of Bahia and
samba party w/ Swing Prime 6 to 10 pm @ Church of Pilgrims, 2201 P st NW
Patti Labelle, Gladys Knight @ Wolf Trap
Capital Jazz Fest Saturday w/ Gregory Porter,Lalah Hathaway,
Black Violin, Spyro Gyra, Lori Williams, Braxton Cook, Keyon Harrold, Louie
Vega, Babyface, Joss Stone, El Debarge, Kindred the Family Soul, Cece Peniston, The Jones Girls @ Merriweather
Post Pavilion
Tinner Hill Blues Fest w/ Blind Boys of Alabama ,
Blackbyrds, George Porter, Jo-Go Project, See-I, Batala Washington & more
11 am to 8 pm in Falls Church
Okkervil River, the Antlers @ Union Stage (Indie roots)
Still Familiar, Suttle, All Out Band for Steve Roy’s
Birthday 4 to 9 @ Diamond Lounge (go-go) * & the same groups late @ Restaurant 55*
Joslyn & the Sweet Compression @ Lubber Run
Bad Like Brookyln Dancehall movie @ 6:45 as part of Caribbean Film Fest @ AFI
Dancing the Stumble movie @ 1 as part of
Caribbean Film Fest @ AFI (a
psychiatric unit in a Martinique hospital uses music, dance & rituals)
Who in Da Mornin
doc @ 2:30 as part of Caribbean Film Fest @ AFI( about Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival
vets )
Southside Johnny
& the Asbury Jukes @ Birchmere
Woggles, Jake Starr & the Delicious Fullness (with Peter
Greenberg of Barrence Whitfield & the Savages on guitar) @ Hank Dietle’s
New Impressionz, TCB, TOB @ Fast Eddies (go-go)
Caribbean and Latin American Fest from 9am to 9pm @
Amphitheatre Leonadus K Plenty @ Lee District Park, 6601 Telegraph Rd.,
Alexandria
Breakfast All Day Records bands Scoria; Lola; and the
Plastic Toys matinee @ 1:30 @ Songbyrd
Laylit #73 w/ DJs Saba, Manalou, Cheba Iman, MNSA, Anya
Kneez @ Culture (Arabic club dance music)
Short pants fete w/ DJ Fyah Oats @ Crossroads 2
Carnival Cruceno in Bull Run Park
The Pietasters, The Goons, Urban Crater, Italian Blood, The
Skluttz. 6:30PM, doors @ Ottobar
Jason Narducy & Alison Chesley. 4PM & 8PM, @ Club 603 Baltimore
Radio Forum, Personal Injury, Lucas Dimou The Aglets @ 3 to
5 @ Art Sound Language Record Store (young rock bands)
Tumbao (Latin salsa ) @ 10:30 @ Bossa 1st floor & DJ Lu
Latin Hits upstairs, also DJ Berimbau
Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant (Ethiopian)
live Ethiopian music @ Shalla
Ras Band w/ guest singers @ MHL Lounge (Ethiopian)
Ethiopian music @ Black Rose Lounge
Rare Essence @ 11 @
Aqua (go-go)
Afrobeat-fusion -percussion free concert w/ Tosin Aribisala
@ 5 to 6 @ Good Hope Neighborhood Recreation Center, 14715 Good Hope Rd.,
Silver Spring
*Amapiano to the World day party 4 to 10 @ Citizens & Culture (South African music dj'd)*
*DJ Kenny M Soul Sauce vinyl @ Green Zone*
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Sun. June 9-
English Teacher, Pretty Bitter @ Atlantis (critic fave rock
headliners)
John Fogerty @ Jiffy Lube Live
Gary Clark Jr @ Wolf Trap (blues)
Go-go on the MLK Library roof w/
EU, Still Familiar, Mab 2.0 from 1 to 5 pm free
Capital Jazz Fest w/ Kem , Andra Day , Meshell Ndegeocello,
Alex Bugnon, Theo Croker, Marqueal Jordan, Leela James, Jodeci , Raheem
DeVaughn, Karyn White, Jon B., Switch @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
Black Folks Don’t Swim ? at the Pocket
Rare Essence @ Ivy City Smokehouse
Questlove: Hip-hop is History book event @ 3 @ Enoch Pratt
Library Baltimore (Sold out)
The Reluctant Playboys , & Virginia & the Bluedots
from 6 to 9 @ Hank Dietle’s (honky tonk country, rockabilly)
The r & b club discusses movie soundtracks @ 12 noon @
Songbyrd
Musica movie doc @ 7 as part of Caribbean Film Fest @ AFI (4
young Cuban musicians are helped by NY non-profit Horns to Havana & get to visit
New Orleans)
The Kennedys @ Jammin Java (folk-rock)
Caribbean-American Heritage food, music , arts fest @ 12 to
9 @ Veterans plaza Silver Spring
Mrs. Toretsky’s Nightmare @ 7:30 @ Bossa (klezmer)
Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla
Restaurant in Silver Spring
Roots Band @ Makeda
Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria (Ethiopian)
Ethiopian
music @ MHL Lounge in Falls Church
Ethiopian
music @ Black Rose Lounge
Ethiopian music @
Love Lounge Fenton St Silver Spring
Drumming @ 3 to 7 @
Malcolm X Park
Afrobeats dj @ St
Ex
Eclipse International
and I & I Riddim from 4 to 6 @ Fairwood Community Park
*Junkyard Band 5 to 9 @ Urban Crab in Forrestville, MD (go-go) *
*Samba Prime @ 9 @ Bukom (Brazilian)*
*Dwight Carrier zydeco band @ 5 @ After Work, 3433 Connecticut Ave. (The Club Soda sign for former name of the place is still there)*
*The Funset Prince Party 5 to 10 @ Dew Drop Inn*
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Peso Pluma @
Capital One Arena (Mexican banda rap)
Joe Jackson @ Lincoln Theatre
Shireleta Settles & friends blues and soul band 6 to 9 @
Westminster Church SW
John Hyatt @ Birchmere (sold Out)
Ethiopian music live @ Napoli Lounge
Ethiojazz @ Shalla
Open Mic Monday w/ Attinshun @ 8:30 @ Mojuba Collective,
Silver Spring
Can I Kick It w/ DJ 2 Tone Jones spinning music while
Shaolin Jazz is on a screen @ Songbyrd
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Tuesday June 11-
Bakar @ Howard Theatre (Brit indie rock)
John Hyatt @ Rams Head Onstage
Annapolis
Ethiopian music @
Lion’s Den in Falls Church
Blacc Print
Experience @ Martini's White Plains (go-go)
*Bitchin Bajas & Model Home @ Quarry House (avante beats)*
*Alex Martin & Appalachian Fall @ Blues Alley (guitar jazz) *
*Silverfest (Kim Zombik & Nicolas Caloia) @ Rhizome (jazz) *
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Wednesday June 12-
Angelique Kidjo African Symphony w/ NSO @ Kennedy Center (Afropop )
Raveonettes @ Black Cat
Sun Ra Arkestra @ 7PM @ Keystone Korner
Roger Daltrey & KT Tunstall @ Wolf Trap
Umbrellas & Linda Smith @ Quarry House (twee guitar pop)
Rhett Miller of Old 97s @ Rams Head Onstage Annapolis
Tom Heyman @ 5:30 @ Hank Dietle’s (Go to Blazes guitarist
solo roots )
