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SXSW Benefit Show with Rare Essence, EU, & Black Alley at Howard Theater
The Howard Theatre is proud to announce the SXSW Benefit Show to help send Rare Essence, Black Alley, and DC Loves Dilla to Austin, Texas. We are pleased to have Sugar Bear & EU as a true supporter of this effort. This is an unprecedented event to send the first Go Go band, Rare Essence, to SXSW to participate in the first DC Showcase. In addition, Black Alley will be the first “Hood Rock” group to grace the stage at SXSW, along with the first performance by DC Loves Dilla at SXSW celebrating the 9th anniversary of J. Dilla’s passing.
This is truly historical for DC’s indigenous music and a national opportunity to honor the legacy of Chuck Brown who created the genre we know and love as Go Go as well as show the world what DC has to offer from its accomplished live music community. There are no performance fees or travel expenses covered for this festival for any of the performers; your ticket purchase helps them in this quest.
Experience Unlimited – EU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGMkerZMx7g&feature=youtu.be
EU at Chuck Brown’s birthday – 930 Club
EU (Experience Unlimited) is one of the original Washington DC Go-Go bands. Fronted by founding member Gregory “Sugar Bear” Elliott, the original members all attended Ballou High School in Washington, DC. The band chose the name Experience due to their respect for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and Unlimited because they did not want to limit the range of their music. Their early regional hits included EU Freeze, Lock Your Butt, and Knock ‘Em Out Sugar Ray. Although they are best known for their Grammy nominated, massive worldwide hit Da-Butt from Spike Lee’s “School Daze” soundtrack, EU scored hits with Salt & Papa (Shake Your Thang), with rap innovator Kurtis Blow (Party Time), and on their own with Buck Wild and Taste of Your Love. Da Butt won Soul Train’s best R&B/Soul Single, Group in 1989.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/2015/events/event_MS30503
http://www.rareessence.com/index.php/sxsw to donate. We love our fans and our city and hope they will continue to support us all the way to Austin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn0WpVFaSTg&feature=youtu.be
Rare Essence, Washington’s premier Go‑ Go band for more than three decades has built a devoted fan base that spans multiple generations.
Originated in the mid ‘70s by the late Godfather of Go-Go, Chuck Brown, Go-Go links songs together over percussion breakdowns—a raw, non-stop party groove fueled by congas, cowbells and timbales, with call and response interactions that obliterated divisions between a band that doesn’t stop playing and audience that won’t stop dancing.
Dubbed “The Wickedest Band Alive” by rap pioneer Doug E. Fresh, who has collaborated with Rare Essence, one of many artists to incorporate Go‑ Go’s percolating percussion, and some of its key players, into their own recordings.
Rare Essence remains the most enduring and consistently combustible live bands honed through countless performances in the Washington region, working the local and regional concert circuit full-throttle, performing nearly 150 shows in 2014. Go-Go thrives live and that’s where reputations, and legacies, are cemented. As the Washington Post noted in a review, “….this band has performed more than 5,000 times. Like so many Rare Essence concerts, it’s easy to believe you’re seeing the best one.”
https://www.facebook.com/RareEssenceBand
https://www.youtube.com/user/RareEssenceTV
Black Alley has been pushing the art of music to its rhythmic limits for some time now.
Determined to create a unique musical elixir, Black Alley has taken the finest ingredients
of funk, hip-hop, soul and rock to create their own genre-bending sound called “Hood
Rock”. The band is one, each musician surrendering to the union of sounds, each delivering
music from their soul, while in dialogue with one another through their instruments. Each
member of this collective is essential to the workability and funkability of the unit, which is
Black Alley.
Black Alley is one of the most followed, trendsetting and sought-after music groups
hailing from the nation’s capital. With endorsements from national recording artists such as
Grammy Award nominee Raheem DeVaughn, Hip Hop standouts Common, Big
KRIT & Wale, and legendary musicians Doug E. Fresh and Sheila E, Black Alley is
untouchable, striving to rock harder and heavier each time they unite and contribute to the
greater good of music.
Web: www.blackalleyband.com | YouTube: www.youtube.com/weareblackalley
Facebook: www.facebook.com/blackalley | Music: blackalley.bandcamp.com
Twitter: @weareblackalley | Instagram: weareblackalley
This Is DC Loves Dilla Trailer
Common Blesses DC Loves Dilla
Since J Dilla’s untimely passing in 2006, HedRush, Jon Laine & The Players have been reproducing hits and rare gems from Dilla’s musical arsenal while the areas best including Asheru, Kokayi, Maimouna Youssef and Oddisee rip the mic and weave their lyrical offerings between the boom bap of this 12 piece live and electronic soundscape. This celebration has attracted thousands at every major venue in DC. It’s hosted the likes of De La Soul, Dwele, Slum Village, Talib Kweli, Pete Rock, Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest and more. No show is without a hefty serving of amazement as fans come to realize the diverse body of J Dilla’s production work includes The Roots, The Pharcyde, Common, Erykah Badu, Mos Def, De La Soul, Janet Jackson, The Brand New Heavies etc. At the 9th Annual DC Loves Dilla, The Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture announced the donation of 2 pieces of Dilla equipment to their archives. So come experience his musical greatness embodied by DC Loves Dilla.
URL: http://dclovesdilla.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/heartdilla
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/DC-Loves-Dilla/179738115416932
For more tickets and more information, go to: www.thehowardtheatre.com
Please come out and help support this event. You will have a great time and support a wonderful cause. Tell them you heard about it through DC Nitelife!
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