In this special holiday package, we target the Godfather of Go-Go, Chuck Brown from three different angles. The first angle, "A Conversation With The Godfather", by Richard O'Connor, is from an interview that we conducted with Chuck during the Christmas season 10 years ago. The second angle,...
The 2009 Go-Go Awards is scheduled for The Washington Convention Center on Nov. 1. In addition to D.C.'s own Comedian/Actor Red Grant hosting this year's event, some of today's most prominent acts on the Go-Go curcuit are scheduled to perform. Presented by Peace Abode, the acts...
Music legend and guitarist Chuck Brown is widely known to audiences for his musical emblem on the genre of 'Go-Go' music. Now at age 73, with nearly 20 albums under his belt, Brown still performs the infectious rhythms as he works to expand the genre's...
by Justin Moyer When George Washington University music professor Kip Lornell teamed up with former Experience Unlimited (EU) manager Charles C. Stephenson to introduce academia to D.C.’s primary musical export in 2001’s The Beat, go-go blasted through boomboxes held by guys selling mixtapes out of cars...
Sound Check - Sadrea 2009...
By Thomas Sayers Ellis I grew up on 7th and O Streets, NW so the sight of people dancing in the rain, on 7th and T Streets, NW, while Chuck Brown, the Godfather of Go-Go, was having a part of a street named after him was amazing. A part of a...
In this clip, Kato gives his personal answers to some of the most frequent asked questions when it comes to Go-Go Music: 1. What is Go-Go music? 2. Why are Go-Go bands always playing other people's covers?...
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By Kato No longer can the lack of radio support or obtaining a record deal be the scapegoat for a band or individual artist’s not being able to gain national attention. The playing field from what it used to be 10, and definitely 20 years ago...
Property of Blazin Bryan Mills...