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Numerous LATE ADDITIONS (there are many...)
Latest updates: SATURDAY, June 29, at 8:30 am.
Music -- festivals, concerts, etc -- and other EVENTS, including film, storytelling, art gallery openings and exhibitions, plus workshops, seminars, and MORE -- are updated (and get continuous additions) in this edition.
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The Guide's special feature for the 75th anniversary of D-Day and its meaning in our world today) has been read by many thousands of people in over 30 countries (so far); it is still available, at:
https://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2019/06/d-day-in-perspective-75-years-hence-for.html
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In this Edition...
☆ The Southern California summer MUSIC SCENE is in full bloom, plus film events, arts, musical theatre, and more that's happening out 'n about:
◇ ONGOING EVENTS in the first section
◇ DAY-BY-DAY EVENTS thereafter, listed by date & start time (festivals first)
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♡ ONGOING EVENTS...
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...some ending soon, some impending.
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ONGOING, through June 30:
“OPEN VIEW” exhibition at Artlife Gallery, 720C S Allied Way, Plaza El Segundo, El Segundo CA
* This show is devoted to the international group of artists represented at this gallery, and it’s in many styles and mediums.
* Exhibition opens with a 6 pm reception on Jun 22 (See listing) and runs through June 30.
* Info on gallery hours, etc, at 310-938-2511 or email artlifesouthbay@gmail.com
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CHANGING ENTIRELY -- VOTING & ELECTIONS IN CALIFORNIA. A series of FREE community meeting/seminars, presented by the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, www.lavote.net, are being presented throughout the county.
* Anyone who anticipates taking part in a political campaign in the 2020 election cycle NEEDS to understand all that's changing, because the voters you meet will ask and EXPECT you to know.
* Click for a pdf download of the COMPLETE LIST & LOCATIONS of free sessions.
* Learn more on the future voting experience at: https://vsap.lavote.net/
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3 & 5 pm "SUNDAY AFTERNOON CONCERTS AT MT. WILSON OBSERVATORY" first Sundays each month, inside the iconic vaulted dome of the 100-inch Hooker telescope, reachable by paved road, on the summit of Mount Wilson above Pasadena, CA, at an altitude of 5715 feet.
* A wide range of musical adventures, selected by Artistic Director Cécilia Tsan, are presented in this acoustically remarkable venue during the six-month run.
* Series opened May 5 with a Hot Club de France-inspired tribute to guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stéphane Grappelli, with hot gypsy jazz performed by violinist Ben Powell and guitarist Roch Lockyer with Brian Netzley on bass.
* Concert-goers can view an exhibition of rare scientific artifacts, drawings, and illustrations from the Observatory’s collection.
* All proceeds from the concerts support the Mt. Wilson Institute in its mission to preserve, protect, and promote the Observatory and the science accomplished there.
* Access to the dome performances is via a 53-step staircase. There is no ADA-compliant access.
* Two performances: 3 pm and 5 pm, includes a reception with the musicians at 4 pm.
* Seating inside the historic dome is limited.
* Tix, $50 for each show, advance purchase required.
* Tix & info on the series at https://www.mtwilson.edu/concerts
* See the addt'l NECESSARY INFO for going to Mt. Wilson -- whether or not you are attending the concerts -- in our listing for the "MT. WILSON OBSERVATORY GUIDED TOURS."
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11:30 am & 1 pm - "MT. WILSON OBSERVATORY GUIDED TOURS" are two-hour guided tours Sat & Sun, Mar 30-Nov 29, of the famous astronomical observatory on the summit of Mount Wilson above Pasadena, CA, reachable by paved road, at an altitude of 5715 feet.
* Ticket purchase required for TOURS. Included are admission to the telescope floor directly beneath the 100-inch telescope; the 60-inch telescope dome; and the 150-ft-high solar telescope tower (unless the solar astronomer is unavailable).
* FREE OF CHARGE, visitors can view the historic Hooker 100-inch telescope through the glass from the Visitors’ Gallery inside the dome, go in the small Astronomical Museum on the observatory grounds, sed the CHARA Interferometry Exhibit, and enjoy great hiking.
* The grounds of the legendary observatory, founded in 1904 by astrophysical pioneer George Ellery Hale, are open free to the public year-round; info in link at bottom.
* DOWNLOAD the printable tour brochure pdf at: https://www.mtwilson.edu/old/vis/selfguide.pdf
* PARKING COSTS: A U.S. Forest Service "Adventure Pass" applies to the entire Angeles Nat'l Forest; it's $5 a day or $30 a year; the one-day version is available on-site at the Cosmic Cafe.
* Cosmic Café sandwich shop above the main parking lot has fresh-made sandwiches, other treats, souvenirs, free Wi-Fi, and parking passes; open only on Saturdays and Sundays.
* You can also see just how close the Station Fire came to consuming the observatory -- literally within ten feet.
* Warning: Some features on newer vehicles may not work properly due to the high radio frequency interference near the broadcast towers. Common problems include non-functioning locks, alarms, and keyless ignitions. The observatory staff says, "Consult your owner’s manual for an override procedure before you have a problem."
* Also see the Guide's listing for the ongoing events listing for the "SUNDAY AFTERNOON CONCERTS AT MT. WILSON OBSERVATORY."
* Tour tix are $15 adults, $13 ages 12 and under & 62 and older; children under age 6 are not permitted. Tours involve about a mile of walking and climbing some stairs.
* Tour tickets are available for same-day purchase at the Cosmic Café, and rarely sell out. Or buy in advance online.
* TIX and full info for the guided tours, at: https://www.mtwilson.edu/visiting/
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ONGOING, FREE: Jun 18-Aug 24:
11 am-5 pm - “GENERATION W(AR): INVESTIGATING THE MECHANISMS BEHIND THE MILITARIZATION OF SOCIETY” at the Torrance Art Museum, 3320 Civic Center Dr, Torrance, CA 90503
* Runs regular gallery hours: Tue-Sat, 11 am-5 pm, Jun 18-Aug 24. Closed Sun, Mon, and all major holidays.
* Features 16 artists reflecting on increased military engagement across the globe.
* Opens June 15 with an evening reception, 6 pm-9 pm; see listing.
* "GENERATION W(ar)" explores the intersections between art and warfare, between artists who focus their art practice toward political expression and criticisms of the institutionalization of war into the fabric of society.
* The 16 featured artists are Shusuke Ao, Josh Azzarella, Vanessa Beecroft, Dan Van Clapp, Melanie Friend, Shaun Gladwell, Ben Jackel, Jerome Lagarrigue, Dinh Q Lê, Hillary Mushkin, Simon Norfolk, Isabel Rocamora, Kim Rugg, Joaquín Segura, Allison Stewart, Yoram Wolberger, and there is a continuous screening of the film, "Body of War" by Harun Farocki.
* 21-year olds have never lived during a time when the US was not at war. How and where can we see this reflected in the art works of our time? Where does patriotism end and nationalism begin? How much militarism in a democracy is too much?
* The artists of "Generation W(ar)" investigate the mechanisms behind the militarization of society, the embedding of the warrior culture, the invisibility of things in plain sight, and the daily relationship to war that underlies the culture at large.
* Curated by Ichiro Irie and Max Presneill.
* Info: 310-618-6388 or www.TorranceArtMuseum.com
* FREE admission.
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ONGOING, through Jun 30:
"HAPPY DAYS," by SAMUEL BECKETT, onstage at the L.A. Music Center's Mark Taper Forum, 135 N Grand Av, downtown Los Angeles CA
* Extensive good review at: https://easyreadernews.com/happy-days-samuel-becketts-trouble-in-paradise-at-the-taper/
* Performances run Tue-Friday at 8 pm, Sat at 2:30 pm & 8 pm, and Sunday at 1 pm & 6:30 pm. Exceptions, no 1 pm performances on Sun, Jun 2 & 23; no 8 pm performance on Sat, Jun 8; and no 2:30 pm performance on Sat, Jun 15. Closes with the 1 pm performance on Sun, Jun 30.
* TIX, $115 to $32, at 213-628-2772 or www.CenterTheatreGroup.org
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ONGOING, Jun 14-30:
New Stuff Productions presents Theresa Rebeck’s “SEMINAR” at the Second Story Theater, 710 Pier Av, Hermosa Beach CA
* The play was staged at the Ahmanson with Jeff Goldblum a few seasons back. It centers on four young would-be writers and their self-important professor. Jack Messenger directs.
* Runs through Jun 30: Fri & Sat at 8 pm, plus Sat & Sun 2 pm matinees.
* Tix, $30, at 310-710-7035 or www.newstuffproductions.com
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ONGOING, Jun 13-Aug 17, FREE LIVE THEATRE:
"SHAKESPEARE BY THE SEA," bringing free productions of the Bard to several Southern California communities, begins its 22nd season on June 13 with a thtee-night opening of “THE COMEDY OF ERRORS” at Point Fermin Park, on the stage near the lighthouse, at 807 W Paseo Del Mar, San Pedro, CA 90731
* They are doing 42 performances in 23 locations this year.
* This season brings two Shakespeare plays -- “The Comedy of Errors” and "Henry V" -- in repertory, through Aug 17.
* Season calendar; all June productions at 8 pm; most nights in July and Aug at 7 pm, with a few at 8 pm:
♤ “THE COMEDY OF ERRORS” dir. by James Rice, is at at Pt. Fermin on: Jun 27 & 29 at 7 pm, and Jul 5 at 8 pm, and returns Aug 17, 8 pm, for the season's grand finale at Pt. Fermin.
• ALSO RUNS:
• Jul 7, at Civic Center, 30940 Hawthorne Bl, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
• Jul 11, 7 pm, at Valley Park, Valley & Gould, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
• Jul 12, 7 pm, at Monte Verde Park, 4626 Shadeway Rd, Lakewood, CA 90714
• Jul 14, 7 pm, at Rush Park, 3021 Blume Dr, Rossmoor, CA 90720
• Jul 17, 7 pm, at the Venice Beach Boardwalk, 1800 Ocean Front Walk, Venice, CA 90291
• Jul 21, 7 pm, at Cesar Chavez Park, 1401 Golden Av, Long Beach, CA 90802
• Jul 24, 7 pm, at Roxbury Park, 471 Roxbury Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210
• Jul 25, 7 pm, at Birch Park, 210 N Birch St, Santa Ana, CA 92701
• Jul 27, 7 pm, at Wilson Park, 2200 Crenshaw Blvd, Torrance, CA 90501
• Jul 28, 7 pm, at Terranea Resort, 100 Terranea Wy, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275
• Aug 1, 7 pm, at Garfield Park, 1000 Park Av, South Pasadena, CA 91030
• Aug 4, 7 pm, at Eisenhower Park, The Pier, Main & Ocean Av, Seal Beach, CA 90740
• Aug 7, 7 pm, at Soka University, 1 University Dr, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656
• Aug 8, 7 pm, at Virginia Avenue Park, 2200 Virginia Av, Santa Monica, CA 90404
• Aug 10, 7 pm, at Polliwog Park, 1601 Manhattan Beach Bl, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
• Aug 14, 7 pm, at La Mirada Community Regional Park, 13701 Adelfa Dr, La Mirada, CA 90638
• Aug 15, 7 pm, at Don Knabe Community Regional Park, 19700 Bloomfield Av, Cerritos, CA 90703
♧ "HENRY V" dir. by Stephanie Coltrin, is at at Pt. Fermin on Jun 20-22 & 28 at 7 pm, and Jul 6 at 8 pm; it returns to this, the home venue, Aug 16, 8 pm, for the grand finale.
• ALSO RUNS at all these venues:
• Jul 10, 7 pm, at Valley Park, Valley & Gould, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
• Jul 13, 7 pm, at Rush Park, 3021 Blume Dr, Rossmoor, CA 90720
• Jul 18, 7 pm, at Schabarum Park, 17250 Colima Rd, Hacienda Heights, CA 91745
• Jul 19, 7 pm, at Norman P. Murray Community and Senior Center, 24932 Veterans Way, Mission Viejo, CA 92692
• Jul 20, 7 pm, at Cesar Chavez Park, 1401 Golden Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802
• Jul 26, 7 pm, at Wilson Park, 2200 Crenshaw Blvd, Torrance, CA 90501
• Jul 31, 7 pm, at Garfield Park, 1000 Park Ave, South Pasadena, CA 91030
• Aug 2, 7 pm, at Adventure Park, 10130 Gunn Ave, Whittier, CA 90605
• Aug 3, 7 pm, at Los Encinos State Historic Park, 16756 Moorpark St, Encino, CA 91436
• Aug 9, 7 pm, at Polliwog Park, 1601 Manhattan Beach Bl, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
• Aug 11, 7 pm, at Pan Pacific Park, 7600 Beverly Bl, Los Angeles, CA 90036
* FREE to attend at all the venues; donations accepted.
* Info: 310-217-7596 or www.shakespearebythesea.org
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ART SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED through Aug 15...
The 8th annual “CA 101 2019” art event takes place from Oct 4 to 13 on Fisherman’s Wharf in Redondo Beach CA.
* Organizers are now accepting submissions, through August 15, in most mediums (check for each specific medium).
* Inquiries to Sandra Liljenwall, exhibition director, at 310-617-2840 or email sandra@ca101artexhibit.com
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ONGOING, through Sep 30:
L.A. RIVER KAYAKING, NATURAL SECTIONS, RE-OPEN FOR 2019 SEASON. It isn't all an ugly concrete ditch. There are stretches that are wild, where the Army Corps of Engineers found it had "no bottom," and so they couldn't concrete and entomb the river. Those stretches are loaded with wildlife, and in recent years, the best outdoor adventure anywhere below the high San Gabriel Mountains.
L.A. RIVER KAYAKING, NATURAL SECTIONS, RE-OPEN FOR 2019 SEASON. It isn't all an ugly concrete ditch. There are stretches that are wild, where the Army Corps of Engineers found it had "no bottom," and so they couldn't concrete and entomb the river. Those stretches are loaded with wildlife, and in recent years, the best outdoor adventure anywhere below the high San Gabriel Mountains.
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* You can go sit on the bank with your guitar, write songs, or just enjoy the bird songs.
* The more adventurous are offered guided experiences or can just "put in" with their own or a rented kayak.
* There ARE rules, starting with going in only at marked entry points; it's illegal and unsafe to just go in anywhere; the current in the concrete inner ditch is deceptively fast and frequently drowns those dumb enough to get in it.
* From Memorial Day through Sep 30, bookings for guided tours are available. Currently, reservations for those guided experiences are being taken through the first week of June, with more dates, through the summer, opening up soon. (Link below.)
* The two major areas of entry for natural surroundings / river adventure can be found at the Sepulveda Basin River and Elysian Valley. See the downloadable simplified maps of each (addresses online) and be sure to download the rules and cautions.
* Get all the info, rules, etc, at:http://lariverrecreation.org/2017/05/19/about-the-los-angeles-river-recreation-zone/
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ONGOING, FREE SUMMER CONCERT SERIES:
2 pm-4 pm - "CONCERTS AT METLOX" is a Free live music series on SUNDAYS, May 26-Sun, Sep 1, at Metlox, 451 Manhattan Beach Bl, Manhattan Beach CA
* Bring a blanket or chair.
* Metered parking in the Metlox structure.
* Band line-up for the season, at: www.metloxmb.com/events/
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* Bring a blanket or chair.
* Metered parking in the Metlox structure.
* Band line-up for the season, at: www.metloxmb.com/events/
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7:30 pm-10 pm start times; vary by sunset - "FREE FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT" returns May 24 for the summer, on the Boardwalk at Redondo Beach Pier (below Kincaid’s), 500 Fisherman’s Wharf, Redondo Beach CA
* Bring a low-back beach chair or blanket.
* Screening starts at dusk so actual times vary.
* Up-to-date movie schedule at: www.redondopier.com
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* Bring a low-back beach chair or blanket.
* Screening starts at dusk so actual times vary.
* Up-to-date movie schedule at: www.redondopier.com
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MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART -- MOCA -- Admission is now FREE. On May 18, the downtown Los Angeles art museum, atop Bunker Hill and a short walk from the Music Center, announced complimentary tickets for all visitors, thanks to a $10 million donation. The funding is reported to be enough to enable no-fee entry for the next five years. BUT CHECK WITH THE VENUE TO BE SURE THE NEW NO-FEE ADMISSON HAS STARTED.
"We're so excited to add MOCA to the list as a museum that's *always* free, no matter the day! This is a massive opportunity for Southern California locals and tourists alike to discover everything the L.A. art scene has to offer," said a MOCA spokesperson.
Want to visit more Los Angeles-area art institutions and museums for no charge? Head to the DoLA site to check out the designated days you can do that, at: https://dola.com/p/los-angeles-free-museum-days
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ONGOING, opened May 15, 2019:
MUSEUM OF DREAM SPACE (MODS) grand opening was May 15, 2019.
* Advance tix at a 25% discount are available now.
* MODS is the first museum in the US that's focused on exhibiting digital art.
* The design concept of MODS is illuminated by art design from Yayoi Kusama (famous for "infinite rooms") and the global development of digital art.
* The aim of MODS is to provide an immersive, magical and unique art experience to visitors.
* DISCOUNT TIX at: https://modsla.com/
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ONGOING, month of June...
"ASSOCIATED ARTISTS GALLERY EXHIBITION" in the gallery/artists studios at 1815 W 215th St, Torrance CA.
* 50 paintings by 30 Associate Artists affiliated with "Destination: Art" are displayed for the entire month of June.
* June 1 is the exclusive reception from 5 to 7 pm, with awards; see that listing.
* Info, 310-742-3192 or www.destination-art.net
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ONGOING, opened May 25:
10 am-5:45 pm - SEASIDE LAGOON reopens May 25 in Hermosa Beach, open daily for the summer through Mon, Sep 2. Swim in the protected saltwater lagoon. A children’s play area, snack bar, barbeque pits and tables for parties are available. Info, 310-318-0681.
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Art exhibition: "COYOTE LEAVES THE RES: THE ART OF HARRY FONSECA" at the Autry Museum of the American West, across from the L.A. Zoo in Griffith Park, at 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027
* Featuring paintings, sketches, and lithographs, this exhibition focuses on the recurring figure of Coyote, a trickster, shape shifter, and storyteller capable of moving undetected between different worlds.
* Fonseca was an instrumental force in reshaping Native art with his trademark blend of traditional imagery, contemporary experience, and vibrant color and form. As he used his art to explore both his personal journey and the role of history in shaping Native consciousness in the present, Fonseca sought to expand definitions of American Indian art and to shatter the expectations and stereotypes that had long confined it.
* As both a gay man and a person of mixed heritage, Fonseca used his work as a vehicle for self-discovery a means of navigating different aspects of his life and identity during a time when ideas about Native peoples were often driven by outside forces, including commercial markets, tourism, and historical clichés.
* RUNS May 19, 2019–January 5, 2020 in the Autry's George Montgomery Gallery.
* Opens daily at 10 am. Closes Tue-Fri at 4 pm, Sat & Sun at 5 pm.
* TIX: included with regular museum admission.
* More: https://theautry.org/exhibitions/coyote-leaves-res-art-harry-fonseca
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ONGOING, Sundays:
10 am-2 pm - THE GENTLE BARN welcomes visitors, and makes a great Earth Day or Easter destination, at 15825 Sierra Hwy, Santa Clarita, CA 91390; www.gentlebarn.org/california/
* Go hug the cows, give the pigs tummy rubs, cuddle the turkeys, and enjoy a beautiful day at the Gentle Barn.
* To ensure that the smaller animals in the upper barnyard don't feel stressed or overcrowded, groups are allowed to go into the upper barnyard after a presentation.
* Out of respect for the animals, do not bring any dairy, egg, meat, poultry, or seafood onto the property.
* This is an outdoor farm environment; it's recommended all guests wear long pants, closed-toe shoes, a hat, and plenty of sunscreen. Be sure to bring plenty of water for your group.
* TIX (Donation) adults $22, kids $12. Website above.
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* Go hug the cows, give the pigs tummy rubs, cuddle the turkeys, and enjoy a beautiful day at the Gentle Barn.
* To ensure that the smaller animals in the upper barnyard don't feel stressed or overcrowded, groups are allowed to go into the upper barnyard after a presentation.
* Out of respect for the animals, do not bring any dairy, egg, meat, poultry, or seafood onto the property.
* This is an outdoor farm environment; it's recommended all guests wear long pants, closed-toe shoes, a hat, and plenty of sunscreen. Be sure to bring plenty of water for your group.
* TIX (Donation) adults $22, kids $12. Website above.
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☆ DATE-SPECIFIC EVENTS...
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...festivals to concerts to club gigs to film screenings and more. If folky-Americana-ish / acoustic renaissance / film-video-sound-lovers and other creative types are apt to like it, then it's in here. Along with plenty of opportunities to broaden one's horizons...
FESTIVALS appear first in each day's listings, then all the other events happening that day are chronological, by start time. Note that SUNDAY listings do not re-list festivals that started on Saturday (or earlier), AND, you should always remember to take a gander at the "Ongoing Events" section, to get the complete picture of all that's happening.
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Sat, Jun 15; Thu-Sun, Jun 13-16, FESTIVAL:
Sat, Jun 15; Thu-Sun, Jun 13-16, FREE FESTIVAL:
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Sat, Jun 15, FESTIVAL:
11 am - Annual "SAM HINTON FOLK FESTIVAL" presented by San Diego Folk Heritage at Templars Hall in Old Poway Park, 14134 Midland Rd, Poway, CA 92064; 858-566-4040
* This is a long-running one-day festival with plenty of fans who go every year.
