Join Mekala Session and the "Ark" as they ring in the new year with a musical celebration in downtown's Grand Park. Honoring the work of Horace Tapscott amongst other musical legends, the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra is a multi-generational band that brings together the legacy of jazz music in Los Angeles. 

Aída Cuevas, La Marisoul, Mariachi Garibaldi de Jaime Cuéllar and special guest David Hidalgo from Los Lobos pay tribute to the legend Linda Ronstadt. Enjoy a duet of “Rogaciano el Huapanguero” with Aída Cuevas and La Marisoul,  and “Somewhere out There” with La Marisoul and David Hidalgo.  Additional performances include “Por Un Amor,” “Los Laureles,” “You’re No Good,” “Silver Thread and Golden Needles” and many more. Aída Cuevas and La Marisoul will share their experiences on the Soraya stage and Ronstadt’s influence on their musical journey.

Capping The Wallis’ virtual “Sorting Room Sessions,” jazz and blues legend Barbara Morrison, named by NPR one of the “50 Greatest Jazz Vocalists,” displays her stunning two-and-a-half-octave range and rich, soulful, musical interpretations in “Standing On Their Shoulders,” a musical tribute to the iconic jazz and blues singers Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington and Ella Fitzgerald, and the songs they helped popularize.

Host Carl St. Clair and Pacific Symphony celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birthday.

One of pop music's great singer/songwriters, Audra Mae, finds her guiding light close to home. The songwriter behind massive, international hits by Celine Dion, Kelly Clarkson, Christina Aguilera, Avicii and Little Big Town, with solo material heard all over radio, television and film, Audra Mae, somehow found herself in her old backyard. In less than a year, a pandemic changed her audience from a 58,000-plus sold-out crowd at Friends Arena in Stockholm, Sweden down to two: her 7-year-old twin niece and nephew in Edmond, Oklahoma.