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Living Legend: Honeyboy Carries on the Delta Tradition in 2010
This week marks the end of Black History Month, and if we had to choose one living African American who has made the biggest cultural contribution in the past century, 94-year-old music legend David “Honeyboy” Edwards would seem a pretty clear choice.
One of the only surviving practitioners of true Delta blues, the earliest style of [...]
Off-Broadway Hit STOMPs Back to Houston
What began as two buskers performing on the streets of Brighton, England has become a global off-broadway sensation that is still going strong after a decade and a half. Now in its sixteenth year, touring percussion hit STOMP has performed in more than 350 cities and 36 countries around the world, continuing to be met [...]
KCRW: All About the Music
In a time when payola rules, it’s tough to take a radio station seriously when it claims to be “all about the music”– especially in the music industry capital, Los Angeles. But even jaded industry professionals have to tip their hats to KCRW, one of LA’s longest-running and most respected public radio stations. Once a [...]
The Most Consistently Hip Club in L.A.
As Angelenos know, the Viper Room on Sunset Boulevard is somewhat of an institution in L.A. Best known as the place where actor River Phoenix died of a drug overdose, the tiny West Hollywood club has remained on the local radar for the past 15 years.
The Viper Room was founded in 1993 by young nightlife [...]
Too Many Artists in The Kitchen
New Yorkers know that the art world is a notoriously difficult one to penetrate. In the country’s art capital, big galleries are often inaccessible to just-out-of-school artists, and it is increasingly difficult for experimental artists to receive the funding and recognition they deserve. Fortunately, small artist collectives like The Kitchen are determined to bring under-recognized [...]
It Ain’t Over Til the Fat Lady Sings
With esoteric music, foreign languages and complicated audience etiquette, opera can be intimidating to even adventurous event-goers. Luckily, the L.A. Opera is the perfect place for those with opera anxiety to enjoy the 400-year-old art form for the first time.
Founded in 1986, the L.A. Opera is the four largest opera company in the country. Its [...]
Performance Space 122
What was once a Public School 122 of East Village NYC, in 1979 was one-step-from-being-a-ruin abandoned four stories building to be found by a group of early artists and to be turned into rental rehearsal space at first and one of the most important houses of contemporary dance in NYC soon after. Choreographer Charles Moulton [...]
Actor’s Gang WTF?! Festival
Well, yeah, what is exactly wrong with the world? Why the theater needs to face continuously diminishing gifts from longtime donors who’ve seen their wealth shrink drastically in recent months, what happened to the foundation, government and education grants, and how long will it take to get the regular or prospective audience of the [...]
Oh! Opera in the Heights…Opera Up Close
If you ever thought the art of opera is very likely to be enjoyed by everyone … once they’re retired, you may be wrong. 13 years of consistently humming young blood got Opera in the Heights the fame of the place where young people sing for young people in the intimate yet stunning arrangement [...]
Felabration! Afro Funke’ Celebrates the Birth of Fela Kuti
Tomorrow evening at Zanzibar in Santa Monica, AFRO FUNKE’, GIANT STEP & Knitting Factory RECORDS presents “FELABRATION” a tribute to FELA KUTI featuring DJ Nu-Mark of Jurassic 5/Blendcrafters and Amon on percussion from Turntables on the Hudson NYC. Come celebrate in the music and life of FELA KUTI, afrobeat pioneer, human rights activist and political [...]
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