* Featured music acts:
⊙ Gregory Gross and friends
⊙ Trails and Rails
⊙ Calamity
⊙ Travis Oliver
⊙ Enter the Blue Sky
⊙ Baja Blues Boys
* Storytelling in the Porter House, with:
◇ Bugs!
◇ Liars and Thieves
◇ All the Pretty Horses
* Open mic for kids and adults.
* Family dance in Templars Hall with music by More the Merrier and caller Chris Page.
* Irish session, Old-Time jam, Bluegrass jam, Song circle
* TIX & info: http://sdfolkheritage.org/events/sam-hinton-festival-3/
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11 am - Annual "SAM HINTON FOLK FESTIVAL" presented by San Diego Folk Heritage at Templars Hall in Old Poway Park, 14134 Midland Rd, Poway, CA 92064; 858-566-4040
* Featured music acts:
⊙ Gregory Gross and friends
⊙ Trails and Rails
⊙ Calamity
⊙ Travis Oliver
⊙ Enter the Blue Sky
⊙ Baja Blues Boys
* Storytelling in the Porter House, with:
◇ Bugs!
◇ Liars and Thieves
◇ All the Pretty Horses
* Open mic for kids and adults.
* Family dance in Templars Hall with music by More the Merrier and caller Chris Page.
* Irish session, Old-Time jam, Bluegrass jam, Song circle
* TIX & info: http://sdfolkheritage.org/events/sam-hinton-festival-3/
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Sat, Jun 15; Thu-Sun, Jun 13-16, FESTIVAL:
Annual CALIFORNIA BLUEGRASS ASSOCIATION "FATHER’S DAY BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL" at the Nevada County Fairgrounds, 11228 McCourtney Rd, Grass Valley, CA 95945; 209-588-6031
* Lineup features Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers, Lonely Heartstring Band, Sister Sadie, Po' Ramblin' Boys, Volume Five, Dave Parmley & Cardinal Tradition, Evie Ladin Band, Fy5, Carolina Blue, Tommy And The Rozumatics, CBA Music Camp Allstars, Kids On Bluegrass, and more.
* TIX & info, http://fathersdayfestival.com/
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* Lineup features Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers, Lonely Heartstring Band, Sister Sadie, Po' Ramblin' Boys, Volume Five, Dave Parmley & Cardinal Tradition, Evie Ladin Band, Fy5, Carolina Blue, Tommy And The Rozumatics, CBA Music Camp Allstars, Kids On Bluegrass, and more.
* TIX & info, http://fathersdayfestival.com/
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Sat, Jun 15, FREE FESTIVAL:
10 am-6:30 pm - 29th Annual "POMONA VALLEY JUNETEENTH JAZZ & ARTS FESTIVAL" in Ganesha Park, 1570 White Av (at McKinley), Pomona, CA
* "Juneteenth" is the annual celebratory remembrance of the final word reaching Texas in June, 1865, that the American Civil War had ended in April and all persons held in bondage had been freed.
10 am-6:30 pm - 29th Annual "POMONA VALLEY JUNETEENTH JAZZ & ARTS FESTIVAL" in Ganesha Park, 1570 White Av (at McKinley), Pomona, CA
* "Juneteenth" is the annual celebratory remembrance of the final word reaching Texas in June, 1865, that the American Civil War had ended in April and all persons held in bondage had been freed.
* It is celebrated on various days across America, depending on where you are. Here, It's June 15. In Riverside, it waa June 1 (see listing).
* THIS YEAR ALSO MARKS 400 YEARS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE AMERICAS, 1619-2019.
* Features JAZZ, GOSPEL, OLD SCHOOL R & B, POETRY, VENDORS, & FUN FOR THE KIDS.
* Click poster to enlarge for details.
* Info: www.jetmacinc.us or call 909-418-8530 or 909-989-4844.
* Info on this and other Juneteenth events: www.juneteenthsocal.org
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* THIS YEAR ALSO MARKS 400 YEARS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE AMERICAS, 1619-2019.
* Features JAZZ, GOSPEL, OLD SCHOOL R & B, POETRY, VENDORS, & FUN FOR THE KIDS.
* Click poster to enlarge for details.
* Info: www.jetmacinc.us or call 909-418-8530 or 909-989-4844.
* Info on this and other Juneteenth events: www.juneteenthsocal.org
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Sat, Jun 15; Thu-Sun, Jun 13-16, FREE FESTIVAL:
6 pm-9 pm - "IDYLLWILD SONGWRITERS FESTIVAL" happens evenings in "a beautiful outdoor space" at Spirit Mountain Retreat Center, 25661 Oakwood St, Idyllwild, CA 92549; venue phonr 951-659-2523
* Runs 6 pm Jun 13 through 9 pm Jun 16; free to attend.
* Founded by grammy nominee BRETT PERKINS, who performs a set Jun 13 at 7 pm.
* Songwriters who attended the June 9-14, 2019, "Idyllwild Listening Room Songwriting Retreat" are among those who will perform. Thus, we cannot provide a lineup with performance times for the artists/bands.
* Founded in Los Angeles in 1991, the retreat-concert-festival series operates internationally, based from Denmark since 2006.
* Idyllwild has earned the distinction of becoming one of the 100 Best Small Art Towns in America. (As designated in the book of the same name by John Villani, A John Muir publication). The town features over 15 galleries representing the work of more than 200 artists. Idyllwild is filled with unique gift and antique shops, boutiques, galleries, and wide variety of dining options.
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* Founded by grammy nominee BRETT PERKINS, who performs a set Jun 13 at 7 pm.
* Songwriters who attended the June 9-14, 2019, "Idyllwild Listening Room Songwriting Retreat" are among those who will perform. Thus, we cannot provide a lineup with performance times for the artists/bands.
* Founded in Los Angeles in 1991, the retreat-concert-festival series operates internationally, based from Denmark since 2006.
* Idyllwild has earned the distinction of becoming one of the 100 Best Small Art Towns in America. (As designated in the book of the same name by John Villani, A John Muir publication). The town features over 15 galleries representing the work of more than 200 artists. Idyllwild is filled with unique gift and antique shops, boutiques, galleries, and wide variety of dining options.
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Sat, Jun 15:
3 pm - DELIRIUM MUSICUM chamber ensemble performs at the First Lutheran Church & School, 2900 W Carson St, Torrance CA
3 pm - DELIRIUM MUSICUM chamber ensemble performs at the First Lutheran Church & School, 2900 W Carson St, Torrance CA
* Founded by Midori student Etienne Gara, it's “dedicated to providing impassioned and engaging musical performances by a young generation of top Los Angeles artists.”
* Info, 310-316-5574
* FREE; donations appreciated.
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Sat, Jun 15, on TV:
6 pm-10 pm (PDT) - "HISTORY OF THE EAGLES" (2013) is a rockumentary that tunefully traces the development of the band, its dominance of a folk-rock genre that became a pillar of Americana Music, the group's personnel changes and breakup, and how "Hell Freezes Over" in their reunion. Individual members subsequent and concurrent projects are likewise covered.
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| Eagles lineup for many of their hits in the early 1970s (from left): Bernie Leadon, Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Randy Meisner, and Don Felder |
* This is the film's only scheduled airing.
* On CNN. Adjust for your time zone.
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Sat, Jun 15, FREE GALLERY EVENT:
6 pm-9 pm - ONE-NIGHT GALLERY EVENT FOR PRIDE MONTH presented by the South Bay LGBTQ Center at Artlife Gallery, 720 S. Allied Way, Plaza El Segundo, in El Segundo CA
* The event is an art show, fine arts auction, and fundraiser
* EXTRA OPTION: 5-6 pm is a "VIP Experience" for a $100 tax-deductible donation, which includes early entrance into the art exhibition, champagne, hors d’oeuvres, a swag bag, photo booth, and more.
* Visitors have free access to the art 6-9 pm.
* Info, and learn more about the Center: 310-328-6550 or www.southbaylgbtcenter.org
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Sat, Jun 15, GALLERY OPENING:
6 pm - “GENERATION W(AR): INVESTIGATING THE MECHANISMS BEHIND THE MILITARIZATION OF SOCIETY” at the Torrance Art Museum, 3320 Civic Center Dr, Torrance, CA 90503
* Features 16 artists reflecting on increased military engagement across the globe, plus continuous screening of the film, "Body of War" by Harun Farocki, which accompanies the exhibition's run.
* Opens June 15 with a reception from 6 pm-9 pm. Thereafter, runs regular gallery hours: Tue-Sat, 11 am-5 pm, Jun 18-Aug 24. Closed Sun, Mon, and all major holidays.
* "GENERATION W(ar)" explores the intersections between art and warfare, between artists who focus their art practice toward political expression and criticisms of the institutionalization of war into the fabric of society.
* The 16 featured artists are Shusuke Ao, Josh Azzarella, Vanessa Beecroft, Dan Van Clapp, Melanie Friend, Shaun Gladwell, Ben Jackel, Jerome Lagarrigue, Dinh Q Lê, Hillary Mushkin, Simon Norfolk, Isabel Rocamora, Kim Rugg, Joaquín Segura, Allison Stewart, Yoram Wolberger, and there is a continuous screening of the film, "Body of War" by Harun Farocki.
* 21-year olds have never lived during a time when the US was not at war. How and where can we see this reflected in the art works of our time? Where does patriotism end and nationalism begin? How much militarism in a democracy is too much?
* The artists of "Generation W(ar)" investigate the mechanisms behind the militarization of society, the embedding of the warrior culture, the invisibility of things in plain sight, and the daily relationship to war that underlies the culture at large.
* Curated by Ichiro Irie and Max Presneill.
* Info: 310-618-6388 or www.TorranceArtMuseum.com
* FREE admission.
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| Sausage Grinder never looks this this stoic or frozen when on stage. |
7 pm - SAUSAGE GRINDER plays the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena, CA 91001; reservations by phone only, 10 am-10 pm, 7 days, at 626-798-6236.
* Sausage Grinder, Los Angeles' classic old-time and country blues band, combines the traditional sounds of fiddle and banjo breakdowns with the low-down sound of country blues, topped off with a touch of ragtime and hillbilly jazz. The versatile acoustic ensemble features fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, jug, washboard, and a few odds and ends. And They're really delightful.
* More at www.sausagegrindermusic.com
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Sat, Jun 15; Sat & Sun, Jun 22 & 23:
7:30 pm - WORLD PREMIERE opening night for “THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE” presented by LONG BEACH OPERA at the Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W Sixth St, San Pedro CA
* The new play by Anthony Davis focuses on the arrest and conviction of New York City teenagers in the 1980s, who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. They were found to be innocent, but that took years from their lives.
* Performances are Sat, Jun 15 & Sat, Jun 22, at 7:30 pm, and Sun, Jun 23, at 2:30 pm.
* TIX: $150 to $49, at 562-470-7464 or www.LongBeachOpera.org
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Sat, Jun 15:
7:30 pm - DAVE ALVIN plus GREG LEISZ AND CHRISTY McWILSON play the AMSD Concerts series in Sweetwater Community Church, 5305 Sweetwater Rd, Bonita, CA 91902; 619-201-0520
* CLICK THE ALBUM COVER TO ENLARGE.
* The tour by the threesome celebrates the 25th Anniversary of Dave's definitive "King of California" album. They also play McCabe's on Sunday; see listing.
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* CLICK THE ALBUM COVER TO ENLARGE.
* The tour by the threesome celebrates the 25th Anniversary of Dave's definitive "King of California" album. They also play McCabe's on Sunday; see listing.
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Sat, Jun 15:
8 pm - DAN NAVARRO plus JAMES LEE STANLEY play a double-bill in the famous concert hall in back of McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica, CA 90405; 310-828-4497
* DAN NAVARRO’s long-awaited studio album "Shed My Skin" is available now on iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, Deezer and Spotify, and available at the show. A beloved folkie with plenty of rock and pop credits, he's continued to delight audiences after his many years with his late Lowen & Navarro songwriting/performing partner Eric Lowen.
* JAMES LEE STANLEY performs up to three hundred dates a year with such diverse acts as BONNIE RAITT, ROBIN WILLIAMS, NICOLETTE LARSON and he even opened for BILL COSBY. On a somewhat less controversial note, STEVEN WRIGHT chose James Lee as his opening act three years in a row.
* Phone for tix before it sells-out.
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Sat, Jun 15:
8 pm - JANET KLEIN & HER PARLOR BOYS bring their charming and naughty music of the 1920s to Boulevard Music, 4316 Sepulveda Bl, Culver City, CA 90230; 310-398-2583
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Sat, Jun 15, FREE LIVE THEATRE:
8 pm - "SHAKESPEARE BY THE SEA," bringing free productions of the Bard to several Southern California communities, begins its 22nd season on June 13-15 with “THE COMEDY OF ERRORS” at its home venue, Point Fermin Park, on the stage near the lighthouse at 807 W Paseo Del Mar, San Pedro, CA 90731
* "In this play, everything that can go wrong does go wrong. Which doesn’t mean it isn’t a barrel of laughs." -- Easy Reader News.
* The Shakespeare theatre troupe is doing 42 performances in 23 locations this year.
* This season brings two Shakespeare plays -- “The Comedy of Errors” and "Henry V" -- in repertory, through Aug 17.
8 pm - "SHAKESPEARE BY THE SEA," bringing free productions of the Bard to several Southern California communities, begins its 22nd season on June 13-15 with “THE COMEDY OF ERRORS” at its home venue, Point Fermin Park, on the stage near the lighthouse at 807 W Paseo Del Mar, San Pedro, CA 90731
* "In this play, everything that can go wrong does go wrong. Which doesn’t mean it isn’t a barrel of laughs." -- Easy Reader News.
* The Shakespeare theatre troupe is doing 42 performances in 23 locations this year.
* This season brings two Shakespeare plays -- “The Comedy of Errors” and "Henry V" -- in repertory, through Aug 17.
* See ONGOING EVENTS section for the series' complete multi-venue season calendar.
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From the reefs of Indonesia to Florida’s Gulf Coast, sea turtles are decreasingly found in all of our ocean’s global waters.
For thousands of years, they’ve remained a symbol of grace and wisdom to indigenous cultures, worldwide (even to Native American cultures that are far from the sea).
But for the past few decades, the tide has turned for these magnificent animals as they face serious and devastating threats to their survival.
Right now, six of the seven sea turtle species that live in our ocean are listed as vulnerable, threatened or endangered.
From mighty leatherbacks who can grow up to 2,000 pounds to their smaller relatives, Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles (who weigh a "modest" 100 pounds), all sea turtles are impacted by ocean plastics, discarded fishing gear and environmental pollution. Warming beaches are also posing a threat to nesting sea turtles, who depend on certain temperatures for healthy hatchlings.
Banning or reducing use of disposable plastics, and demanding an end to economic enrichment by exacerbating climate change are not abstract concepts.
As the late Pete Seeger said:
"If it can't be reduced, reused, repaired
Rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold
Recycled or composted --
Then it should be restricted, redesigned
Or removed from production."
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☆ See Saturday's listings for multiday FESTIVALS that conclude today (we no longer re-list them each day).
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Sun, Jun 16:
Noon-2 pm - MURPHY'S FLAW bluegrass band with special guests BRANTLEY KEARNS & PADDY HILL, play this week's "Bluegrass Brunch" series at Viva Rancho Cantina, 900 W Riverside Dr, Burbank CA 91506 (next to the L.A. Equestrian Center)
* Free admission with a purchase from the menu.
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Sun, Jun 16:
Noon-3 pm - Monthly "WESTERN MUSIC & COWBOY POETRY/STORYTELLING SHOWCASE" at the Autry Museum of the American West, 4700 Western Heritage Way, across from the L.A. Zoo in Griffith Park, Los Angeles CA 90027
* Co-sponsored by the California Chapter, Western Music Association.
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| Multiple-award-winning Joyce Woodson often performs here when she's not on the road |
* Free with paid museum admission.
* There are often nice surprises, based on who is in town, recording or making a movie.
* Those performing get in free; things function like the Nashville-style "song round." If you are a performing artist with suitable material, you can join-in.
* There are often nice surprises, based on who is in town, recording or making a movie.
* Those performing get in free; things function like the Nashville-style "song round." If you are a performing artist with suitable material, you can join-in.
* Go early to see the museum. Two new galleries just opened.
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8 pm - DAVE ALVIN and GREG LEISZ, plus CHRISTY McWILSON, celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Dave's definitive "King of California" album in the famous concert hall in back of McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica, CA 90405; 310-828-4497
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| Dave Alvin, as envisioned by Butch Hancock |
* They're in San Diego with the tour at 7:30 pm Saturday; see listing.
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Mon, June 17:
Today is the 42nd anniversary of the WATERGATE BREAK-IN. In the middle of the night, while making his rounds, Frank Wills, an observant security guard discovered duct tape across the lock inside a door jamb. The door, which was supposed to be locked, led from the parking garage into the suites of offices in the Watergate building. He reported it, and DC police were called; they found another duct-taped lock on an office door -- of the Democratic National Committee. The burglars inside, who were caught planting electronic bugging devices and rifling through files, were on the Republicans' "Committee to Re-Elect the President" (CREEP) payroll, and taking their orders from Attorney General John Mitchell and the Nixon White House.
That security guard, Frank Wills, is forgotten to history. But giant things happen when somebody acts conscientiously.The rest, as the saying goes, is history.
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Mon, Jun 17:
7:30 pm - BLUEGRASS on TWO STAGES at Viva Rancho Cantina, 900 Riverside Dr, Burbank, CA 91506; 818-845-2425
* 7:30 pm-10:30 pm - THE BROMBIES play their every-Monday residency on the stage in the front bar room.
* 8 pm-11 pm - It's "BASC BLUEGRASS NIGHT" as the Bluegrass Assoc. of Southern California presents its every-third-Monday show with one or more bands on the stage in the Rancho Room.
* No cover, if you buy something from the menu.
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Mon, Jun 17:
8:30 pm-11 pm - "CELTIC ARTS CENTER WEEKLY IRISH MUSIC SESSION & SLOW PLAY IRISH MUSIC SESSION" are every Monday, presented by the Celtic Arts Center at The Mayflower Club, 11110 Victory Bl, North Hollywood, CA; 818-760-8322; www.celticartscenter.com
* Irish music sessions have an esoteric rule paradigm -- they're structured jams.
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Mon, June 17:
Today is the 42nd anniversary of the WATERGATE BREAK-IN. In the middle of the night, while making his rounds, Frank Wills, an observant security guard discovered duct tape across the lock inside a door jamb. The door, which was supposed to be locked, led from the parking garage into the suites of offices in the Watergate building. He reported it, and DC police were called; they found another duct-taped lock on an office door -- of the Democratic National Committee. The burglars inside, who were caught planting electronic bugging devices and rifling through files, were on the Republicans' "Committee to Re-Elect the President" (CREEP) payroll, and taking their orders from Attorney General John Mitchell and the Nixon White House.
That security guard, Frank Wills, is forgotten to history. But giant things happen when somebody acts conscientiously.The rest, as the saying goes, is history.
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Mon, Jun 17:
7:30 pm - BLUEGRASS on TWO STAGES at Viva Rancho Cantina, 900 Riverside Dr, Burbank, CA 91506; 818-845-2425
* 7:30 pm-10:30 pm - THE BROMBIES play their every-Monday residency on the stage in the front bar room.
* 8 pm-11 pm - It's "BASC BLUEGRASS NIGHT" as the Bluegrass Assoc. of Southern California presents its every-third-Monday show with one or more bands on the stage in the Rancho Room.
* No cover, if you buy something from the menu.
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Mon, Jun 17:
8:30 pm-11 pm - "CELTIC ARTS CENTER WEEKLY IRISH MUSIC SESSION & SLOW PLAY IRISH MUSIC SESSION" are every Monday, presented by the Celtic Arts Center at The Mayflower Club, 11110 Victory Bl, North Hollywood, CA; 818-760-8322; www.celticartscenter.com
* Irish music sessions have an esoteric rule paradigm -- they're structured jams.
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Tue, Jun 18, FREE CONCERT:
6 pm - JAMESTOWN REVIVAL does a free, live-in-store performance at Amoeba Records Hollywood, 6400 Sunset Bl, Hollywood / Los Angeles CA 90028
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Wed, Jun 19, ONLINE, ALL-DAY:
"JFK SPACE SUMMIT" live from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum, Columbia Point, Boston, MA 02125; 617-514-1600
* Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing and President Kennedy’s vision that launched the effort, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, with Ambassador CAROLINE KENNEDY, hosts this day-long symposium highlighting the history that led not only to the first Moon landing, but also current scientific and technological space initiatives and the future of space exploration.
* Featured speakers include Blue Origin founder JEFF BEZOS, Apollo 11 astronaut/Command Module Pilot MICHAEL COLLINS, scientists, an international cast of astronauts, and former leaders from NASA, to discuss how President Kennedy’s vision to send a man to the Moon still inspires our role in the universe today.
* It "will challenge Americans to learn from the past, draw inspiration from President Kennedy’s vision, and renew our civic commitment to solving the great challenges of our own time."
