Orishas are incredible, Howard Theatre is not
by DCVMA on 8/30/16Howard Theatre - WashingtonOrishas were a fabulous show. Beautiful voices, beautiful instruments, great songs. I think the lack of new music from the band in recent years, and the length that they have been so famous made the show lack a little energy. But honestly I think that is also largely because it was in DC which is a notoriously low energy music crowd. The experience at Howard Theatre was extremely disappointing though. I have been to two large scale events at the venue before, interactive performances, not concerts. Those experiences were both wonderful. However at the concert for some reason the lights were on the entire time which made for an uncomfortable and very unconcerty vibe. And the second the band was over all the overhead lights everywhere went on, all music was shut off, and bouncers came out to push everyone out immediately for another show coming up. I honestly would seriously rethink going to another concert at Orishas.