Flashing Lights, One Night with Kelis

Kelis put on a sensational show at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC. The mood was light, and filled with a refreshing sense of upbeat flashing lights, full of neon colors of blue, purple, red and green.

Underground neo-soul artist, Son Little, opened the late night special. The excitement filled the room with anticipation for Kelis to hit the stage and amaze us with her effortless unique style. Son Little lightened the crowd with his witty jokes of his two man band and instruments referencing his Mac computer, Microphone, and Bell. His music was warm and gave a calm mellow feeling to ease the tension of the long wait to see the main attraction. The DJ played old school Hip-Hop and R&B from the late 90’s and early millennium to get the crowd in the zone.

After much ado Kelis hits the stage in her fabulosity wearing an emerald green sweater, high waist silver and green sequenced pants with big hair similar to an 80’s version of Chaka Khan. She opened the set with a rendition of Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good.” Her six man band consisted of drums, saxophone, trumpet, keyboard, electric guitar and tambourine playing tunes of a jazzy dance-electronica. Although it’s been a while since Kelis has musically been in the public eye, her performance was as if she never took a break. Her raspy distinguished voice was not only thrilling but celestial and up lifting. She re-introduced some of her greatest hits from Get Along With You to some of her newer material such as Rumble. Kelis stage presence left a lasting impression for all of us to remember. It was a classic Kelis concert full of color, inspiration, peace and love.

Set List:

Feeling Good (Intro) Nina Simone cover

Breakfast – Food 2014

Millionaire – Tasty 2003

Friday Fish Fry - Food 2014

Forever Be – Food 2014

Lil Star – Kelis Was Here 2006

Jerk Ribs – Food 2014

Rumble – Food 2014

Get Along With You- Kaleidescope 1999

Good Stuff-Kaleidesope 1999

Glow- Tasty 2003

Milkshake- Tasty 2003

Trick Me- Tasty 2003

Runnin’ – Food 2014

4^th of July – Fleshtone 2010

Acapella - Fleshtone-2010

Feeling Good Nina Simone cover

In the words of Miss K

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