WASHINGTON — This coming Tuesday would have been the “Godfather of Go-Go” Chuck Brown’s 81st birthday. But on Saturday a celebration for the D.C. music icon was taking place at a park that’s named in ...

D.C.-area residents will remember Chuck Brown at the 3rd Annual Chuck Brown Day at Chuck Brown Memorial Park, 20th and Franklin, NE on Aug. 19 from 3 p.m.-7p.m. Join the We Are One Tribute Band, EU ...

Celebrate 50 years of D.C.'s homegrown go-go music at the Lincoln Theatre. Experience the magic of 'Chocolate City' and honor ...

WASHINGTON — Aug. 22 will mark the birthday of Chuck Brown, the D.C. musician widely known as the Godfather of Go-Go music who died four years ago at the age of 75. In a Northeast D.C. park named in ...

The legendary musician and "Godfather of go-go, " Chuck Brown died after suffering from pneumonia.He was 75.Brown, widely acclaimed as the "Godfather of go-go" for his pioneering sound, died Wednesday ...

WASHINGTON — Thousands of go-go music lovers flocked to Fort Dupont Park on Saturday to celebrate the Godfather of Go-Go Chuck Brown. RELATED: Go-go legend Chuck Brown could soon have his name on a ...

In news that will surely rock the Nation’s Capital to the core, the “Godfather of Go-Go” Chuck Brown has died today after battling complications from pneumonia. Chuck Brown’s daughter confirmed the ...

This wasn’t the way Chuck Brown drew up the set list. The Washington music icon was supposed to return to the Howard Theatre — where he'd shined shoes as a kid, then headlined countless go-go concerts ...

2 of 5 — "I wanted my own sound," Brown said. While the rest of the country was discovering hip-hop, Brown was helping to make go-go THE official sound of Washington, D.C. 3 of 5 — "Go-go is not hard ...

Monday will mark four years since the death of Chuck Brown, the guitarist and genre innovator who cultivated D.C.'s own funk sound, go-go, during the 1970s. But the memory of the Godfather of Go-Go ...

WASHINGTON — Saturday is Chuck Brown Day. The annual celebration of the godfather of go-go's birthday is headed online this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. But the go-go music will not be muted.

Music legend and guitarist Chuck Brown is widely known to audiences for his musical emblem on the genre of 'Go-Go' music. Now at age 73, with nearly 20 albums under his belt, Brown still performs the ...