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MARYLAND, June 20, 2019 –Take Me Out to the Go-Go Magazine (TMOTTGoGo), go-go music’s own community-based multi-media platform since 1996, begins the TMOTTGoGo Regional Tour of Go-Go History to highlight important locations in Go-Go culture. The first tour stop is Sandy Spring Museum on Sunday, August 11, 2019.

TMOTTGoGo (pronounced TEE-mott-go-go) is partnering with various museums, libraries, and other sites in Maryland, DC, and Virginia to host a series of events centered on Go-Go’s boundary-breaking community history. Consistent with TMOTTGoGo‘s reputation as the most trusted source of information on Go-Go, the tour serves to present and collect oral histories of Go-Go from each location. In the tradition of live go-go recordings, each interactive presentation is uniquely curated with collective sense of place and community.

Each stop on the tour will be hosted by Kato Hammond, owner and creator of TMOTTGoGo, and Dr. Tahira Mahdi, a longtime TMOTTGoGo staffer who developed a new framework for community psychology based on her dissertation research with the Go-Go community. Guest speakers representing each location provide context, and community members are invited to record their own oral histories for TMOTTGoGo. In addition, the event spaces are decorated with exhibits of TMOTTGoGo articles, audio and artifacts.

Kato Hammond is so significant to Go-Go history that he is quoted in the Musical Crossroads exhibit of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.  In 2015, Hammond released his autobiography, Take Me Out to the Go-Go, praised as “a truly entertaining human experience.”  The book will be discussed as part of DC Public Library’s Go-Go Book Club this July.  In 2017, the GPS audio platform app Detour tapped him for its guided virtual walking tour of Washington DC’s U Street Corridor.

Take Me Out to the Go-Go Magazine houses a digital museum of Go-Go culture at www.tmottgogo.com and a rich archive of go-go and other local music at www.tmottradio.com. TMOTTGoGo Inside the Pocket, a 2018 documentary about the magazine’s impact, is now streaming on Amazon.

Visit www.tmottgogo.com/regionaltour for up-to-date tour stop information. Contact info@tmottgogo.com for interviews and presenter information.

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First Stop:

Advance tickets available