Dead Tongues free from 6 to 7 @ Kennedy Center Millennium
Stage (indie folk)
Prude @ Songbyrd (rock)
Guitarist David W Chappell celebrates the jazzy side of
Patsy Cline @ Blues Alley (1st show sold out; late show has tickets)
Dancing the Stumble movie @ 5 as part of Caribbean Film Fest @ AFI (a
psychiatric unit in a Martinique hospital uses music, dance & rituals)
Eric Benet @ Birchmere (neo-soul)
Sirius Company @ Sobe (go-go)
New Impressionz @ Babylon (go-go)
Live Ethiopian music @ Napoli Lounge
Kizomba and bachata dj & dancing @ Crossroads 2
DJ Jamstar @ Tempoo Lounge (dancehall)
*Johnnie Steele & Steele4real band do old-school r& b covers 7 to 9 @ Eloquent Touch Ballroom Suitland*
*Dr. Natalie Hopkinson lecture - We Are the Archive: Go-go, Art & Respect 12 to 1pm @ Librry of Congress Thomas Jeff. Bldg.Whittall Pavilion*
*Rev Barber & Wilson-Hartgrove on Poverty @ 6 pm @ 6th & I
*Kim Michelle Experience @ 7 @ Sycamore & Oak SE (go-go)*
*Sam Jimmy's Reggae Jam Session @ 9 @ Bossa DC*
*What Band feat. Killa Cal @ Shark Bar (go-go)*
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Thursday June 13-
Festa Junina w/ Forrocacana
@ Black Cat (Brazilian forro, quadrilha)
Cultura Profectica @ Howard Theatre
Longtimers @ Hank Dietle’s (roots rock w/ New Orleans
influences)
DJ Lance Reynolds 6 to 8 pm in front of the ticket office @
Carter Barron Amphitheatre (r&b)
DJ Nate Geezie discusses rapper Juvenile’s 400 Degrees @ 8
to 10 @ Eaton’s Library
Blackbyrds @ Rams Head Onstage Annapolis
Flack @ VFW Post 350 Hells Bottom (Roots pop)
Live Ethiopian music w/ on Thursdays guitarist Selamino
& band @ Shalla Restaurant in Silver Spring
Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria
(Ethiopian)
Ethiopian music @ MHL
Lounge in Falls Church
Ethiopian music @
Black Rose Lounge
Ethiopian music @ Love Lounge Fenton St Silver Spring
What Band feat. Killa Cal @ Martini's Ft Washington (go-go)
Afrobeats w/ DJ Jamstar @ Spectrum Lounge
Afro-Caribbean dj @ Kaldis
Afrobeats @ Gazuza Lounge
*Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation tribute to the late Phil Wiggins w/ Eleanor Ellis, Miles Spicer, YaYa Patterson, Pearl Bailes, Stingy Brim Geoff Seals plus guests @ 6 to 9 @ El Golfo in Silver Spring *
*Clarence the Bluesman Turner Juneteenth show @ Glen Echo*
*HookieFest Caribbean music events tonight through June 17 -events on their site *
*Black Punk Now book talk by James Spooner & Chris L. Terry @ 7 pm @ MLK Library *
*Cheick Hamala & the Griot Street Band @ Bossa*
*DJ Neal Becton (SOM Records) global vinyl @ Green Zone
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Salsa Fest w/ El Gran Combo, Grupo Niche, India, Tito Nieves, Rey Ruiz, Los Adolescentes @
Eaglebank Arena
Pixies, Modest
Mouse, Cat Power @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
Mokoomba free from
6 to 7 @ Kennedy Center Millennium Stage (great Zimbabwe afropop)
Munit Mesfin @ 8 @
Lubber Run (DC area based Ethiopian & R& B singer)
Frankie Beverly
& Maze : Farewell to Frankie @ Capital One Arena
10,000 Dreams: a Fest of Asian Choreography @ Kennedy Center
Belanova @ Fillmore (Mexican pop band)
Omar And Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird movie doc about the
Mars Volta band members 7:30 to 9:45 @ Landmark E St
Bleachers @ Anthem (sold out)
Chuck Brown Band free @ 7:30 @ Grist Mill Park Alexandria (go-go)
Monty Alexander @ Blues Alley (Jamaican jazz pianist)
Flowerbomb, Pink Lemons @ Comet (rock)
Luther : Never Too Much film about Luther Vandross 7 to 9
plus discussion @ @ Smithsonian National
Museum of African American History and Culture
One Love Happy Hour w/ DJ Sprang Int. playing soca,
dancehall, afrobeats, hiphop 5 to 9:30 free @ Crossroads 2
Kazzabe @ Club One
Sirius Company @ 10 @ Rooftop of Citizens & Culture, GA
Ave , Silver Spring
Arab music dj *Remi Hassoun* @ Green Zone
After Thought Band @ Lamont’s (soul)
Rare Essence @ Fast Eddie’s (go-go)
Backyard Band @ Restaurant 55 (go-go)
Junkyard Band @ Nipseys (go-go)
TCB @ Power
(bouncebeat go-go)
Alfredo Mojica Group
@ Bossa (salsa) plus DJ Lu w/ Latin hits upstairs
Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria
(Ethiopian)
Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla
Ras Band w/ guest singers @ MHL Lounge (Ethiopian)
Ethiopian music @ Black Rose Lounge
Live Ethiopian instrumental music w/ guitarist Selamino
& band 9 to 12 mdt. @ Meleket
*Food Not Bombs & Positive Force present Garbagefest w/ Messthetics, Massie, Professor Goldstein @ 7:30 @ St Stephen's Church NW *
*Eid al-Adha Celebration w/ Bishara Sakhnini, DJ Sam I am Beats, & Kristi Angel belly Dancer @ Phoenicia Rest & Lounge, Vienna , VA (Middle-Eastern) *
*New Impressionz @ Aqua (bouncebeat & more go-go)*
*DJ Sleepie Babie & DJ Joyce 1432r free @ Jimmy Valentines (techno)*
*TOB @ Martini's (bouncebeat go-go)*
*Blacc Print Experience @ 8 @ Takoma Station Tavern (old-school go-go)*
*DJ Ron Trent @ Flash (house & techno)*
*CCB @ Throw Social (go-go)*
*Boekner @ Atlantis (rock from Wolf Parade & band w/ Spoon singer) *
*Pink Siifu @ DC 9 (rap) *
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Sat. June 15-
Tekno @ Fillmore (Afrobeats) POSTPONED TO JULY 20 AS bANDMEMBERS VISAS WERENT APPROVED ON TIME
Seventh Stanine Fest w/ Water Damage (Austin Krautrock
drone) , Geologist (Animal Collective member) , Tongue Depressor (New Haven
fiddle drone), Susan Alcorn, The Caribbean, Small Sur (artsy minimalist
Baltimore country), Turner Williams (noisy India influenced zither drones), Jon
Camp, DJs: Chad Clark, PJ Brownlee, Paul Vodra, Ryan Boddy @ Rhizome
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Big Boi, Danielle
Ponder @ Wolf Trap
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat movie doc (about the US State Dept sending Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from the CIA organized coup) 1 to 3:45 @ National Gallery of Art East Bldg
