First Thursdays of every month in Adams Morgan, Bossa Bistro hosts a night of EthioJazz with DC's own Feedel Band. You never know what legend might show up to play so don't miss any of this ongoing residency. Feedel Band are taking Ethiopian music and Jazz, and blending it into a simmering stew of musical genre’s, textures and feeling. They are creating, and in some cases re-creating, the musical language of what has been called EthioJazz. The members of Feedel…

Los Gaiteros de SanGuashington are a Colombian band born in Washington DC to showcase the richness and variety of sounds from Colombian music.

Featuring opening act Miramar. One of the great sensations of the current Puerto Rican salsa scene, Orquesta el Macabeo recovers the island’s salsa tradition to update it with new ideas and the energy of its twelve musicians, with backgrounds in punk rock, ska and reggae.The self-proclaimed rockeros con guille de salseros (rockers posing as a salsa band) deliver a hard-hitting salsa edge. The band is comprised of players that have backgrounds in punk rock, ska, and reggae but for this…

Join the Encantada Trio with Julie Mack for Sunday supper, with sultry and propulsive Brazilian samba rhythms (and a chaser of swinging straight-ahead jazz) on the menu along with dining, drinks and dancing. Singing in Portuguese, French and English, Julie makes this truly "enchanted" music accessible to Brasileiros and all music lovers. Doors 6PM $10

Bossa Roots Sessions Presents: Amadou Kouyate and Nathanial Braddock Nathaniel Braddock is the leader of the internationally touring Occidental Brothers Dance Band Int'l and Trio Mokili, and was a ten-year faculty member of Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music. Braddock has performed extensively with African artists from Mali, Ghana, Zambia, and Congo, and with many American and Australian indie rock bands. His instrumental solo guitar and mandolin sets feature the crossroads of African roots music and American primitive guitar,…

Joe Keyes is equal parts front man, poet and band conductor. The Freehold, NJ, native found his orchestra in late 2009 in The Late Bloomer Band, a concoction of Baltimore-area musicians. The band takes audiences back to the days of Miles Davis and early P-Funk, when big bands were lead by strong forces of individuals. The band’s brand of live improvisation and musical sophistication presents a different experience at every show. While Keyes draws inspiration from musical mentors Gil Scott-Heron,…

DC-based Mosché Band has an edgy, sophisticated sound which skirts around the pocket. They have a real match that weaves together jazz and funk in a rhythmic marriage that dances through your ears. A true fusion! Clear influences in notes are Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, and R. Kelly. While their sound has elemental alignment, Mosché Band aims to take anyone they can off the beaten track and just surprise them, and they succeed. $5

Like an Indian Ocean blast from the seaport megacity it calls home, Sounds of Kolachi, a new 10-piece super group of vocalists and instrumentalists from Karachi, blurs raga and Western harmony, counterpoint and South Asian melodic lines, all without losing the groove. In this instantly listenable ensemble, South Asian classical instruments like the sitar and bowed sarangi are on equal footing with electric guitar and rock rhythm section. Guiding the journey, composer, theorist, and singer Ahsan Bari spins outrageous, bluesy,…

If Salvador Dali ever made a heist movie, then Mexico’s Troker would have been the soundtrack. Their sound careens between the sublime and the dangerous, turning on a dime to switch from precise and complex to wild and free. To do that, the six-piece group has created a blend of the composed and the improvised, where metal riffage merges with powerhouse funk drumming and DJ scratching, and horn lines pull from jazz and the mariachi tradition of the band’s homeland…