* Here's the day's schedule, adjusted to Pacific Daylight Time (each program has its own link, also reachable from the master link):
○ 6 am-7 am: KEYNOTE ADDRESS. Boeing Company Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer DENNIS MUILENBURG gives the keynote address for the JFK Space Summit at the JFK Library. (https://www.jfklibrary.org/watch-the-jfk-space-summit/keynote)
○ 7:30 am-9 am: "ASTRONAUTS SPEAK: DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION." An extraordinary panel of international astronauts including CHRIS CASSIDY and TRACY CALDWELL DYSON (United States), KOICHI WAKATA (Japan), PAOLO NESPOL (Italy), and OLEG KOTOV (Russia) will discuss the international cooperation that has been essential to so many of the scientific and technological breakthroughs resulting from human space exploration. Moderated by DOUG BRINKLEY, author of "American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race." (https://www.jfklibrary.org/watch-the-jfk-space-summit/astronauts-speak)
○ 10 am-11:30 am: "EARTH, MOON, PLANETS, AND COSMOS: WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT DISCOVERIES AWAIT." Former NASA Earth Science Division Director MICHAEL FREILICH examines how space satellites have revolutionized our understanding Planet Earth. Scientists MARIA ZUBER, MIT Vice President for Research, LAURIE LESHIN, President, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and SARA SEAGER, MIT Professor of Planetary Science and Physics, will discuss scientific discoveries that have changed our understanding of the universe beyond Planet Earth, and questions that still remain unanswered. CNN host S.E. CUPP moderates. (https://www.jfklibrary.org/watch-the-jfk-space-summit/earth-moon-planets-cosmos)
○ 2 pm-3:30 pm: "NASA: FROM THE MOON TO MARS AND BEYOND." Apollo 11 Lunar Command Module pilot MICHAEL COLLINS, former NASA administrator CHARLES BOLDEN, former director of the Johnson Space Center ELLEN OCHOA, and former NASA deputy administrator DAVA NEWMAN discuss NASA’s past, present, and future with National Air and Space Museum director ELLEN STOFAN. (https://www.jfklibrary.org/watch-the-jfk-space-summit/nasa-from-the-moon-to-mars)
○ 3:45 pm-4:30 pm: "FIRESIDE CHAT WITH JEFF BEZOS AND AMBASSADOR CAROLINE KENNEDY." The founder of Blue Origin joins the ambassador for a fireside chat about his vision for going to space to benefit Earth. (https://www.jfklibrary.org/watch-the-jfk-space-summit/fireside-chat)
○ Master link for info (remember to adjust from Eastern time zone) and to WATCH LIVE ONLINE: https://www.jfklibrary.org/watch-the-jfk-space-summit
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Wed, Jun 19:
5 pm-8:30 pm - UMOJA CENTER GRAND OPENING EVENT / JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION, at the new home for "Crenshaw Subway Coalition," 3347 W 43rd St, Leimert Park CA
* Housed in the Leimert Park Village building made famous by Issa Rae's hit HBO show, "Insecure," The Umoja Center is a home for Crenshaw Subway Coalition to operate their many programs and advocacy campaigns to resist gentrification and advance community wealth building.
* Click poster to enlarge to read.
* Recognizing the broader needs of the Black community, importance of the geographic location and rich cultural history of the space, "The Umoja Center will also be an unapologetically Black, culturally-grounded meeting/event space for mission-aligned organizations, thought leaders, artists, and entrepreneurs to advance policy discussions and organizing, cooperative economics/social entrepreneurship, and artivism."
* Their press statement continues, "We seek to cultivate a synergistic space where conscious thought leaders and organizers in policy, business, and the arts are comfortable, safe and encouraged to come together in unity to combat the Black community’s challenges and build towards a brighter future. We look forward to The Umoja Center hosting powerful community meetings, conscious Black art exhibits and expressions, seminars, book signings, retreats, and pop-ups before the center’s beautiful Ndebele mural."
* More at: https://www.theumojacenter.com/
* TIX, $30 online advance, $40 at door.
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Wed, Jun 19, ONLINE, ALL-DAY:
"JFK SPACE SUMMIT" live from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum, Columbia Point, Boston, MA 02125; 617-514-1600
* Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing and President Kennedy’s vision that launched the effort, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, with Ambassador CAROLINE KENNEDY, hosts this day-long symposium highlighting the history that led not only to the first Moon landing, but also current scientific and technological space initiatives and the future of space exploration.
* It "will challenge Americans to learn from the past, draw inspiration from President Kennedy’s vision, and renew our civic commitment to solving the great challenges of our own time."
* Here's the day's schedule, adjusted to Pacific Daylight Time (each program has its own link, also reachable from the master link):
○ 6 am-7 am: KEYNOTE ADDRESS. Boeing Company Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer DENNIS MUILENBURG gives the keynote address for the JFK Space Summit at the JFK Library. (https://www.jfklibrary.org/watch-the-jfk-space-summit/keynote)
○ Master link for info (remember to adjust from Eastern time zone) and to WATCH LIVE ONLINE: https://www.jfklibrary.org/watch-the-jfk-space-summit
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5 pm-8:30 pm - UMOJA CENTER GRAND OPENING EVENT / JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION, at the new home for "Crenshaw Subway Coalition," 3347 W 43rd St, Leimert Park CA
* Housed in the Leimert Park Village building made famous by Issa Rae's hit HBO show, "Insecure," The Umoja Center is a home for Crenshaw Subway Coalition to operate their many programs and advocacy campaigns to resist gentrification and advance community wealth building.
* Click poster to enlarge to read.
* Recognizing the broader needs of the Black community, importance of the geographic location and rich cultural history of the space, "The Umoja Center will also be an unapologetically Black, culturally-grounded meeting/event space for mission-aligned organizations, thought leaders, artists, and entrepreneurs to advance policy discussions and organizing, cooperative economics/social entrepreneurship, and artivism."
* Their press statement continues, "We seek to cultivate a synergistic space where conscious thought leaders and organizers in policy, business, and the arts are comfortable, safe and encouraged to come together in unity to combat the Black community’s challenges and build towards a brighter future. We look forward to The Umoja Center hosting powerful community meetings, conscious Black art exhibits and expressions, seminars, book signings, retreats, and pop-ups before the center’s beautiful Ndebele mural."
* More at: https://www.theumojacenter.com/
* TIX, $30 online advance, $40 at door.
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Thu-Sun, Jun 20-23, FESTIVAL, in Colorado:
46th annual "TELLURIDE BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL" in the alpine meadow that's become Town Park, high up in the Rocky Mountains in Telluride, CO
* This one is reliably amazing. You MUST go, sometime in your life.
* If you're going this year, be sure to catch THE FIRST LADIES OF BLUEGRASS -- the stellar ensemble of award-winners ALISON BROWN, BECKY BULLER, SIERRA HULL, MOLLY TUTTLE & MISSY RAINES. They perform June 23rd.
* Full info: https://www.bluegrass.com/telluride/
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Thu, Jun 20, benefit concert:
3 pm-6:30 pm - "12th ANNUAL CONCERT FUNDRAISER" for SAFETY HARBOR KIDS with DOORS guitarist ROBBIE KRIEGER, in West Los Angeles, CA.
* The organization helps orphans and foster and homeless children. Attend and make a difference in a child's life needs. This year, it will give over 12,000 gifts, plus scholarships and enrollment for these kids in programs, college, career, music, and the arts.
* Join Doors guitarist Robbie Krieger for an early evening of music, food and fun with rock and roll celebrities, up close and personal.
* TIX to this special event: http://safetyharborkids.org/fundraisingevents.html
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Thu, Jun 20, FREE ART EVENT:
5 pm-9 pm - 5th annual “EL SEGUNDO ART WALK” through downtown El Segundo CA
* Extends through the city's "ever-evolving" Smoky Hollow neighborhood.
* Details at www.elsegundoartwalk.com
* Free.
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Thu, Jun 20:
6:30 pm-9:30 pm - SIMON SPALDING & JAMES HENDRICKS present a concert of SEA CHANTEYS at the Whale & Ale, 327 W 7th St, San Pedro, CA 90731
* This dynamic duo of sea shanties & acoustic folk music delivers a treat tonight especially for those who love sea chanteys / shanties.
* Free parking behind the venue in spaces labeled "Restaurant."
* No cover.
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Thu & Fri, Jun 20 & 21; space science presentations:
7 pm - "SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE ON: DESIGNING TOMORROW ’s SPACE MISSIONS TODAY" is a two-night program in the open-to-the-public JPL/Caltech "von Kármán Lecture Series," with one night at JPL and one night at Caltech, both hosted by Brian White.
* No space nerd can resist this.
* Walk through the lifecycle of a mission from its start as a crazy idea, to concept, to development, through construction, testing and launch.
* SCHEDULE:
☆ Thu, Jun 20, 7 pm in the von Kármán Auditorium at JPL, 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA
* Thursday’s Speaker is Dr. RANDII WESSEN, JPL Systems Engineer, A-Team Lead Study Architect, JPL Innovation Foundry
* The THURSDAY lecture is also streamed live on Ustream, at: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2
☆ Fri, Jun 21, 7 pm, in Caltech’s Ramo Auditorium, 1200 E California Bl, Pasadena, CA
* Friday’s Speaker is STEVE MATOUSEK, JPL Advanced Concept Methods Manager (A-Team), JPL Innovation Foundry
* More on these, plus upcoming events, and archives of past events in the series, at: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/events/lectures_archive.php?year=2019&month=6&utm
* FREE, both nights.
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Thu, Jun 20:
8 pm - I SEE HAWKS IN L.A., plus special guests BEN VAUGHN and the RICH DEMBOWSKI BAND, play the Hawk's CD release show for "Hawks With Good Intentions," at the Highland Park Bowl, 5621 N Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90042; https://www.highlandparkbowl.com/calendar
* FREE - no cover.
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Friday
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Today is the Summer solstice: the first day of SUMMER and the longest amount of sunlight of the year. In the Northern hemisphere, that is. In Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and elsewhere in the Southern hemisphere, it's the Winter solstice and the shortest day of the year.
It's an astronomical phenomenon determined by the Earth's inclination (tilt) on our planet's axis of rotation. Fascinating, as Mr. Spock would say. Look it up. Or just enjoy it.
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☆ See Thursday's listings for FESTIVALS that continue today (we no longer re-list them each day).
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Fri-Sun, Jun 21-23, FESTIVAL:
31st Annual "LIVE OAK MUSIC FESTIVAL" at its new site at El Chorro Regional Park in San Luis Obispo, CA
* A spring institution in the hills inland from Santa Barbara, the new site is farther away, but appears to offer real advantages.
* In addition to the music, this one offers plenty of other activities that include ubiquitous dancers to the sides of the stage, a beer garden, an ArtWalk, and kids activities.
* Buy tickets online in advance; higher at the gate.
* Camping at the new site could sell out this year.
* This festival has fiercely loyal devotees, partly because it funds KCBX, a favorite Central Coast radio station. And that is the key to understanding the broadly eclectic nature of its booked acts. There is top-notch Folk-Americana and thoughtful and creative singer-songwriter fare, and there is also world music and some stuff That's rather "out there."
* LINEUP, day-by-day, all stages...
- Fri, Jun 21:
⊙ Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore with the Guilty Ones, American Roots Music
⊙ Shinyribs, Country-Soul / Swamp-Funk
⊙ T Sisters, Americana Indie-Folk
⊙ Arthur Watership, Experimental Folk, Baroque Rock
⊙ Brass Mash--Hot Licks Dance, Powerhouse Brass Band / Mash ups
⊙ The Upside--Stage Too, Ska
- Sat, Jun 22:
⊙ Antibalas, Afrobeat
⊙ Shook Twins, Indie Folk Pop
⊙ Orquesta Akokán, Joyous Cuban Big Band
⊙ Sunny War, Blues Folk Punk
⊙ Soul Scratch, Funk / Soul / R&B
⊙ Phil Salazar and the Kin Folk, Acoustic Folk Fusion
⊙ The Sam Chase & the Untraditional--Stage Too, Kick-A** Folk
⊙ Carbon City Lights--Stage Too, Groovy Indie Alt-Rock
⊙ True Zion--Stage Too, Roots Reggae
⊙ Derek Senn--Morning Hot Licks, Singer-songwriter
⊙ SLO County Stumblers--Morning Hot Licks, Old Time String Band
⊙ Something Ridiculous Jugglers--Beer Garden, Juggling and more
- Sun, Jun 23:
⊙ Brett Dennen, Folk Pop & Good Vibes
⊙ Bombino, North-African Desert Rock
⊙ John Craigie, Americana Singer-Songwriter
⊙ Moonshiner Collective, Indie Folk Rock n Soul
⊙ The Sons of the Soul Revivers, Traditional Gospel
⊙ The Ghost of Paul Revere--Stage Too, Foot-Stompin' Holler Folk
⊙ Midtown Social--Stage Too, Exclusively Inclusive
⊙ Soul Noach Tangeras--Beer Garden, Americana Roots
⊙ Chris Beland & Harmony--Morning Hot Licks, Father-daughter singer-songwriters
⊙ The Cimo Brothers--Morning Hot Licks, Folky Classical World Rock
* Kids Activities here are outstanding. Day-by-day, they are:
◇ Friday: Delphinius Nature Hike; Crafts Workshops; Something Ridiculous Jugglers; John Beccia concert; Aerialist performers; Talent show tryouts; Craft Workshops; Sushi Making Workshop.
◇ Saturday: Delphinius Nature Hike; Yoga with Tim Costa; Kids Yoga with Anika; Tortoise & Snake Tutorial w/Professor Ron Rupert; Crafts Workshops; Jugglers Workshop; Skeedaddle Children's concert; Talent show tryouts; Sushi Making Workshop.
◇ Sunday: Nature hike Delphinius School; Yoga with Tim Costa; Kids Yoga with Anika; Craft workshops; Something Ridiculous Jugglers; Kids talent Talent Show.
* Prefer a bed to camping? San Luis Obispo offers a wide variety of accommodations including hotels ranging from corporate to boutique, budget-friendly motels, quaint inns, and family-owned bed and breakfasts. There's a link on the festival site for local hotels – book a stay at any of those SLO hotels during the festival and receive up to $10 off your festival tickets. Provide your hotel booking confirmation to promotions@sanluisobispovacations.com and receive a promo code to use when purchasing your festival tickets online.
* Full info & tix, www.liveoakfest.org
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Fri, Jun 21; space science presentations:
7 pm - "SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE ON: DESIGNING TOMORROW ’s SPACE MISSIONS TODAY" is tonight's concluding presentation in a two-night program in the open-to-the-public JPL/Caltech "von Kármán Lecture Series," with one night (Thu) at JPL and one night (tonight) at Caltech, both hosted by Brian White.
* No space nerd can resist this.
* Walk through the lifecycle of a mission from its start as a crazy idea, to concept, to development, through construction, testing and launch.
* SCHEDULE:
☆ Thu, Jun 20, 7 pm in the von Kármán Auditorium at JPL, 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA
* Thursday’s Speaker is Dr. RANDII WESSEN, JPL Systems Engineer, A-Team Lead Study Architect, JPL Innovation Foundry
* The THURSDAY lecture is also streamed live on Ustream, at: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2
☆ Fri, Jun 21, 7 pm, in Caltech’s Ramo Auditorium, 1200 E California Bl, Pasadena, CA
* Friday’s Speaker is STEVE MATOUSEK, JPL Advanced Concept Methods Manager (A-Team), JPL Innovation Foundry
* More on these, plus upcoming events, and archives of past events in the series, at: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/events/lectures_archive.php?year=2019&month=6&utm
* FREE, both nights.
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Fri, Jun 21:
7:30 pm - "FIRESIDE CONCERT SERIES" presents DAN FRECHETTE & LAUREL THOMSEN plus THE HONEY WHISKEY TRIO at Borchard Community Center, 190 Reino Rd, Newbury Park, CA 92320
* Info: Bob Kroll, at 805-499-3511 or folksgr1@aol.com
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Today is the Summer solstice: the first day of SUMMER and the longest amount of sunlight of the year. In the Northern hemisphere, that is. In Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and elsewhere in the Southern hemisphere, it's the Winter solstice and the shortest day of the year.
It's an astronomical phenomenon determined by the Earth's inclination (tilt) on our planet's axis of rotation. Fascinating, as Mr. Spock would say. Look it up. Or just enjoy it.
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☆ See Thursday's listings for FESTIVALS that continue today (we no longer re-list them each day).
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31st Annual "LIVE OAK MUSIC FESTIVAL" at its new site at El Chorro Regional Park in San Luis Obispo, CA
* A spring institution in the hills inland from Santa Barbara, the new site is farther away, but appears to offer real advantages.
* In addition to the music, this one offers plenty of other activities that include ubiquitous dancers to the sides of the stage, a beer garden, an ArtWalk, and kids activities.
* Buy tickets online in advance; higher at the gate.
* Camping at the new site could sell out this year.
* This festival has fiercely loyal devotees, partly because it funds KCBX, a favorite Central Coast radio station. And that is the key to understanding the broadly eclectic nature of its booked acts. There is top-notch Folk-Americana and thoughtful and creative singer-songwriter fare, and there is also world music and some stuff That's rather "out there."
* LINEUP, day-by-day, all stages...
- Fri, Jun 21:
⊙ Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore with the Guilty Ones, American Roots Music
⊙ Shinyribs, Country-Soul / Swamp-Funk
⊙ T Sisters, Americana Indie-Folk
⊙ Arthur Watership, Experimental Folk, Baroque Rock
⊙ The Upside--Stage Too, Ska
- Sat, Jun 22:
⊙ Antibalas, Afrobeat
⊙ Shook Twins, Indie Folk Pop
⊙ Orquesta Akokán, Joyous Cuban Big Band
⊙ Sunny War, Blues Folk Punk
⊙ Soul Scratch, Funk / Soul / R&B
⊙ Phil Salazar and the Kin Folk, Acoustic Folk Fusion
⊙ The Sam Chase & the Untraditional--Stage Too, Kick-A** Folk
⊙ Carbon City Lights--Stage Too, Groovy Indie Alt-Rock
⊙ Derek Senn--Morning Hot Licks, Singer-songwriter
⊙ SLO County Stumblers--Morning Hot Licks, Old Time String Band
⊙ Something Ridiculous Jugglers--Beer Garden, Juggling and more
- Sun, Jun 23:
⊙ Brett Dennen, Folk Pop & Good Vibes
⊙ Bombino, North-African Desert Rock
⊙ John Craigie, Americana Singer-Songwriter
⊙ The Sons of the Soul Revivers, Traditional Gospel
⊙ The Ghost of Paul Revere--Stage Too, Foot-Stompin' Holler Folk
⊙ Midtown Social--Stage Too, Exclusively Inclusive
⊙ Soul Noach Tangeras--Beer Garden, Americana Roots
⊙ Chris Beland & Harmony--Morning Hot Licks, Father-daughter singer-songwriters
⊙ The Cimo Brothers--Morning Hot Licks, Folky Classical World Rock
* Kids Activities here are outstanding. Day-by-day, they are:
◇ Friday: Delphinius Nature Hike; Crafts Workshops; Something Ridiculous Jugglers; John Beccia concert; Aerialist performers; Talent show tryouts; Craft Workshops; Sushi Making Workshop.
◇ Saturday: Delphinius Nature Hike; Yoga with Tim Costa; Kids Yoga with Anika; Tortoise & Snake Tutorial w/Professor Ron Rupert; Crafts Workshops; Jugglers Workshop; Skeedaddle Children's concert; Talent show tryouts; Sushi Making Workshop.
◇ Sunday: Nature hike Delphinius School; Yoga with Tim Costa; Kids Yoga with Anika; Craft workshops; Something Ridiculous Jugglers; Kids talent Talent Show.
* Prefer a bed to camping? San Luis Obispo offers a wide variety of accommodations including hotels ranging from corporate to boutique, budget-friendly motels, quaint inns, and family-owned bed and breakfasts. There's a link on the festival site for local hotels – book a stay at any of those SLO hotels during the festival and receive up to $10 off your festival tickets. Provide your hotel booking confirmation to promotions@sanluisobispovacations.com and receive a promo code to use when purchasing your festival tickets online.
* Full info & tix, www.liveoakfest.org
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Fri, Jun 21; space science presentations:
7 pm - "SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE ON: DESIGNING TOMORROW ’s SPACE MISSIONS TODAY" is tonight's concluding presentation in a two-night program in the open-to-the-public JPL/Caltech "von Kármán Lecture Series," with one night (Thu) at JPL and one night (tonight) at Caltech, both hosted by Brian White.
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* Walk through the lifecycle of a mission from its start as a crazy idea, to concept, to development, through construction, testing and launch.
* SCHEDULE:
☆ Thu, Jun 20, 7 pm in the von Kármán Auditorium at JPL, 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA
* Thursday’s Speaker is Dr. RANDII WESSEN, JPL Systems Engineer, A-Team Lead Study Architect, JPL Innovation Foundry
* The THURSDAY lecture is also streamed live on Ustream, at: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2
☆ Fri, Jun 21, 7 pm, in Caltech’s Ramo Auditorium, 1200 E California Bl, Pasadena, CA
* Friday’s Speaker is STEVE MATOUSEK, JPL Advanced Concept Methods Manager (A-Team), JPL Innovation Foundry
* More on these, plus upcoming events, and archives of past events in the series, at: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/events/lectures_archive.php?year=2019&month=6&utm
* FREE, both nights.
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Fri, Jun 21:
7:30 pm - "FIRESIDE CONCERT SERIES" presents DAN FRECHETTE & LAUREL THOMSEN plus THE HONEY WHISKEY TRIO at Borchard Community Center, 190 Reino Rd, Newbury Park, CA 92320
* Info: Bob Kroll, at 805-499-3511 or folksgr1@aol.com
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Fri, Jun 21:
8 pm - AWARD-WINNING UKESTER VICTORIA VOX plays the The Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena, CA 91001; reservations by phone only, 10 am-10 pm, 7 days: 626-798-6236.