Monty Alexander @ Blues Alley (Jamaican jazz pianist)
Juneteenth Community Day celebration 11 am to 4 pm @
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Juneteenth * w/ Chuck Brown Band, TroubleFunk, Brencore Allstars, Luther Re-Lives tribute band @ 12 to 5 @ Watkins Regional Park *
Silver Spring Blues Fest w/ Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Ensemble & more 10 am ; Rick Franklin @ 11; Stormi & the Blue Skies @ 12 noon; Eleanor Ellis (1pm), Memphis Gold @ 5:00, Teeny Tucker Band @ 7 *w/ fest going to 10pm
2nd annual Puerto Rican Fest @ Harris Pavilion
Manassas
Taste of the DMV Food, Music, Culture Fest w/ bands including TCB from 12 to 2 @ Penn Ave NW
DJ Basbousa “Cairo Nights” @ Gramophone
Rumba Club @ Lubber Run
Yachtsmen gig, video release, & Mark Noone’s birthday & @ Palisades Hub
TCB @ Martini’s (bouncebeat go-go)
Jim Stephanson trio @ 5 @ Hank Dietle’s (roots Americana )
Pan American Symphony Orchestra presents music of Spain @
Kennedy Center
Vintage clothes and vinyl pop-up @ Line Hotel, 1770 Euclid
St NW
Dance Sanctuaries classes curated by Capoeira Barro Vermelho
USA & the Brazilian American Cultural Center w/ forro music @ 10:30 am;
11:45am; 1pm @ Kennedy Center Reach Studio F
Sarah Shook & the Disarmers @ Songbyrd (Americana)
“New Wave,” a movie
doc about Orange County Vietnamese Americans countercultural music of the 80s
and their family traumas (DC /Dox film fest) 3 to 4:45 @ Landmark E St.
Filipino Fest @
7:30 @ Mosaic District *
Taiwanese Cultural
Heritage Fest @ 7:30 @ Ossian hall Park
Cellar Door Reunion
tribute with Clarence Bluesman Tunrer & others @ Hamilton
World Music
Collective @ 7 @ St Thomas Parish
Columbia Heights
Day 11am to 5 pm
Sycamore & Oak SE
DC location one year anniversary with Black Alley @ 3:30, DJ battle @ 4:30, & Backyard Band @ 6 (go-go)
Tumbao (Latin salsa
) @ 10:30 @ Bossa 1st floor & DJ Lu Latin Hits upstairs
Roots Band @ Makeda
Restaurant (Ethiopian)
live Ethiopian
music @ Shalla
Ras Band w/ guest
singers @ MHL Lounge (Ethiopian)
Ethiopian music @
Black Rose Lounge
Rare Essence @
11 @ Aqua (go-go)
*Amapiano DMV Everything Nice day party w/ Juls Bo & K-Meta, Mathias, Mobu @ 4 to 9 @ Culture, 2006 Fenwick St. NE*
*Ashraf Bashah , Krystal, Maestro Chakib @ 10:30 pm @ 2910 Kitchen & Bar, 2910 Columbia Pike, Arlington, VA (Arabic music)*
*Roxplosion Punk Rock Parking Lot @ 1 @ Songbyrd *
*Afrobeats & Amapiano dj @ ( pm @ Lydia on H St NE *
*Juneteenth celebration 12 noon to 10 pm w/ Kankouran West African Dance, *Trouble Funk, Dupont Brass, Deborah Bond @ Black Rock in Germantown *
*Sirius Company @ 10 @ Fast Eddies (go-go)*
*Columbia Pike Blues Fest w/ Bette Smith, Eden Brent, Mama Moon & the Rump-shakers, Stacy Brooks Band, Honey Larks from 1 to 8:30 in Arlington*
*OkayAfrica DC w/ DJ Underdog @ 10 @ St Ex *
*District Coalition Park Party w/ Cumbia Heights, Carley Harvey & others 5 to 9 in Swampdoodle*
*DJ Johnson Lee of Joe's Record Paradise @ Green Zone*
*Sweet Honey in the Rock @ Keystone Korner*
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Sunday June 16-
Heatwave and Blue Magic @ Bethesda Theater (70s soul)
Pandora y Flans @ DAR Constitution Hall (Mexican pop)
Strung Out (metal punk), the Adolescents (California old
school melodic hardcore) , Mercy Music @ Black Cat
Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round (movie doc about the
Howard University and Jewish civil rights protestors who did a sit-in to
protest segregation at Glen Echo Park ) 6 to 7:45 @ Landmark E St (sold out)
Monty Alexander @ Blues Alley (Jamaican jazz pianist)
1-800-On Her Own (movie doc about Ani DiFranco) @ DC Doxx
Film Fest @ 7:30 to 9 @ Landmark E St. (Brendan Canty talks to director Dana
Flor after)
Gipsy Kings @ Wolf Trap
Hall Monitors, Clean Girl & the Dirty Dishes, The Negative Men @ Slash Run
Jane O'neill, Daphne
Eckman, & Gemma Laurence @ The Pocket
Go-go on the MLK Library roof w/ Black Alley & *Go-go Allstars & Mature Clientele* 1 to 5 pm free
Junkyard Band, Sirius Company @ MGM
David Chappell Band 2 to 4:30 @ Hank Dietle’s (roots) &
Hula Monsters @ 6 @ Hank Dietle’s
Protomartyr, Fashion Club @ 7PM Metro Gallery
Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla Restaurant in Silver Spring
Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria
(Ethiopian)
Ethiopian music @ MHL
Lounge in Falls Church
Ethiopian music @
Black Rose Lounge
Ethiopian music @ Love Lounge Fenton St Silver Spring
Drumming @ 3 to 7 @ Malcolm X Park
Afrobeats dj @ St Ex
*DJ Kristy La Rat w/ Nectar Pride Party w/ reggaeton, merengue, trapchata, underground Latin sounds @ Eaton Wild Days 3 to 9 pm *
*Afro-Soca Wine, Music, & Food Fest @ 1 to 7 @ Anne Arundel County Fairgrounds, Crownsville, MD *
*1252 Band @ Lamont's (soul) *
*Sweet Honey in the Rock @ Keystone Korner*
*TCB @ Shark Bar Waldorf*
*La Zenida, Los Alegres Barranco, Los Gemelos, Los Populares el Llano @ 13007 VIn Hill rd., Nokesville, VA *
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Monday June 17-
Clarence Turner Blues Band 6 to 9 @ Westminster Church SW
Steve Earle: Alone Again – Solo & Acoustic with Jack
Wharff @ Birchmere
XOMG Pop Live @ Fillmore
Ethiopian music live @ Napoli Lounge
Ethiojazz @ Shalla
*DC Go-go Legends Sweet Cherie, Sugar Bear, Go-go Mickey, Danny Animal Henderson for last day of school event (students must have "100 live school points to attend") @ 2 pm Stuart Hobson Middle School , 410 E St NE *
*Deep Space House Band, LMB @ Rhizome*
*Kumbia Queers @ Songbyrd*
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Tues. June 18-
Deke Dickerson & the Whippersnappers @ Hank Dietles
(rockabilly, honky tonk) (sold out)
Los Campesinos! @ Black Cat (sold Out)
Corinne Bailey Rae @ Maryland Hall Annapolis (r& B)
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss @ Wolf Trap (sold out)
Crank Caviar w/ Rapper, Sweet Thang, & Steve Roy @ Live!
