This Weekend’s Best Concert Bets
Before the picks, a special video in honor of the opening day at Bonnaroo. It's a neat little track from the sexiest tribute band ever: Lez Zeppelin.
- Step Afrika tonight through Sunday at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, with a special Father's Day performance to cap it off.
- Summer Concerts at Farragut Square—with its weekly cross-section of local rock—continues tonight and the following two Thursdays.
- Check out the Silver Spring Summer Concert Series.
Tonight: Fink at Iota; Jamie Lidell with Jennifer O'Connor at the 9:30 Club
Friday: Alicia Keys at the Verizon Center; Robert Plant and Allison Kraus at the Merriweather Post Pavilion; Justin Jones and the Driving Rain at the Rock & Roll Hotel.
Saturday: BSO with Barry Douglas at Strathmore; Gordon Lightfoot at Wolf Trap; Monday Michiru at Bohemian Caverns; Wooly Mammoth at the Rock & Roll Hotel; Slick Rick at Love.
Sunday: Shearwater at Black Cat; Major Stars at the Velvet Lounge; Tullycraft at the Red and the Black.
And the closing video: Major Stars wailing (or is it shredding?) in a kitchen. Definitely an 11 on the face-melt-o-meter.
9:33 am
Gordon Lightfoot. Interesting "best concert bet" choice.
There is so much happening in June. Here are some other weekend ideas:
Fri. 6-13
Step Rideau and the Zydeco Outlaws @ The Kennedy Center Millennium Stage
FREE, Show 6-7 p.m.
Washington Post Weekend Section Legends of DC Soul Night with the The Jewels, The Winstons,William DeVaughn, Sir Joe Quarterman, Shadz of Soul, Ignatius Mason, Joe Webb and hosted by Captain Fly for free (with tickets) at &:30 at the Carter Barron Amphitheater,
16th St. and Colorado Ave.,
Collie Buddz (dancehall reggae) w/ New Kingston Band,
At Zanzibar OTW
Karen Gray (jazz vocals) with Buck Hill (legendary DC saxophonist), Wayne Wilentz (piano), Jim McIntyre (bass), and Pete Chauvette
(drums) at the National Museum of Natural History, Atrium Cafe
(enter Constitution Ave.) 6:30 to 10
Tito Rojas (fine salsa vocalist) at Bravo Bravo (this show
advertised only on 99.1 Fm)
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Sat. 6-14-
Battles (indie-math-rock-prog) at 930 club
Fresh Fest 2008 featuring Naughty By Nature,Rob Base,Doug E
Fresh,Kurtis Blow (old-school rap) at Showplace Arena, Upper
Marlboro.
Gran Festival Latino noon to 9 with Ivy Queen (reggaeton), Hermanos
Rosario, Los Cocodrilos, Zacarias Ferreira, Chicas Roland, Silver
Star, Rene Alonso, Baby's Swing, at Montgomery County Fairgrounds
1-888-835-2533 granfestivaldc.com
Chitlin Circuit Southern Soul with Theodis Ealey ("Stand Up in it") and Big G at Lamonts in Pomonkey (daytime show)
Millie Jackson and Clarence Carter (veteran chitlin circuit soul) at the Warner Theatre
Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys at the Birchmere
Roy Carrier (zydeco) at Surf Club Live
Guru (rap) at Ottobar
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Sun. 6-15
Festival Latino at Six Flags Amusement Park, Largo, Maryland with
La orquesta de los Hermanos Flores (El Salvador), Oro Sólido, Los
Forasteros de San Luis, Zeniza All Star y el Mariachi El Águila.