* She has toured the world sharing her infectious and moving music. In addition to her songwriting and ukulele playing, Vox has received praise for her “invisible” instrument: The Mouth Trumpet. She was invited to blow her own horn on the Jay Leno Show in 2009 and in 2015, Vox was featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal as a leader in the mouth trumpet “revival”.
* At 17, Vox spent a year abroad in France, bought a guitar, and proceeded to express herself through her songwriting. The rest is history.
* Vox went on to study music — songwriting in particular — at the Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA) where she earned her degree in 2001. Shortly after stints in London, Vox began to tour across the US, singing at cafés and street-corners.
* In 2003, Vox was given a ukulele and she fell in love with its limitations and simplicity. This lead to a more playful and melodic approach to her songwriting. As she continued to tour, ukulele-in-hand, the demand for a ukulele album grew. Vox recorded her debut uke album, “Victoria Vox and Her Jumping Flea”, in 2005 and played the tracks live, pre-release, on radio's "Tied to the Tracks."
* She also toured Hawaii just before its official release in 2006. While in Hawaii, she landed an ukulele sponsorship with KoAloha Ukuleles, which became the tipping point to her becoming a household name at Ukulele Festivals around the world.
* Today, Vox is an award winning songwriter — including awards for songs she has written in French. That includes Independent Music Awards, 6-time WAMMIE winner, International Acoustic Music Awards, and ADDYS. Plus, she has donated songs to causes like the American Asbergers Association and the Duchenne Foundation.
* Her music has been used in indie films and featured on NPR's "To the Best of Our Knowledge".
* TIX, $20.
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Fri, Jun 21:
8 pm - "ALANIS MORISSETTE ACOUSTIC" at Humphreys Concerts By the Bay, San Diego, CA
* She also performs Apr 26 & 27, 9 pm, in Las Vegas; see listings.
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Fri, Jun 21:
8 pm - CARSON McHONE plays the famous concert hall in back of McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica, CA 90405; 310-828-4497
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Fri, Jun 21:
8 pm - OLD BLIND DOGS play the concert series at Bethany Lutheran Church, 2051 Sunset Cliffs Bl, San Diego, CA 92107
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Today is the annual "Great American Campout Day." Which is a little weird, since most people camp-out at night. Besides, being the solstice, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights are the shortest of the year in the northern hemisphere. Which would actually minimize the amount of camping you can do. A puzzlement. (See Friday's up-front note to make sense of that part.)
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☆ See Thursday and Friday listings for FESTIVALS that continue today (we no longer re-list them each day).
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Sat, Jun 22, FREE FESTIVAL:
11 am-5 pm - Annual “SOUTH BAY FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS” at the Cultural Arts Center, 3330 Civic Center Dr, Torrance CA
* This "Multimedia extravaganza" has live music & entertainment on 4 stages, hands-on art, dance, theater, hands-off art, craft activities, food for sale from local vendors, and attractions for the whole family.
* Music includes a 2-5 pm "Singer Songwriter Showcase," 30-min acoustic sets by Annabelle Bertucci, Jessica Lombardozzi, Liz King, Benjamin Wylder, Sylvia Bosco, & Bradley Mangrum.
* PLUS, there's music by the Palos Verdes Symphonic Band, which presents its Wind Ensemble (11 am), Flute Ensemble (1 pm) and Brass Band Ensemble (1:30 pm); there's the Peninsula Youth Symphony (11 am); Bourque Music (piano & voice) at noon; The Torrance Youth Chorale (1:30 pm).
* You can catch several rock outfits, a taiko performance, and world music and dance.
* The stages include magicians, a girl-and-her-dog act, and the proverbial "more."
* There's also "Storytelling with Angie Flores" at 12:30 pm.
* More, including schedules for two of the stages, at http://torrancearts.org/
* Free.
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Sat, Jun 22, FREE FESTIVAL:
11 am-5 pm - Annual “SOUTH BAY FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS” at the Cultural Arts Center, 3330 Civic Center Dr, Torrance CA
* This "Multimedia extravaganza" has live music & entertainment on 4 stages, hands-on art, dance, theater, hands-off art, craft activities, food for sale from local vendors, and attractions for the whole family.
* Music includes a 2-5 pm "Singer Songwriter Showcase," 30-min acoustic sets by Annabelle Bertucci, Jessica Lombardozzi, Liz King, Benjamin Wylder, Sylvia Bosco, & Bradley Mangrum.
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* You can catch several rock outfits, a taiko performance, and world music and dance.
* The stages include magicians, a girl-and-her-dog act, and the proverbial "more."
* There's also "Storytelling with Angie Flores" at 12:30 pm.
* More, including schedules for two of the stages, at http://torrancearts.org/
* Free.
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Sat, Jun 22, FREE FESTIVAL:
2nd annual City of Thousand Oaks' "POP-UP MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL" presents its "AMERICANA & BLUES" night, with a free co-bill concert by THE SUSIE GLAZE NEW FOLK ENSEMBLE and TERESA JAMES & THE RHYTHM TRAMPS, at the Stagecoach Inn, 51 S Ventu Park Rd, Newbury Park, CA 91320
* FESTIVAL RUNS THREE WEEKENDS, June 14-29, with a variety of SEVEN events at different locations in and around Thousand Oaks, CA.
* The primary goal of the festival is "to provide residents and visitors with an opportunity to actively participate in and enjoy the arts in unexpected and distinctive locations throughout the community. These sites will include small neighborhood parks, historical sites, and the Lakes, and showcase a wide array of accessible, family-oriented arts events."
* All events are free, all-ages, open to all.
* TONIGHT, Jun 22, 7 pm, booked for the festival by Steve Brogden's "Brogden Bay Presents:"
⊙ TERESA JAMES & THE RHYTHM TRAMPS. Originally from Houston, Texas, Grammy-nominated Teresa James is based in Los Angeles where she has assembled a group of top L.A.-based touring and session musicians into this, her band.
• Regulars at blues festivals and clubs throughout the US and Europe for many years, for the last 13 years, the band has been a favorite on "Delbert McClinton's Sandy Beaches Blues Cruise."
• Teresa's most recent CD release, "Here in Babylon," was nominated for a "Contemporary Blues" Grammy this past year, a well-deserved honor. The album was also named one of the "20 Best Albums of 2018" by Downbeat magazine.
• She has performed live with Levon Helm, Delbert McClinton, Eric Burdon, Marcia Ball, Tommy Castro, Big Al Anderson, Kirk Whalum, and many others.
• Her voice is featured on albums by Randy Newman, Eric Burdon, Tommy Castro, Bill Medley, Walter Trout, and others. She has also sung for television and movie soundtracks; Teresa and her band were featured in the Disney movie and soundtrack for "Holes".
⊙ THE SUSIE GLAZE NEW FOLK ENSEMBLE. Award-winning vocalist Susie Glaze, mandolinist Steve Rankin,
fiddler Mark Indictor and bassist Fred Sanders comprise the newest name and lineup of this acclaimed Los Angeles-based Americana group.
• They present a lush nu-folk Americana fusion ensemble, with gorgeous eclectic blends of mountain folk and exciting new-grass and Celtic-inspired originals, all with the soaring voice of Susie Glaze.
• Susie is included on the recently-released Compass Records tribute album to her mentor, "Dear Jean - Artists Celebrate Jean Ritchie," alongside artists Judy Collins, Pete Seeger, Janis Ian, Tim O'Brien, John McCutcheon, Robin and Linda Williams, and more.
• "...with people like this to trust, my music will go on living, and soaring. And so will I.” - Jean Ritchie, speaking of Susie Glaze.
• “…one of the finest and most original Americana groups in California (or in the country for that matter).” - No Depression.
• "One of the most beautiful voices in bluegrass and folk music today.” - KPFK's "FolkScene."
• "Her singing is impressive at all ranges…" - Bluegrass Unlimited.
* The festival's OTHER EVENTS during the 3 weekends:
▪ Jun 14, 7 pm: Versa-Style Dance Company presents a program of contemporary and urban dance in Oakbrook Park.
▪ Jun 15, 7 pm: "Sing" screens for "movie night" in Triunfo Park. Activities start at 7. Movie at 8. Food trucks and perform-your-own karaoke with Mr. DJ before the movie.
▪ Jun 21, 7 pm: SIR, PLEASE, young alt-rock 5-piece with special guests, perform in Thousand Oaks Community Park.
▪ Jun 23, 2 pm-4 pm: "Let Your Creativity Take Flight" in Borchard Park. Build and fly kites with Art Trek. Food trucks available.
▪ Jun 28, 7 pm: "AN EVENING WITH SONDHEIM featuring 5-Star Theatricals" at The Lakes at Thousand Oaks.
▪ Jun 29, 7 pm: "NEW WEST SYMPHONY presents LEAH ZEGER QUINTET" in Northwood Park. Jazz, funk, classical, led by the vocals and violin stylings of Leah Zeger.
* All 7 events are free.
* More info, addresses of the other venues: http://www.civicartsplaza.com/popup
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Sat, Jun 22:
2 pm - CLOSING EVENT with Roots Americana Music for the current art shows -- STEVE SHRIVER and CANDICE GAWNE -- at SoLA Gallery, 3718 W Slauson Av, Windsor Hills / Los Angeles CA
* From 2 to 2:30 pm, both artists will talk about their work.
* LIVE ROOTS MUSIC 3 to 4 pm, with LOU MANNICK on the singing saw, SAM YODICE on guitar, and STEVE SHRIVER on harmonica.
* More at 310-429-0973 or go to https://southbaycontemporary.org/
* Free.
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Sat, Jun 22:
2 pm - CLOSING EVENT with Roots Americana Music for the current art shows -- STEVE SHRIVER and CANDICE GAWNE -- at SoLA Gallery, 3718 W Slauson Av, Windsor Hills / Los Angeles CA
* From 2 to 2:30 pm, both artists will talk about their work.
* LIVE ROOTS MUSIC 3 to 4 pm, with LOU MANNICK on the singing saw, SAM YODICE on guitar, and STEVE SHRIVER on harmonica.
* More at 310-429-0973 or go to https://southbaycontemporary.org/
* Free.
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Sat, Jun 22, rally:
3 pm-5 pm - "L.A. LABOR FOR BERNIE KICKOFF" at the National Union of Healthcare Workers, 225 W Broadway #400, Glendale, CA 91204
* In the 2016 primary election cycle, The Guide endorsed Bernie Sanders. We have not yet made our endorsement for 2020 (as of press time for late additions, June 20th).
* This rally is sponsored by a union who has endorsed Senator Sanders for 2020, saying, "Bernie is the best candidate for the working class, the labor movement, and our fight for a government that works for all, not just the 1%."
* Click the poster to enlarge to read.
* More: https://laborforbernie2020.org/
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Sat, Jun 22:
4 pm - THE ONLIES play the "Deep End Sessions" in Santa Paula, CA 93060
* Reservations get directions from David Bunn, at deependsessions@gmail.com
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Sat, Jun 22:
5:30 pm - WILD MOUNTAIN MYSTICS plus NON DUO play the house concert series at 15206 Wyandotte St, Van Nuys, CA 91405
* We didn't receive more details.
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Jun 22, outdoor screening:
5:30 pm - "STREET FOOD CINEMA" screens "JURASSIC PARK" (2 hrs 7 mins) in Victory Park, 2575 Paloma St, Pasadena, CA 91107
* Okay, so it's been around awhile, but that JOHN WILLIAMS score still excites, and the character development in this original (1993) makes it waaay better than the 7-part sequel-and-remake technodazzle that's endlessly followed.
* Bring your own chair, but NO TALL CHAIRS. No chairs over 6 inches off the ground.
* PARKING - Suggested lot on 2727 Paloma St (not owned or operated by SFC)
* METRO: producers say, "Take Metro Local Line 264 to Altadena & Paloma. The park is a 3 minute walk away." But the Guide cautions -- that line stops running before the movie is over. Plan your trip on www.metro.net or call 323-GO-METRO (323-466-3876).
* Opens 5:30 pm, Live Music at 6:30 pm, Movie at 8:30 pm.
* Food trucks: Dina's Dumplings (V), Chicken and Rice (V), Cousins Maine Lobster, Los Tamaleros, Street Kitchen LA (V), The Deli Doctor (V), The Triple Threat Truck (V), Dreamy Creations (V) and more! Most trucks have vegetarian options. Trucks with vegan options are marked (V).
* ADVANCE TIX, Reserved Section $19, General $14, Children Reserved 6-12 $11, Children General 6-12 $6, Children 5 & Under Free. Higher prices at gate.
* TIX and info: http://www.streetfoodcinema.com/jurassic-park
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Sat, Jun 22:
6 pm-9 pm - GALLERY OPENING RECEPTION for “OPEN VIEW” at Artlife Gallery, 720C S Allied Way, Plaza El Segundo, El Segundo CA
* This show is devoted to the international group of artists represented at this gallery, and it’s in many styles and mediums.
* Exhibition runs through June 30.
* Info at 310-938-2511 or email artlifesouthbay@gmail.com
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Sat, Jun 22:
6 pm-9 pm - GALLERY OPENING RECEPTION for “OPEN VIEW” at Artlife Gallery, 720C S Allied Way, Plaza El Segundo, El Segundo CA
* This show is devoted to the international group of artists represented at this gallery, and it’s in many styles and mediums.
* Exhibition runs through June 30.
* Info at 310-938-2511 or email artlifesouthbay@gmail.com
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Sat, Jun 22:
7 pm - “THENAGAIN,” A TRIBUTE TO THE EVERLY BROTHERS, plays the The Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena, CA 91001; reservations by phone only, 10 am-10 pm, 7 days: 626-798-6236.
* ThenAgain is a dynamic and artful tribute featuring Bob Chambers on Guitar & Vocals and Cyril Cianflone on Bass & Vocals. Bob and Cyril have played together for over 30 years.
* They have played with many artists, including Laura Nyro, Felix Cavaliere (of the Rascals), Carmine Appice, Eddie Money, Vinnie Vincent, and the Cowsills.
* ThenAgain adds its own unique "live" rendition of the Everly classics by utilizing guitar and bass (instead of 2 guitars) without any other supporting instruments. This enables the duo to offer a fuller, richer sound stripped down to the basics while allowing an emphasis on their two-part harmonies.
* You'll hear the tight harmonies, catchy melodies and heartfelt lyrics of the Everly Brothers. The Everly's had a profound influence on early Rock and Roll that can still be heard in present-day Pop and Country music. ThenAgain sings all their classics and more as they dig deep into the Everly catalog, covering little known gems like "Sleepless Nights" and "Don't Ask Me To Be Friends", songs you are very unlikely to hear anyone else performing.
* The Everly Brothers music is classic “American Roots” music, and they were one of the first artists to have hit songs on the Pop, R&B and Country Music charts at the same time.
* TIX, $20.
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Sat, Jun 22:
7 pm - SUSAN MARIE REEVES & KRISTINA OLSEN play the "Live at the A-Frame" House Concert series in Kagel Canyon, CA 91342
* Reservations get directions at 818-486-8505 or Coddy.Nuckols@gmail.com
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Sat, Jun 22; live music / film screening:
7:30 pm-10:30 pm - "MUSIC BOX CINEMA: 'THE IMMMIGRANT' AND TWO MORE GREAT SHORT FILMS STARRING CHARLIE CHAPLIN," with live music for the screenings of silent films, presented by "The Retroformat Coalition" at Woman's Club of Hollywood, 1749 N La Brea Av, Los Angeles, CA 90046
* Enjoy Charlie Chaplin at his greatest. The Retroformat Coalition and The Women’s Club of Hollywood present the Music Box Cinema’s presentation of three classic Charlie Chaplin silent films, with live accompaniment by Musical Director CLIFF RETALLICK and a special performance by special guest artist JANET KLEIN.
* See three of Charlie’s funniest and most touching shorts:
■ "The Floorwalker" (1916)
□ "The Rink" (1916), featuring his amazing prowess on roller skates
■ "The Immigrant" (1917)
* GO EARLY for a free tour of the historic Woman’s Club of Hollywood building, starting at 6:45 pm.
* "The Retroformat Coalition" is a new nonprofit dedicated to promoting the art and history of silent film. The group is pleased to join with the "USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive" and the Woman’s Club of Hollywood to present a new silent film series in the ballroom of the Woman’s Club’s historic building in the heart of Hollywood.
* The opening here of the new "Music Box Cinema" begins a new era for Los Angeles' silent film fans.
* TIX: $15, at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/charlie-chaplin-in-the-immigrant-at-the-new-music-box-cinema-tickets-62184380155
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Sat, Jun 22:
7:30 pm - DAN FRECHETTE & LAUREL THOMSEN play the "Gelencser House Concerts" series in Claremont, CA 91711
* Reservations get directions at 909-596-1266 or singfolk@yahoo.com
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Sat & Sun, Jun 22 & 23:
7:30 pm - WORLD PREMIERE run of “THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE” presented by LONG BEACH OPERA at the Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W Sixth St, San Pedro CA
* The new play by Anthony Davis focuses on the arrest and conviction of New York City teenagers in the 1980s, who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. They were found to be innocent, but that took years from their lives.
* Check out the New York Times article on Long Beach Opera's World Premiere of "The Central Park Five," at:
* PHOTO: From left, Derrell Acon, Cedric Berry, Orson Van Gay, Nathan Granner & Bernard Holcomb play the men wrongfully convicted of raping a New York woman in “The Central Park Five,” opening in June at Long Beach Opera. Rozette Rago, for The New York Times.
* Performances are Sat, Jun 15 & Sat, Jun 22, at 7:30 pm, and Sun, Jun 23, at 2:30 pm.
* TIX: $150 to $49, at 562-470-7464 or www.LongBeachOpera.org
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Sat, Jun 22:
8 pm - OLD BLIND DOGS play the "Pasadena Folk Music Society" concert series in Ramo Auditorium on the campus of California Institute of Technology, 332 S Michigan Av, Pasadena, CA 91106
* The show's producers sent us such a nice write-up (with music links), we'll share it with you:
"Scottish group Old Blind Dogs performs at Caltech in Ramo Auditorium. Tickets are selling well AND there are plenty of seats available, since Ramo Auditorium has more room than our usual venue. We're Big League for this show, with ushers and a ticket booth that can even take credit cards! If you haven't already made plans to come, just show up and you will be well rewarded. Old Blind Dogs has been recording since 1990 and, though personnel have changed through the years, the current band has their own outstanding credentials, which you can see enumerated here. They all play in lots of other configurations, but when they come together as Old Blind Dogs, it is magic! Listen to a couple of songs from their most recent CD, Room with a View. 'Died and Gone' [Youtube video link], a medley of 4 tunes, starts sweetly and quietly, and then Ali Hutton sets down the whistle and straps on the bagpipes and things take off! Old Blind Dogs is equally at home with slow airs, fast reels, and heartfelt ballads. 'Warlike Boys from Russia' [watch the video] is a rare (for the Dogs,) non-Celtic traditional song about the disastrous invasion of Russia by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1812. The song starts with the great whistle playing of Ali and fiddling of Jonny Hardie, and then Jonny sings backing vocals to Aaron's lead vocal and guitar, with Don Hay's punctuating brush drumming keeping it all on course. They will likely have some new songs as well."
* Tix: $25 for adults, $5 for children and Caltech students.
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8 pm - ARTUR MENEZES, 2018 winner "BLUES GUITARIST OF THE YEAR," plus the BOBBY BLUEHOUSE BAND, play the Arcadia Blues Club, 16 E Huntington Dr, Arcadia, CA 91006; 626-447-9349; www.arcadiabluesclub.com
* This guy is accomplished: Winner of the "Gibson/Albert King Award," named "Best Guitarist" by the Blues Foundation, and 3rd place winner at the "International Blues Challenge" in 2018.
* Venue has two stages, so performances are continuous. Also, pool tables, friendly crowd, full bar and good food (generous portions; two can share).
* Venue has two stages, so performances are continuous. Also, pool tables, friendly crowd, full bar and good food (generous portions; two can share).
* Fun place, but bring earplugs. Seriously.
* Online advance tix get a substantial discount. (Not that it's expensive, otherwise. The "ABC" is always remarkably affordable.)
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Sat, Jun 22:
8 pm - NATHAN JAMES plays a solo gig at the Fret House, 309 N Citrus Av, Covina, CA 91723; 626-339-7020
* "One of the only guys in the world that can really play the traditional stuff right." - Kim Wilson.
* "Of the 65 or so great guitar players I’ve had in my band, since the early 60’s, Nathan James is easily the A#1 hands-down stand-out!" -James Harman.
* "Nobody else these days plays so many styles so well, be it old time country blues, low down Memphis or Chicago blues, or even uptown string bending blues." - Rick Holmstrom.
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Sat, Jun 22:
8 pm - PETER FELDMANN & THE VERY LONESOME BOYS play "a concert of bluegrass, country, and American folk music" at the Santa Ynez Valley Grange Hall, 2374 Alamo Pintado Av,
Los Olivos, CA
* Tix: $15 at the door; $12.50 advance.
