Chuck Brown, Betty Wright, Jodie Watley & Freddie Jackson Hits The Mo’Nique Show. WATCH VIDEO CLIP BELOW: BET Videos Continue reading Chuck Brown, Betty Wright, Jodie Watley & Freddie Jackson Hits The Mo’Nique Show [Complete Episode]
By Sidney Thomas | DC Music Examiner DC Mayor Vincent Gray celebrated his inauguration with a little help from R&B superstar Raheem DeVaughn and the “Godfather of Go-Go” Chuck Brown. The inaugural gala capped an entire day of events which included a interfaith prayer service, and the official mayoral swearing-in ceremony. The gala was held at the Washington Convention Center, and co-hosted by Big Tigger (WPGC) and Jamie Foster Brown (Sister 2 Sister magazine). The evening kicked off with performances by The Yvonne Johnson Jazz Trio, the Style Band, DJ James Funk, and DJ Rico Anderson. Raheem DeVaughn was up … Continue reading Chuck Brown and Raheem DeVaughn Headline Vincent Gray’s Inaugural Gala [Examiner]
For the first time in his long career, Chuck Brown is a Grammy nominee. Chuck, who was both surprised and happy about the nomination, talked about it briefly while at the Reeves Center attending a Christmas toy drive for HIV families. The song nominated is the single “Love”, in which the 74 year old Go-Go legend shared a duet with soulful songtress Jill Scott, from his recent album release “We Got This”. So without a doubt, on February 13th, when the Grammy go on the air, there will be a lot DC area folks pulling for The Godfather. WATCH VIDEO … Continue reading Chuck Brown Goes Grammy For The First Time In His Career
NOTE: this clip is available FREE for download (audio and video version), …so that you can carry around on your ipods, iphones, etc., during the holidays. The audio can be download here: http://www.screencast.com/t/w1uj6kxkIMf The video can be download here: http://www.screencast.com/t/jRPyRzXPdy WATCH VIDEO CLIP BELOW Continue reading This Christmas With The GoGo Family!
To say that this has been a busy two weeks for Chuck Brown would be an understatement. Not only did Chuck grace the half time green during the Redskins vs Taxens game two Sundays ago, released a brand new CD, went on more than two dozen in-stores to sign the CD for loving fans, gave live performances through out the city, recorded another NPR Desk Clip, catch the attention for a big write up in the Wall Street Journal, he also hit New York City and took to BB Kings and sat in with The Roots during last night’s episode … Continue reading For Those Who Didn’t Get To Catch Chuck Brown on Jimmy Fallon Last Night…
THE GODFATHER OF GO-GO By Jim Fusilli – Wall Street Journal Go-go music’s lack of broad appeal seems to boil down to the perception that it can draw a violent crowd: Promoters would rather steer clear of it, and as a result a wide audience hasn’t been nurtured. That’s a shame, because go-go music, at least when Mr. Brown serves it up, is an undeniably infectious strand of dance music with the potential to draw in fans of old-school R&B, hip-hop and ’70s jazz funk. Put Mr. Brown on stage at a festival like Bonnaroo or Glastonbury and he’d come … Continue reading Chuck Baby Catches The Attention of the Wall Street Journal / NPR
Line Dance for Chuck Brown’s latest single “Love”-Featuring Jill Scott. Watch, Learn, Enjoy! visit http://goloworld.com for info about affordable dance classes for all ages in the DMV!! Choreography by Lorenzo “goLo” Evans CLICK ON & WATCH VIDEO CLIP BELOW: MAKE YOUR COMMENT VIA FACEBOOK BELOW: Continue reading Now Chuck’s Got ‘Em Line Dancing To His Groove!
Check out the following video clip of a group in Tokyo Japan called, Congratulations!, as they rock their nightclub rendition of Chuck Brown’s timely classic, “We Need Some Money.” Truth be told, I’m loving the heck out of this joint!!! MAKE YOUR COMMENT VIA FACEBOOK BELOW: Continue reading They Rockin’ Chuck Brown Over In Tokyo Japan
In the wake of his new CD release of “We Got This,” Chuck Brown gave a free live performance at the Woodrow Wilson Plaze Friday evening. In this 33 minute Docdad70 video stream, a prime demonstration of exactly what the Sprint EVO with 4G can do, as we see performances by K.K. (Chuck’s daughter), D.Floyd, and Kimberly Michelle. Of course the clip isn’t the greatest, but if you didn’t get to make the free concert, you definitely get an idea of exactly what you missed. WATCH THE VIDEO CLIP BELOW: **Property and permission from Alfred J. Dockery, Sr. ————————- … Continue reading The Godfather of GO-GO Chuck Brown at the Woodrow Wilson Plaza [VIDEO]
Click on thumb images below to view larger images, then watch the video below: Check out video clip below: **Pictures by Preston Blue of Bag of Beats Records ——————————– MAKE YOUR COMMENT VIA FACEBOOK BELOW: Continue reading [Pictorial + Video] Chuck Brown’s Performance at the Redskins Game
The free Chuck Brown concert scheduled for downtown Silver Spring on Tuesday the 21st of September, has been canceled. Stay abreast for further updates. However, his new upcoming CD “We Got This” is still scheduled released. Therefore, in the meantime please check out the list below of all Chuck’s in-store meet and greet schedule and get your copy of the new DVD/CD autographed: Tuesday Sept 21 – DTLR Cap Blvd. Shops 6 pm 821 Capital Centre Blvd. 301-336-0608 Wednesday Sept 22 – Best Buy Bowie 6 pm 15800 Collington Rd 301-464-3080 Thursday Sept 23 – Best Buy Columbia Heights, DC … Continue reading Chuck Brown Silver Spring Show Cancelled… Redskins Game Half-time show is ON!!!
Chuck Brown will beo be appearing on the Jimmy Fallon show in NY on September 28, sitting in with The Roots (and performing the following night 9/29 at BB Kings in NY): Wanna go? Well… here is information on Jimmy Fallon tickets, which by the way, are FREE: Tickets to Late Night With Jimmy Fallon are available by calling their ticket office at (212) 664-3056. Please call for availability. Generally, tickets are booked about one month in advance from the actual taping. You can request up to four tickets, and all audience members must be at least 17 years old. … Continue reading Hey Folks: Wanna Party Live with Chuck Brown on the Jimmy Fallon show?
TMOTTGoGo Pictorial Gallery from the Chuck Brown Birthday Celebration held at the 930 Club – Washington DC – 8/29/2010 (click on thumb images to view larger images) **Photos By Preston Blue of Bag of Beats Records ——————————— MAKE YOUR COMMENT VIA FACEBOOK BELOW: Continue reading Chuck Brown Birthday Celebration Pictorial 2010
Talk about being slept on… good googa mooga!! You probably wouldn’t think that Electronica and Go-Go would go together, but the Thievery Corporation and Chuck Brown did just that. Before Wale came along to tear the roof off the sucker, two of DC’s most famous musical exports included these acts on opposite ends of the music spectrum. But the Godfather of Go-Go and the DJ duo teamed up for a track entitled “The Numbers Game” from a Thievery Corp’s album called Radio Retaliation, that sounds like it came off of the soundtrack to a ’70s Blaxploitation flick with its wah … Continue reading Thievery Corporation feat. Chuck Brown: “The Numbers Game”