Last month, I went to a public charter school in southeast D.C.

And I walked in through the building and into the back of the library, into this tiny little

music room where there were a bunch of kids getting instruments set up.

That's Enterprise reporter Marissa Lang.

She recently went to some schools around D.C.

to check out their new music programs.

So there were a handful of students.

These are teenagers aging between 14 and 18 years old.

And they were setting up drums and a keyboard, bass guitar. They were getting ready for band practice.

This band is sort of unique, because unlike a lot of public schools,

they weren't setting up to play jazz or classical music.

They were getting ready to play go-go.

Go-go is a type of music signature to D.C.

It's beloved and well-known here, but it's also aging.

The people who started it are getting older.

So are its fans.

But Marissa came across these students

and others like them who are trying to keep GoGo alive.

Recently, as I was talking to some folks

who were very big in the go-go scene in D.C.,

they were telling me about these youth bands,

that there's this new groundswell of young people

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