DCMR Staff Recs

• Women In Music DC -- Get In Sync Panel & Networking Event: Getting Your Music in Film, TV, and Advertising at Pearl Street Warehouse
• Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever and Deeper at Black Cat
• In The Vane of Bob Dylan: Annapolis Artists Playing Tributes & Dylan Inspired Originals at Rams Head On Stage 

Hidden Gems

• Bit Brigade performs 'The Legend of Zelda' at DC9 Nightclub
• Monday Django Jazz Night at De Kleine Duivel
• BKO Quintet from Mali at Bossa Bistro + Lounge
• Devon Welsh (of Majical Cloudz) + Ancient Ocean, Nick Schofield at Songbyrd Music House & Record Cafe 
• JAMonday at Epicure Café

DCMR Staff Recs

• Alison Krauss at The Anthem
• Sauf Haus Open Mic featuring Sol Roots at Sauf Haus Bief Hall & Garden
• Amos Lee with Caitlyn Smith - My New Moon Tour at The Lincoln Theatre 
• Corcoran Holt's "Birthday Celebration" (Bass) at Blues Alley
• Benyaro -- Get Get out the Vote! at Hill Country DC 
• Gordon Sterling Presents: The Gypsy Sally's Jam at Gypsy Sally's
• The Marshall Tucker Band at The Birchmere 
• Josanne Francis LIVE (Free show) at the Kennedy Center

Hidden Gems

• 6-week series: Experiments in Sound Meditation at Rhizome DC
  
• Fiona Grey, Emma Cole, Heather Cole at Songbyrd Music House & Record Cafe
  
• Reed Appleseed, Lovejet (EP Release), Not Your Groupies at DC9 Nightclub 
• Pohgoh w/ Thrushes and J. Robbins at Metro Gallery
• Concert: Sarah Louise // Literals at Rhizome DC
• FIDLAR with Dilly Dally and NOBRO at 9:30 Club
• The 8x10 Open Jam at The  8x10 

DCMR Staff Recs

• Childish Gambino at Capital One Arena
• Birds of Chicago at The Hamilton 
• FuzzQueen Feat. The Stone Eye, Mountain Tamer, Casual War at Dangerous Pies DC
• Car Seat Headrest, Naked Giants, and Don Babylon at 9:30 Club
  

Hidden Gems

• ​The Bossa Bistro Bounce w/ Tongue in Cheek at Bossa Bistro + Lounge
• Neel Singh's Open Jam and Workshop at Villain & Saint 
• Capitol Hill Jazz Jam at Mr. Henry's 

DCMR Staff Recs

• The OSYX Presents: Santa Librada/Company Calls/Lighthouse Row at The Dew Drop Inn DC
• Portugal. The Man with Lucius at Merriweather Post Pavilion
• MC Lyte: Lyte as a Rock 30th Anniversary Concert at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
• The Hometown Get Down Music Festival at 11820 Hawkes Rd., Clarksburg, Maryland 
• Elton John - Farewell Yellow Brick Road at The Capital One Arena
• Carl Broemel of My Morning Jacket at U Street Music Hall 
• Steven Page of Barenaked Ladies at Rams Head On Stage 
• District Music Benefit featuring Donna The Buffalo, Lucy Scholl, and Leigh Nash at The Hamilton
• Bencoolen, Surprise Attack, and The Cassady Concoction at Pearl Street Warehouse
• Ardamus: A Broken Hearted 90s Season TOUR Launch with Big Lo and RNL at Backbar
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Hidden Gems

• Saint Sister with Marian McLaughlin at DC9 Nightclub​
• Shane Smith & the Saints with Holy Roller at Gypsy Sally's 
• Thirteen Towers EP Release with Behind Deadlines & Interstate Rival at Dangerous Pies DC 
• William Fitzsimmons at Jammin' Java 
• Mothers + Lala Lala Music House & at Songbyrd Music House & Record Cafe
• Sarah Gilberg Album Release: "Other People's Secrets" at Takoma Ranch
• Bad Moves LP Release w The Obsessives + Ultra Beauty at Black Cat
• DNF TRIO at Arts Tavern
• Fix Your Hearts * Cherry Ames * Grandmas Mini at Slash Run
• Schlegelmilch/Goldberger/Davis, Janel Leppin, Myelin Nation at Rhizome DC
• April + VISTA: You Are Here (Live) / Ciscero / Sugg Savage at Union Stage

DCMR Staff Recs

• 16th Annual Greenbelt Free Blues Festival, 113 Centerway Rd.,  Greenbelt, MD 
• Greenhaus Festival at 2400 E Capitol St., NE
• Trillectro Music Festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion 
• Elton John - Farewell Yellow Brick Road at The Capital One Arena
• Justin Trawick and the Common Good at Pearl Street Warehouse 
• Sol Roots at Eclipse Restaurant in Gainesville, VA 
• Animal Sun, Finding Bob at Canal Club 
• All Good Presents… An Evening with The Soul Rebels at Union Stage
• Desert Altar, Fuzzqueen, & Horse Culture at Garden Grove in Richmond
  

Hidden Gems

• The JoGo Project with BOOMscat at The Soundry
• Jamie Potter at 3p at Creek's Edge Winery
• Music Appreciation & Sitar courses at 11a at Sitar Niketan
• The Young Dubliners at The Hamilton 
• Bluegrass Legend Alice Gerrard Album Release Show at All Souls Church Unitarian
• BØRNS with Twin Shadow at The Jefferson Theater 
• Big Something with The Mad Children at The Broadberry 
• Concert: Joel Harrison and Free Country at Rhizome DC
• Prince and MJ Experience ★ Washington DC at Union Stage

DCMR Staff Recs

• Beyond the Studio: Freestyling with the Off the Top Team (hear from professionals that work in the arts, then sharpen your own creative skills with a hands-on activity) at 1p at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery
• The Growlers with Kirin J Callinan at 9:30 Club
• Greenhaus Festival at 2400 E Capitol St., NE
• DC Music Industry Group Meet Up at Union Stage
 

Hidden Gems

• Luna Honey (tape release) w/Kid Claws and Knife Wife at Black Cat
• Allthebestkids Cruise @ Sunset w/ Nah. at The Boomerang Pirate Ship​
• Graham Coxon at Rock & Roll Hotel 
• Ian Moore Album Release Show at City Winery DC 
• The National Reserve, Kid Brother at Songbyrd Music House & Record Cafe 
• Take The Cake at Epicure Café