South Beach, 7904 Woodmont Ave, Bethesda, MD 20810
I saw this performance listed on Kanika's and Patrice Bowie's myspace pages. It was later at night than their weekly performances were.
It got progressively crowded - so much so that by the time I realized I should get my tab, the bar was three deep in people. The upstairs was completely full.
Deuce Juan, the DJ for the evening, came over and said hello.
Patrice's brother Vernon "V" was there.
Googie worked the PA.
Kamilla, who was at the Phish Tea Cafe last Wednesday, was celebrating her birthday.
Here she is with her sister behind her.
Alison had a new hairdo (too bad, I really liked the previous one).
Patrice Bowie Project
Patrice and Allison with the band in the background
Little Benny, Patrice, Allison
Kanika
Allison
All pictures courtesy - Mike
The complete lineup was: Patrice Bowie (lead singer), Kanika & Allison (backup singers), Dennis (bass), Dawoud (keyboard), Ricky Wellman (drums), Kevin (drum machine, congas, and timbales), Little Benny (vocals and trumpet).
1) Instrumental
2) Instrumental
Pooh was there.
3) Patrice-led Fingalickin
4) Patrice-led Alicia Keys' Unbreakable
5) Patrice-led Heather Headley's In My Mind
6) Patrice-led Butterflies
7) Patrice-led Robin Thicke's Lost Without U - Patrice walked around and held her mic to audience members / Patrice sang "Happy birthday Kamilla, Go Kamilla"
8) Patrice-led Mary J. Blige's Take Me As I Am
9) Alternating Yung Joc's It's Going Down (instrumental tease) / Little Benny-led "It's your birthday" / "Y'all feel alright?" - Kevin played the congas / Jay-Z's Show Me What You Got (lyrics only, same music) / "Throw your hands up" / Lil Wayne's Stuntin' Like My Daddy (tease) - Kevin played the congas, it cranked / "Hey ay, Ho oh" / "Hey aye aye aye" / "Ho ho ho ho"
10) Little Benny-led Rare Essence's Lock It - the crowd got really excited, it cranked / Sam Cooke's Chain Gang (tease)
11) Patrice-led Lil Kim's Lighters Up - it cranked / "Where y'all from?"
12) Patrice-led Shareefa's Need a Boss - Patrice walked around in the crowd, it cranked
13) Patrice-led Close to Me "You make me say your name" - it cranked / Little Benny-led "Somewhere" / "Go Shorty, it's your birthday" - it cranked / DJ Unk's Walk It Out (tease)
14) Little Benny-led Cat in the Hat / Yung Joc's It's Going Down
15) Little Benny-led Chuck Brown's (Louis Jordan's) Run Joe (tease) / Rare Essence's "Going to Hollywood"
16) Patrice-led Beyonce's Ring the Alarm
17) Patrice-led "Ready to go home?"
18) Patrice-led Happy Birthday / Justin Timberlake's Sexy Back (tease)
19) Patrice-led Beyonce's Deja Vu - Little Benny played the trumpet, Little Benny rapped and held his mic to fans / Outtro
20) Patrice acapella at first Kelis' Bossy / V rapped - there was mic distortion / Little Benny "I need two turns on the microphone" / Outtro
I had danced with Dana (whom I met tonight) celebrating her birthday.
Patrice announced her album was being released on February 7th.
The evening's MC (who had earlier announced the party was lasting until 1:30 with Gary Clark's permission) had a special guest, Tabi Bonney. Tabi Bonney performed The Pocket over a track (but first he had to work out microphone problems) and Dana sat in.
Dana sitting on while Tabi Bonney holds the mic
I left after that, saying good bye to Dana on my way out.
