$20 Cover @ the Door ($15 Advance Tickets) / Start 8pm / Doors 7:30pm / Seated Show

“Lafayette Gilchrist lives in Baltimore but grew up in D.C., knee-deep in the city's go- go music and hip-hop. Go-go dance beats inform his piano the same way freight-train boogie-woogie does. Players like Eubie Blake, James P. Johnson and Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith could keep going for hours without exhausting their folkloric materials. If there's one thing Lafayette Gilchrist loves, it's feeding a groove like that. There's something trance-inducing about dance music in general, and in the textured patterns that Lafayette Gilchrist plays at the keyboard. His two-handed piano also has techno and minimalism behind it. It's not just about the notes; it's also about the waves in which they come, and the troughs in between.” - Kevin Whitehead-NPR Fresh Air

$15 Advance Tickets are Available at mandorlamusic.net