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Music
Between 1963 and 1975, Washington's music scene gained variety and energy with the advent of rock music and the mainstreaming of black popular music. The first US concert of the Beatles drew enormous media attention, but much more was happening in the city's music venues -- including the debut of Roberta Flack and the creation of Go-Go by Chuck Brown and other musicians in the city's far Southeast.
The jazz scene had a gifted advocate in radio host Felix E. Grant, who drew his programming and interviews from the stream of local and visiting musicians and singers who played at venerable Bohemian Caverns, the new Blues Alley, and other clubs. It was only a matter of time before some of these pop and jazz artists found themselves performing at the Kennedy Center, which opened in 1972, and other bastions of the cultural establishment. |