LOREN: The Woodridge and Langdon neighborhood absolutely has ties to Go-Go music.

♪ Everybody walk ♪ Go-Go is live, both figuratively and literally.

It is live performance.

It makes you feel alive.

The recordings are live and it really is the sound of Washington, DC.

Go-Go music really emerged in the 1960s, 70s, along with other forms of Black music, emerging out of gospel, funk, blues.

What makes Go-Go unique is that many of the recordings were done at these live shows, not in studio.

It was still taking you to the live show where they were playing, and I think that that introduces connection and community.

Go-Go music was not just played in clubs.

It was played at parties, at rallies, at festivals.

And so, people were able to listen to experience the genre in various different places and it really represented, um, a sense of pride for Washingtonians.

Woodridge is home.

It-it is my community and it-it's family.

INTERVIEWER: How might your family members have seen Go-Go performances in this neighborhood?

LOREN: Going to the Metro Breeze club.

(laughs) HOLLYWOOD BREEZE: There's nowhere in the city that don't nobody know about the Metro Club, nowhere.

Metro Club, Deno's, Club Rio was open 33 years under different names, but with the same boss.

INTERVIEWER: And who was that boss?

HOLLYWOOD BREEZE: That was me.

Breeze's Metro Club was in the middle of Bladensburg Road, right in front of the bus barn.

When I first opened was in 1976.

We had three nights of the week that we had Go-Go bands.

Everybody wanted to play at the Met.

That was the-the premiere place for to be playing.

Everything about Go-Go music is high energy.

Once you get that music and it start thumping you here.

You understand me?

Then you got to move.

If you get that Go-Go feeling, you got to go.

You know?

We had a number of records that were recorded at my club "Rare Essence, Live at the Metro Club," the real popular LP that was sold all over the country.

That was a good night in there.

♪ Right now ♪ It's another club in where my club used to be.

It's called Power now.

They play Go-Go music there.

There's a younger generation that's trying to keep it going.

♪ PERFORMER: Hey, how y'all felling?

♪ ♪ Uh-huh.

♪ ♪ Hold up.

♪ LIL CHRIS: The name of my band is Takeover Band.

I think it's cool to be one of the youngest to, like, play at some of the most historical spots.

To play at places like Power, now, which used to be Breeze's Metro Club, it's like Go-Go history.

Chuck Brown always played at Langdon Park.

♪ BROWN: Shake your tambourine and ♪ ♪ Go get yourself a whistle and blow!

♪ LIL CHRIS: The city honored Chuck Brown when they made a memorial for him with his picture down there, and it's right across the street from Langdon Park Recreation Center.

It's called Chuck Brown Memorial Park now.

♪ BROWN: Talking to the people ♪ ♪ In the breeze overseas, just blow!

♪ LIL CHRIS: I think it's super-duper cool that we-we got a chance to honor the Godfather of Go-Go when they chose to put it in Ward 5, in the Woodridge area.