* More at: https://bluegrasswest.com/
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Sat, Jun 22:
8 pm - INCENDIO brings their fiery acoustic strings to Boulevard Music, 4316 Sepulveda Bl, Culver City, CA 90230; 310-398-2583
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Sat, Jun 22:
8 pm - CRYSTAL BOWERSOX plus Special Guest KELLY HOPPENJANS play the famous concert hall in back of McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica, CA 90405; 310-828-4497
* TIX by phone, $28.50
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Sat, Jun 22:
8 pm - CLOSING NIGHT for the musical “PIPPEN” at the Westchester Playhouse, 8301 Hindry Av, Westchester CA
* “Pippin” debuted on Broadway in 1972 with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Roger O. Hirson.
* Tix, $27, minus $2 for seniors, students, and armed services w/i.d.; tix at 310-645-5156 or go to http://kentwoodplayers.org/
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Sat, Jun 22:
8 pm - CLOSING NIGHT for the musical “PIPPEN” at the Westchester Playhouse, 8301 Hindry Av, Westchester CA
* “Pippin” debuted on Broadway in 1972 with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Roger O. Hirson.
* Tix, $27, minus $2 for seniors, students, and armed services w/i.d.; tix at 310-645-5156 or go to http://kentwoodplayers.org/
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☆ See Thursday, Friday, & Saturday listings for FESTIVALS that conclude today (we no longer re-list them each day).
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Sun, Jun 23, FREE FESTIVAL:
10 am-5 pm - "DISCOVER MARINA DEL REY" plus "MARINAFEST" in Burton Chace Park, 13650 Mindinao Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292; 310-877-5500
- Live music on multiple stages throughout the park
- Tall Ships
- In-Water Boat Show
- Harbor kayaking
- Children's activities
- Arts & crafts
- Marionette Shows
- Exhibits
- Vendors
* Community, family-oriented event also features information booths from various organizations on health, safety, and the environment.
* Only 4 miles from LAX and walking distance to world famous Venice Beach, Marina del Rey is known for exciting on-the-water activities and waterfront dining.
* At the festival, you can grab lunch at one of the participating food trucks.
* LIVE MUSIC INCLUDES:
- ORQUESTRA CHARANGOA, led by FAY ROBERTS, performs 1:30-3:30 pm; check 'em out at www.charangoa.com
- "JAM SESSION DRUM CIRCLE" 3:30- 5 pm. Take a rhythmic journey with Christopher Ramirez in this afternoon of interactive group drumming. Using a variety of percussion instruments, you''ll discover the joy of collectively creating beats and sounds with friends old and new.
* FREE ADMISSION with a printed or digital Eventbrite ticket showing acceptance of the liability waiver; do that at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/discover-marina-del-rey-tickets-60501497608 (or, upon arrival, entrance requires completing & signing a hard-copy liability waiver form before accessing the rides & attractions).
* Parking in County lots #4 and #5, located at 13500 Mindanao Way and 4545 Admiralty Way, respectively.
* "MARINAFEST" happens both Sat & Sun, Jun 22 from 10 am-6 pm, Jun 23 from 11 am-5 pm; also free; it does NOT include most of the above events. Both days, it features:
- In-Water Boat Show
- Water Taxi
- Historic Water Tours
- Tall Ships
* Download the printable pdf flyer on both events, at: http://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/dbh/docs/1054440_2019DiscoverMarinadelReyFlyer.pdf
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Sun, Jun 22 & 23:
2:30 pm - WORLD PREMIERE run concludes of “THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE” presented by LONG BEACH OPERA at the Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W Sixth St, San Pedro CA
* The new play by Anthony Davis focuses on the arrest and conviction of New York City teenagers in the 1980s, who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. They were found to be innocent, but that took years from their lives.
* Check out the New York Times article on Long Beach Opera's World Premiere of "The Central Park Five," at:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/arts/music/central-park-five-opera.html
* Performances are Sat, Jun 15 & Sat, Jun 22, at 7:30 pm, and Sun, Jun 23, at 2:30 pm.
* TIX: $150 to $49, at 562-470-7464 or www.LongBeachOpera.org
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Sun, Jun 23:
4 pm - SALTY SUITES play Grapes and Hops, 54 E Main St, Ventura, CA 93001; 805-641-0053
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10 am-5 pm - "DISCOVER MARINA DEL REY" plus "MARINAFEST" in Burton Chace Park, 13650 Mindinao Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292; 310-877-5500
- Live music on multiple stages throughout the park
- Tall Ships
- In-Water Boat Show
- Harbor kayaking
- Children's activities
- Arts & crafts
- Marionette Shows
- Exhibits
- Vendors
* Community, family-oriented event also features information booths from various organizations on health, safety, and the environment.
* Only 4 miles from LAX and walking distance to world famous Venice Beach, Marina del Rey is known for exciting on-the-water activities and waterfront dining.
* At the festival, you can grab lunch at one of the participating food trucks.
* LIVE MUSIC INCLUDES:
- ORQUESTRA CHARANGOA, led by FAY ROBERTS, performs 1:30-3:30 pm; check 'em out at www.charangoa.com
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* FREE ADMISSION with a printed or digital Eventbrite ticket showing acceptance of the liability waiver; do that at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/discover-marina-del-rey-tickets-60501497608 (or, upon arrival, entrance requires completing & signing a hard-copy liability waiver form before accessing the rides & attractions).
* Parking in County lots #4 and #5, located at 13500 Mindanao Way and 4545 Admiralty Way, respectively.
* "MARINAFEST" happens both Sat & Sun, Jun 22 from 10 am-6 pm, Jun 23 from 11 am-5 pm; also free; it does NOT include most of the above events. Both days, it features:
- In-Water Boat Show
- Water Taxi
- Historic Water Tours
- Tall Ships
* Download the printable pdf flyer on both events, at: http://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/dbh/docs/1054440_2019DiscoverMarinadelReyFlyer.pdf
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Sun, Jun 22 & 23:
2:30 pm - WORLD PREMIERE run concludes of “THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE” presented by LONG BEACH OPERA at the Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W Sixth St, San Pedro CA
* The new play by Anthony Davis focuses on the arrest and conviction of New York City teenagers in the 1980s, who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. They were found to be innocent, but that took years from their lives.
* Check out the New York Times article on Long Beach Opera's World Premiere of "The Central Park Five," at:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/arts/music/central-park-five-opera.html
* Performances are Sat, Jun 15 & Sat, Jun 22, at 7:30 pm, and Sun, Jun 23, at 2:30 pm.
* TIX: $150 to $49, at 562-470-7464 or www.LongBeachOpera.org
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4 pm - SALTY SUITES play Grapes and Hops, 54 E Main St, Ventura, CA 93001; 805-641-0053
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Sun, Jun 23, FREE CONCERT:
5 pm - THE GREAT AMERICAN SWING BAND presented by "Summer Sounds WeHo" in Plummer Park, 7377 Santa Monica Bl, West Hollywood, CA 90046
* Repertoire includes Standards, Swing, Big Band, Jazz, Dixieland, Rhythm and Blues, Rock and Roll, and Contemporary Music.
* Music sample: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AvSMpJXaOzE28XdkyiN3CC4YFOYc
* Band's website: www.greatamericanswingband
* Limited first come, first serve seating available, or bring a picnic basket and blanket.
* Parking is always an expensive issue in WeHo and it keeps us from frequenting some legendary music venues there. Ride the Metro bus, or consult: www.weho.org/summersounds
* Free.
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Sun, Jun 23, arts fundraiser:
5:30 pm - “BYE BYE, BAYOU… HELLO, TORRANCE” is the annual fundraiser gala presented by the "Friends of the Torrance Theatre Company" at the DoubleTree Hotel in Torrance CA
* It’s a comic murder mystery written by Cindy Shield and directed by Perry Shields.
* Tickets are $125 and proceeds go towards the 2019-2020 season. Tix at 424-243-6882 or go to http://torrancetheatrecompany.com/
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Sun, Jun 23, on TV:
6 pm-7:48 pm - "APOLLO 11" (2019), an epic new documentary with a surprise vintage folk song, gets its TV premiere. It's already won awards at film festivals and had an IMAX theatre run in March.
* Director Todd Douglas Miller captures momentous events with newly-discovered and restored archival footage from NASA vaults and the National Archives. That includes a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, and other never-before-seen clips, audio, and materials. Together, these are utilized to tell the story from a more inclusive perspective than was known 50 years ago when it happened.
* Each of the Apollo lunar missions launched aboard the Saturn V rocket, as tall as a 36-storey skyscraper, developing over seven-and-half MILLION pounds of thrust from its first stage, alone. (See pic.)
* Apollo 11 made the first Moon landing with a human crew on July 20th, 1969. This film airs so much earlier than the 50th anniversary date so it can beat the airdates of the upcoming miniseries doc from PBS.
* A folk song is the film's de facto theme track. The late John Stewart's "Mother Country" was identified on an archival film soundtrack, playing on a weightlessly-twirling cassette recorder aboard the spacecraft. Turns out it was on Buzz Aldrin's on-board mix tape. With the line, "What ever happened to those faces in the old photographs?" it seemed to the modern filmmakers to be the perfect choice to showcase, so they did. Read that full story here, where you can also play a vid of Stewart performing the song. Alas, he died of a sudden stroke in 2008, and never knew his song would reach a new audience -- of space nerds.
* A folk song is the film's de facto theme track. The late John Stewart's "Mother Country" was identified on an archival film soundtrack, playing on a weightlessly-twirling cassette recorder aboard the spacecraft. Turns out it was on Buzz Aldrin's on-board mix tape. With the line, "What ever happened to those faces in the old photographs?" it seemed to the modern filmmakers to be the perfect choice to showcase, so they did. Read that full story here, where you can also play a vid of Stewart performing the song. Alas, he died of a sudden stroke in 2008, and never knew his song would reach a new audience -- of space nerds.
* WATCH THE OFFICIAL TRAILER NOW, at: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Co8Z8BQgWc
* On CNN. Time is Pacific Daylight; adjust for your time zone.
* Re-airs tonight 8 pm-9:48 pm (PDT).
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Sun, Jun 23:
8 pm - "SINGING OUT TOUR 2019" featuring HEATHER MAE & CRYS MATTHEWS, arrives in the famous concert hall in back of McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica, CA 90405; 310-828-4497
* Tix, $20, at 310-828-4497
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Sun, Jun 23, on TV:
8 pm-9:48 pm - "APOLLO 11" (2019), an epic new documentary, gets its TV premiere night on CNN. It already aired at 6 pm; see that listing for our write-up.
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Monday, June 24th, in history... prepare to be furious.
by Larry Wines
Today marks the 70th anniversary of the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights." Around the world, a special flag will be flown today -- not so much to celebrate as to remind.
Because unimaginably barbaric abuses; oppressions; deprivations; denials of freedom, physical or intellectual or of dignity;
Proclaimed denials to the world by perpetrators who continue to inflict barbarity; incarcerations of prisoners of conscience; "re-education" brainwashing;
Torture; sex-exploitation slavery; political slavery, economic slavery, conflict-related slavery, and slavery designed to extract labor while inflicting pain and killing those in bondage;
Myriad manifestations of physical-mental-emotional brutality;
Deprivations and genocidal exterminations based simply on race, creed, religious or ethnic or tribal affiliation;
Intentionally-inflicted blindings and amputations and cripplings by sledge hammer and pliers and sharpened stick and sword, and beheadings and other forms of executions (some performed slowly) often to make examples and send messages to keep others in line;
ALL still continue in our world that is inexcusably fond of denying it.
Those things are happening right now, today, even on this anniversary day, and they continue to happen every day. Right here in our not-yet-bright-future with our virtual, cyber, order-everything-on-line voluptuary of the future, we never got the future we were promised. Our instantly-available-everything world is a distraction of self-indulgent playthings to avoid our contemplating that our little worlds do not reflect objective reality, or our expectations derived from a tv reality show, because actual reality is invisible to our denyingly, delusionally, comfortably-numb, market-driven, predictive-analytic-trending-fad, media-ratings-driven world of the 21st century.
And if learning there are -- within United States government-run "Immigrant Detention Facilities" -- lice-infested, flu-ridden, vomiting sick children, with infants left solely in their care, with no showers and no soap and no running water and an open bucket in the middle of a crowded cell as the only toilet; and that many of these children and infants are sleeping on concrete floors;
- in these government-run de facto concentration camps in Texas;
- about which a U.S. Justice Department lawyer has proclaimed in court that a "toothbrush, soap, and blanket are not necessary provisions" in these "detention camps" populated by incarcerated children;
And if learning about these things sounds like any of the litany of abuses by the world's most depraved dictators and their regimes; and if these sound like the very things that all the signatory nations of the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" agreed, 70 years ago today, that they would not allow to happen ever again, anywhere?
"Verily I say unto you, Since you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me."
-- from the Biblical Book of Matthew (25:40), and often cited by the late Mother Teresa.
The word "outrage" has become the political equivalent of the "f-word," so frequently and reactively expressed that it has lost the power that words should evoke. If we can bestow any vestige of its original meaning, what is happening in those border "detention camps" is an ABSOLUTE, un-nuanced, horrifying outrage that should shake this country to its very foundations.
If we just ruined your day, we won't apologize. If you didn't know, you needed to. So, now -- if the will of the people really does prevail in this society -- what are you going to do about it?
You can get all the contact links for your elected
federal representatives at:
https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials/by Larry Wines
Today marks the 70th anniversary of the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights." Around the world, a special flag will be flown today -- not so much to celebrate as to remind.
Because unimaginably barbaric abuses; oppressions; deprivations; denials of freedom, physical or intellectual or of dignity;
Proclaimed denials to the world by perpetrators who continue to inflict barbarity; incarcerations of prisoners of conscience; "re-education" brainwashing;
Torture; sex-exploitation slavery; political slavery, economic slavery, conflict-related slavery, and slavery designed to extract labor while inflicting pain and killing those in bondage;
Myriad manifestations of physical-mental-emotional brutality;
Deprivations and genocidal exterminations based simply on race, creed, religious or ethnic or tribal affiliation;
Intentionally-inflicted blindings and amputations and cripplings by sledge hammer and pliers and sharpened stick and sword, and beheadings and other forms of executions (some performed slowly) often to make examples and send messages to keep others in line;
ALL still continue in our world that is inexcusably fond of denying it.
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And if learning there are -- within United States government-run "Immigrant Detention Facilities" -- lice-infested, flu-ridden, vomiting sick children, with infants left solely in their care, with no showers and no soap and no running water and an open bucket in the middle of a crowded cell as the only toilet; and that many of these children and infants are sleeping on concrete floors;
- in these government-run de facto concentration camps in Texas;
- about which a U.S. Justice Department lawyer has proclaimed in court that a "toothbrush, soap, and blanket are not necessary provisions" in these "detention camps" populated by incarcerated children;
And if learning about these things sounds like any of the litany of abuses by the world's most depraved dictators and their regimes; and if these sound like the very things that all the signatory nations of the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" agreed, 70 years ago today, that they would not allow to happen ever again, anywhere?
"Verily I say unto you, Since you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me."
-- from the Biblical Book of Matthew (25:40), and often cited by the late Mother Teresa.
The word "outrage" has become the political equivalent of the "f-word," so frequently and reactively expressed that it has lost the power that words should evoke. If we can bestow any vestige of its original meaning, what is happening in those border "detention camps" is an ABSOLUTE, un-nuanced, horrifying outrage that should shake this country to its very foundations.
If we just ruined your day, we won't apologize. If you didn't know, you needed to. So, now -- if the will of the people really does prevail in this society -- what are you going to do about it?
You can get all the contact links for your elected
federal representatives at:
While you are giving them a piece of your mind, ask them if they are ready to "Repeal section 1325" of the Immigration and Naturalization Code. It's the section that allows these incarcerations to happen.
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History Can -- and Should -- Inform Our Perspectives
The Battle of the Little Bighorn was fought in remote Montana, while it was part of Dakota Territory, on June 25, 1876. Hang on. We know you're saying, "That anniversary was yesterday!" Yes it was. There's a reason we're presenting this today. It's because of when and how legacies take hold AFTER something happens, and how legends come from mythmaking, and how and why that starts.
The Little Bighorn is a river in Montana that flows north. But its name is remembered as the place where George Armstrong Custer, a possible candidate for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, was killed along with all the officers and men in his contingent of the U.S. 7th Cavalry.
Only recently is the battle interpreted as a major victory for the Lokotah (Sioux), Cheyenne, and their allies, who had rebelliously left their reservations because the treaties they had signed with the U.S. government had proven worthless, and their people were starving.
The bronze "Spirit Warrior" sculpture in the photo looms over the horizon at the Indian Memorial at Little Bighorn National Monument. It used to be, until 1991, that the place was named "Custer National Monument," and inclusion of a monumental Native American component at the site was even longer in coming. The sculpture by Ogala artist Colleen Cutschall depicts three Native American warriors riding off to battle.
Still, neither old traditional tales, including, graphically, the most famous Budweiser mural to hang above frontier saloon bars -- nor the dozens of movies and countless other artistic and literary depictions of the battle, and eventually, inevitable parade of revisionist historians' portrayals -- usually attempt to inclusively offer the entire context.
Yes, Custer was the boy general cavalry hero of the Union in the Civil War; that IS true. In fact, Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart's attack on the rear of the Union position at Gettysburg would have succeeded, had Custer not thrown his Michigan Cavalry Brigade headlong into that isolated fray behind the name-brand part of THE pivotal battle in Robert E. Lee's invasion of the North.
But the cliches of Custer being (a) characterized by recklessness, and (b) having a visceral contempt of Native American Indians are just not true.
There is plenty of evidence that Custer had an Indian mistress whom he repeatedly visited in a teepee in her band's village.
In fact there were Native Americans on both sides in the battle. Custer's scouts were mostly from the Crow nation.
And it wasn't just the blue-uniformed troopers who died on June 25th. In fact, most of them did NOT die, after surviving being besieged atop a shallow bowl-shaped hill, under command of Custer's subordinates, Maj. Marcus Reno and Capt. William Benteen, both of whom helped precipitate disaster; and with them were surviving members of the detachment led by Capt. Weir, whose efforts to reach and rescue Custer's unit got as close as modern-day Weir Point.
The thing you've always heard about the Black Hills of (now) South Dakota being ancient sacred lands of the Sioux? Not until the Sioux ran the Crow out of those hills, which had been their ancient sacred lands. Which explains why the Crow wanted the Sioux defeated and subdued.
Yesterday's Daily Kos has a story by their staff writer Meteor Blades titled, "On this date 143 years ago, America began creating the Custer myth, much of which survives today" (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/6/25/1867186/-On-this-date-143-years-ago-America-began-creating-the-Custer-myth-much-of-which-survives-today)
The story is accurate as far as it goes, and it includes a good measure of context and references. But it seems to justify its omissions with the blanket idea that the Custer Myth must be un-done. Thing is, that myth is inclusive of facts that need their convolutions undone, a fuller context applied, and the justifications for their long period of cultural acceptance examined.
We aren't writing here to challenge Blades, but to amplify a few points and expand the context beyond where he went.
While not claiming to be an expert on the Custer battle, your editor has been over the ground there, as well as reading about and studying the battle and what led up to it.
An indelible memory is riding the battlefield on horseback with the late Joe Medicine Crow, last war chief of the Crow Nation. More than anything, viewing the rises and falls of the landscape -- fording the narrow, rushing river on horseback where they did, going into the tangle of trees on the riverbank, hearing bird songs while riding up Medicine Tail Coulee on the route of the Indian counterattack, seeing Last Stand Hill from atop Weir Point, and more -- explains things, as much as possible, as the participants saw them. In the same context, learning that the sharp line of ridgetop disappeared when the Park Service built the visitor road helps to understand why seemingly obvious things were invisible at the time.
Riding the routes of participants, up from the wide bulge of meadow that held the massive gathering of tribal bands -- whose members knew the ground and were rushing to protect their families -- and the route of the precipitating participants, the cavalry who lured themselves into the fatal notions they developed without opportunity for reconsideration, informs everything about what actions were open to people who took part.
History Can -- and Should -- Inform Our Perspectives
The Battle of the Little Bighorn was fought in remote Montana, while it was part of Dakota Territory, on June 25, 1876. Hang on. We know you're saying, "That anniversary was yesterday!" Yes it was. There's a reason we're presenting this today. It's because of when and how legacies take hold AFTER something happens, and how legends come from mythmaking, and how and why that starts.
The Little Bighorn is a river in Montana that flows north. But its name is remembered as the place where George Armstrong Custer, a possible candidate for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, was killed along with all the officers and men in his contingent of the U.S. 7th Cavalry.
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| "Spirit Warrior" bronze sculpture, a recent addition, looms over the horizon at Little Bighorn National Monument. Photo: Meteor Blades |
The bronze "Spirit Warrior" sculpture in the photo looms over the horizon at the Indian Memorial at Little Bighorn National Monument. It used to be, until 1991, that the place was named "Custer National Monument," and inclusion of a monumental Native American component at the site was even longer in coming. The sculpture by Ogala artist Colleen Cutschall depicts three Native American warriors riding off to battle.
Still, neither old traditional tales, including, graphically, the most famous Budweiser mural to hang above frontier saloon bars -- nor the dozens of movies and countless other artistic and literary depictions of the battle, and eventually, inevitable parade of revisionist historians' portrayals -- usually attempt to inclusively offer the entire context.
Yes, Custer was the boy general cavalry hero of the Union in the Civil War; that IS true. In fact, Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart's attack on the rear of the Union position at Gettysburg would have succeeded, had Custer not thrown his Michigan Cavalry Brigade headlong into that isolated fray behind the name-brand part of THE pivotal battle in Robert E. Lee's invasion of the North.
