Articles tagged: go-go music

Features

“Time for us to start telling our story”: Celebrating 50 years of go-go 

Growing up in D.C., Ronald Moten remembers his mother blasting music in the kitchen throughout the day. These beats were a distinct homegrown blend of funk, hip-hop, jazz, and R&B.... Read more

By Alexandra Risi February 20, 2026

News

Time to Go-Go: original performance ‘Making The Go-Go Band’ honors D.C. music

Georgetown Theater & Performance Studies and Black Theatre Ensemble debuted their original musical, “Making The Go-Go Band” on Nov. 9 in the Davis Performing Arts Center. The show is just... Read more

By Elizabeth Short November 11, 2023

Features

In the face of gentrification, go-go plays on

Go-go music is D.C. culture. Like many staples of Black culture in the nation’s rapidly gentrifying capital, go-go is under threat of erasure. 

By Annabella Hoge February 5, 2022

DC News

How a bar plans to bring the D.C. community together with a train

Metrobar aims to serve its guests in an accessible environment where Washingtonians can engage with the District’s artistic community.

By Kenneth Boggess and Annabella Hoge April 28, 2021