While neither born nor raised in D.C., and despite not living here for many years, Ted Leo is always treated like a hometown hero on the city’s stages, from the Black Cat and 9:30 Club to St. Stephen’s Church and Fort Reno.
The singer-songwriter comes by it honestly: Years before he established himself as a punk-rock poet laureate, largely as the creative force behind Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Leo lived in D.C. and fronted Chisel, a key part of the city’s mid-’90s scene.
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