But the cliches of Custer being (a) characterized by recklessness, and (b) having a visceral contempt of Native American Indians are just not true.
There is plenty of evidence that Custer had an Indian mistress whom he repeatedly visited in a teepee in her band's village.
In fact there were Native Americans on both sides in the battle. Custer's scouts were mostly from the Crow nation.
And it wasn't just the blue-uniformed troopers who died on June 25th. In fact, most of them did NOT die, after surviving being besieged atop a shallow bowl-shaped hill, under command of Custer's subordinates, Maj. Marcus Reno and Capt. William Benteen, both of whom helped precipitate disaster; and with them were surviving members of the detachment led by Capt. Weir, whose efforts to reach and rescue Custer's unit got as close as modern-day Weir Point.
The thing you've always heard about the Black Hills of (now) South Dakota being ancient sacred lands of the Sioux? Not until the Sioux ran the Crow out of those hills, which had been their ancient sacred lands. Which explains why the Crow wanted the Sioux defeated and subdued.
Yesterday's Daily Kos has a story by their staff writer Meteor Blades titled, "On this date 143 years ago, America began creating the Custer myth, much of which survives today" (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/6/25/1867186/-On-this-date-143-years-ago-America-began-creating-the-Custer-myth-much-of-which-survives-today)
The story is accurate as far as it goes, and it includes a good measure of context and references. But it seems to justify its omissions with the blanket idea that the Custer Myth must be un-done. Thing is, that myth is inclusive of facts that need their convolutions undone, a fuller context applied, and the justifications for their long period of cultural acceptance examined.
We aren't writing here to challenge Blades, but to amplify a few points and expand the context beyond where he went.
While not claiming to be an expert on the Custer battle, your editor has been over the ground there, as well as reading about and studying the battle and what led up to it.
An indelible memory is riding the battlefield on horseback with the late Joe Medicine Crow, last war chief of the Crow Nation. More than anything, viewing the rises and falls of the landscape -- fording the narrow, rushing river on horseback where they did, going into the tangle of trees on the riverbank, hearing bird songs while riding up Medicine Tail Coulee on the route of the Indian counterattack, seeing Last Stand Hill from atop Weir Point, and more -- explains things, as much as possible, as the participants saw them. In the same context, learning that the sharp line of ridgetop disappeared when the Park Service built the visitor road helps to understand why seemingly obvious things were invisible at the time.
Riding the routes of participants, up from the wide bulge of meadow that held the massive gathering of tribal bands -- whose members knew the ground and were rushing to protect their families -- and the route of the precipitating participants, the cavalry who lured themselves into the fatal notions they developed without opportunity for reconsideration, informs everything about what actions were open to people who took part.
Contrasting images, conflicting views of deadly conflict as civilizations collide
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| "Custer’s Last Fight" hung above every saloon bar in America. The oldest piece of American breweriana known to exist, Anheuser-Busch commissioned the original painting by Cassilly Adams in 1884, and a lithograph was made from it by F. Otto Becker in 1889. Note the African Zulu warrior shields, "borrowed" from images of a British colonial war also fought to "expand civilization." |
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| Depiction made by Native participant Kicking Bear, aka Matȟó Wanáȟtaka, an Ogala Lakota who was a first cousin of war chief Crazy Horse (Tȟašúŋke Witkó). Painted at the request of Frederic Remington in 1898, as he remembered the "Battle of the Greasy Grass," the Indian name for the Battle of the Little Big Horn. |
Research to understand which options they chose requires developing an understanding of who they were and what they knew, or thought they knew, on that fateful day.
It isn't myth that Custer believed he was being supported by an entire army that, unknown to him, had been defeated a few days earlier in the truly greatest victory of the Plains Indians over U.S. troops. Strangely, that part is usually left out -- and has been since the 1870s, when the army didn't want its living generals to look bad.
To some extent, Custer became the fall guy, the scapegoat to protect the reputations of others.
A popular belief resurrected since the movie "Little Big Man" is that Custer was crazy with hubris, and just plain insane. The historical record says otherwise.
We are always ill-served by simplistic myths that overemphasize false notions from any direction.
Custer was, not unlike Patton 65 years later, a harsh taskmaster who allowed himself many contradictory and even flamboyant excesses. But Patton could read all his adversary's communication dispatches, thanks to the "Ultra" secret, and Custer had only scouts reading smoke and trail signs. (Yes, they did tell him he was heading into a massive gathering of Indians.)
But the big bucket in which our culture enjoys dumping things, labelled "Disaster Caused by Hubris of Runaway Ego"-? It popularly includes the RMS Titanic sailing too fast and hitting an iceberg; launching the Space Shuttle Challenger after its o-rings froze; holding the Alamo in the face of the entire Mexican army; sending Pickett's Charge into the Union center; rushing the Apollo 1 spacecraft into production before assessing it for flammables and electrical sparks; most recently, putting complicated autopilot features into commercial airliners that crash the airplane; and plenty more you can add.
Go ahead. But do it knowing that relentlessly simplistic labelling of our short-attention-span society deprives us of any opportunity to understand much, then or now. Every time and any time we allow ourselves to smugly accept the simplistic answer to complex circumstances, we satisfy ourselves with answers that are incomplete, and therefore, probably wrong.
As for why we asked you to read this, a day after the anniversary of the event? We could say, "that should be obvious by now," but wouldn't that betray you with excessive simplicity?
And as for the beginning of the "Custer Myth" which underlies the Daily Kos piece that got us started? In fact, its author says -- if his title does not -- that the genesis of that myth started with the widowed Elizabeth "Libby" Custer, who proved herself one of the greatest legend-makers in American history. We will point out that it therefore did not start with the still-bleeding corpes of cavalrymen at Little Bighorn.
Instead of allowing the salacious and titillating tales of her husband's Indian lover to take hold, the grieving widow martyred herself, portraying him as author of the perfect, fairy-tale relationship -- and as the shining knight of civilization subduing the savage. Now, isn't that a better topic to examine, anyway?
To some extent, Custer became the fall guy, the scapegoat to protect the reputations of others.
A popular belief resurrected since the movie "Little Big Man" is that Custer was crazy with hubris, and just plain insane. The historical record says otherwise.
We are always ill-served by simplistic myths that overemphasize false notions from any direction.
Custer was, not unlike Patton 65 years later, a harsh taskmaster who allowed himself many contradictory and even flamboyant excesses. But Patton could read all his adversary's communication dispatches, thanks to the "Ultra" secret, and Custer had only scouts reading smoke and trail signs. (Yes, they did tell him he was heading into a massive gathering of Indians.)
But the big bucket in which our culture enjoys dumping things, labelled "Disaster Caused by Hubris of Runaway Ego"-? It popularly includes the RMS Titanic sailing too fast and hitting an iceberg; launching the Space Shuttle Challenger after its o-rings froze; holding the Alamo in the face of the entire Mexican army; sending Pickett's Charge into the Union center; rushing the Apollo 1 spacecraft into production before assessing it for flammables and electrical sparks; most recently, putting complicated autopilot features into commercial airliners that crash the airplane; and plenty more you can add.
Go ahead. But do it knowing that relentlessly simplistic labelling of our short-attention-span society deprives us of any opportunity to understand much, then or now. Every time and any time we allow ourselves to smugly accept the simplistic answer to complex circumstances, we satisfy ourselves with answers that are incomplete, and therefore, probably wrong.
As for why we asked you to read this, a day after the anniversary of the event? We could say, "that should be obvious by now," but wouldn't that betray you with excessive simplicity?
And as for the beginning of the "Custer Myth" which underlies the Daily Kos piece that got us started? In fact, its author says -- if his title does not -- that the genesis of that myth started with the widowed Elizabeth "Libby" Custer, who proved herself one of the greatest legend-makers in American history. We will point out that it therefore did not start with the still-bleeding corpes of cavalrymen at Little Bighorn.
Instead of allowing the salacious and titillating tales of her husband's Indian lover to take hold, the grieving widow martyred herself, portraying him as author of the perfect, fairy-tale relationship -- and as the shining knight of civilization subduing the savage. Now, isn't that a better topic to examine, anyway?
Certainly, the propagandization of things to reinvent reality is a topic with more -- make that FAR more -- implications for our time.
See? History isn't about the incontrovertible dead past. The past is prologue to all that comes.
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Wed, Jun 26:
2 pm-5 pm - "PEACE AWARENESS LABYRINTH & GARDENS" holds its annual "Summer Barbecue and Tours" of their three historic West Adams buildings with a tasty barbecue in the courtyard alongside the labyrinth and beautiful pergola, at 3500 W Adams Bl, Los Angeles CA 90018; 323-737-4055.
* Barbecue, 2 pm - 3 pm
* Docent-led tour hours, 3 pm - 5 pm
* Limited parking in the property. Street parking available.
* Cost: $20 adults, $10 seniors and teens; for seniors & teens, apply code BBQDISCOUNT
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Thu-Sat, Jun 27-30, FESTIVAL:
Annual "KATE WOLF MUSIC FESTIVAL" in Northern California, with featured performances by Kris Kristofferson, Los Lobos, Ruthie Foster, John Hiatt, Eliza Gilkyson, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, Old Blind Dogs, and much more.
* We intended to bring you more about this wonderful festival, which has a devoted following. People tell us that attending "the Kate Wolf is a religious pilgrimmage." Alas, we never got caught-up. So jump on your browser (We always recommend Duck-Duck-Go and Startpage, they both work great and they don't steal your data and turn you into a marketing practice dummy like the "corpirate" cyber megagiants do...)
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| A scene from the 2018 Kate Wolf festival |
Thu, Jun 27:
8 pm - EJ MATHEWS BAND plays Boulevard Music, 4316 Sepulveda Bl, Culver City, CA 90230; 310-398-2583
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June 28th in history:
Fifty years ago today, and less than a month before the first Moon landing that would go "in peace for all mankind," New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in Greenwich Village.
In that era, patrons of gay bars were frequently subject to police harassment, but that day, the Stonewall Inn patrons resisted. That set off a violent uprising that lasted for days and launched the modern gay rights movement. To this day, it is important to note that it was "an uprising, not a riot."
As "World Pride" is celebrated in New York City in recognition of this historic global moment which began as part of American history, the PBS series "American Experience" is making their documentary, "Stonewall Uprising," available to stream on their site and via the PBS Video app.
Watch the first chapter of that PBS doc (the part that is always on their site), at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/stonewall-chapter-1/
Watch the whole thing, free for a limited time, at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/stonewall/
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☆ See Thursday's listings for FESTIVALS that continue today (we no longer re-list them each day).
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June 28th in history:
Fifty years ago today, and less than a month before the first Moon landing that would go "in peace for all mankind," New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in Greenwich Village.
In that era, patrons of gay bars were frequently subject to police harassment, but that day, the Stonewall Inn patrons resisted. That set off a violent uprising that lasted for days and launched the modern gay rights movement. To this day, it is important to note that it was "an uprising, not a riot."
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| " An uprising, not a riot." Image from WGBH, courtesy of Bettye Lane. (Did every NYPD cop in 1969 have a moustache?) |
Watch the first chapter of that PBS doc (the part that is always on their site), at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/stonewall-chapter-1/
Watch the whole thing, free for a limited time, at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/stonewall/
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☆ See Thursday's listings for FESTIVALS that continue today (we no longer re-list them each day).
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Fri-Sun, Jun 28-30, FESTIVAL:
Annual "MOKSHA FESTIVAL" in Frazier Park, CA
* It's a weekend gathering of yogis, musicians, healers and teachers, with many classes, workshops and music.
* Topanga-based musician ANNMARIE SOUL is a presenter/performer each day, and she tells the Guide, "Sign up using the code HEART MEDICINE and receive a 25% discount."
* See poster (click to enlarge & read it).
* Registration and more at: http://www.mokshafestival.com/Socal/
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Fri, Jun 28, on TV:
6:15 am-12:15 pm - A MORNING OF CLASSIC MUSICALS, all starring Judy Garland, airs on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) on cable and satellite:
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* 6:15 am-8:15 am - "MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS" (1944) is an Americana tunefest taken from Sally Benson's short stories about the turn-of-the-century Smith family of St. Louis. The film features the traditional songs "Meet Me in St. Louie, Louie" (1904), "Little Brown Jug" (1869), and "Skip to My Lou," and Garland debuted the standards "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," "The Trolley Song," and "The Boy Next Door," all of which became hits for her after the film was released. "Rotten Tomatoes" gives it the maximum rating of 100, calling it "the best cinematic cheese... anywhere."
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* 8:15 am-10:30 am - "TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY" (1946) brings "a constellation of MGM stars" to this fictionalized biopic of the life and career of songwriter-composer JEROME KERN. The film features songs performed by Lena Horne, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Garland, and dancing by Cyd Charisse.
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Fri, Jun 28, FREE event:
6:30 pm - Blues Rock Legend GEORGE THOROGOOD live: Interview, Demo & Signing to celebrate the release of his new album “Good To Be Bad” AND debut and play a demo on his new signature Epiphone guitar, at Sam Ash-Hollywood, 7360 Sunset Bl, Los Angeles, CA 90046
* Just announced to media, at 10:44 am, June 18.
* FREE, but LIMITED CAPACITY, so first come, first served.
* The first 30 attendees in line will get a special meet-and-greet and signing with GEORGE THOROGOOD; no line-ups at Sam Ash before 2 pm.
* GEORGE THOROGOOD and his band, George Thorogood & The Destroyers, have sold over 15 million albums, built a classic catalog of hits, and have played more than 8,000 ferocious live shows.
* In celebration of the release of his brand-new Epiphone Ltd. Ed. George Thorogood “White Fang” ES-125TDC Outfit, George is doing this special, live interview and demo of the new guitar.
* Epiphone proudly presents the "Ltd. Ed. George Thorogood 'White Fang' ES-125TDC Outfit," the premier signature guitar by the blues legend. Featuring a vintage-inspired ES-125 hollowbody archtop in a Bone White finish with removable “Cobra” sticker, new ProBucker (TM) P-90 single-coil pickups, a hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity, Custom Hard Case with “snake-skin” handle, and Wilkinson (TM) Deluxe Tuners.
* The ES-125 thin-line hollowbody was first introduced in 1956 as a student guitar, but in George Thorogood’s hands, his rare, late '50s two-pickup ES-125 was transformed into one of the most iconic instruments in American music.
* Watch GEORGE THOROGOOD talk about and play his new “White Fang” ES-125TDC at: https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=uZZvxHWZKn4
* Info on the forthcoming North American “Good To Be Bad Tour: 45 Years Of Rock,” with the full itinerary of dates, is at: https://www.georgethorogood.com
* FREE event.
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Fri, Jun 28:
7:30 pm - RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT plays the "AMSD Concerts" series in Sweetwater Community Church, 5305 Sweetwater Rd, Bonita, CA 91902; 619-201-0520
* A true legend of the road and the recording studio, Ramblin' Jack is the last of the breed.
* He also plays Santa Monica on Jun 30 at 8 pm; see listing.
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Fri, Jun 28:
8 pm - THE KATIE KUFFEL TRIO plays the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena, CA 91001
* Katie Kuffel is a tongue-in-cheek, Seattle-based musician smashing the piano in a manner that's not quite blues, not quite folk, and not quite like anything you've heard before.
* With songwriting that is both innovative and thoughtful she explores community, feminism, and her personal experiences as an advocate against sexism and violence, with a contemporary sound that supports turbulent, poetic lyrics.
* Together with drummer Jordan Wiegert and bassist Jon Robinson, the trio enchants and enthralls through groove, feel, and straight up charisma.
* Reservations by phone only, 10 am-10 pm, 7 days: 626-798-6236.
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8 pm - THE KATIE KUFFEL TRIO plays the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena, CA 91001
* Katie Kuffel is a tongue-in-cheek, Seattle-based musician smashing the piano in a manner that's not quite blues, not quite folk, and not quite like anything you've heard before.
* With songwriting that is both innovative and thoughtful she explores community, feminism, and her personal experiences as an advocate against sexism and violence, with a contemporary sound that supports turbulent, poetic lyrics.
* Together with drummer Jordan Wiegert and bassist Jon Robinson, the trio enchants and enthralls through groove, feel, and straight up charisma.
* Reservations by phone only, 10 am-10 pm, 7 days: 626-798-6236.
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Fri, Jun 28:
8 pm - JOE ROBINSON plays the famous concert hall in back of McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica, CA 90405; 310-828-4497
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Fri, Jun 28:
8 pm - THE STORYTELLERS play the Bon Vivant Market & Café, 3155 Glendale Bl, Los Angeles, CA 90039; 323-284-8013
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Saturday
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☆ See Thursday & Friday listings for FESTIVALS that continue today (we no longer re-list them each day).
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Sat & Sun, on TV:
HEART SISTERS ANN & NANCY WILSON are the tuneful subject of "a Heart-filled weekend" on AXS-TV.
* The iconic female-fronted band HEART will be featured on AXS TV all day, both days.
* Multi-platinum selling musicians, pioneers of the all-acoustic album embraced by rock radio and fans ("Dreamboat Annie"), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame® inductees, and creative-innovative icons, get an all-day marathon of music, interviews, and more. AXS promises plenty on each of their "Side Projects You Might Not Know About!"
* PACIFIC TIME, things get underway Saturday at 10 am and run through 6:30 pm. Sunday, part one of a HEART concert airs 6 pm-7:05 pm, and repeats 8:05-9:10 pm; part two is 9:10-10:15 pm.
* More at: http://www.axs.tv/axstvconcerts/heart-side-projects-you-might-not-know-about/
* AXS offers a watch-online free trial if you don't already have it in your cable or satellite package. Info at http://www.axs.tv/
* Not that we're doing a commercial for anyone -- we don't -- but we will repeat something we've said multiple times before: in the L.A. television market, the reliably best free channel for music performance programming is KLCS, the public TV station owned by the L.A. school district. The best pay-subscription channel for music performances is AXS.
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Sat & Sun, on TV:
HEART SISTERS ANN & NANCY WILSON are the tuneful subject of "a Heart-filled weekend" on AXS-TV.
* Multi-platinum selling musicians, pioneers of the all-acoustic album embraced by rock radio and fans ("Dreamboat Annie"), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame® inductees, and creative-innovative icons, get an all-day marathon of music, interviews, and more. AXS promises plenty on each of their "Side Projects You Might Not Know About!"
* PACIFIC TIME, things get underway Saturday at 10 am and run through 6:30 pm. Sunday, part one of a HEART concert airs 6 pm-7:05 pm, and repeats 8:05-9:10 pm; part two is 9:10-10:15 pm.
* More at: http://www.axs.tv/axstvconcerts/heart-side-projects-you-might-not-know-about/
* AXS offers a watch-online free trial if you don't already have it in your cable or satellite package. Info at http://www.axs.tv/
* Not that we're doing a commercial for anyone -- we don't -- but we will repeat something we've said multiple times before: in the L.A. television market, the reliably best free channel for music performance programming is KLCS, the public TV station owned by the L.A. school district. The best pay-subscription channel for music performances is AXS.
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Sat, Jun 29:
Annual "BLUEGRASS DAY AT THE SAN DIEGO COUNTY FAIR," sponsored by the "San Diego Bluegrass Society" and "The North County Bluegrass & Folk Club." Details to appear on the fair's website.
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Sat, Jun 29, FILM SCREENING:
2 pm-4 pm - "VETERANS MAKE MOVIES" film event at LACMA.
* Poster has details.
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Sat, Jun 29, FREE concert:
2 pm-5 pm - ORCHESTRA CHARANGOA plays the FREE summer concert series at Fisherman's Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey 90292; 310- 301-9900
* Free 2 hour parking at venue.
Sat, Jun 29, FREE concert:
2 pm-5 pm - ORCHESTRA CHARANGOA plays the FREE summer concert series at Fisherman's Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey 90292; 310- 301-9900
* Free 2 hour parking at venue.
* More: https://charangoa.com
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5 pm & 7:30 pm - ROY ZIMMERMAN, world-famous singing political satirist, does two performances of his new show, "RiZe Up ! - while we still have the 1st Amendment," at the Parlor Performances series at Cornerstone Music Conservatory, 12121 W Pico Bl (one door W of Bundy), Los Angeles 90064
* Fans of Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, and Stephen Colbert -- and of course, fans of Tom Lehrer -- need to discover Roy Zimmerman.
* "RiZe Up" is 90 minutes of Zimmerman's hilarious, rhyme-intensive original songs. The title is a reference to Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger to be sure, but also an acknowledgement that songwriting does good work in the world.
* "Sometimes I think satire is the most hopeful and heartfelt form of expression," says Roy, "because in calling out the world's absurdities and laughing in their face, I'm affirming the real possibility of change."
* LINKS TO SEE & HEAR Roy performing some of his bitingly hilarious Zimmerman gems:
⊙ "Psychedelic Relic" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpLLv_zjuzg
⊙ "Dream" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_5TkynyHvg (bring a hankie for this one)
⊙ "Socialist" - (what could be more topical?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXJgM2Z8n8k
⊙ "Creation Science 101" - (he's been doing this one for years, and it's just as funny -- and important -- now) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIwiPsgRrOs
* Venue is handicapped accessible via elevator; on 2nd floor next to the Party Store.
* TIX require reservations, then it's cash or check at the door -- $20 for 5 pm show for a limited time, thereafter it's $25 for either show (7:30 is nearly sold-out). RSVPs for 6 or more save an addt'l $2 per ticket.
