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Music: Soul/R&B Midsummer Night Swing feat. Chuck Brown

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On hot summer nights in the nation's capital, a funky, syncopated rhythm pervades the city, blaring from car radios and open windows. That beat is go-go, a decades-old style of high-energy party music endemic to Washington, DC, that has maintained its local primacy well into the age of hip-hop. The music's uncontested founder is Chuck Brown, the septuagenarian guitarist and songwriter who brings DC's soulful grit up I-95 tonight for a evening outdoors in Damrosch Park. Come early for a dance lesson with choreographer Lorenzo Evans, and stay late to beat your feet to the Godfather's hypnotic grooves.

– Eli Dvorkin

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