Hotel and Casino
TCB & New Impressionz @ Ivy City Smokehouse
Ethiopian music @ Lion’s Den in Falls Church
Blacc Print Experience @ Martini's White Plains (go-go)
*Afro-Rave w/ DJ Mambo, DJ Majestic, Jay Huncho, Blisman @ 9 @ Saint-Ex*
*Sahel band @ 7:30 @ Eaton (afro-acoustic) *
*Clear Channel, Sweat FM, Curt Oren @ Rhizome*
*Sirius Vybe, DJ Battle @ Westin Hotel, 999 9th St NW (go-go)*
*Reaction ft.- Shooters, the Men @ Hangars (go-go) *
*Body of Evidence @ 6 @ Fast Eddies (gospel go-go for Juneteenth)*
*Backyard Band @ Balkonie in Greenbelt (go-go)*
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Wednesday June 19-
Juneteenth w/ 11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: DuPont Brass ; 12:30
p.m. - 1:15 p.m.: Alex Vaughn; 1:30 p.m.
- 2:15 p.m.: Too Much Talent Band; 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.: CuzzinB ; 4:00 p.m. -
4:45 p.m.: Noochie @ Anacostia Community Museum
(r& b & rap)
Juneteenth Celebration 4 to 8 w/ Junkyard Band, New
Impressionz,& Surprise guest @ Sycamore & Oak SE (Mr. G will be taking
photos)
Gospel Symphony celebration w/ Dr. Henry Panion III,
conductor, Richard Smallwood, special guest, Vision, Dorinda Clark Cole,
Maurette Brown Clark, Pastor Marvin L. Winans, Howard Gospel Choir of Howard
University, Bowie State University Choir, NSO @ Kennedy Center
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss @ Wolf Trap (sold out)
Muneer Nasser Quintet (w/ Allyn Johnson , Elijah Easton
& others) Juneteenth Jazz
Celebration @ NGA jazz in the garden series
Camera Obscura @ 930 Club (indie pop)
Izis La Enfermera De La Salsa @ 7:30 @ Mason District Park
Sirius Company @ Sobe (go-go)
New Impressionz @ Babylon (go-go)
Live Ethiopian music @ Napoli Lounge
Kizomba and bachata dj & dancing @ Crossroads 2
DJ Jamstar @ Tempoo Lounge (dancehall)
*Juneteenth @ the Wharf w/ Too Much Talent Band @ 3 ; Jo-go Project 5 to 6:30; Be'la Dona 7 to 9 (go-go & r & b) *
*Horns in the Sun: Amapiano & Afrohouse Day Party w/ DJ Mambo, Terry the Hippie, Native SunDJ Patto, DJ Jaha @ Gazuza Lounge NW (eventbrite ticket)*
*Alexandria Juneteenth celebration w/ Washington Revels Jubilee Voices @ 1:30 @ Market Square*
*What Band feat. Killa Cal @ Shark Bar (go-go)*
*"We Move in Color" African drumming & dance free @ 6 to 7 @ Kenn. Ctr. Millennium Stage*
*Juneteenth for the City block party w/ music 1 pm to 6 pm @ Bread for the City @ Michelle Obama Southeast Center Anacostia *
*Juneteenth w/ go-go @ 10 am to 4 @ Bryant St *
*Juneteenth w/ Eleanor Roosevelt High School Step team , Poet laureate Saniya Pearson 11am to 7 @ National harbor*
*Juneteenth w/ Urban Artistry dancers @ 5 @ Olney Theatre*
* El CaribeFunk @ 7:30 @ Bossa*
*Rickey Platinum Juneteenth afro-soca party @ 6 on @ Kaldi's*
*TCB 3 to 7 @ Harrison Park hosted by Yaddiya(bouncebeat go-go)*
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Thursday June 20-
Cha Wa @ Library of Congress (New Orleans)
Wilco @ Wolf Trap
Soul Rebels w/ special guests Ghostface Killa & GZA @
Howard Theatre
Take Me to the River New Orleans movie @ LOC Pickford (sold
out)
Hold Steady @ Atlantis (sold
out)
Akua Allrich & the Tribe 4:30 to 6:30 @ Metropolitan
Park, 1330 S. Fair St, National Landing Crystal City (jazz & African
vocals)
Janel Leppin from 5 to 7 free @ Smithsonian American Art
Museum (registration encouraged)
Danielle Howle & Jay Byrd @ 5:30 @ Hank Dietle’s (Howle
is jazzy /swamp bluesy indie )
Law Firms bands benefit for Gifts for the Homeless @ Black
Cat
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Ekko Astral @ 930 Club (rock
) (sold Out)
Wisdom Speeks @ Cosca Regional Park in Clinton, MD
DJ Lance Reynolds 6 to 8 pm in front of the ticket office @
Carter Barron Amphitheatre (r&b)
Kaleta & Super Yamba Band (old school Afropop) , Joe
Keyes. 7PM, $15 @ Mobtown Ballroom Baltimore
Caribbean Maestros. 5:30PM free @ Waverly Commons (32nd St
& Brentwood Ave) Baltimore
Goin’ Goin Gone @ VFW Post 350 Hells
Bottom
Nkula @ 6:30 @ Color
Burst Park in Columbia (reggae)
Live Ethiopian
music w/ on Thursdays guitarist Selamino & band @ Shalla Restaurant in
Silver Spring
Roots Band @ Makeda
Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria (Ethiopian)
Ethiopian
music @ MHL Lounge in Falls Church
Ethiopian
music @ Black Rose Lounge
Ethiopian music @
Love Lounge Fenton St Silver Spring
What Band feat.