* Make your required reservations at: Jeannine Frank, at 310-666-9066, or Jeannine@FrankEntertainment.com
* More at: www.FrankEntertainment.com
* He also performs in Rancho Palos Verdes on Sunday at 7:30 pm; see listing.
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| L to R: Tom Corbett, Mike Fleming, Katy Moffatt |
7 pm - KATY MOFFATT, TOM CORBETT, and MIKE FLEMING play the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena, CA 91001
* This show is a real WOWSA, especially for an intimate venue.
* Katy Moffatt has played the world, filling venues everywhere. Her first album was referenced by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of “10 country albums we loved in the 1970s that you never heard.” She has plenty of folk and western music credits, too. The Wall Street Journal ran an extensive profile of her, one of its longest ever on any musician.
* Tom Corbett is a beloved member of the bluegrass community, member of acclaimed past and present bands, and a talented instrumentalist, writer, and teacher. His smiling presence on stage let's you know how much fun HE is having up there, and It's contagious.
* Mike Fleming is an award-winning songwriter in the Western genre, longtime bandleader of top-tier trio New West, and recently retired producer of one of America's top Western music/cowboy poetry festivals.* Tix: make reservations NOW, as this will sell-out: reservations by phone only, 10 am-10 pm, 7 days: 626-798-6236.
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Sat, Jun 29:
7:30 pm - JOE ROBINSON plays the "Wooden Hall Concerts" series in the Alhecama Theatre, 914 Santa Barbara St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
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Sat, Jun 29:
7:30 pm - BERKLEY HART, San Diego's most awarded acoustic duo, plays the "San Diego Folk Heritage" concert series at Pilgrim United Church of Christ, 2020 Chestnut Av, Carlsbad, CA 92008
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Sat, Jun 29:
7 pm-9 pm - RANDY COLEMAN plays the Whale & Ale, 327 W 7th St, San Pedro, CA 90731
* Randy is a Los Angeles based singer-songwriter acoustically performing a variety of hits. A lifelong musician, he is influenced by Freddie Mercury, Otis Redding, Jeff Buckley & many more.
* Venue is a restaurant with a full bar. Free parking in back, in spaces labeled for restaurant.
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Sat, Jun 29:
7 pm-9 pm - RANDY COLEMAN plays the Whale & Ale, 327 W 7th St, San Pedro, CA 90731
* Randy is a Los Angeles based singer-songwriter acoustically performing a variety of hits. A lifelong musician, he is influenced by Freddie Mercury, Otis Redding, Jeff Buckley & many more.
* Venue is a restaurant with a full bar. Free parking in back, in spaces labeled for restaurant.
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7:30 pm - ROY ZIMMERMAN, world-famous Singing Political Satirist, does the second of his two performances of his new show, "RiZe Up ! - while we still have the 1st Amendment," at the Parlor Performances series at Cornerstone Music Conservatory, 12121 W Pico Bl (one door W of Bundy), Los Angeles 90064
* See 5 pm for our full write-up.
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Sat, Jun 29:
8 pm - SUSAN SANTOS from Spain, 2018 "EUROPEAN BLUES AWARDS WINNER" for "BEST MUSICIAN PERFORMANCE," plus the BOBBIE BLUEHOUSE BAND, play the Arcadia Blues Club, 16 E Huntington Dr, Arcadia CA 91006
* Two full stages keep the music continuous.
* Venue has full bar and menu items are generous portions (Two can share). Pool tables, dance area, friendly atmosphere. But bring earplugs. Seriously.
* Free parking on street or in nearby city lot across the street.
* TIX are only $10 online advance (advance tix here always save money), higher at door.
* More, including online tix, at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/susan-santos-from-spain-european-blues-awards-winner-6-29-2019-arcadia-blues-club-tickets-60676030641
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Sat, Jun 29:
8 pm - SUSAN SANTOS from Spain, 2018 "EUROPEAN BLUES AWARDS WINNER" for "BEST MUSICIAN PERFORMANCE," plus the BOBBIE BLUEHOUSE BAND, play the Arcadia Blues Club, 16 E Huntington Dr, Arcadia CA 91006
* Two full stages keep the music continuous.
* Venue has full bar and menu items are generous portions (Two can share). Pool tables, dance area, friendly atmosphere. But bring earplugs. Seriously.
* Free parking on street or in nearby city lot across the street.
* TIX are only $10 online advance (advance tix here always save money), higher at door.
* More, including online tix, at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/susan-santos-from-spain-european-blues-awards-winner-6-29-2019-arcadia-blues-club-tickets-60676030641
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Sat, Jun 29:
8 pm - JOSH RITTER & THE ROYAL CITY BAND plus PENNY & SPARROW play "The Bluegrass Situation" concert series in the Theatre at the Ace Hotel, 929 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90015; 213-623-3233
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Sat, Jun 29:
8 pm - JOHN McEUEN & THE STRING WIZARDS play the famous concert hall in back of McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica, CA 90405; 310-828-4497
* Sure, you know he is a GRAMMY-winner and founding member of the NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND, and a multi-instrumentalist of dazzling prowess.
* But did you know he taught STEVE MARTIN how to play banjo?
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☆ See Thursday, Friday & Saturday listings for FESTIVALS that conclude today (we no longer re-list them each day).
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Sun, Jun 30, pseudo FESTIVAL:
1:30 pm-9 pm - "ONE CITY ONE PRIDE DAY OF ART" is a day of performances and panel discussions in the West Hollywood City Council Chambers, 625 N San Vicente Bl, West Hollywood, CA 90069
* Program is:
• 1:30 pm: Let Love Flourish and Everyone Deserves (A) Love (Poem) Queer Poetry Pop-Ups.
• 2:30 pm: Launch of “Crush: First Love, New Talent” an LGBTQ comic anthology.
• 3:30 pm: QueerWise writing collective and spoken word performance group led by Michael Kearns.
• 5 pm: “Where Love Is Illegal” panel discussion: Being LGBTQ is illegal in 70 countries; powerful images from award-winning photographer Robin Hammond’s project document what that means.
• 7 pm: “¡Gaytino! Made in America” Mariachi to Merman, Sondheim to Cesar Chavez, decades of Mexican-American/Chicano and LGBTQ history intersect in story and song as Dan Guerrero presents this first public screening of a new film of his acclaimed solo play. View the trailer at: https://vimeo.com/328527151
* Free Admission.
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Sun, Jun 30:
Noon & 7 pm - ALEX DE PUE & MIGUEL DE HOYOS w/ special guest ARIA NOELLE CURZON do two shows today at the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena, CA; phone for reservations, 10 am-10 pm, 7 days, at 626-798-6236.
* Bob Stane says: “This is one of my top 5 shows of all time and if you have seen them before, you know what I mean.
* ALEX DePUE - "Bring fans and students of the violin." -- Bob Stane.
* "The virtuoso for excellence was Paganini. If he were born today, it would be Alex DePue!"— LA7 TV - Rome, Italy
* "Alex DePue is described as one of the leading improv violinists of his generation, with legendary prowess in bluegrass, rock, classical, and jazz/blues..." — Kansas City Tribune
* "He's a great showman. He reigned as the Michigan State Fiddling Champion from 1994-1998, won the first-place trophy at the Walnut Valley National Fiddling Championship in Winfield, Kansas in 1999 and 2005, first place in the Halletsville, TX “Gone to Texas National Fiddling Championship” in 2000; won first place in the Alabama state fiddle contest in 2006 and 2007; won first place in the California state fiddle contest in 2007; and in 2006, he was deemed, “Fiddle King” at the "Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers Convention" in Athens, AL.
* MIGUEL DeHOYOS is one of the best guitarists in Mexico and maybe the best. He will stop the show with guitar and voice. www.migueldehoyos.com/
* ARIA NOELLE CURZON is an actress with dozens of film credits. Look her up on your browser (Use Duck-Duck-Go or Startpage; they don't track or spy on you.)
* TIX: $20, noon; $25, 7 pm. Call to make reservations, because this will sell-out.
* NOTE: Ken O’ Malley and Padriac Conroy ALSO perform today (Sunday) at the venue; see 3 pm listing.
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Sun, Jun 30:
3 pm - KEN O’MALLEY & PADRAIC CONROY bring authentic traditional and original IRISH MUSIC to the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena, CA 91001
* Two multi-instrumentalists. One show. Delightful Irish music. Need more?
* The "real deal" from Dublin, Ken O’Malley's rich, resonant voice and engaging stage presence have delighted audiences for over thirty years. "He holds nothing back. Whether singing a passionate ballad, playing a solo on the mandolin, or explaining the gloriously sad history of Erin his homeland, Ken O’Malley is all-in, wide open to the world, and as true as an arrow’s flight.”
* With songs in both English and Irish Gaelic, a Ken O'Malley performance has something for everyone. As one longtime fan says, “the songs Ken sings touch all of us, Irish or not, to the very core of the human heart”.
* Padraic Conroy -- Born and raised in Ireland, he hails from the town of Athlone in County Westmeath where he grew up fishing and playing music (but not necessarily at the same time). A multi-talented performer, he plays guitar, bouzouki, whistles and sings. With his lively Irish charm and wit, he has many a humorous tale to tell from growing up in Ireland, to living in Moscow, to driving for the first time in LA. Most of his tales are true.
* Reservations by phone only, 10 am-10 pm, 7 days: 626-798-6236.
* NOTE: there are two OTHER shows today at the venue; see noon and 7 pm.
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Sun, Jun 30:
7 pm - ALEX DE PUE & MIGUEL DE HOYOS w/ special guest ARIA NOELLE CURZON do the second of two shows today at the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena, CA; phone for reservations, 10 am-10 pm, 7 days, at 626-798-6236.
* Bob Stane says: “This is one of my top 5 shows of all time and if you have seen them before, you know what I mean.
* See noon listing for reservations info and more.
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Sun, Jun 30:
7:30 pm - ROY ZIMMERMAN, world-famous singing political satirist, performs his new show, "RiZe Up ! - while we still have the 1st Amendment," at Pacific Unitarian Church, 5621 Montemalagna Dr, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275
* He also performs in L.A., Saturday at 5 pm & 7:30 pm; see listings, and see that Sat, 5 pm write-up for music vid links and more.
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Noon & 7 pm - ALEX DE PUE & MIGUEL DE HOYOS w/ special guest ARIA NOELLE CURZON do two shows today at the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena, CA; phone for reservations, 10 am-10 pm, 7 days, at 626-798-6236.
* Bob Stane says: “This is one of my top 5 shows of all time and if you have seen them before, you know what I mean.
* ALEX DePUE - "Bring fans and students of the violin." -- Bob Stane.
* "The virtuoso for excellence was Paganini. If he were born today, it would be Alex DePue!"— LA7 TV - Rome, Italy
* "Alex DePue is described as one of the leading improv violinists of his generation, with legendary prowess in bluegrass, rock, classical, and jazz/blues..." — Kansas City Tribune
* "He's a great showman. He reigned as the Michigan State Fiddling Champion from 1994-1998, won the first-place trophy at the Walnut Valley National Fiddling Championship in Winfield, Kansas in 1999 and 2005, first place in the Halletsville, TX “Gone to Texas National Fiddling Championship” in 2000; won first place in the Alabama state fiddle contest in 2006 and 2007; won first place in the California state fiddle contest in 2007; and in 2006, he was deemed, “Fiddle King” at the "Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers Convention" in Athens, AL.
* MIGUEL DeHOYOS is one of the best guitarists in Mexico and maybe the best. He will stop the show with guitar and voice. www.migueldehoyos.com/
* ARIA NOELLE CURZON is an actress with dozens of film credits. Look her up on your browser (Use Duck-Duck-Go or Startpage; they don't track or spy on you.)
* TIX: $20, noon; $25, 7 pm. Call to make reservations, because this will sell-out.
* NOTE: Ken O’ Malley and Padriac Conroy ALSO perform today (Sunday) at the venue; see 3 pm listing.
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3 pm - KEN O’MALLEY & PADRAIC CONROY bring authentic traditional and original IRISH MUSIC to the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena, CA 91001
* Two multi-instrumentalists. One show. Delightful Irish music. Need more?
* The "real deal" from Dublin, Ken O’Malley's rich, resonant voice and engaging stage presence have delighted audiences for over thirty years. "He holds nothing back. Whether singing a passionate ballad, playing a solo on the mandolin, or explaining the gloriously sad history of Erin his homeland, Ken O’Malley is all-in, wide open to the world, and as true as an arrow’s flight.”
* With songs in both English and Irish Gaelic, a Ken O'Malley performance has something for everyone. As one longtime fan says, “the songs Ken sings touch all of us, Irish or not, to the very core of the human heart”.
* Padraic Conroy -- Born and raised in Ireland, he hails from the town of Athlone in County Westmeath where he grew up fishing and playing music (but not necessarily at the same time). A multi-talented performer, he plays guitar, bouzouki, whistles and sings. With his lively Irish charm and wit, he has many a humorous tale to tell from growing up in Ireland, to living in Moscow, to driving for the first time in LA. Most of his tales are true.
* Reservations by phone only, 10 am-10 pm, 7 days: 626-798-6236.
* NOTE: there are two OTHER shows today at the venue; see noon and 7 pm.
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Sun, Jun 30:
7 pm - ALEX DE PUE & MIGUEL DE HOYOS w/ special guest ARIA NOELLE CURZON do the second of two shows today at the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena, CA; phone for reservations, 10 am-10 pm, 7 days, at 626-798-6236.
* Bob Stane says: “This is one of my top 5 shows of all time and if you have seen them before, you know what I mean.
* See noon listing for reservations info and more.
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Sun, Jun 30:
7:30 pm - ROY ZIMMERMAN, world-famous singing political satirist, performs his new show, "RiZe Up ! - while we still have the 1st Amendment," at Pacific Unitarian Church, 5621 Montemalagna Dr, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275
* He also performs in L.A., Saturday at 5 pm & 7:30 pm; see listings, and see that Sat, 5 pm write-up for music vid links and more.
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Sun, Jun 30:
8 pm - RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT plays the famous concert hall in back of McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica, CA 90405; 310-828-4497
* A true legend of the road and the recording studio, Ramblin' Jack is the last of the breed.
* He also plays San Diego on Jun 28 at 7:30 pm; see listing.
* TIX by phone for this show: 310-828-4497. Act fast, it'll sell-out.
* TIX by phone for this show: 310-828-4497. Act fast, it'll sell-out.
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7:30 pm - THE WELSH CHOIR OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, a multiethnic choir singing traditional Welsh music, plays the Whale & Ale, 327 W 7th St, San Pedro, CA 90731
* It's a "Pub Night Sing Along" with a special pub menu.
* Venue is a restaurant with a full bar. Free parking in back, in spaces labeled for restaurant.
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HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!
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Thu, Jul 4:
11 am-5 pm - "4th OF JULY BARNDANCE" at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, 1419 N Topanga Canyon Bl, Topanga, CA 90290; 310-455-3723
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Thu, Jul 4:
BIG BAD VOODOO DADDY plus RUMBLE KING play the City of Burbank's 2019 "Starlight Bowl Concert Season" at the Starlight Bowl, 1249 Lockheed View Dr, Burbank CA 91501
* TIX at: www.starlightbowl.com
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Thu, Jul 4:
8 pm - "HOTEL CALIFORNIA: A SALUTE TO THE EAGLES" is this year's annual "July 4 Spectacular" with PACIFIC SYMPHONY and Eagles tribute band HOTEL CALIFORNIA in the Pacific Amphitheatre at the OC Fair & Event Center, in Costa Mesa CA
Orange County’s favorite 4th-of-July celebration! The highly acclaimed “Hotel California” band headlines our extravaganza with mega-hits like “Hotel California” and “Take It Easy” — plus enjoy patriotic favorites, our traditional salute to the U.S. armed forces and a brilliant fireworks finale.
* You can add a picnic dinner to your ticket order. Options include prime rib, grilled salmon and fried chicken dinners, turkey, roast beef and ham sandwich boxes or a delicious charcuterie plate. All orders include a bottle of water. These pre-ordered picnic boxes are available for pickup on the night of the concert in the Plaza Pacifica picnic area.
* TIX include an OC Fair admission (fair runs Jul 12 to Aug 11).
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Fri, Jul 5:
Time tba - SUITCASE JOHNNIE plus DENNIS ROGER REED, play Iva Lee’s in San Clemente CA
* It's "good stuff" acoustic music from performing songwriter and FolkWorks columnist Dennis Roger Reed.
* Check out his new (latest) CD, "BEFORE IT WAS BEFORE," folk, swing, folk rock, blues and bluegrass from Dennis Roger Reed with Don Reed, at: http://store.cdbaby.com/cd/dennisrogerreedwithdonreed
* More at: www.dennisrogerreed.com
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Fri, Jul 5:
7 pm - THE OLD BLIND DOGS, one of the west coast's favorite Scottish bands, play the "Ojai Concert Series" at the Ojai Valley Woman's Club, 411 W Ojai Av, Ojai, CA 93023; 805-649-5189
* The Dogs, one of Scotland's most highly touted traditional folk bands, formed in Scotland in 1992, and have remained on the cutting edge of the Scots roots revival. The band has developed its own trademark style with an energetic mix of songs and tunes. Dynamic percussion, polished vocals, soaring fiddle and stirring pipes fuel the delicately-phrased melodies and traditional songs.
* "Old Blind Dogs have mastered the tricky art of innovating within a musical tradition while faithfully revealing its essence." -- Acoustic Guitar.
* "Old Blind Dogs bring freshness and colour to acoustic music steeped in centuries of Scottish folklore and history." -- The Los Angeles Times.
* Doors at 6:30 for the best seats.
* Tix, $25 at Serendipity Toys in Ojai or online at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/old-blind-dogs-in-concert-tickets-63127902255
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Fri, Jul 5:
7 pm - THE OLD BLIND DOGS, one of the west coast's favorite Scottish bands, play the "Ojai Concert Series" at the Ojai Valley Woman's Club, 411 W Ojai Av, Ojai, CA 93023; 805-649-5189
* The Dogs, one of Scotland's most highly touted traditional folk bands, formed in Scotland in 1992, and have remained on the cutting edge of the Scots roots revival. The band has developed its own trademark style with an energetic mix of songs and tunes. Dynamic percussion, polished vocals, soaring fiddle and stirring pipes fuel the delicately-phrased melodies and traditional songs.
* "Old Blind Dogs have mastered the tricky art of innovating within a musical tradition while faithfully revealing its essence." -- Acoustic Guitar.
* "Old Blind Dogs bring freshness and colour to acoustic music steeped in centuries of Scottish folklore and history." -- The Los Angeles Times.
* Doors at 6:30 for the best seats.
* Tix, $25 at Serendipity Toys in Ojai or online at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/old-blind-dogs-in-concert-tickets-63127902255
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Fri, Jul 5:
8 pm - THE LONELY HEARTSTRING BAND plays the famous concert hall in back of McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica, CA 90405; 310-828-4497
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Fri, Jul 5:
8 pm - KIKI EBSEN's "EVENING IN OLD HOLLYWOOD" at Vitello's, 4349 Tujunga Av, Studio City, CA 91604
* Tonight, stunning, sultry song stylist Kiki Ebsen and her quartet take you back to the glamor and excitement of nights when men wore tuxedos and women, designer gowns. Back in those days, you might start the evening with a Daiquiri or an Old Fashioned, then head off to see Eartha Kitt at The Mocambo or Nat King Cole holding the crowds spellbound at the Cocoanut Grove. Later, you'd head downtown to Central Blvd. to catch some serious vintage jazz. Clubs like the Dunbar Hotel, The Bird in the Basket and the Downbeat hosted a myriad of legends of the time and the genre, including Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker and Art Tatum jamming into the wee hours. A late dinner at Musso and Frank’s might find you looking across the room to see Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, or Frank Sinatra. If you were there a few decades later, you’d spot a young Kiki Ebsen dining with her dad, Buddy, there at the first and his favorite restaurant dating back to 1935 and his arrival in Hollywood.
* Kiki Ebsen has shared the stage with Al Jarreau, Kenny Rankin, Michael McDonald, and Patti Austin. She has written songs for Boney James and other recording artists.
* Her quartet includes pianist Jeff Colella, saxophonist Kim Richmond, drummer Kendall Kay, and bassist Granville "Danny" Young.
* “Kiki Ebsen is a consummate performer at the keyboard and as a guest vocalist. With a symphony orchestra, singing pop standards, or the catalog of Ella Fitzgerald to Joni Mitchell, a great artist.” — Larry Blank, Resident Pops Conductor, Pasadena Symphony.
* Doors at 6:30 pm
* Tix: $25; premium seats $40; available thru Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kiki-ebsen-an-evening-in-old-hollywood-tickets-61895185165?aff=efbeventtix
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Fri-Sat, Jul 5 overnight / Jul 6, on TV:
4 am-5 am - RHIANNON GIDDENS performed the full hour for this, the season 3 opening episode of "INFINITY HALL LIVE" back in 2016, and this is one you must record.
* We quickly run out of adjectives for Rhiannon Giddens, as soon as we use the essential ones -- incredibly talented, innovative, compelling, and beautiful. Her commanding stage presence does not contradict her accessibility. She performs barefoot. She's amazing, fresh, and fun, and her band is first-rate.
* Her forte is making traditional old roots music immediately relevant, while steering clear of obtrusive "updates," and doing originals that have great lyrics and are stylistically compatible with songs that reach back 150 years.
* This performance is exactly what you want to keep handy, not only to enjoy, but to replay for anyone who can't understand why you like "ancient" Folk-Americana music.
