Kenya Allmond (me)

Chaka Khan brought it to the Howard Theatre.  She sounded and looked good.  I was secretly wondering if in a few months my mid section would allow me to rock this dress (but that’s neither here nor there).

  On May 1, 1972, Marvin Gaye made history performing his album What’s Going On at the Kennedy Center. For the 40th anniversary of that legendary concert, John Legend and the NSO Pops echoed Marvin’s performance. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings accompanied. This was an excellent concert!  It not only featured song but also moving [...]

I was fortunate to attend “Steppin’ Out of the Negro Caravan” at Howard University’s Ira Aldridge Theater.  A dramatization of the landmark anthology of African American literature, The Negro Caravan, edited by Howard University professors Sterling A. Brown and Arthur P. Davis and Morgan State University professor Ulysses G. Lee.  Howard University drama students were [...]

The Country Shook and the Children Hollered Outstanding young artists revisit and rework the American conversation as posed by Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Marvin Gaye and more, seizing their own distinctly American tradition.

Baltimore based indie and international recording artist Marc Avon Evans and his acoustic band bring an eclectic blend of city soul to DC. Experience what has made his Baltimore series, Acoustic Thursdays, so popular.