Saturday at Tradewinds
Tradewinds Night Club, 5859 Allentown Way, Camp Springs, MD 20748

LA, Tracy, Chanel, Sharon, Ray, Ebony, Renee, Pinky, Sanisse, Shante, Paula, Archie Paige, Cindy, and Kiki were there.

Familiar Faces
First Set
1) Halima-led Sade's Pearls - Dwayne stood by me to listen to the band
2) They started to perform the music to Michael Jackson's I Can't Help It - they stopped and went back to the DJ as they had technical difficulties / Alternating Mike-led Michael Jackson's I Can't Help It / percussion solo
James and Shadonna were there.
3) Donnell-led "___ Is in the house"
Britney was there.
4) Halima-led Faith Evans' Again
Tyrell was there.
5) Toto's Georgy Porgy - instrumental intro / Mike-led Bobby Valentino's Slow Down - James was on backup vocals
6) Donnell-led "Hey ay, Ho oh"
7) Donnell-led "___ Is in the house"
8) Halima-led Faith Evans' Mesmerized - I danced with a woman, Dwayne again played the guitar music to Kool & the Gang’s Funky Stuff, the PA went out, the woman I danced with said of my writing, "F*ck that writing, get with it" / Percussion solo - the crowd shouted, "Wind me up, Smoke", after the PA came back on, they went back to Mesmerized
Tiffany G. and Monique were there.
9) Alternating Donnell-led Tom Tom Club's Genius of Love (tease) – Dwayne continued to play Funky Stuff / Rare Essence's Spotlight (tease)
10) Donnell-led Rick James' Mary Jane (tease)
11) Mike-led Lisa Stansfield's All Around the World (tease)
12) Donnell-led Rare Essence's Overnight Scenario (tease) - a guy had me write, "Happy birthday Wali and Tish"
13) Mike-led Rare Essence's One on One (Footz version) - Donnell pointed out that Renee was Footz' daughter
14) Mike-led Rare Essence's Lock It
L-Boogie, Los, Nikki, Shawn, Nita, Tijuana, Shameika, and "original" Nikki (Nikia) (She introduced herself as that to Archie. I recognized her as a regular at Safari and Tradewinds) were there.

I danced with two women during the break.

Second Set
1) Mike-led Prince's Take Me With You
2) Donnell-led Hold the Note
Peg Leg was there.
3) Mike-led Bobby Valentino's Tell Me - James sang backup
JoJo and Mama Chelle were there.
4) Donnell-led "Do the work, unh, unh unh" - I briefly danced with Kiki, Cindy, and Chanel
5) Donnell-led Trillville's Some Cut - interrupted when a girl in the front puked, DP said, "Clean up on aisle four" / Notorious BIG's Warning / Keith Murray's Call My Name (tease) / "Wait a minute" echoes
Nikiya was there.
6) Halima-led Mariah Carey's It's Like That - interrupted by a fight by people Donnell knows, Donnell said, "That's not what we do here, this is not the Black Hole, we got slow songs for all night, kiss and make up, Ray you're kissing everyone else", I danced with Ebony
7) Donnell & Halima-led Lil Kim's Lighters Up
8) Donnell-led Rare Essence's Marinda (tease)
Donnell said, "Someone step on your shoe, they stepped on your shoe. Someone dancing with your girl, you shouldn't have brought her down here. Tradewinds is a singles bar."
9) Donnell-led Trina Was Great
10) Stomp played samples from Coming to America