* This is the last scheduled airing, so record it while you're asleep and catch up later.
* On "PBS-2" in Southern California, the side-channel of KOCE. It's available broadcast, on satellite, and most cable systems.
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Fri-Sat, Jul 5 overnight / Jul 6, on TV:
4 am-5 am - RHIANNON GIDDENS performed the full hour for this, the season 3 opening episode of "INFINITY HALL LIVE" back in 2016, and this is one you must record.
* We quickly run out of adjectives for Rhiannon Giddens, as soon as we use the essential ones -- incredibly talented, innovative, compelling, and beautiful. Her commanding stage presence does not contradict her accessibility. She performs barefoot. She's amazing, fresh, and fun, and her band is first-rate.
* Her forte is making traditional old roots music immediately relevant, while steering clear of obtrusive "updates," and doing originals that have great lyrics and are stylistically compatible with songs that reach back 150 years.
* This performance is exactly what you want to keep handy, not only to enjoy, but to replay for anyone who can't understand why you like "ancient" Folk-Americana music.
* This is the last scheduled airing, so record it while you're asleep and catch up later.
* On "PBS-2" in Southern California, the side-channel of KOCE. It's available broadcast, on satellite, and most cable systems.
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Sat, Jul 6:
Noon & 2 pm - BODYTRAFFIC plays the summer music series at the Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N Sepulveda Bl, atop Sepulveda Pass just off the 405, Los Angeles, CA 90049; 310-440-4578
* Free with paid museum admission.
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Sat, Jul 6:
8 pm - JOHN WESLEY HARDING, plus PAIGE STARK, and CALIFORNIOSOS, play the famous concert hall in back of McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica, CA 90405; 310-828-4497
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Sat, Jul 6:
8 pm - "AN EVENING WITH LYLE LOVETT AND HIS LARGE BAND" in the Fred Kavli Theatre at Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, 2100 E Thousand Oaks Bl, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362; Box Office, 805-449-2787
* Singer, composer and actor Lyle Lovett has broadened the definition of American music in a career that spans 14 albums.
* Coupled with his gift for storytelling, the Texas-based musician fuses elements of country, swing, jazz, folk, gospel and blues in a convention-defying manner that breaks down barriers.
* TIX, $131, $91, $81, $66, at: http://www.civicartsplaza.com/show_detail.php?id=642
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Sun, Jul 7:
Noon & 2 pm - CONTRA-TIEMPO plays the summer music series at the Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N Sepulveda Bl, atop Sepulveda Pass just off the 405, Los Angeles, CA 90049; 310-440-4578
* Free with paid museum admission.
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Sun, Jul 7:
8 pm - ALVIN YOUNGBLOOD HART plays the famous concert hall in back of McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica, CA 90405; 310-828-4497
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Noon & 2 pm - CONTRA-TIEMPO plays the summer music series at the Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N Sepulveda Bl, atop Sepulveda Pass just off the 405, Los Angeles, CA 90049; 310-440-4578
* Free with paid museum admission.
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Sun, Jul 7:
8 pm - ALVIN YOUNGBLOOD HART plays the famous concert hall in back of McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica, CA 90405; 310-828-4497
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Wed, Jul 10, FILM SCREENING EVENT:
7 pm - "WOMAN AT WAR," the LUX Prize 2018 winner, environmental-themed, feminist comedy-drama, gets a special screening at the USC School for Cinematic Arts, Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, 900 W 34th St, Los Angeles, CA 90007.
* Co-sponsored by Outside the Box, Magnolia Pictures, The European Parliament European Liaison Office in Washington, D.C., and USC Schwarzenegger Institute.
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* Representatives in attendance from the European Parliament, CA and Schwarzenegger Institute Environmental Policy Director Fran Pavley (former CA State Senator).
* How's this to set the tone? “It’s time for all of our doubters and producers of pollution to join us and move forward together. We are asking you to stop lying to the people about climate change and pollution, and to offer them solutions instead of bullsh*t.” -- the former California governor who now heads the USC Schwarzenegger Institute, speaking at the third-annual R20 Austrian World Summit, May 28 at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna.
* Sen. Pavley will introduce the film by explaining how her work on environmental policy and women’s rights issues were often intertwined.
* The "R20 Austrian World Summit" brought together 150 leaders from politics, business, civil society and academia representing 30 countries to provide examples of best practices and innovative projects for climate protection.
* The Political Climate podcast team attended the Austrian World Summit and heard firsthand from global leaders, like UN Secretary General Antonio Guterresand climate activist Greta Thunberg. It underscored the fact that despite the U.S. pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement, other countries and subnational governments continue to step up in the face of mounting carbon emissions and the growing impacts of climate change.
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* FREE to attend with advance reservation, at: https://cinema.usc.edu/events/reservation.cfm?id=48329
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Thu, Jul 11, FREE concert:
7 pm - RYAN SHUPE & THE RUBBERBAND play "CULVER CITY’s BOULEVARD MUSIC SUMMER FESTIVAL," a weekly free concert series through the summer in City Hall Courtyard, 9770 Culver Bl, Culver City, CA 90232; 310-398-2583
* The series is booked by Gary Mandell of Boulevard Music.
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Fri, Jul 12, FREE concert:
7 pm - BETTMAN & HALPIN play the California Center For The Arts, 340 N Escondido Bl, Escondido, CA
* Award winners in both regional and national performing and songwriting contests, fiddler Stephanie Bettman & multi-instrumentalist Luke Halpin are known for their lyrical depth, entertaining stories, and high-energy performances. They have been generating buzz in folk and bluegrass circles since they started touring in 2008.
* Admission is free on the lawn, $12 with a reserved seat, or $40 for an entire table.
* All Ages.
* Box office, 800-988-4253.
* Tables and chairs are limited, so act fast.
* Now based in Denver, they return to Southern Cal about every 18 months. This time they're doing 3 local dates: this one, and two in Altadena. See Sat, Jul 13, 2 pm, and Mon, Jul 15, 8 pm.
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7 pm - RYAN SHUPE & THE RUBBERBAND play "CULVER CITY’s BOULEVARD MUSIC SUMMER FESTIVAL," a weekly free concert series through the summer in City Hall Courtyard, 9770 Culver Bl, Culver City, CA 90232; 310-398-2583
* The series is booked by Gary Mandell of Boulevard Music.
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7 pm - BETTMAN & HALPIN play the California Center For The Arts, 340 N Escondido Bl, Escondido, CA
* Award winners in both regional and national performing and songwriting contests, fiddler Stephanie Bettman & multi-instrumentalist Luke Halpin are known for their lyrical depth, entertaining stories, and high-energy performances. They have been generating buzz in folk and bluegrass circles since they started touring in 2008.
* Admission is free on the lawn, $12 with a reserved seat, or $40 for an entire table.
* All Ages.
* Box office, 800-988-4253.
* Tables and chairs are limited, so act fast.
* Now based in Denver, they return to Southern Cal about every 18 months. This time they're doing 3 local dates: this one, and two in Altadena. See Sat, Jul 13, 2 pm, and Mon, Jul 15, 8 pm.
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Sat, Jul 13:
2 pm - BETTMAN & HALPIN play a matinee at the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 Lake Av, Altadena, CA
* Award winners in both regional and national performing and songwriting contests, fiddler Stephanie Bettman & multi-instrumentalist Luke Halpin are known for their lyrical depth, entertaining stories, and high-energy performances. They have been generating buzz in folk and bluegrass circles since they started touring in 2008.
* TIX: $25, all ages.
* Reservations only by phone, 10 am-10 pm, 7 days, at 626-798-6236
* This show will sell-out. ALL this duo's shows here sell-out.
* They also perform here Monday night, Jul 15, 8 pm, and in Escondido on Friday, July 12, 7 pm; see listings. See PHOTO, in Fri, Jul 12, 7 pm listing.
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Sat, Jul 13:
4 pm - DENNIS ROGER REED with DON REED & LENNY HANSELL play Middle Ridge Winery Tasting Gallery, 54301 N Circle Dr, Idyllwild CA; 951-659-9000; https://www.middleridge.com/Store/The-Gallery
* Wine and art -- and, this evening, "good stuff" acoustic music from performing songwriter and FolkWorks columnist Dennis Roger Reed.
* Check out his new (latest) CD, "BEFORE IT WAS BEFORE," folk, swing, folk rock, blues and bluegrass from Dennis Roger Reed with Don Reed, at: http://store.cdbaby.com/cd/dennisrogerreedwithdonreed
* More at: www.dennisrogerreed.com
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Sat, Jul 13:
7:30 pm - PETER BOLLAND plus WATSON, BELDOCK & BEACH play the "San Diego Folk Heritage" concert series at Pilgrim United Church of Christ, 2020 Chestnut Av, Carlsbad, CA 92008
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Sat, Jul 13:
8 pm - THE SMALL GLORIES play the famous concert hall in back of McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica, CA 90405; 310-828-4497
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Sat, Jul 13:
8 pm - BILL BURNETT, BRAD COLERICK, & DALE LADUKE, top songwriters all, play a -act night at Boulevard Music, 4316 Sepulveda Bl, Culver City, CA 90230; 310-398-2583
* This series magically transforms a music store into a concert hall. Call for tix; it sells-out.
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Sat, Jul 13:
7:30 pm - PETER BOLLAND plus WATSON, BELDOCK & BEACH play the "San Diego Folk Heritage" concert series at Pilgrim United Church of Christ, 2020 Chestnut Av, Carlsbad, CA 92008
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Sat, Jul 13:
8 pm - THE SMALL GLORIES play the famous concert hall in back of McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica, CA 90405; 310-828-4497
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Sat, Jul 13:
8 pm - BILL BURNETT, BRAD COLERICK, & DALE LADUKE, top songwriters all, play a -act night at Boulevard Music, 4316 Sepulveda Bl, Culver City, CA 90230; 310-398-2583
* This series magically transforms a music store into a concert hall. Call for tix; it sells-out.
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Sun, Jul 14:
12:30 pm - GRASSLANDS BLUEGRASS BAND plays "MUD MANIA" at Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site, 4600 Virginia Rd, Long Beach, CA 90807; 562-206-2040
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Sun, Jul 14, FREE concert:
2 pm - PHIL SALAZAR & THE KINFOLK play the free outdoor concert series in Philip Marx Central Park, East E St, Tehachapi, CA 93561
* Presented by TVRPD, Fiddlers Crossing, Lehigh Cement and MusicMX Entertainment
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Sun, Jul 14:
4 pm - CURLEY TAYLOR & ZYDECO TROUBLE play Alva’s Showroom, 1417 W 8th St, San Pedro, CA 90732; 310-519-1314
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Sun, Jul 14:
9 pm - GETHEN JENKINS, named "Best Outlaw Country Artist" in LA Weekly’s “Best Of” issue, plays The Canyon Santa Clarita, 24201 Valencia Bl #1351, Santa Clarita, CA 91355
* Tix now on sale, $15 seated, $10 standing, at: https://www1.ticketmaster.com/gethen-jenkins/event/090056B7C9873B53
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Mon, Jul 15:
8 pm - BETTMAN & HALPIN play a matinee at the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 Lake Av, Altadena, CA
* See Sat, 2 pm, for our write-up on this duo.
* TIX: $25, all ages.
* Reservations only by phone, 10 am-10 pm, 7 days, at 626-798-6236
* This show will sell-out. ALL this duo's shows here sell-out.
* They also perform a matinee here Saturday, Jul 13, 2 pm, and in Escondido on Friday, July 12, 7 pm; see listings. See PHOTO, in Fri, Jul 12, 7 pm listing.
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8 pm - BETTMAN & HALPIN play a matinee at the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 Lake Av, Altadena, CA
* See Sat, 2 pm, for our write-up on this duo.
* TIX: $25, all ages.
* Reservations only by phone, 10 am-10 pm, 7 days, at 626-798-6236
* This show will sell-out. ALL this duo's shows here sell-out.
* They also perform a matinee here Saturday, Jul 13, 2 pm, and in Escondido on Friday, July 12, 7 pm; see listings. See PHOTO, in Fri, Jul 12, 7 pm listing.
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Wed, Jul, 17; FREE "making a difference" event:
10 am-2 pm - "SUSTAINABILITY PLAN SYMPOSIUM" at University of Southern California, Doheny Memorial Library, Room 240, 3550 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA 90089
* Full name of event: "L.A. County Sustainability Plan: Gearing Up Economic Opportunity and Jobs"
* What: the UCLA Luskin Center, the USC Schwarzenegger Institute, and the USC Center for Sustainability Solutions invite you to join the Los Angeles County Chief (of the) Sustainability Office for a discussion of the L.A. County Sustainability Plan and its potential to promote and expand new business opportunities in the United States’ most populous county and the world’s third largest metropolitan economy.
* A diverse group of business leaders, County officials, and economic and workforce development specialists from across California will examine the sustainability plan's potential to drive economic and job growth.
* Featured discussion on how the plan will shape the future economy of LA County by accelerating demand for advanced transportation, renewable energy, energy efficient infrastructure, and urban greening while supporting strategic and inclusive workforce development practices.
* Schedule
10 am-1 pm - Symposium
1 pm-2 pm - Networking Lunch
* Parking, light refreshments, and a networking lunch are provided, complimentary with registration.
* Questions, call 213-821-5536.
* REGISTER to attend free (before it fills up): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/la-county-sustainability-plan-gearing-up-economic-opportunity-and-jobs-tickets-63346633486
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Jul 21, benefit:
2 pm-6 pm - SWING DANCE FUNDRAISER for "Redondo Beach Scholarship Fund," a 501c3 nonprofit, sponsored by the Woman's Club Redondo Beach, 400 S Broadway, Redondo Beach CA 90277
* Enjoy a great time dancing or just enjoying the music.
* 17 piece swing band, beginning dance lesson included, Bake Sale, 50/50 Raffle, 40's 50's Costume Contest.
* Tix, $25 in advance cash, or by check mailed to Woman's Club Redondo Beach, at above address, or send via Venmo.com - WCRedondoBeach.
* $30 at the door.
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Aug 16-17-18, FESTIVAL:
Annual "SUMMERGRASS SAN DIEGO" Bluegrass festival, at the Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum in Vista, CA; festival phone,858-679-4854.
* Headliner lineup features The Grascals, David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition, High Fidelity, The Old Blue Band; also performing are: Tom Cunningham Band, Prairie Sky, Front Porch Music Preservation Society, Chris Cerna & The Bluegrass Republic, LeRoy Mack & Gloryland , Sheri Lee & The Blue Hearts, Vulcan Mountain Boys, and MohaviSoul.
* It's 3 days of live music from 12 national, regional and local bands; music workshops presented by the same performing artists; a variety of family & kid-oriented music activities; lots of spontaneous live jam sessions; instrument raffles of top-grade new instruments; tasty food, and a variety of vendors.
* Plus, the "Third Annual Pie Society Meeting" (and competition) happens at Summergrass 2019.
* Info, tix, lineups, schedules, & volunteer opportunities, at: www.summergrass.net
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Sat, Sep 7:
8 pm - "TCHAIKOVSKY SPECTACULAR (with fireworks)" with CARL ST. CLAIR, conductor; BENJAMIN BEILMAN, violin; & PACIFIC SYMPHONY, at Pacific Amphitheatre, OC Fair & Events Center, Costa Mesa CA
* Southern Californians are incredibly fortunate to have the Hollywood Bowl, the Greek Theatre, the Ford Amphitheatre, and the OC Amphitheatre all available as splendid outdoor concert venues. Be sure to catch a symphonic treasure beneath the OC skies.
* PROGRAM:
• KHACHATURIAN: “Sabre Dance”
• TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto
• RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: “Capriccio Espagnol”
• TCHAIKOVSKY: “1812” Overture
* Complete with live cannons and brilliant fireworks, no SummerFest is complete without Pacific Symphony performing Tchaikovsky’s thrilling “1812” overture.
* The evening features this famous romantic composer’s greatest hits, including his memorable Violin Concerto, performed by the first-prize winner of the 2010 "Montréal International Musical Competition," Benjamin Beilman. “The Times” has praised Beilman’s “handsome technique, burnished sound, and quiet confidence,” and “The Strad” described his playing as “pure poetry.”
* TIX and full info at: 714-755-5799 or www.PacificSymphony.org
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Sat & Sun, Oct 12 & 13:
CINDY KALLET & GREY LARSEN play a pair of rare West Coast gigs at the "Santa Monica House Concerts" series in Santa Monica, CA
* Details will be posted closer to the dates, at:
http://santamonicahouseconcerts.com/
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TICKET OFFER,
IF YOU BUY EARLY
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Series runs Sun, Oct 6, 2019, through Sun, Jun 6, 2020.
"LE SALON DE MUSIQUES: MASTERS REDISCOVERED" is the series' just-announced 10th anniversary season of nine concerts, all at the Los Angeles Music Center's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Fifth Floor, 135 N Grand Av, Los Angeles, CA 90012; Self parking at the Music Center Garage on Grand Avenue.
* EARLY BIRD OFFER FOR "A SUBLIME NEW SEASON"
* "Le Salon de Musiques" is a chamber music series performed in an intimate space without any stage or separation between the audience and the artists. It allows you to feel the purity and quintessence of the music associated with the vibrations of each instrument and the connection to each artist.
* A "Tresor de France Champagne" reception with a high tea buffet catered by Patina follows the performance and the Q & A between the artists and the audience.
* TENTH ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM, 2019-2020, introduced by musicologists Dr. Kristi BROWN-MONTESANO & Julius REDER CARLSON.
* Season "GRAND OPENING" - CONCERT ONE: Sun, Oct 6, 4 pm:
- W. MOZART: "Divertimento" in D Major for String Quartet
- G. HAENDEL: Sonata in G minor Op 2 for two violins & piano - J. HAYDN: String Quartet No.5 Op 64 in D Major "The Lark"
- L. BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor Op 37 (Arranged for String Quintet)
- Featured artists: Jessica GUIDERI & Aubree OLIVERSON, Violins; Rob BROPHY, Viola, Yoshika MASUDA, Cello; Peter LLOYD, Bass; Vijay VENKATESH, Piano.
* TIX for individual dates are available following season tix sales. The nine-concert season runs through Sunday, June 7, sponsored by Steinway & Sons, The French & German Consulates of Los Angeles, Champagne "Tresor de France," Performing Arts Live, and Eufloria. Buy the season now at the early bird price, saving 20%: $684 for all nine concerrs, instead of the regular full-season price of $855. Season tix get other perqs. Info and tix purchase at: 310-498 0257.
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IF YOU BUY EARLY
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Series runs Sun, Oct 6, 2019, through Sun, Jun 6, 2020.
"LE SALON DE MUSIQUES: MASTERS REDISCOVERED" is the series' just-announced 10th anniversary season of nine concerts, all at the Los Angeles Music Center's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Fifth Floor, 135 N Grand Av, Los Angeles, CA 90012; Self parking at the Music Center Garage on Grand Avenue.
* EARLY BIRD OFFER FOR "A SUBLIME NEW SEASON"
* "Le Salon de Musiques" is a chamber music series performed in an intimate space without any stage or separation between the audience and the artists. It allows you to feel the purity and quintessence of the music associated with the vibrations of each instrument and the connection to each artist.
* A "Tresor de France Champagne" reception with a high tea buffet catered by Patina follows the performance and the Q & A between the artists and the audience.
* TENTH ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM, 2019-2020, introduced by musicologists Dr. Kristi BROWN-MONTESANO & Julius REDER CARLSON.
* Season "GRAND OPENING" - CONCERT ONE: Sun, Oct 6, 4 pm:
- W. MOZART: "Divertimento" in D Major for String Quartet
- G. HAENDEL: Sonata in G minor Op 2 for two violins & piano - J. HAYDN: String Quartet No.5 Op 64 in D Major "The Lark"
- L. BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor Op 37 (Arranged for String Quintet)
- Featured artists: Jessica GUIDERI & Aubree OLIVERSON, Violins; Rob BROPHY, Viola, Yoshika MASUDA, Cello; Peter LLOYD, Bass; Vijay VENKATESH, Piano.
* TIX for individual dates are available following season tix sales. The nine-concert season runs through Sunday, June 7, sponsored by Steinway & Sons, The French & German Consulates of Los Angeles, Champagne "Tresor de France," Performing Arts Live, and Eufloria. Buy the season now at the early bird price, saving 20%: $684 for all nine concerrs, instead of the regular full-season price of $855. Season tix get other perqs. Info and tix purchase at: 310-498 0257.
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ADDITIONS TO THIS EDITION will be made regularly until it's time for a full replacement to take over.
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The Guide's special edition for the 75th anniversary of D-Day and its meaning in our world today, has been read by many thousands of people in over 30 countries (so far); it is still available, at:
https://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2019/06/d-day-in-perspective-75-years-hence-for.html
https://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2019/06/d-day-in-perspective-75-years-hence-for.html
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The most recent 'uge, 2-volume NEWS FEATURES edition was a while back, but it's still available. You can find it at:
https://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2019/04/musicafied-mollified-or-muellerfried.html
https://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2019/04/musicafied-mollified-or-muellerfried.html
As always, we have lots of MUSIC NEWS features in the works, and they'll be along as we get them dressed, shoes tied, cowlicks combed down, bowties cranked straight, and strings tuned.
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'Til we catch ya on the flip side,
as Buford the Wonder Dog looks on,
and in our best Kathy Baker
"Hee Haw" voice: "THAT's all!"
"Hee Haw" voice: "THAT's all!"
Stay tuneful!
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