Killa Cal @ Martini's Ft Washington (go-go)
Afrobeats w/ DJ
Jamstar @ Spectrum Lounge
Afro-Caribbean dj @
Kaldis
Afrobeats @ Gazuza
Lounge
The Soularites @
Wonderland Ballroom (ska )
*Charm City Junction @ Glen Echo (old-timey, bluegrass, Irish roots)*
*Danube Sessions & Kriminal Pop w/ Orchester Prazevica @ Green Zone*
*UCB 6 to 10 @ Creole on 14th (go-go)*
*The Kim Michelle Experience @ 12 Stories (go-go)*
*Cheick Hamala Diabete & Rob Coltun free @ 12 to 1:30 pm @ Edward R Murrow Park, 1872 Penn. Ave NW (Malian music)*
*Verny Varela @ 9:30 @ Bossa (cumbia valenata, salsa Colombia style)*
*Swap Jam of Books & vinyl @ Hill Prince*
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Friday June 21-
Munit Mesfin with Qlatse Band @ 7:30 @ Grist Mill Park
(Ethiopian music)
Home Rule Fest opening Night w/ Jo-Go Project, New Doug Carn
Sextet, Vanessa Rubin @ Black Cat
Grupo Firme @ Jiffy
Lube Live
Danny Ocean free from 6 to 7 @ Kennedy Center Millennium
Stage (Venezuelan Latin pop)
Ruby (Egyptian singer) @ Capital Turnaround
Quintango @ Lubber Run
Reggae Rise Up Md fest
Larnell Starkey & The Spiritual Seven (gospel) @ 7:30 @
Mason District Park
Siddhartha @ Fillmore (Mexican rock)
Tarsha Fitzgerald presents Voices of Motown @ Birchmere
Buffalo Nichols @ Jammin Java
One Love Happy Hour w/ DJ Sprang Int. playing soca,
dancehall, afrobeats, hiphop 5 to 9:30 free @ Crossroads 2
The Wailers @ Union Craft Brewing Baltimore
Leon City Sounds,
Star City Soul Club djs @ 10 @ Showtime
Sirius Company @ 10 @ Rooftop of Citizens & Culture, GA
Ave , Silver Spring (go-go)
Arab music dj *Basbousa* @ Green Zone
After Thought Band @ Lamont’s (soul)
Rare Essence @ Fast Eddie’s (go-go)
Backyard Band @ Restaurant 55 (go-go)
Junkyard Band @ Nipseys (go-go)
TCB @ Power
(bouncebeat go-go)
Alfredo Mojica Group @ Bossa (salsa) plus DJ Lu w/ Latin hits upstairs; *Cheick Hamala trio (Malian @ 7:30 @ Bossa) *
Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria
(Ethiopian)
Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla
Ras Band w/ guest singers @ MHL Lounge (Ethiopian)
Ethiopian music @ Black Rose Lounge
Live Ethiopian instrumental music w/ guitarist Selamino
& band 9 to 12 mdt. @ Meleket
*Kokayi @ Alexandria Jazz fest (rap w/ jazz beats) *
*Fete de la Musique in multiple spots in Georgetown from 5 to 8 including w/ band Anexo Social (my brother on bass) @ 7 @ Alley of Art next to Levain Bakery, 3131 M St NW plus 3 stages from 5 to 10 @ La Maison Francaise *
*Bill Nace, Attorneys General @ 7PM @ Design Distillery (1414 Key Hwy) (avante-rock)*
*Jaime Espinoza & Los Fugitivos @ El Palenque *
*Los Acosta @ The Palace *
*TOB, the Men @ Martini's Ft Washington (bouncebeat go-go)*
*Radkey, Cinema Hearts, Keep Your Secrets @ Comet P Pong (rock)*
*Ocean "Groovy Summer Solstice concert @ 8 to 10 @ Manor Mill, Monkton, MD (Brit-folk inspired)*
*Proper Utensils @ Takoma Station Tavern (go-go)*
*FCTRY Reset party for FCTRY NTS Radio residency start w/ djs Tyra the Zombie, Brill Mafia, DJ Miles & more @ Songbyrd *
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Home Rule Fest w/
Gary Bartz, Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids, Rare Essence, Vanessa Rubin,
Dupont Brass Band, Black Alley, Malcolm X Drummers & Dancers @1 pm till @
The Parks @ Walter Reed
Cuba Fest w/ Lazarito Valdes & Bamboleo @ Martini Lounge
Falls Church
Caribbean Cultural Concert w/ steelband, soca, & reggae
@ 2 pm to 9 @ Freedom Plaza
T Vice & J Perry @ Crossroads 2 (Haitian)
Corinne Bailey Rae @ MGM National
Harbor (r& B)
Fred Wesley &
the New JBs plus Mousey Thompson & the James Brown Experience @ Bethesda
Theater
Afram 2024 w/ Busta
Rhymes, Mya, Morris Day. 12PM @ Druid Hill Park Baltimore
A Night of South
African Gqom w/ DJ Lag @ Kaldi’s
Hold Steady @ 930
Club
The Church, Afghan
Whigs, Ed Harcourt @ Lincoln Theatre
Marimba 502 @ El Pueblito
in Baltimore
A conversation w/ hiphop
dj & museum curator Mad Skills 11am to 11:45 am @ Smithsonian National Museum of African
American History and Culture
Bed Maker, *Des Demonas* @ Comet (DC
punk)
Adobo DMV day party
w/ DJs Bobby Flowers, Na$h, Pedro Night, Pana 300 from 2 to 10 @ The Bullpen
Music critic & author Ann Powers re her new book Traveling:
On the Path of Joni Mitchell, for free @ 6 to 7 @ Kennedy Center Millennium
Stage
A night of Gqom (South African club dance) w/ DJ Lag @ Kaldi’s
Rooftop Silver Spring
Luke Bryan @ Jiffy Lube Live
Out and About Fest w/ Brittany Howard, Jenny Lewis,
Lawrence, Kim Gordon, Tiny Habits, Quinn Christopherson, Okan, Be Steadwell at Wolf Trap
Salsa music and Dance w/ Edwin Perez @ Kennedy Center
Rock-a-Sonics, Pea-shooters @ Hank Dietle’s (rockabilly )
Indonesian Cultural Heritage Night 'Santi Budaya'@ 7:30 @
Ossian Hall Park
Shaed @ Atlantis (pop)
State of the Arts x Sound Scene w/ Artists from across the European Union & with Sound Scene Audio Arts Festival 5 to 11 @ Hirshhorn inside & on plaza (free but register) & *Sound scene 2024:Solstice performances & activities 10 am to 5 pm *
Tumbao (Latin salsa ) @ 10:30 @ Bossa 1st floor & DJ Lu
Latin Hits upstairs
Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant (Ethiopian)
live Ethiopian music @ Shalla
Ras Band w/ guest singers @ MHL Lounge (Ethiopian)
Ethiopian music @ Black Rose Lounge
Rare Essence @ 11 @
Aqua (go-go)
*Highway QCs gospel artist showcase @ 3 w/ Michael Boone & Company & more @ 3 pm @ Corinth Baptist Church, Capitol Heights *
*Peterbug Day w/ Crosswind, Skip Mahoney's Casuals, William Hart's New Delphonics, Lady Mary, Jim Bennett, Kat Rollins from 11 am to 7 @ 13th & E Sts. SE ( old school soul )*
