| Time |
Stage |
Band |
Description |
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| 11 am |
Savory Stage |
7 Door Sedan
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TP resident, Glenn (Killer) Kowalski motors onto the stage with 7 Door Sedan. Playing glam/psychedelic/rock & soul music. |
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Gazebo Stage |
Spencer Bates
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Spencer was recently named the winner of the 2007 Takoma Park Folk Festival Emerging Artist Showcase Competition and is a 2008 accepted performer at The Strathmore Hall Foundation. Spencer is songwriter, vocalist, and pianist, and spans the genres of Pop, Rock, and Folk. |
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Dance Stage |
Gina DeSimone and the Moaners
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2005 WAMMIES Winner for Best Contemporary Folk Instrumentalist and Recording. They're playing blues, swing and classic rock now in addition to originals. And boy do they moan. Their slogan: Dance Your Pants Off! Come, see, dance: you'll have a great time. |
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| Noon |
Savory Stage |
The Englishman
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With his Shangoband. Englishman moved from Jamaica to Takoma Park many years ago. Fortunately for all of us, he brought with him the great tradition of Old School reggae. It’s nice to have a legend as a neighbor. |
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Gazebo Stage |
Ruthie and the Wranglers
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Takoma Park native, Ruthie Logsdon gets to walk to work for this gig. Lead vocalist and songwriter, Ruthie has racked 25 WAMMIES including 2006 Best Country Vocalist and 2000 Songwriter of the Year from the Washington Area Music Association. The Wranglers play both types of music, country and western! |
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Dance Stage |
Joe Uehein and the
U-liners
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Takoma Park resident. Fresh off their Jerry Garcia Tribute sold-out show at the Iota, the memory and tunes live on. This year’s set will honor the Grateful Dead. |
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| 1 pm |
Savory Stage |
Janine Wilson
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Her latest release, Save Me from Myself (released with the assistance of her friends at B.O.S. Music) finds Wilson growing bolder still, expanding her stylistic repertoire to include grittier roots rock, alt country, R&B and even a little traditional country-and-western twang. Welcome to your debut (long overdue) at the Street Fest. |
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Gazebo Stage |
Justin Trawick
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Winner of the 2006 Takoma Park Folk Festival Singer-Songwriter contest, his songs are edgy yet polished, inspired but not navel-gazing. +Justin crosses musical genre borders, no passports needed. He immigrates, emigrates, and creates a sound that is 100 % original Trawick. |
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Dance Stage |
King Soul
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King Soul, DC's all star Soul band brings the sound and groove of 1960s Memphis to the Capital City. Killer horns, smoky vocals, concussion percussion and TP resident Chris Watling (Grandsons) to boot. |
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| 2 pm |
Savory Stage |
Billy Coulter Band
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Takoma Park resident. His inspired and energetic performances have graced the stages at some of the hottest venues and festivals in the region including Rams Head, Birchmere, Strathmore, Barns of Wolf Trap, Celebrate Fairfax and National BBQ Battle…and the Street Festival for the last 5 years! |
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Gazebo Stage |
Squeeze Bayou
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Takoma Park crawfishies. Squeeze Bayou Cajun Band, based in the Washington, D.C. area plays traditional Cajun and zydeco dance music from Southwestern Louisiana. The band specializes in playing two steps and waltzes, however the music reflects a blend of many styles including country music, blues and Creole. Most of their material comes from traditional sources and the vocals are sung in Cajun French. |
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Dance Stage |
Prabir and the Substitutes
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The Beatles on surfboards in the ‘80s. Original material performed today that will be written sometime after 2019. This is the best band you’ve never heard, until today. Be there, or beware. |
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| 3 pm |
Savory Stage |
Junkyard Saints
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"An intoxicating maelstrom of brass, keyboards, accordion and blues harp, and it's almost impossible to stand still... people are literally jumping out of their seats." Junkyard Saints is a DC/Baltimore-based seven-piece band. The band performs its own brand of New Orleans-style party music -- blending funk, swing, Latin, R&B, with some old-school zydeco. Catch their leader, Brian Simms, with Billy Coulter and Chopteeth today! |
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Gazebo Stage |
Melanie Mason
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A rare opportunity to catch Mel in a solo acoustic/electric gig. Yes, she’s been compared to Bonnie Raitt, but we also compare her to the very great, male or female. Delta style, slide, Piedmont and a great voice on top of that. Redheads rule! |
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Dance Stage |
Tommy Lepson
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Once again, the tradition continues. He's no Lazy Boy, and he is the prototypical amp fixer-upper when he's not out gigging on his keys, organ, with his trusty B-3 and spinnin' Leslie. Look for him to jump in with The Nighthawks (hint, hint). |
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| 4 pm |
Savory Stage |
Chopteeth
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Afro-funk high life music, this is what a good time is all about. They’ll have you dancing in the streets (and not just because they play in the street!). Fifteen musicians including vocals, percussion, horns, bass, guitars, kitchen sink, with one common goal. It wouldn’t be a Street Fest without Chopteeth batting clean-up. |
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Gazebo Stage |
Jay Summerour and Michael Baytop
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The same bloodlines as Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, old-style acoustic blues and harp. The jug didn’t fall far from the still, right, Jay? |
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Dance Stage |
The Nighthawks
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D.C.'s finest blues-rock band for the last 25 years. The Nighthawks have done a lot of gigs over the years and this is one of them! They'll turn the stage into a backroom brawlin', blastin' barrage of killer blues. |
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