Angel City Chorale (ACC) will celebrate its first two decades in song with special reunion concerts on Saturday, June 1, and Sunday, June 2, at 7 p.m. One lucky Culture Spot LA reader can win a pair of tickets. Simply email editor@culturespotla.com with your choice of date and “ACC tickets” in the subject line.
The Angel [...]
Billed as 15 genres, eight musicians and 30 performers in a once-a-year extravaganza, “THE SHOW” will immerse audiences in a passionate display of live music and dance vignettes at King King in Hollywood May 20-23.
Sascha Escandon and Carolina Cerisola are the founders of Floor Productions and creators and directors of “THE SHOW.” They co-produce with [...]
I barely noticed the old man with thinning hair and glasses standing next to me as the introductions got underway at the kickoff of the new Jimi Hendrix exhibit at the Fender factory in Corona. He was dressed in blue jeans, dirty tennis shoes and a beige nylon jacket; the only thing unusual was his [...]
Everything about Cavalia’s Odysseo is big. The white big top by the 5 Freeway in Burbank is 10 stories high and about the size of a football field, with seating for 2,000 people. The show features a herd of 67 horses, representing 11 breeds, and a cast of 44 artists — acrobats, aerialists, riders, dancers [...]
DR. L. SUBRAMANIAM’S GLOBAL FUSION
Featuring Harmonica Blues Legend Corky Siegel (Los Angeles premiere)
Friday, Feb. 22, at 8 p.m. at Skirball Cultural Center
Continuing the Skirball’s new music series, “Journeys and Encounters,” which showcases surprising collaborations between musicians of diverse genres, Dr. L. Subramaniam’s Global Fusion combines Carnatic (South Indian) music and Western classical, jazz and rock. [...]
Theatre Raymond Kabbaz presents Le Vent du Nord, renowned ambassadors of Quebec music and a driving force in progressive folk, on Saturday, Nov. 17, at 7:30 p.m. Le Vent du Nord (The North Wind) will bring their vibrant music to LA as part of a U.S. tour in support of their 10th-anniversary album “Tromper le [...]
Garrett Morris’ Downtown Blues & Comedy Club is set to relaunch at its new venue at 501 S. Spring St. in downtown Los Angeles with its First Annual Blues & Comedy Festival on Friday, Nov. 9, and Saturday, Nov. 10. Read more from the following excerpt from their website: www.bluesandcomedy.com.
The festival will culminate in a [...]
Native Voices at the Autry continues its vital role as the country’s only equity theater company dedicated exclusively to developing the work of Native American playwrights with its Short Play Festival, featuring six engaging short plays written by veteran and first-time playwrights, on Saturday, Nov. 3, at 3 p.m., at the Wells Fargo Theater at [...]
The godfather of the Tropicália movement, Brazilian singer-guitarist Gilberto Gil makes his Walt Disney Concert Hall debut on Tuesday, Oct. 23, with a concert of the danceable, funky, folkloric rhythms from northeastern Brazil known as forró. With more than 50 albums, awards ranging from seven Grammys to the Polar Prize, and a strong social commitment [...]
The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS), in conjunction with the MAK Center for Art and Architecture (R.M. Schindler House), presents sound. at the Schindler House: Tape Music, a rare concert of music composed for reel-to-reel tape on Saturday, Aug. 25. The unique architecture of the Schindler House creates [...]
