Vote: What Is the Best in DC for 2018?

Posted on 11/26/2018 by Mickey McCarter in Around Town, Live Review and tagged 9:30 Club, All Things Go, All Things Go Fall Classic, awards program, Bacchae, Bat Fangs, best of dc, best of the year, Black Cat, Broke Royals, City Winery, DC Music Rocks, DC Music Rocks Festival, DC9, Funk Parade, Kingman Island, Kingman Island Bluegrass and Folk Festival, Loi Loi, Park Snakes, Pearl Street Warehouse, Priests, ShamrockFest, Sol Roots, The Anthem, Thrushie Awards, Tiny Cat Dark Music Festival, Union Stage.

A wood thrush! (Photo by Trish Gussler)

Parklife DC will honor DC bands and venues with our inaugural awards program, named for our new mascot, DC’s own state bird — the Wood Thrush. Our Thrushie Awards are inspired by our mission to review live music concerts.

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Music Park: Kingman Island Bluegrass & Folk Festival — 6/9/18

Posted on 06/12/2018 by Mark Engleson in Live Review and tagged American Songster Revue, Americana, Amythyst Kiah, bluegrass, blues, Bumper Jacksons, Dan Whitener, Dom Flemons, Dori Freeman, folk, Gangstagrass, Gina Clowes, Guy Davis, Jonny Grave, Kamara Thomas, Kingman Island, Kingman Island Bluegrass and Folk Festival, music festival, roots, The Gina Clowes Project, The High & Wides.

Dom Flemons performs in Durham, North Carolina, on Sept. 8, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Barta)

At the Kingmans Island Bluegrass and Folk Festival on Saturday, I endured sun and rain, met some cool dogs, suffered for some ice cream, and most of all experienced some very good bluegrass, Americana, and blues bands on one full day.

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