Maybe it’s just our perception but for the past few years we’ve had the feeling that Adams Morgan Day, once unquestionably the premier block party of the summer season in DC has seriously fallen off. What used to be a “can’t miss” East Coast event has kind of morphed into an afterthought. In our view much of this is attributable to subtle and some pretty obvious changes made by the organizers to make the event fit their own concept of what a festival in Adams Morgan should look like. Instead of Saturday they opt for Sunday in a football crazed town. Instead of hip hop and rockers they serve a bland menu of acts the milling crowd will barely stand still to hear. The beer trucks are a thing of the past. And now it’s a “dog-friendly” event so anyone who’d like to chill without a random animal being five feet away can disabuse themselves of that idea. When we walked through the event was so lacking in electricity and vibrancy that we were more than ready to skate, until we heard the blessedly familiar opening sounds of GoGo!
The Chuck Brown Band saved the day for us and from what we could tell a sizable number of folks at the event. Thank God for GoGo!