It wouldn't be a Richmond Folk Festival without go-go music. For the unfamiliar, go-go is that heavily percussive, call-and-response, Latin beat house party meets P. Funk sound started in the ...

Go-go — Washington D.C.'s regional twist on funk — reigned in the DMV during the 1980s, and one of the scene's signature acts was Trouble Funk. More than 30 years later, the collective, led by Big ...

While, from a national perspective, one might describe it as an overlooked vernacular musical style, the Washington D.C. area’s unique, homegrown music called go-go RULES in the DMV (DC, Maryland and ...

After D.C. go-go bands such as Trouble Funk failed to achieve the national success widely predicted for them, some observers concluded that the problem was the audience: Go-go just couldn't work ...