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July 17, 2019
MONTGOMERY COUNTY’S GO-GO COMMUNITY TO SHARE ORAL HISTORIES FOR DIGITAL ARCHIVE
Take Me Out to the Go-Go Magazine (TMOTTGoGo) invites go-go music lovers from Montgomery County to share their oral histories of the Go-Go experience for its famous digital archive. An interactive presentation and event is scheduled for Sandy Spring Museum on Sunday, August 11, 2019.
TMOTTGoGo (pronounced TEE-mott-go-go) has been Go-Go’s own community-based, multimedia platform since 1996, housed at www.tmottgogo.com. The Sandy Spring Museum event is the first stop of the TMOTTGoGo Regional Tour of Go-Go History, which highlights important locations in Go-Go culture.
The magazine/archive is partnering with various museums, libraries, and other sites in Maryland, DC, and Virginia to host a series of events centered on Go-Go’s boundary-breaking community history. Consistent with TMOTTGoGo’s reputation as the most trusted source of information on Go-Go, the tour serves to present and collect oral histories of Go-Go from each location. In the tradition of live go-go recordings, each interactive presentation is uniquely curated with collective sense of place and community.
Each stop on the tour will be hosted by Kato Hammond, owner and creator of TMOTTGoGo, and author of the book Take Me Out to the Go-Go (his autobiography) and children’s book I Want to Play Too. Hammond’s significance to Go-Go is immortalized in the Musical Crossroads exhibit of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Events include a special presentation by Dr. Tahira Mahdi, a longtime TMOTTGoGo staffer who developed a new framework for community psychology based on her research with the Go-Go community.
The guest speaker at Sandy Spring Museum will be Montgomery County’s own Go-Go Bouncey of the band Proper Utensils. Attendees will be allowed to broadcast their stories live with TMOTTGoGo and have them archived among the site’s famed treasure trove of artifacts.
Take Me Out to the Go-Go Magazine houses a digital museum of Go-Go culture at www.tmottgogo.com and a rich archive of go-go and other local music at www.tmottradio.com. TMOTTGoGo Inside the Pocket, a 2018 documentary about the magazine’s impact, is now streaming on Amazon.
Visit www.tmottgogo.com/regionaltour for up-to-date tour stop information. Contact info@tmottgogo.com for interviews and presenter information.
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