The BroadStage complex lends itself to some unique concert atmospheres, including the usage of the indoor-outdoor hybrid Plaza space, which hosts the "blackbox" series of blues rhythm performances.
Every great musician starts from somewhere, including today’s crop of hip hop and R&B superstars. Artists like Kendrick Lamar and Bruno Mars are enormously talented in their
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RAY BAILEY – This is exciting. Longtime Watts blues master Ray Bailey seems to have decided to reintroduce himself to parts farther north. Sure, Bell’s Garage on Sundays,
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Before you decide it would be really great to see DON MCLEAN July 1 in Beverly Hills, consider this. He was scheduled to perform at the NRA
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TONIGHT! - TAJ MAHAL – 80th birthday celebration, Q&A discussion plus performance. Aren’t we fortunate when the legendary performers don’t check out in the 27
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TONIGHT! - LA OPERA, VERDI’S “AIDA” – You don’t want to miss this, and these are the last two performances. I haven’t seen 1,000 operas
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TONIGHT! - CELSO SALIM & DARRYL CARRIERE – Would you like to see two LA dudes whomp the hell out of the blues with the best of them? I
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SOUTHSIDE SLIM –Thank you again, Harvelle’s, for bringing back one of the very best bluesmen I’ve heard in years. Decades, maybe. Rare talent and energy (and
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DAKHABRAKHA – my daughter alerted me some years ago to this fantastic Ukrainian quartet who combine traditional music and instruments with a potpourri of eclectic and modern influences (“an
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Starting tomorrow -- when the new solo album 40-years-in-the-making is unleashed on an ill-prepared world by the man for whom the
