DMV Music Alliance "Local Frequency" Showcase featuring: Dumi w/ Marc 2Ray + Night Train 357

Name: DMV Music Alliance "Local Frequency" Showcase featuring: Dumi w/ Marc 2Ray + Night Train 357
Start: 2025-11-12T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 3100 Clarendon Blvd, Arlington, VA, United States, Virginia 22201

Schedule

Wed, 12 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

3100 Clarendon Blvd, Arlington, VA, United States, Virginia 22201 | Arlington, VA

Please join the DMV Music Alliance as they bring"Local Frequency" music showcase to The Renegade.
Doors 7 pm
Showtime 8 pm
21+
This months showcase features:
Dumi Right Dumi is a performing artist, cultural ambassador, and songwriter, who has been recognized as a standard bearer in global Hip Hop for many years. During his career, he has remained immersed in the culture and business of Hip Hop, independently releasing a number of noteworthy album projects, and performing all across the country and on the world stage. His influence has been documented in numerous publications as well as in academic works of hip-hop history, including Say It Loud! The Story of Rap Music by K. Maurice Jones and The Hip Hop Wars by Tricia Rose. Dumi is currently in his third year as an adjunct faculty member, teaching a Hip Hop Ensemble class at George Washington University. He has been invited to speak and perform for classes and panel discussions at universities, festivals, and conferences and in addition, he conducts rap and songwriting workshops. Over the years, he has also served as point person for several events involving music, arts and culture, collaborating and interacting with organizations and artists from a number of countries across the globe.
Marc 2Ray, who hails from the suburbs of Washington, DC, has a vision of how hip-hop can be used as a tool to educate and empower. Building off his background in the educational field (working as a therapist for children on the autism spectrum at The Floortime Center), Marc’s music is used in curricula at multiple schools such as St. Petersburg College, Montgomery College, and more. Marc has opened for Hip Hop icons such as Inspectah Deck and Cappadonna of The Wu-Tang Clan, Scarface, Large Professor, Ra Digga, and Smif-N-Wesun, among others. With an international fanbase, Marc’s music has been covered by publications such as HuffPost, WUSA9, Thrive Global, and many more, along with multiple TV News segments.
Night Train 357 (pronounced “three-five-seven”) is an emcee combining wordplay and subject matter that’s not often touched upon in the Hip-Hop world. For Train, his music is about replay value. His metaphors are designed to ensure you rewind so you don’t miss a line with pop culture references, a wide range of socially conscious and personal topics, and a touch of nerd rap! He’s not trying to be cool. He’s the cure for the common cool. Rapping is one of many ways Train chooses to express himself creatively. He’s a creative in the true sense of the word from visual arts, performance arts, and even martial arts. The name Night Train 357 is a way to pay homage to his late father, the original Night Train 357, a bass guitarist and CB radio enthusiast from the Washington, DC Metro Area. His performances are the epitome of high energy and lyrical prowess influenced by the mainstream and underground music scenes of the mid-to-late 90’s. His drive for perfection in the arts is unmatched coming from a long legacy of creative minds, fuel by hardship, strong values, determination, and enjoyment of the journey over theNo worries about being MIA. I expect that with how my Oct and Nov are looking I may disappear into the ether. Got this show as well as regular class
Night Train 357 has performed with Black Sheep, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, Cappadonna, Slick Rick, Nonchalant, and the late great Biz Markie, as well as working with the best and the brightest in the DMV music community. He was nominated for several Wammies (Washington Area Music Awards), winning Best Rap Album for The Nightlife LP!