* Tawfiq Al Dalo @ Phoenicia Rest & Lounge, Vienna , VA (Middle-Eastern)*
*Nectar w/ DJs V:Shal & AHautmess @ Green Zone *
*Guardianes Del Amor, Los Fujitivos , Grupo Miramar Y Chanchona Hermanos @ Papasitos Manassas Park*
*Homenaje a Héctor Lavoe con Ray Bayona y Giancarlo y la Tremenda @ 20921 Davenport Drive, Sterling, VA *
*Guardianes Del Amor Y Jaime Espinoza Los Fugitivos @ Vibe
Annapolis*
*Reaction, ABM, Big Action @ Martini's (bouncebeat go-go)*
*Orbiting Human Circus Quartet & Orchestra w/ the Music Tapes, Rosie Cima @ Quarry House Tavern(rock)*
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Sunday June 23-
Afrobeats, Rhythm & Wine w/ DJ Sam I Am & more @ 2
to 9pm @ The Bullpen
Go-go on the MLK Library roof from 1
to 5pm w/ Backyard Band, Relentless
Band
Giant Food Barbeque Battle w/ Mature Clientele @ 12; Soul
Searchers @ 1:30; Dupont Brass @ 2:45; Black Alley @ 4:15 ; Chuck Brown Band @ 5:45
pm @ Pennsylvania Ave. NW (go-go & funk)
Verroneau’s Blue Tapestry tribute to Joni Mitchell and Carol
King @ 4 & 7:30 @ Amp
Mulatu Astatke @ Howard Theatre (Ethiopian keyboard legend) (sold out)
Keyshia Cole, Trey Songz @ Eaglebank
Jhene Aiko @ Capital One Arena
Taste of Caribbean Dance @ 12 noon @ YMCA Anthony Bowen,
1325 W St NW
Baroness @ Fillmore (metal)
Ocean "Groovy Summer Solstice" @ 4:30 @ Hill Center ( brit folk style from dc)
Flack @ 6 @ Hank Dietle’s (roots pop)
Kalanidhi @ 7:30 @ Mason District Park (Indian dance)
Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla Restaurant in Silver Spring
Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria
(Ethiopian)
Ethiopian music @ MHL
Lounge in Falls Church
Ethiopian music @
Black Rose Lounge
Ethiopian music @ Love Lounge Fenton St Silver Spring
Drumming @ 3 to 7 @ Malcolm X Park
Afrobeats dj @ St Ex
*Spencer Taylor's 79th anniversary w/ the gospel group Highway QCs plus other gospel music acts, including Doc McKenzie & The Hi-Lites, The Swanee Quintet, The McDonald Sisters, Sent By God, Zion, Rena Geathers & The Curtis Harris Ensemble and Zionaires @ the Mid Atlantic Community Church in Gambrills, Md @ 4:00 p.m. *
*Sen Morimoto & Model Home @ Songbyrd *
*Vybz Blanco (dress in white party) w/ djs playing Afrobeats, Dancehall, soca, hiphop, Dembow from 3 to 9 @ Karma, 2221 Adams Pl. NE outdoors *
*Rhythm & Wine Fest @ Bullpen *
* Amapiano DMV Everything Nice party w/ Dlala Thuzkin (DC debut) plus DJ Underdog, Native Sun, DJ Jaha, B2B Patto Bayong, DJ Mobu @ 4 to 9 @ Zebbies Garden*
*Rise Band & show @ early evening (?) @ Lamont's (soul)*
*Jaime Espinoza Los Fugitivos @ El Pueblito Baltimore *
*Sound scene 2024:Solstice performances & activities 10 am to 5 pm @ Hirshhorn*
*The Kim Michelle Experience @ Cambria early evening (go-go)*
*Eyehategod, Genocide Pact, No/Mas @ Comet (rock)*
*Grannie & the Boys @ Showtime Lounge (tickets going fast)*
*Samuel Prather & the Go-4 tet @ 6 @ Bronze NE (jazz & funk)*
*Reaction Band @ Hangar's (bouncebeat go-go)*
*New Impressionz , The Men @ Shark Bar (bouncebeat go-go)*
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Mulatu Astatke @
Howard Theatre (Ethiopian keyboard legend) (tickets going fast; may be sold out)
Ethiopian music live @ Napoli Lounge
Ethiojazz @ Shalla
Fast Eddie & the Slowpokes blues ban 6 to 9 @
Westminster Church SW
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Tuesday June 25 –
Os Mutantes @ Black Cat (Brazilian psych rock)
Hand Dancing 7 to 9 @ Veterans Plaza Silver Spring
Jake Xerxes Fussell, Jon Camp @ 7PM, @ Metro Gallery Baltimore (indie alternative
folk & fingerpick guitar )
Ethiopian music @ Lion’s Den in Falls Church
Blacc Print Experience @ Martini's White Plains (go-go)
*Tosser, So Perfect, Roxy Two, So Close @ Rhizome *
* press conference at 10:30 am with George Clinton and others to launch the art exhibition ‘A Toast to the Boogie: Art in the Name of Funk(adelic)” with art by DC artists including Mingering Mike , the late Tom Terrell, Holly Bass, Seemeen Hashem, Jacqueline Bryant Campbell The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities,@ 200 I (Eye) Street SE *Opening reception event @ 7pm *
*Free go-go from Crank Caviar @ 7 @ the Wharf tonight in SW DC plus fireworks & more*
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Wednesday June 26-
Quasi, Marni Stern @ Atlantis (postpunk rock)
Etran de L’Air free from 6 to 7 @
Kennedy Center Millennium Stage (Agadez Saharan rock)
Smithsonian Folklife fest (presents Indigenous Voices of the Americas) w/ music and crafts @ 11 am to 5:30 between 3rd & 6th Sts on the mall & inside the National Museum of the American Indian near the national Mall through July 1. Hālau o Kekuhi from 4 to 5 @ Potomac Atrium (native Hawaiian )
Personal Damage, * Delco Mfs, Daunting Nightmare* @ Quarry House (rock)
Forever Yours Tribute to the O’Jays @ 6 to 9 @ Eloquent
Touch Ballroom Suitland
Sirius Company @ Sobe (go-go)
New Impressionz @ Babylon (go-go)
Live Ethiopian music @ Napoli Lounge
Kizomba and bachata dj & dancing @ Crossroads 2
DJ Jamstar @ Tempoo Lounge (dancehall)
*What Band feat. Killa Cal @ Shark Bar (go-go)*
*Jim Saah "In My Eyes" punk photos book talk plus J. Robbins & Gordon Withers acoustic @ 7 @ Atomic Books Baltimore *
*a panel discussion with Mr. George Clinton titled, “A Toast to the Boogie: Protecting Our Legacy”, on Wednesday, June 26th from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. in association with a juried exhibition with 50 works of art at the Rubell Museum DC, 65 i Street SW*
*Masters of Malian Music w/ Cheick Hamala Diabete @ 9:30 @ Bossa*
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Thursday June 27-
