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DC’s WorldPride Music Festival lineup announced

By Will Vitka

Music fans, rejoice — the WorldPride Festival is coming to D.C. for the first time this summer. Its lineup was released Wednesday.

Marking the the 50th anniversary of Capital Pride, Jennifer Lopez and Troye Sivan will headline the celebrations at the (slowly being demolished) RFK festival grounds from June 6 to June 7.

Other featured artists include Grimes, Paris Hilton, Rita Ora, RuPaul, Sofi Tukker, Marina, Tinashe and Patrick Mason.

According to the event website, there will be three stages showcasing more then two dozen artists.

Music isn’t the only thing you’ll get a chance to witness: the event website states there will be more than 60 performances.

Those interested in attending, who must be 18 or older, can join the ticket waitlist online. Beware: presale tickets are already sold out.

“Whether you like House, Pop, Drag, Circuit or Techno, we will have a stage for you! Presented by Jake Resnicow’s Dreamland — the same team that brought you the historic WorldPride Event at the Javits Center in New York City in 2019 — with Production by Insomniac Events and Club Glow,” the website states.

WorldPride’s website has more information online.

David Clayton-Thomas, powerhouse lead singer of Blood, Sweat & Tears, dies at 84

By The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — David Clayton-Thomas, the lead singer of Blood, Sweat & Tears, whose husky, high-strung tenor on “Spinning Wheel,” “And When I Die” and other hits helped make the so-called brass rock band among the most popular acts of the late 1960s, has died at age 84. Spokesperson Eric Alper said that Clayton-Thomas died “peacefully” Wednesday at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. Alper did not cite a specific cause. Clayton-Thomas was a onetime street fighter and petty thief from Canada who briefly became a rock superstar, the front man of a nine-member group that sold millions of records and won two Grammys for “Blood, Sweat & Tears,” which beat out the Beatles' “Abbey Road” for best album of 1969. Calling out amid a jazzy parade of horns, keyboards and percussion, Clayton-Thomas’ urgent shout was a signature voice of the era, preaching love on the Motown cover “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy,” a lasting legacy on Laura Nyro’s “And When I Die” and a cool head on his own “Spinning Wheel.” Meanwhile, Blood, Sweat & Tears helped inspire a wave of horn-led bands, among them Chicago, the Electric Flag and Ten Wheel Drive. “A lot of the guys (in Blood, Sweat & Tears) would play a Broadway show matinee, then go up to Harlem and play Latin music or R&B and funk at night, or come down to the Village and play pure jazz the next night,” Clayton-Thomas told bestclassicbands.com in 2023. “I was just a blues player: give me three chords and I’ve got a song.”
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