Go-Go music lovers unite at Bladensburg Waterfront Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, Thursday for a concert focused on stopping gun violence.
Go Go Sugar Bear Concert DC Go Go legend Sugar Bear performs at Bladensburg Waterfront Park Thursday for PG County residents at a free concert to address gun violence and remember victims. (Gigi Barnett/海角社区app)
Gigi Barnett/海角社区app
Go Go Sugar Bear Concert DC Go Go legend Sugar Bear performs at Bladensburg Waterfront Park Thursday for PG County residents at a free concert to address gun violence and remember victims. (Gigi Barnett/海角社区app)
Gigi Barnett/海角社区app
Go Go Sugar Bear Concert DC Go Go legend Sugar Bear performs at Bladensburg Waterfront Park Thursday for PG County residents at a free concert to address gun violence and remember victims. (Gigi Barnett/海角社区app)
Gigi Barnett/海角社区app
Go Go Sugar Bear Concert DC Go Go legend Sugar Bear performs at Bladensburg Waterfront Park Thursday for PG County residents at a free concert to address gun violence and remember victims. (Gigi Barnett/海角社区app)
Gigi Barnett/海角社区app
Go Go Sugar Bear Concert DC Go Go legend Sugar Bear performs at Bladensburg Waterfront Park Thursday for PG County residents at a free concert to address gun violence and remember victims. (Gigi Barnett/海角社区app)
Gigi Barnett/海角社区app
Go Go Sugar Bear Concert DC Go Go legend Sugar Bear performs at Bladensburg Waterfront Park Thursday for PG County residents at a free concert to address gun violence and remember victims. (Gigi Barnett/海角社区app)
Gigi Barnett/海角社区app
Go Go Sugar Bear Concert DC Go Go legend Sugar Bear performs at Bladensburg Waterfront Park Thursday for PG County residents at a free concert to address gun violence and remember victims. (Gigi Barnett/海角社区app)
For a crowd of Go-Go music lovers at Bladensburg Waterfront Park in Prince George’s County, Maryland, on Thursday, the lyrics of D.C. legend Sugar Bear spoke to them.
As a few hundred county residents shimmied to the beat and tapped their feet, the artist lowered the music and turned to the crowd with an unmistakable message: stop the gun violence.
鈥淚f you see something, say something,鈥� said Sugar Bear, the lead vocalist of famed go-go band EU. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 not snitching. That鈥檚 saving lives.鈥�
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Prince George鈥檚 County State鈥檚 Attorney Aisha Braveboy said the musician approached her office with the idea of remembering victims with a concert.
Braveboy quickly jumped at the chance to work with the Go-Go legend. She named the event 鈥淥ur Streets, Our Future鈥� and invited 27 of the county鈥檚 municipalities to offer services for teens and young adults.
鈥淎 lot of people have no hope for a future,鈥� Braveboy said. 鈥淲hen you have no hope, you do things like have guns and resolve conflicts using guns. We need to show our young people the way.鈥�
One gun victim is 8-year-old Peyton 鈥淧.J.鈥� Evans. He was shot and killed in August while he sat in a relative鈥檚 apartment on Brightseat Road in Landover. Last month, detectives arrested three men linked to P.J.鈥檚 murder.
鈥淲e have to show these young adults that there is something better in life than taking someone else鈥檚 life,鈥� said Tiffani Evans, P.J.鈥檚 mother. 鈥淎t the end of the day, how can we say that Black lives matter if we鈥檙e killing each other?鈥�
Gigi Barnett is an anchor at 海角社区app. She has worked in the media for more than 20 years. Before joining 海角社区app, she was an anchor at WJZ-TV in Baltimore, KXAN-TV in Austin, Texas, and a staff reporter at The Miami Herald. She鈥檚 a Navy wife and mom of three.