Mdou Moctar @ 930 (Saharan rock )
Screening of Take Me to The River New Orleans 5 to 7 @ LOC
Pickford Theatre
Courtney Marie Andrews free from 6 to 7 @ Kennedy Center
Millennium Stage
Christone Kingfish Ingram at Fillmore (blues & r& b)
Ozomotli, Saroche @ State Theatre (Latin cumbia & rock)
The Thrills @ Hank Dietle’s (roots pop rock)
DJ Lance Reynolds 6 to 8 pm in front of the ticket office @
Carter Barron Amphitheatre (r&b)
David Chappell Band @ JVs (roots Americana)
Tropical Dance Party w/Leon City Sounds djs @ ESL
Live Ethiopian music w/ on Thursdays guitarist Selamino
& band @ Shalla Restaurant in Silver Spring
Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria
(Ethiopian)
Ethiopian music @ MHL
Lounge in Falls Church
Ethiopian music @
Black Rose Lounge
Ethiopian music @ Love Lounge Fenton St Silver Spring
What Band feat. Killa Cal @ Martini's Ft Washington (go-go)
Afrobeats w/ DJ Jamstar @ Spectrum Lounge
Afro-Caribbean dj @ Kaldis
Afrobeats @ Gazuza Lounge
*Charu Suri @ Mr Henry's (India jazz grooves)*
*Tramuntanas w/ Greg Thompkins, Garland of Hours @ Rhizome*
*Mazboota w/ DJ Fady D 9 pm to 1am @ Green Zone (Alt. Arabic electro/disco) *
*Jo-go Project @ Keystone Korner (jazz & go-go)*
* Smithsonian Folklife fest (presents Indigenous Voices of the Americas) w/ music and crafts@ 11 am to 5:30 between 3rd & 6th Sts on the mall & inside the National Museum of the American Indian near the national Mall through July 1*
*Bongo District reggae-cumbia party @ 10 @ Bossa *
*Celebrate the arrival of the House of Blues Radio Collection at the Library of Congress. This 8pm event will feature blues artists in live performance in the Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium, and curators will display items from the House of Blues Collection and other blues items in the Library’s holdings in the Great Hall and along Mahogany Row.*
*Step Afrika @ Arena Stage through July 14 *
*DJ Fady D for World Arak Day w/ Diaspora DC @ 6 to 8 @ Medina *
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Friday June 28-
Shreya Goshal @ Wolf Trap
Smithsonian Folklife Festival presents Pasatono Orquesta from 4 to 5 @ Rasmuson
Theater (Mixtec music) and First Beats: Indigenous Hip-Hop w/ brothers Doc
Native and Spencer Battiest (Seminole/Choctaw) from the Seminole Tribe of
Florida, and Mapuche rapper Waikil with guitarist Ketrafe from Santiago, Chile from 5:30 to 7 @ Four Directions Stage
The O’Jays @ MGM National Harbor (r& b)
Dim Wizard, Les Savy Fav, Birthday Girl DC @ Black Cat (rock,
punk)
Nadia Larcher:Tinya Raíz free from 6 to 7 @ Kennedy Center
Millennium Stage (Argentine Andean Indigenous native roots)
Marimba 502 @ El Palenque
Falls Church
Janel & Anthony & Ensemble Volcanic Ash @ Rhizome (Jazz & chamber jazz rock )
Soroche @ 7:30 @ Mason District Park (cumbia punk folk)
Lauren Calve @ Lubber Run (indie folk)
Tribute to the Isley Brothers @ the Carlyle Room
Blackstar Symphony: The Music of David Bowie w/ jazz band & NSO @ Kennedy
Center
Be’la Dona Band @ Birchmere (go-go)
One Love Happy Hour w/ DJ Sprang Int. playing soca,
dancehall, afrobeats, hiphop 5 to 9:30 free @ Crossroads 2
Disco Biblioteca Book Club & Listening Party for She
Begat This: 20 Years of The Miseducation
of Lauryn Hill by Joan Morgan, hosted by WOWD’s Night Nurse from 7 to 8 @
People’s Book
Arab music dj *Sounds by Saba * @ Green Zone
After Thought Band @ Lamont’s (soul)
Rare Essence @ Fast Eddie’s (go-go)
Backyard Band @ Restaurant 55 (go-go)
Junkyard Band @ Nipseys (go-go)
TCB @ Power
(bouncebeat go-go)
Alfredo Mojica Group @ Bossa (salsa) plus DJ Lu w/ Latin hits upstairs; *Circus of Saints @ 7:30 @ Bossa*
Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria
(Ethiopian)
Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla
Ras Band w/ guest singers @ MHL Lounge (Ethiopian)
Ethiopian music @ Black Rose Lounge
Live Ethiopian instrumental music w/ guitarist Selamino
& band 9 to 12 mdt. @ Meleket
*Club U.S.A. , Cryptid Summer, Shadow Riot @ 10 @ Comet *
*House of House djs @ 10 @ Zeba Bar *
*Chicas Rolands @ Club One *
*The Kim Michelle Experience @ Barcode (go-go)*
*Smithsonian Folklife fest (presents Indigenous Voices of the Americas) w/ music and crafts @ 11 am to 5:30 (& more music 5:30 to 7) between 3rd & 6th Sts on the mall & inside the National Museum of the American Indian near the national Mall through July 1* includes today “First Beats: Indigenous Hiphop “ w/ Waikil & Ketrafe (Mapuche rap from Chile) w/ brothers Doc Native and Spencer Battiest (Seminole/Choctaw) from the Seminole Nation in Florida, 5:30 to 7 pm *
* Indigenous Hiphop “ w/ Waikil & Ketrafe (Mapuche rap from Chile) plus Sara Curruchich (Mayan language & Spanish indie-folk singer/songwriter) for free @ 7:30 @ Lamont Plaza in Mt. Pleasant (sponsored by Electric Cowbell, Mt Pleasant Public Library & Smithsonian Folklife Fest) *
*New Impressionz @ Aqua (go-go & bouncebeat)*
*Black Music Summit panel plus TOB free outside @ 6 to 9 @ Creative Suitland (go-go & bouncebeat)*
*TOB @ Throw Social (free before 9, but goes late) (go-go & bouncebeat)*
*Adobo DMV Cheetah party @ St Ex*
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Sat. June 29-
Malikat al Dabke (DC area female dabke dance troupe) ,
Bottom/Top, Panda God (rock bands) benefit for Unrwa @ Black Cat
Munit Mesfin Band @ 7:30 @ Mosaic District doing jazz &
soul
Bumrush 45 anniv party w/ djs @ Songbyrd
New Vizion & more gospel @ Isle of Patmos Baptist church
dc
Ladybug Music Fest w/ Sarah Shook & the Disarmers in Old
Ellicott City
Crush Funk Brass @ Lubber Run
Sisterfire reunion from 6 to 7 for free @ Kennedy Center
