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
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,
AMERICAN PIE? PTOOEY!
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 club?
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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 but
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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 thought
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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
