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..the Monkey Pox Remix…

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"...we are excited to be performing "back home" @The World Stage as part of their Live Concert Series & Livestream!" - D.F., Facebook post -- "Masterful Jazz quartet" - 

poster: "nicely done & posted in-a-timely-manner" by D.F. 

Quartet: Personnel - features ~…

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Sheila Govindarajan, Headliner - voice                                                    Image - portraiture created by Karina Puente

An LA-based artist whose music reflects the multiplicity & richness of the worlds & times she travels. Growing up in a traditional South Indian family, Sheila has developed a style that synthesizes her deep…

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"Be there or be square!" - Henry "Skipper" Franklin

Presented by Dwight Trible, Executive Director of The World Stage Art, Education & Performance Gallery‎, non profit…

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   Los Angeles based bassist will debut his first full length work which sets to explore the conditions of Virgin Islands identity & politics through his lens as a young USVI native.

 

  Tabari Lake, Band Leader, Arranger & Composer…

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Presented by Dwight Trible, Executive Director, The 'new' World STAGE Art, Education & Performance Gallery non-profit 501(c)(3)  

In the tradition of the celebrated two tenors - Dexter & Wardell 

duelin' tenor saxophones - Justo Almario &…

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Mariea Antoinette will grace the stage at the Temecula Wine and Music Festival this Saturday. Special rates on tickets still available. For tickets, contact Tony Smith at…

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Central Avenue Jazz Festival

Last month students from across the city put together a tribute concert at the Roxy to help the famous Foshay Learning Center Jazz Band as it's budget was being slashed.

The students, organized by Crossroads in Santa Monica, raised $13,000, saved music and created a lasting bond.

This weekend they…

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KABC takes note of the youth in South L.A. who "soar to new heights to help spark community awareness about a fitness…

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The holiday extravaganza marks the debut of FOCUSfish, an initiative that teaches aerial performance to South LA students as a fitness program - check out this video:

But wait there's more:

• Mr. Holland's Opus award winning band leader Vince Womack will lead the Fosay jazz band in a tribute to Duke Ellington.

• Art Installation and Live Art by…

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The 15th annual Central Avenue Jazz Festival filled South Los Angeles with song this weekend with legendary Roy Gaines and Grammy nominated Bobby Rodriguez.



And even in spectacle, music is so personal as photohami reports on YouTube.



He/she went to Central Ave. yesterday to see Ernie Andrews.



"I first met him in the living room of Aunt Bunny. I also met Gerry Wiggins and Papa John Creach there. Aunt Bunny was my connection to the LA jazz… Continue

Come hear the music where it all started - on Central Avenue in South Los Angeles.

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Celebrate our country's birthday right!



I've seen fireworks from the Colorado St. bridge in Pasadena for the Rose Bowl show, from the deck of a home in the Palos Verdes hills to see Carson's Home Depot

and San Pedro's Queen Mary, from Ballona Creek for Culver City and

from the new Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook for a 360 degree view (and it was fantastic).



Still nothing beats laying back on a blanket in Christmas Tree Lane

Outside the Coliseum and seeing that… Continue

While the country is in the middle of the worst economic depression since the Great one in the '30s, Central Avenue is having a resurgence.



This week the city opens up a $15 million City Hall annex that will double as a park and green space and in September a… Continue