Millennium Stage (Evelyn Harris and Kim Jordan reunite at Sisterfire after
forty years. They are joined by Be Steadwell, Marcia Gomes, and Yasmeen
Williams)
Smithsonian Folklife Fest presents Singer-songwriter Sara
Curruchich from 4 to 5 @ the Rasmuson Theatre (Indigenous
Guatemalan who sings rock, folk, Mayan music in Kaqchikel) ; Pamyua from
5:30 to 7 @ Four Directions Stage (Inuit music)
Outerloop, XK Scenario @ Comet P Pong (rock , prog-hop)
King Soul @ Palisades Hub Center
Backyard Band @ Longtime No Sea in Manassas
What Band 4 to 8 @
Glen Dale Fire Dept
Tumbao (Latin salsa ) @ 10:30 @ Bossa 1st floor & DJ Lu
Latin Hits upstairs, *Sarney & the Band @ 7:30 @ Bossa*
Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant (Ethiopian)
live Ethiopian music @ Shalla
Ras Band w/ guest singers @ MHL Lounge (Ethiopian)
Ethiopian music @ Black Rose Lounge
Rare Essence @ 11 @
Aqua (go-go)
Cumbia Heights & Bottled Up @ Songbyrd
Algerian-American Cultural Unity event 5 to 9pm @ Lincoln Memorial
*Tropical Heat Dome djs Leon City Sounds, Jim T & more @ Marx Cafe*
*Reggaeton rave @ Echostage*
*Jamaica Day Fest (Reggae Love Fest) w/ Richie Stephens & more plus Jamaican food @ 1 to 9 @ Howard County Playgrounds , 2210 Fairgrounds Rd West Friendship, MD 21794 (eventbrite ticket)*
*Blackstar Symphony: The Music of David Bowie w/ jazz band & NSO @ Kennedy Center*
*Go-go Community Day 2 to 8 pm w/ EU, Be la Dona, R & S Project @ Charles Drew School, 3500 S. 23rd St Arlington *
*DJ tbd @ Green Zone*
*Gerardo Diaz, Jonny Ramirez @ El Ranchon *
*Smithsonian Folklife fest (presents Indigenous Voices of the Americas) w/ music and crafts@ 11 am to 5:30 (& more music 5:30 to 7) between 3rd & 6th Sts on the mall & inside the National Museum of the American Indian near the national Mall through July 1*; Mapuche Rap with Waikil and Ketrafe @ 3 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. @ Our Voices Stage; Mixtec Music with Pasatono Orquesta 4 to 4:45 @ Four Directions Stage; Song and Drum with Sons of Membertou 4 to 4:45 @ Our Voices Stage; *Sara Curruchich 4 to 5 in Rasmuson theatre (Mayan & Spanish language indie-folk) ; Murray Porter 5 to 5:30 (Mohawk blues); Pamyua 5:30 to 7 (Inuit Soul) *
*Rise Band @ Lamont's (soul)*
*Afrionic party w/ New Impressionz daytime @ the Bullpen (go-go & bouncebeat) *
*New Impressionz @ night @ 5 Sisters Lounge (go-go & bouncebeat) *
*Proverbs Reggae Band @ 5 @ Joe's Movement Emporium *
*DJ Pedro Night @ Capo Italian Deli *
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Sunday June 30-
Smithsonian Folklife Fest presents Nadia Larcher from 4 to 5
@ Rasmuson Theater (Argentine Andean
native roots / Tinya Raiz) and Singer-songwriter Sara Curruchich from 5:30 to 7
@ Four Directions Stage (Indigenous Guatemalan who sings rock, folk, Mayan
music in Kaqchikel)
Soul in Motion African Drummers and Dancer @ 11 am @ Lubber
Run
Go-go on the MLK Library roof from 1 to 5pm free w/ Junkyard Band, R & S Project
Corey Arceneaux & the Zydeco Hot Peppers @ Hank Dietle’s
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts opening for Alanis
Morissette @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
Col. Josh @ VFW Post 350 Hells Bottom
Live Ethiopian music @ Shalla Restaurant in Silver Spring
Roots Band @ Makeda Restaurant, Van Dorn St., Alexandria
(Ethiopian)
Ethiopian music @ MHL
Lounge in Falls Church
Ethiopian music @
Black Rose Lounge
Ethiopian music @ Love Lounge Fenton St Silver Spring
Drumming @ 3 to 7 @ Malcolm X Park
Afrobeats dj @ St Ex
*Culture Street fair free @ 11 am to 5 pm w/ Empress J , DJ Turito, Unico Sound, Whyteboi the Dj @ 3300 Block of Perry St., Mt Rainer, MD
*Outerloop, XK Scenario, Terrain, Ragdollz @ 7PM @ The Undercroft Baltimore (rock)*
*Shy Glizzy @ Rams Head Baltimore (rap)*
*Kazzabe @ Vibe in Annapolis*
*The Kim Michelle Experience @ Sobe (go-go)*
*Spotlight Band @ Lamont's (soul)*
*Creative Fusion- painting, poetry, & music @ 8 @ Bossa *
*3rd Annual PG County Summer Sunday Funday w/ Blacc Print Experience, All Out Band, Pump Blenders, Peacemakers Band @ 1 to 7 @ Regency Furniture , Brandywine, MD *
*DJ Redlocks & DJ Karim Khan w/ Fasimbas Sound from 3 to 9 @ Waverly Commons , 418 E. 32nd St., Baltimore (reggae)*
*Brazilian forro band @ 5 to 8 @ El Golfo*
*Backyard Band @ Throw Social (go-go)*
*Rare Essence 5 to 9 @ Panorama Room (go-go) *
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Monday July 1 –
Smithsonian Folklife Fest presents Sons of Membertou from 4
to 5 @ Potomac Atrium (First Nations in Nova Scotia, Canada group present
Mi’kmaw music traditions through drum repertoire and the Mi’kmaw language)
Memphis Gold & the Scrap Iron Blues band 6 to 9 @
Westminster Church SW
Ethiopian music live @ Napoli Lounge
Ethiojazz @ Shalla
*Abe Mamet Septet @ Tonal Park *
*Of Montreal @ 930 Club*
*Haitus Kaiyote @ Fillmore*
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Tues. July 2-
Make Up, Tchotchke, dj That Rob Macy @ the Ottobar
Ethiopian music @ Lion’s Den in Falls Church
Blacc Print Experience @ Martini's White Plains (go-go)
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July 3- Rare Essence w/ EU @ Hamilton Live
*Go-go for Gaza seeking a ceasefire , w/ TOB & Reaction, hosted by Yaddiya @ 6 to 9 pm @ 14th & U Sts NW
*Adobo DMV First Class party w/ DJ Pedro Night @ 10 @ Shanklin Hall NW (Latin & more) *
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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
dancing (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; DC. Underground on Instagram has metal
& hardcore
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