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TAIKOPROJECT of L.A.: Collaborative and Cultural Drumming
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TAIKOPROJECT merges physicality & artistic expression through the art of taiko drumming.
Funk Freaks is Keeping Funk Alive in Orange County
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In Orange County, funk music is alive and well. Thanks to Santa Ana-based DJ collective and record shop Funk Freaks.
Meet New LA Opera Resident Conductor Lina González-Granados
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Learn how L.A. Opera's new resident conductor fell in love with music and conducting.
A concert audience, bathed in blue light, watches a bright and colorful performance on stage
Here's where to enjoy live holiday music in December 2022, including Walt Disney Concert Hall and the L.A. County Holiday Celebration at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at The Music Center.
A black and white hpoto of Medusa The Gangsta Goddess, a young Black woman with her hair in an updo and wearing large hoop earrings. She is holding a microphone up to her mouth as she performs passionately into it.
Women in Compton and South Central Los Angeles were influential in the development of Hip Hop on the West Coast.
San Cha is wearing a vibrant, tiered aqua blue dress with ruffles and a hot pink feather head dress on their head. They are singing into a microphone in one hand while the other is outstretched to the side. Two people sit behind them, one playing an acoustic guitar and the other playing a flute. The three-piece ensemble is performing on a grassy area, amongst a line of trees behind them.
Floating, a year-old outdoor sound event series, aims to allow everyone to spend more time outdoors and "actively participate in the art of deep listening."
A black and white photo of a two-story building with a sign hanging off the side that reads, "JDC Records Inc." Men and women are posed in front of the building and poking their heads out of the windows and doors.
JDC is a beloved San Pedro record shop that serves casual shoppers, DJs and hardcore record collectors. But their story starts decades ago, when it was launched as a record label and distribution company that would supply the West Coast, and, crucially, Los Angeles, with bangers that heated up Los Angeles parties throughout the '80s.
Loretta Lynn sings into a microphone while standing on stage
Country music superstar Loretta Lynn, whose life story was portrayed in the film 'Coal Miner's Daughter,' died this week at age 90. The legacy she leaves behind includes her hit songs — and the stories she conveyed about women's rights, including the use of birth control.
A young man with a lot of cameras hung around his neck.
Bruce Talamon has trained his lenses on some of the music industry’s brightest stars, but it all began at Wattstax.
A faded colored photo of a stage propped up in the air with steel and metal rods. Performers in white funk/'70s clothing and gold jewelry stand on stage and perform. A man in white bell bottoms, a fringe jacket and silver chains holds up a silver trumpet. A man with a white afro and a white vest stands with a saxophone. A man stands in the middle wearing a white jacket with long fringe hanging off the sleeves and an intricate gold chain around his neck. He is singing into a microphone. Two men stand near him, also in white, flashy outfits playing the guitar and bass respectively.
Fifty years ago, music label Stax Records organized Wattstax, a benefit concert at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum that commemorated the seventh anniversary of the 1965 Los Angeles Uprising.
Sansei dance scene of the '60s and '70s
In the years after Japanese internment, a rising generation of Japanese American youth carved musical and cultural spaces for themselves in the form of sansei dances — a dance party subculture of the mid-'60s and '70s.
Darone Sassounian stands with his arms crossed. He is wearing a black crewneck sweatshirt and a cap. Behind him is a 4-by-3 cube shelf full of vinyls and cassette tapes. On the top row, the front cover of "Silk Road: Journey of the Armenian Diaspora" is propped up and facing the camera.
Armenian DJs in Los Angeles are hunting and archiving vintage Armenian vinyls as a way to explore their culture all the while preserving their history for future generations.
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