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EU Band

About EU Sugar Bear
Gregory “Sugar Bear” Elliott is a Washington DC legend, go-go pioneer and founding member of the Washington DC go-go band E.U. (Experience Unlimited). The band chose the name Experience due to their respect for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and Unlimited because they did not want to limit the range of their music.

Keke Wyatt

Ke'Tara Shavon "Keke" Wyatt is an American singer-songwriter and television personality. After performing in a number of girl bands and working as a songwriter during her teenage years, in 2000 she garnered national attention after her successful collaboration with fellow R&B singer Avant, In 2001 her rendition of "Nothing in This World" led to a nomination for the Best New R&B/Soul/Rap Artist award at the Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards. After a number of charting collaborations and solo releases, in 2012 she starred as a cast member in TV One's R&B Divas: Atlanta, which featured the lives of five 1990s chart-topping R&B singers. She was featured in all 3 seasons of the show. She also performed with the group at events such as Essence Music Festival.
In her career, Wyatt released official studio albums, including Soul Sista, Who Knew?, Unbelievable, and her latest and recent release, Rated Love. All of these albums charted prominently on Billboard, as did her first and only EP release, Ke'Ke'. Wyatt has also released a number of charting singles, with the lead single "Sexy Song" from the album Rated Love peaking at number 29 on the Adult R&B Songs chart.

From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keke_Wyatt) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)

Sunshine Anderson

Artist, Author, Speaker, Networker .. I AM the business, man!

Yo-Yo

Yolanda Whitaker, also known as Yo-Yo is an American rapper and actress.
Much of Yo-Yo's music advocates female empowerment. She is the protégé of gangsta rapper Ice Cube. Yo-Yo has dubbed her crew the IBWC, Intelligent Black Woman's Coalition.

From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo-Yo_(rapper)) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)

NEXT is an American R&B musical trio, popular during the late 1990s and early 2000s. They are best known for their Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit single "Too Close". They are also known for "Wifey", "Butta Love" and "I Still Love You", all of which still receive frequent airplay on Urban Adult Contemporary radio stations in the U.S. and internationally.

From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_(American_group)) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)

Lyfe Jennings

Chester Jermaine "Lyfe" Jennings is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and instrumentalist. He plays the guitar, bass, and piano which he integrates into his music. The New York Times referred to him as a "socially minded R&B singer". Wikipedia

Jon B.

Grammy nominated Jon B is a consummate artist, an accomplished musician and noted songwriter and producer with several gold and platinum records under his belt. His beginning was seasoned by the early influences of Duran Duran, INXS, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Babyface, Prince and Sade. He spent the summer after high school writing, producing and recording 40 incredible songs and began making his rounds to all major record labels.

GapX Band

GAPX - THE BAND is bringing back the Funk!

GAPX - THE BAND is the funky, rocking, dancing, soulful, gospel, and country inspired mega band brought to life by the original players of the legendary group, The Gap Band. The music flows through their veins – united on the stage again – to bring back the funk via the original and unique sound that fans have always known and loved.

This is not a tribute band – it is the core players who wrote, recorded, and toured the World originally as The Gap Band. The amazing hits such as “Outstanding”, “Yearning For Your Love”, “All of My Love”, “Burn Rubber On Me”, “You Dropped a Bomb On Me”, and “Early In The Morning” – are all performed live, loud, and with a lot of love.

Yung Joc

Jasiel Amon Robinson, better known by his stage name Yung Joc, is an American rapper. He is best known for his 2006 hit single "It's Goin' Down", and as a feature on T-Pain's 2007 U.S. number-one single "Buy U a Drank".

From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yung_Joc) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)

Chrystal Rucker

Chrystal Rucker Biography by Marcy Donelson
Moses Tyson, Jr.: World Class Gospel Music Jubilee
Chrystal Rucker is a gospel soprano known to fans for her dynamic covers of "Over the Rainbow" and Walter Hawkins' "Changed." The daughter of a bishop in the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), the Kansas City, Missouri native started singing in church as a toddler. She went on to study music and English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Motherhood compelled the vocalist to pursue a reliable income, so she found office work while still singing on weekends. Eventually, Rucker found demand as a guest performer on gospel albums by artists including Edwin Hawkins, Myron Williams, and Jerome Greene. Continued guest spots, along with increased exposure provided by Dorinda Clark-Cole (the Clark Sisters) within COGIC, led to more live performance opportunities and a livelihood as a professional musician. In 2007, a series of strokes nearly ended Rucker's life, much less her career aspirations, but she returned to the stage as soon as her recovery would allow, and self-released an eponymous album in 2009. She continued to appear on other musicians' recordings, including 2011's Moses Tyson, Jr.: World Class Gospel Music Jubilee and Keep Living by Ricky Dillard. When Earnest Pugh started his own record label in 2012, he remembered Rucker from her performance at the funeral of Grammy-winning choir director O'Landa Draper and got her in the studio. EPM Music Group released her label debut, You Deserve, that summer. The title track landed on the Billboard Hot Gospel Songs chart, and the album reached the gospel Top Ten.

Justin Young

Songwriter/Producer/Film Composer/Multi-Instrumentalist/ Saxophonist in Las Vegas, NV

THURSDAY NIGHT Line-up
GO-GO NIGHT

EU Band

FRIday Line-up
LADIES NIGHT

KEKE
WYATT

SUNSHINE
ANDERSON

YO-YO

sATURday Line-up

LYFE
JENNINGS

JON B.

Justin Young

Friday, Aug. 4 & Saturday, Aug. 5 - 12 Noon each day.

sunday Line-up

Chrystal Rucker

GAP X
THE BAND

RAPPER
YUNG JOC

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THURSDAY NIGHT Line-up GO-GO NIGHT

EU Band

FRIday Line-up LADIES NIGHT

KEKE WYATT

SUNSHINE ANDERSON

YO-YO

sATURday Line-up

NEXT

LYFE JENNINGS

JON B.

Justin Young

sunday Line-up

Chrystal Rucker

GAP X THE BAND

RAPPER YUNG JOC

THURSDAY NIGHT Line-up
GO-GO NIGHT

FRIday Line-up
LADIES NIGHT

KEKE
WYATT

SUNSHINE
ANDERSON

LYFE
JENNINGS

GAP X
THE BAND

RAPPER
YUNG JOC