At a moment when musical streams are crossing with unprecedented frequency, it’s crucial to remember that throughout its history, New Orleans has been the point at which sounds and cultures from around the world converge, mingle, and resurface, transformed by the Crescent City’s inimitable spirit and joie de vivre. Nowhere is that idea more vividly embodied than in the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, which has held the torch of New Orleans music aloft for more than 60 years, all the while carrying it enthusiastically forward as a reminder that the history they were founded to preserve is a vibrantly living history.
PHJB marches that tradition forward once again on So It Is. The album redefines what New Orleans music means today by tapping into a sonic continuum that stretches back to the city’s Afro-Cuban roots, through its common ancestry with the Afrobeat of Fela Kuti and the Fire Music of Pharoah Sanders and John Coltrane, and forward to cutting-edge artists with whom the PHJB have shared festival stages from Coachella to Newport, including legends like Stevie Wonder, Elvis Costello and the Grateful Dead and modern giants like Beck, The Foo Fighters, My Morning Jacket, and the Black Keys.
La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts is at 14900 La Mirada Boulevard , La Mirada, CA.
C.S. Lewis On Stage: Further Up & Further In (3/12/25-3/12/25)
The Diary of Anne Frank (2/19/25-2/20/25)
The Play That Goes Wrong (1/24/25-2/16/25)
John Tesh: Acoustic Christmas (12/15/24-12/15/24)
Mariachi Girl (10/24/24-10/24/24)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (10/19/24-10/19/24)
Neil Berg’s 50 Years Of Rock & Roll: Part 3 (7/27/24-7/27/24)
#TheSocialMediaPlay (4/11/24-4/11/24)
DSB (3/29/24-3/29/24)
Glenn Miller Orchestra (3/3/24-3/3/24)
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A Fabulous 50th: Chicago and A Chorus Line!
Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall (4/18 - 4/18) | |
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RENT in Concert
Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Segerstrom Hall (3/15 - 3/15) | |
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Tchaikovsky & Schubert
Walt Disney Concert Hall (3/14 - 3/16) | |
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C A B A R E T
Jaxx Theatre (3/13 - 3/29) | |
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Haïm Leads Handel & Bach
Walt Disney Concert Hall (3/21 - 3/23) | |
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Porn Rock: The Obscenity Trial of Jello Biafra
Eastwood PAC (3/1 - 3/23) | |
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RHINESTONE COWBOYS
Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles (3/22 - 3/23) | |
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AND THEN THERE WAS ONE
Santa Monica Playhouse (3/30 - 3/30) | |
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The Linkin Park Tribute and Tribute To Nirvana
The Canyon – Agoura Hills (3/13 - 3/13) | |
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Mamma Mia!
Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Segerstrom Hall (5/13 - 5/18) | |
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The Princess and the Frog
Theatre West (2/15 - 6/7) | |
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Life of Pi at the Ahmanson
Center Theatre Group at the Ahmanson Theatre (3/6 - 6/1) | |
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