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Around Town: Author Jeffrey Ryan Talks Appalachian Odyssey @ Thos. Moser Showroom — 7/12/16

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Jeffrey Ryan and VanJeffrey Ryan in his 1985 Vanagon showcasing Appalachian Odyssey (Photo Credit: Sherry Moeller)

Author and avid hiker, Jeffrey Ryan discussed his new book, Appalachian Odyssey: A 28-Year Hike of America’s Trail, at Thos. Moser showroom (in Georgetown) on Tuesday, July 12th.

Over the course of 28 years, Ryan hiked all the segments of the Appalachian Trail and learned about setting goals, chasing dreams and achieving them. He finished hiking all sections of the trail in 2013. To a small but engaged group, he highlighted a few stories from the book and showed many photographs of his extensive time on the Appalachian Trail. Some stories were a bit unbelievable.

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Around Town: Careless Memories: A New Wave Party @ Dodge City, 7/14/16

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Mickey McCarter
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Get your dose of OMD and other new wave bands at Careless Memories this Thursday at Dodge City!

Come by Dodge City on this Thursday night to listen to a night of new wave tunes from yours truly, recently returned from slumming for several weeks around Europe, where I refreshed my own careless memories of some of the best music to come out of the Second British Invasion and other great stuff.

Our party is inspired by the fact that I cover many great bands in the blog here at Parklife DC, and fulfilling a niche to listen to those bands in a fantastic space like Dodge City had been lacking around town recently!

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So join us for an evening of Simple Minds, Howard Jones, Wang Chung, The Human League, ABC, Modern English, Falco, the Eurythmics, Alphaville, Gary Numan, Tears for Fears, Ultravox, Yaz, OMD, Spandau Ballet, and more, plus favorites from our big guns like David Bowie, Duran Duran, New Order, Depeche Mode, and others.

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You can RSVP on our Facebook event page, or you can simply show up for free!

Careless Memories: A New Wave Party
Dodge City
Thursday, July 14
Show @8pm
Free admission!
21+

Stars and Bars: Quick Takes @ Big Chief and The Brig

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Jeremy Bailey
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Big Chief Roof DeckBig Chief Roof Deck

Over 4th of July weekend I had a chance to venture out and peek into a couple of the new bars that opened in the NE (Big Chief) and SE (The Brig).

The Brig
I like beer gardens as a concept, so I usually make it a point to visit new ones when they open. Sipping suds outside on a cool evening or in the shade on a hot day, I can handle that.

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Around Town: Truckaroo #4 @ Fairgrounds, 7/8/16

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Jeremy Bailey
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Truckaroo DC

Truckaroo is here. 27 food trucks wrangled together in one spot for your eating pleasure!

Friday, July 8th, come down to the Fairgrounds, near Nationals Park, and wade through the myriad of food truck options.

Defeat the humidity with cool sweets at Carmen’s Italian Ice or The Orange Cow. Or come for lunch (opens at 11am) or dinner or a late snack (closes at 11pm). There will be music, games and adult beverages as well.

I’m going to try to make it this time. I’ll likely pick between Urban Poutine and Due South, as two food trucks I have yet to try.

Future Truckaroo dates are August 19 and September 16.

Truckaroo 2016 #4
Fairgrounds (M St and Half St SE) near the Nationals Park
Friday, July 8
11am-11pm
Free Admission (pay for food and beverages)
All ages + dogs

List of Food Trucks

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Grapevine: DC Beer Week 2016, 9/24-10/1/16

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Jeremy Bailey
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DC Beer Week 2016

A reminder to mark your calendars for the 8th annual DC Beer Week coming September 24th through October 1st.

Check out what we posted for last year’s week highlighting some of cool events that typically take place throughout the week.

For more info, see DCBeer.com as they talk about changes to DC Beer Week 2016, including shifting from August to September and that the event will now be run by The D.C. Brewers’ Guild.

Music Park: Montreux Jazz Festival 50 @ Montreux, Switzerland — 7/1-7/16/16

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Mickey McCarter
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foule_montreux_deep_purple_0048 Deep Purple perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival’s Stravinksy Auditorium in 2013. (Photo by Lionel Flusin)

What is the Montreux Jazz Festival exactly?

If you’re like me, you’ve occasionally seen or heard live performances from the festival on video or CD — and you have the impression it’s a far-flung gathering of musicians socializing over jazz in some elite location in Switzerland.

Well, now I’m here, and the first thing that I can report is that it’s not just a jazz festival — it’s dedicated to all kinds of music ranging from rock to soul to EDM. It’s also not necessarily all that elite. Take for example this year’s Montreux Jazz Festival 50, which hosts an incredibly robust free program over its two-week stretch in this month of July. You could attend from 2pm to 5am many days and see many performances and then dance until you drop for free admission.

