On Friday night, high-octane afrobeat band Antibalas (featured above) is playing with Lettuce and Ghost Note at a not-to-be-missed funky show at The Anthem. Photo by Jason Herman.
Week Of: November 18 - 24, 2019
Summary: Things You Should Hear
There's a lot of good stuff this week. (Yes, we say it every week. Yes, it's always true.)
One thing that stands out about this week is a slew of NEW MUSIC coming our way via ALBUM RELEASE SHOWS of AMAZING LOCAL ARTISTS. For example:
- Thurs: Wicked Sycamore, Geraldine (CD release) and Busted Boots at The 8x10
- Thurs: Reina del Cid - Album Release Show at Pie Shop DC
- Thurs: Bobby Thompson Album Release at The Kenmore Inn
- Fri: Oh He Dead "Official Album Release Show" at Pearl Street Warehouse
- Fri: Jeff Draco *EP Release Show* w/ Makeup Girl, Frass Green at DC9 Nightclub
- Sat: Album Release Show | Caleb Stine & The Revelations at Creative Alliance
- Sat: Noah Haidu Quartet + Kris Monson's Suite for Charlottesville (Virginia native Kris Monson will present the D.C. debut of his new work, Suite for Charlottesville) at 1358 Florida Ave NE
- Sat: Album Launch of Steel Strings and Iron Curtains — In their native Czech Republic, Kryl and Nohavica are known for powerful, politically-minded & existential lyrics that inspired generations living behind the Iron Curtain at The Writer's Center
There's also some very cool things happening this week, like Tuesday's Musician Health & Wellness Workshop at Rockville's School of Musical Traditions for all the artists out there who could use some tips on how to take care of your body and mind while playing your instrument.
And a HUGE highlight is Sunday's Nevertheless, She Persisted - Music of America's Women Composers at The Church of the Epiphany, where "California-based composer Jenni Brandon will conduct the DC premiere of her America Belongs to Us, a work about welcoming immigrants who come to America seeking a better life, in collaboration with the Columbia Flute Choir. Also joining the line-up is African-American singer/song-writer/social activist Crys Matthews and dancers Davione Gordon, Corey Vansice, Helen Hayes and the women of Joy of Motion's Youth Dance Ensemble for an inspirational autumn arts experience."
This is a not-to-be-missed show that's bringing together many voices, and some of the most passionate artists and youth for an important, eye, ear, and mind-opening performance.
Plus many, many more great shows and cool things to check out this week. All are listed in the links below, with personal choices in bold, along with a list of the DCMR staff top picks and cool "gems" that you will likely love.
So much brand-spanking new music, get it while it's fresh!
Mon — November 18
DCMR Staff Picks
- Hozier: Wasteland, Baby! Tour at The Anthem
Jams, Mics & Such
- JAMonday at Epicure Café (Fairfax)
- Live Painting & Music Jam at Galaxy Hut (Arlington)
- Monday Django Jazz Jam at Avenue Kitchen & Bar (Baltimore)
Sparkling Gems
- Tennis System w/Daisy, The Sound of Waves at DC9 Nightclub
- Brad Linde Team Players (Sax/Clainet/Guitar/Drums) at Blues Alley
Tue — November 19
DCMR Staff Picks
- An Evening With: Whose Hat Is This? at The Hamilton DC
- Letters To Cleo + Speedy Ortiz & RoseRiot at Union Stage
- Alice Merton with Raffaella at 9:30 Club
- Goo Goo Dolls at The Dominion Energy Center (Richmond)
Jams, Mics & Such
- Musician Health & Wellness Workshop w/Sean McComiskey, DPT at School of Musical Traditions (Rockville)
- Gordon Sterling Presents: The Gypsy Sally's Jam at Gypsy Sally's
- Open Mic feat. Thirteen Towers at Sauf Haus
- Open Mic Night w/ Silky Dave at Vinyl Lounge at Gypsy Sally's
