For you DCers, what do you like about local music? What would you like to see more of with local bands? Which is most important; musicianship, originality, or stage show?

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Answer by mickey g
well, frankly i must agree with you. my bf is a lighting designer who has had to light these bands in these bars. and lets just say TT Reynolds and the Shark Club are a little seedy sometimes. but sometimes you really do get some good music. When Junk Food first came out we worked with them. and then we do a lot at the Clarendon Ball Room.

And really, its all about stage show (with some talent of course). one of the bands that seems to get a rise out of the crowd the most is Gonzo’s Nose. We worked with them for years. great bunch of people, loads of fun, and just fun to watch and sing along with (they are a cover band).

but yeah, in general, i agree with you, and we’ll just stick with the big shows and local festivals.

what we really need are some new venues. we were really hopeful when putting in the new Irish Village out in sterling (where the old Draft house Movie Theater was) because the guy who owns it owned Ned Devine’s, but then he turned it into a night club/ bar and its really bad for live music.

there is an idea my BF and some of the guys he’s working with are throwing around for down in Flordia, but it would be cool here if it would happen. they want a full stage, but they want it to have its own lighting rig and sound system, but it is also a full bar with 250 items on draft (its supposedly going to be by hard rock and try to get the bands they wouldnt want) but thats now over and year in the making, and no progress has been happening. if someone was willing to do that around here that would just be amazing. and since the design would be made my these theatre geeks, the acoustics would actually be taken into affect!!

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(And I can’t just tune into 6 Music because I don’t have a radio so streaming media i.e. radio is blocked)

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Answer by captain futility
none anymore.

they’re closing it down.

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Answer by curmudgeon
that would be real oldies.

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Every photographer knows that serendipity doesn’t announce its arrival in advance; if and when it occurs, you better have your camera with you, or the moment will be lost. In my case, it occurred just before 8 PM the other night, when my taxi deposited me back at my downtown Washington hotel after a rather frustrating and inconclusive effort at photographing elsewhere (the results of which may or may not appear on Flickr at some point in the future).

I heard music behind me, out in a square on Pennsylvania Avenue known as "Freedom Plaza," and turned to see what it was. Tango music was coming from a couple of speakers that had been set up, and people were dancing out on the square, in the soft dusk that was falling over the city. I strolled across the street to see what was going on, and was stunned by the simplicity and the beauty of the scene: a few dozen people dancing the intricate coda and rhythm of the tango, with Pennsylvania Avenue behind them, and the U.S. Capitol as a backdrop to it all.

I knew nothing about the individuals photographed here, and I know even less about the tango. But I could see that it was a tight-knit community, and that they took their dancing very seriously. What struck me most was the diversity of the community: young and old, tall and short, handsome and beautiful mixing with the not-so-handsome and not-so-beautiful, and various races and ethnic backgrounds. I eventually spoke to one of the dancers, who told me that, over the years, several of the people in the group had danced in various other parts of Washington; but they’ve been coming here, she said, to 14th Street and Pennyslvania Avenue, for at least 10 years. And I imagine they’ll keep coming for many years into the future.

I sat quietly in one place; I would like to have moved around, to photograph people from different angles and perspectives. But I didn’t want to bother them, didn’t want to interfere with the magical aura they were creating. All I could do was wait for them to whirl and flow and glide past me, and then do my best to capture what I was seeing. I took about 225 photos before it got too dark to continue — and many of the pictures were shot at ISO 3200 and a very slow speed, so they may be a little soft and noisy. But about a third of them were keepers; and that’s what you’ll see in this album.

By the way, when I gave up photographing and went back to my hotel, I spent another hour eating a quiet dinner in the restaurant. And when I went back up to my room at 9:45, I discovered that my room, on the 7th floor, faced out over the square … and they were all still out there, in the dark, still dancing. As the narrator said at the very end of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, "… and some people dance."

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Answer by Will
I know of some music stores in the International District in Seattle and I’m sure there must be some Korean ones.

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A DAY IN WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK / Dachshund Frienship Festival 2011 / Sand Painting – Washington Square Park, Manhattan NYC


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