Take a ride on a quick trip with KC (of Junkyard) and TBob (of All4U) as they drift into a conversation regarding the passing of Chuck Brown and the continuance of Go-Go music. Live from inside the back of a Honda - exclusively under...
Fellow musician and friend Bootsy Collins talks about the "Master of Go-Go" Chuck Brown in this exclusive clip. WATCH VIDEO CLIP BELOW: ...
The following images are pictures taken during one of Chuck Brown's many concerts in Japan 1992. These pictures take place in the cities of Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka and Nagoya. Click on thumbnails to view larger size images. [gallery link="file" columns="4" orderby="title"]...
The following photo gallery were taken at the Diva's Inc. 7th Annual Biker's Fest, which is held each and every year at Geno's Ball Park. Click on thumbnails to view larger size images. [gallery link="file" columns="4" orderby="title"]...
As we in the Go-Go community sit back and continually come to the realization that the creator of this music culture, Chuck Brown, is no longer physically with us, I hear whispers coming from many directions ask the question, "What is Go-Go going to now?" ...
As I (along with many others) set back and took in every single moment, every single song, every single word that was spoken at Chuck Brown's Homegoing on Thursday, I would have to say that one of the moments that continues to stick with me...
The “Godfather of Go-Go,” is the subject of a new resolution that would designate his birthday, Aug. 22, as “Chuck Brown Day.” Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, who introduced the resolution, spoke on it at Browns’ public memorial service yesterday. “Chuck Brown’s funky go-go beat gave hometown D.C....
During the Homegoing services where many people spoke to bid their final farewell to Chuck Brown at the Washington Convention Center (to include Donnie Simpson, Donnie Simpson, DC Mayor Vincent Gray, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, Marion Barry, Big G, Chucky Thompson, Darryl Brooks, Chris Paul...
The following gallery are just a few snap-shots that were taking during the Homegoing Celebration of our own Godfather of Go-Go Chuck Brown. Click on thumbnails for view larger size images. [gallery link="file" columns="4" orderby="title"]...
The D.C. Public Library is working to build a collection honoring "The Godfather of Go-Go", Chuck Brown. The library says it's looking for posters, photographs, ticket stubs, videos or audio recordings of Brown and other go-go musicians. The library is also interested in letters that...
-From the office of Mayor Vincent Gray WHAT/WHO: The Brown Family, Mayor Vincent C. Gray, Events DC and The Howard Theatre have invited fans of the late Go-Go artist Chuck Brown to a series of events memorializing his life and contributions to the District’s...
National artist Charles Jean-Pierre, who also happens to be a teacher at Macfarland Middle School, felt that there needed to be some type of acknowledgement for Chuck Brown’s influence on the community — including his ability to bring the community together. The art teacher says that...
One thing about Chuck Brown is so true: just about each and every person in this culture has their own stories of up close and personal moments that they have shared with him in some form or fashion because that’s exactly the kind of man...
The name Chuck Brown might not mean a whole lot to people outside the Washington DC area, and that would be their lost. In DC, Brown is widely known, even revered, as The Godfather of Go-Go. Born in August of 1936, Charles Lewis Brown, affectionally...