- Experiments in Sound Meditation at Rhizome DC
Sparkling Gems
- Airospvce ‡ God Sense Beats ‡ Jon Eye ‡ Lord Betta ‡ Watusi at DC9 Nightclub
- From Indian Lakes | Queen of Jeans and Yumm at Songbyrd
- Swing Shift (Big Band) at Blues Alley
- Kevin Griffin Anywhere You Go Tour w/ Sinclair at City Winery DC
- Dumbarton House Chamber Series at Dumbarton House
Wed — November 20
DCMR Staff Picks
- Crumb at Black Cat
- SARA BAREILLES: Amidst The Chaos Tour 2019 at The Anthem
- Rising Appalachia w/ Raye Zaragoza at The Hamilton
- Booker T. Jones at City Winery DC
- Whose Hat Is This? (featuring members of Tedeschi Trucks Band) with special guests KOKAYI and Rachel Ann Morgan Band! at The 8x10 (Baltimore)
- Matt and Kim present GRAND - 10 Year Celebration Tour at 9:30 Club
Jams, Mics & Such
- Capitol Hill Jazz Jam at Mr. Henry's
- Takoma Park Old Time Jam at Takoma Bev Co. (Takoma Park)
- Open Mic hosted by Alex The Red Parez aka El Rojo at Rhodeside Grill (Arlington)
- Open Mic at The Cocktail Lab at Tenth Ward Distilling Company (Frederick)
Sparkling Gems
- The Korean Performance Week: Reggae Meets Korean Pansori FREE at 6p at The Kennedy Center
- MSJ trio, Headhunters album set w/ Dominic Ellis & Sote at Bossa Bistro + Lounge
- Weeping Icon / Curse / Secret Wilderness at Rhizome DC
- Nashwa: Night of Middle Eastern and North African Rhythms in DC at La Pop DC
- Venray // Ttotals // Sparkle Fang at The Pocket at 7Drum City
- Noah Nipp And Grayson Boatwright At Epicure- CHOPS at Epicure Café
- Kevin Griffin Anywhere You Go Tour at Rams Head On Stage (Annapolis)
Thu — November 21
DCMR Staff Picks
- Wicked Sycamore, Geraldine (CD release) and Busted Boots at The 8x10 (Baltimore)
- Dessa w/ MONAKR at Sixth & I
- Christone "Kingfish" Ingram at 9:30 Club
- Fleming and Gilfry in an NSO co-commission at The Kennedy Center
- Amy Helm at Wolftrap (Vienna)
- Moonshine Society- Couldn't Stand the Weather at Pearl Street Warehouse
- Goodnight, Texas w/ Two Ton Twig at Gypsy Sally's
- AJR at The Anthem
- Bobby Thompson Album Release at The Kenmore Inn (Fredericksburg)
Jams, Mics & Such
- Thursday Night Jazz Jam with Landon Paddock at Columbia Station
Sparkling Gems
- Mars Arts D.C. Showcase: YÀNJÚ and Sheila at Madam's Organ Blues Bar
- Reina del Cid - Album Release Show at Pie Shop DC
- Personal Space | Pen Palindrome at The Pocket at 7Drum City's The Pocket
- Poppy Patica / Jenny & Jackie / Flamers at The Dew Drop Inn
- Take 5 at SAAM with the Wayne Wilentz Quartet at Kogod Courtyard - Smithsonian American Art Museum & Portrait Gallery
- Pardon My French! at Strathmore
- King Buffalo w/ Bluewreck at DC9 Nightclub
- Sarah Potenza w/ Granville Automatic at Hill Country DC
- Venray / The Black Black (bk) / The Hips at Slash Run
- Live Music Thursday at The Brixton
- Kalben at City Winery DC
- Filament: Debut show at Spacycloud
- Flower Avenue at Hell's Bottom at VFW POST 350 "Hells Bottom" (Takoma Park)
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra at Royal Farms Arena (Baltimore)
- Weeping Icon, Muscle & Sickle Cell at Downsquares at Joe Squared (Baltimore)
Fri — November 22
DCMR Staff Picks
- Oh He Dead "Official Album Release Show" at Pearl Street Warehouse
- All Good Presents Lettuce with Antibalas, Ghost-Note at The Anthem with After Party w/ Novo + DJ Raptorstein at Union Stage at Union Stage
- Chandrika Tandon presents Shivoham—The Quest at The Kennedy Center
- The Vegabonds w/ The Trongone Band at Hill County DC
- Dan Tyminski Bluegrass Band w/ Justin Trawick & The Common Good at The State Theatre (Falls Church)
- The Beat Hotel with The Oxymorons at Gypsy Sally's
