By Helen BezunehSpecial to the AFRO hbezuneh@afro.com GoGo Symphony, a musical group that celebrates go-go music in the genre’s birthplace of D.C., is hosting “T’was the Night,” a classical jazz holiday show at 8:00 p.m. on Dec. 22. The Union Stage performance will combine the sounds of classical symphony music and Go-go music, but this […]
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Go-go Museum set to open in historic Anacostia neighborhood next year
By Ashleigh Fields, AFRO Assistant Editor afields@afro.com Self-proclaimed “guardians of go-go” are working to enshrine the legends and lifestyle of a musical genre birthed in Southeast D.C. Ronald L. Moten and Natalie Hopkinson, Ph.D., are co-founders of “Don’t Mute D.C.,” an organization created in 2019 with a goal of spearheading protective clauses that prevent gentrification […]