Fort Knox Recordings and The Vinyl District are proud to present Memorial Weekend Blowout at U Street Music Hall on May 29th, the Sunday night before Memorial Day.
The Memorial Weekend Blowout artists will be taking over TVD the week before the show, and we’ll be featuring all of them as well as giving away some tix and some wax.
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Get your summer started off right, and blow out that three day weekend with the best DC funk, soul, reggae, and dub beats.
Memorial Weekend Blowout
Sun, May 29, 2011
10:00 pm – 3:00 am
U Street Music Hall
$10.00
Tickets available through Ticketfly
Ages 18+, ages 18-20 must buy tickets in advance
LIVE SETS:
See-I release their self-titled debut album on Fort Knox Recordings on June 28th. The funk and soul reggae collective includes five members of DC phenoms Thievery Corporation, including founding members of See-I, brothers Arthur “Rootz” Steele and Archie “Zeebo” Steele.
Empresarios are “Nu Soul/Funk/Trip-Hop/HOUSE high on sun and soul.” Their new remix album Sabor Tropical Remixed drops later this month via Fort Knox Recordings as two EPs, and a digital album will be released in June.
DJ SETS:
DJ Who is traveling down from Baltimore, where he has a Saturday residency at Mosaic, for some old school rave and breakbeats.
Thunderball, “purveyors of sophisticated, stereophonic-thrillers, and cinematic dub” (and all members of Fort Knox Five), release their new remix album 12 Mile High Remixed on ESL Music in June.
12 Mile High Remixed by Thunderballdc
Empresarios’ DJ Arsam and Sonny Cheeba will also be on the decks.
Burning Up ( Arsam n Hanik Garden of Eden Mix ) by Arsam
CheebaMix2010 by DJ Sonny Cheeba
Guess what? You don’t have to go to work the next day! So come get sweaty with us.