- Alabama at Royal Farms Arena (Baltimore)
- Emi Sunshine at 95 Chalmers Ct (Berryville)
Jams, Mics & Such
- Open Mic at Dive Bar
Sparkling Gems
- Rachel Levitin, Olivia Mancini, Brassie at Pie Shop DC
- Covered with Jam & RON HOLLOWAY & SPECIAL GUESTS at Tally Ho Theater (Leesburg)
- Global Folk at Bossa (Slovakia, USA, Italy) at Bossa Bistro + Lounge
- Chuck Brown Band Live at Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club (Bethesda)
- Albino Rhino at Exiles
- Control Top & Material Girls at Joe Squared (Baltimore)
- Jeff Draco *EP Release Show* w/ Makeup Girl, Frass Green at DC9 Nightclub
- Kentucky Avenue + Front Country at Union Stage
- MARTI & ALWW: A TWO WOMAN SHOW at 7DC's The Pocket
- Greater District Band Battle (Vol.5) at The Ugly Mug
- Jazz Night at Maryland Meadworks (Hyattsville)
- Crooked Run Presents: The Battle of the Bands! at Crooked Run Brewing (Sterling)
- Bobby Thompson - Acoustic in the Wine Room at Lake Anne Coffee House & Wine Bar (Reston)
Sat — November 23
DCMR Staff Picks
- AZTEC SUN with Backbeat Underground + DC Safe Fundraiser at Union Stage
- Box Era + Natalie Brooke & the Band at Pie Shop DC
- An Evening with Better Off Dead at The 8x10 (Baltimore)
Jams, Mics & Such
- DC Punk Rock Flea Market at 12p at St. Stephen & the Incarnation Episcopal Church
- Crown Vic's Weird World at Allegory Eaton Hotel
Sparkling Gems
- Album Release Show | Caleb Stine & The Revelations at Creative Alliance (Baltimore)
- Joseph Allred / Uasuf Gueye / Phobodeimos at Rhizome DC
- Noah Haidu Quartet + Kris Monson's Suite for Charlottesville at 1358 Florida Ave NE
- Janel Leppin Art Opening w/ The El Rey's, Antonia, Janel & Anthony + more! at Comet Ping Pong
- Henry Kaiser Solo Guitar Requia by Request at Rhizome DC
- Bush Tetras w / Des Demonas at City Winery DC
- Sarah Shook & The Disarmers w/ Mary-Elaine Jenkins at Pearl Street Warehouse
- Beach Bunny / Another Michael / Nowadays at Songbyrd
- Plastic Taste | Blueprint | Choose to Suffer at 7Drum City's The Pocket
- Teen Cobra/SWALTB/Cash Registers/Rehearted at Slash Run
- Run Come See and Olivia Mancini at The Public Option
- Album Launch of Steel Strings and Iron Curtains — In their native Czech Republic, Kryl and Nohavica are known for powerful, politically-minded & existential lyrics that inspired generations living behind the Iron Curtain at The Writer's Center
- Shantih Shantih, the Lushpockets & Park Snakes at Joe Squared (Baltimore)
- Bazaar Presents: Heevahava and the OSYX at The Spot on Kirk (Roanoke)
Sun — November 24
DCMR Staff Picks
- Nevertheless, She Persisted - Music of America's Women Composers at The Church of the Epiphany
- La Dispute w/ Touché Amoré, Empath at 9:30 Club
- Jaden x Willow Smith at Echostage
- Moon Hooch at The 8x10 (Baltimore)
- Herman's Hermits featuring Peter Noone at The Birchmere (Alexandria)
Jams, Mics & Such
Sparkling Gems
- Tobe Nwigwe - The Ivory Tour w/ The Amours at The Fillmore (Silver Spring)
- Sriram Gopal & Friends at Bossa Bistro + Lounge
- Motherfolk & Hayley Fahey at Pie Shop DC
- Jazz trio at The Alex in Georgetown w/Amanda Lynne at The Alex Speakeasy
- Ruben Sings Luther at Blues Alley
- The National Jazz Workshop Big Band features features young musicians from Washington DC area who come together to celebrate Jazz at Jammin' Java (Vienna)
- Pip Blom | Bottled Up at Songbyrd
- Stray Fossa at Songbyrd Vinyl Lounge
- Junkyard Band at City Winery DC
- Miki Howard at 5:30p and 8:30p at City Winery DC
- William McMillan and The WillM Band at 5p and 7:30p at Keystone Korner (Baltimore)
- The Moonbees / Studebaker Huck / Magic Item / Josh Stokes at Joe Squared (Baltimore)
