Special to the AFRO
The old magic of “Chocolate City” returned on Tuesday, Jan. 6, at the Lincoln Theatre in Washington, D.C. The theatre, located in the U Street corridor known as “Black Broadway,” is where legendary entertainers musicians like Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Armstrong once showcased their musical prowess to the delight of adoring fans.
But this time, the featured performers represented a different and more recent style of music than their predecessors of jazz, soul and the blues. In celebration of five decades of D.C.’s homegrown musical genre, go-go music took centerstage…