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Don’t Miss: Marissa Nadler @ DC9, 7/24/16

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Jeremy Bailey
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Marissa NadlerMarissa Nadler (Photo Credit: Ashley Frangie)

Marissa Nadler comes to DC9 on Sunday, July 24th, touring for her seventh studio album, Strangers.

Songs like “Drive” and “Wedding” from previous albums are haunting, folky indie pop tapestries of sound and mood.

Marissa was born in Washington, D.C., but raised in Massachusetts near Boston. She released her first album, Ballads of Living and Dying, in 2004.

From Strangers, a new video for “Janie In Love” uses grayscale and stop-motion animation to convey a sense of melancholy and the lyrics speak to preparing for the havoc of love.

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SPIN named Strangers Album of the Week and said, “Her releases have been consistently stellar, each with more poise and maturity than the one previous. More than a decade in, she has complete command of her craft on her most sonically expansive and emotionally wrenching outing yet.”

The new album focuses on loneliness, and characters that are fractured, disillusioned, and delicate, hence they are the voice of ‘strangers’.

Don’t be a stranger yourself, come to the show!
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Marissa Nadler
w/ Wrekmeister Harmonies & Muscle and Marrow
DC9
Sunday, July 24, 2016
Doors 7:30pm
$13
All ages

Happy Birthday, America

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Jeremy Bailey
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  Your Nationals play on July 4th, 2016

Today the United States of America turns 240. 

Getting up there, but like baseball and apple pie, still good after all these years.

Happy 4th!

Around Town: Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2016 @ The National Mall, 6/29-7/4/16 & 7/7-7/10/16

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Jeremy Bailey
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Folklife Festival 2016Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2016

Come down to the National Mall this weekend and next, and experience the annual Folklife Festival.

This year’s themes are Basque culture (regions in Spain and France) and the Sounds of California (celebrating the rich diversity of cultures in the state).

I always enjoy the Folklife Festival for the ethnic food options each year. Sometimes from places I have yet to visit, or sometimes from countries where I love the food I’ve tried, but it’s a regional variation or area of that country I haven’t been to.

Basque cuisine is something I’ve yet to try, so looking at the menu offerings, it looks pretty good. The Talo con Chistorra (paprika pork sausages in tortillas), Sukalki (beef short rib stew) and the Pantxineta (Almond custard-filled puff pastry) are definitely going in my belly.

The California food options are tacos and Thai food. Alright!

There will be performances of Basque music and dance, as well as a variety of performers from cultures in California.

Each evening there is a concert at 6:30pm at the Ralph Rinzler Concert Stage.

Evening Concert Schedule

  • Friday, July 1 – NOKA, Biotzetik Basque Choir (Basque)
  • Saturday, July 2 – Quetzal & Meklit (California)
  • Sunday, July 3 – Ralph Rinzler Memorial Concert: NEA National Heritage Fellows: Celebrating 50 Years of the National Endowment for the Arts
  • Monday, July 4 – none
  • Thursday, July 7 – Armenian Public Radio & TmbaTa (California)
  • Friday, July 8 – Kalakan and Gatibu (Basque)
  • Saturday, July 9 – John Santos Sextet & Bobi Céspedes (California)
  • Sunday, July 10 (Time: 4:15pm) – Korrontzi, Low Leaf, TmbaTa (Basque and California)

Find the full schedule of events and activities here.

Folklife Festival 2016
The National Mall
June 29-July 4 and July 7-10
11am-5pm (Special events at 6:30pm)
Free entry (Pay for food and drink)
All ages

Music Park: The Shivas @ L’Usine (Geneva, Switzerland) — 6/28/16

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Mickey McCarter
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The Shivas 02 Kristin Leonard and Jared Molyneux of The Shivas rock out at L’Usine in Geneva on June 28. (Photo by Mickey McCarter)

Yours truly, your humble music concert correspondent, happens to be in Switzerland, where I will travel next week to the Montreux Jazz Festival for a day or two.

Meanwhile, I’m parked in Geneva, checking out the indie rock scene here, and its epicenter is surely the nonprofit arts building L’Usine, which hosts all manner of music parties. Produced by a promotions outfit calling itself Kalvingrad, L’Usine (Place des Volontaires 4, 1204 Genève) often hosts rock-n-roll concerts in a large, comfortable dancehall that can likely hold up to 700 or 800 people — approximate in size and configuration to the upstairs stage at DC’s own Black Cat.

It’s fortuitous then, that I got to see the space in action in a smaller configuration when American band The Shivas toured through Geneva from Portland, Oregon, slipping in a date in-between stints at European Festivals. A dedicated crowd of some 50 people showed up for The Shivas on Tuesday, and the band left a big impression on their Swiss audience who hungrily devoured every word and note delivered by the garage rock trio. You got the sense that an American indie rock band traveling through the area during the week was a rare treat indeed.

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