Our Next Events
1
April
2025
Fresh Mint Pharaohs
Mercy Powell - lead vocals
Frankie Blue - guitar
Donald Bruner - keyboards
Lance Ignon - bass
Jim Xavier - drums
8
April
2025
Alfredo Caceres Flamenco Trio
Alfredo Cáceres -guitar
Josè Prieto - voice and guitar
Hector Torres - percussions
Born and raised in Guatemala City, Guatemala, Cáceres, a complete guitarist and composer, has been involved in a wide variety of projects and bands in styles ranging from World music, Flamenco, Jazz, Brazilian, Salsa, Pop and Latin. He has collaborated on several recordings in local and international productions, as well as in different festivals in the United States and in Europe. Alfredo has been living in the United States full-time since 2009, and has played alongside many different artists in the World Music arena, such as Persian singer Hamed Nikpay, guitarist Russ Hewitt, the Gypsy All Stars (of the Gipsy Kings family), Mario Reyes, and Marcus Nand (Ziroq), just to name a few.
In 2012, Cáceres released his first solo album in the U.S., one that involves a variety of his original compositions within the last ten years, recorded in his hometown of Guatemala and in Los Angeles, California.
Bread and Focaccia-Making Cooking Class
If you're interested in honing your cooking skills, join us on April 13th at 3 PM for a hands-on bread and focaccia -making class with Chef Valentina Bianco. In this class, you'll learn how to prepare sourdough bread from scratch using just water, flour, and salt. We'll guide you through every step of natural fermentation and baking, ensuring you gain the skills to create delicious homemade bread. What to bring: Your own apron and a passion for baking! Spaces are limited—reserve your spot now by following the link. We can't wait to bake with you!
15
April
2025
Lia Booth Trio
Lia Booth - vocals
Miles Jensen - guitar
Ahmet Turkmenoglu - bass
Lia Booth is one of the brightest young jazz singers around. She has been mesmerizing audiences around Southern California for the last few years and in the process has become one of the most talked about and appreciated singers among musicians – often a much more cynical audience. Her vocal tone, sense of swing, phrasing and undeniable mastery of harmony and scat singing have made her a force to be reckoned with
Peter Lodato
Diamonds/Divisions/Voids
Always fascinated by the uncertainty of human perception, and the duplicitous nature of vision, which can be both revealing and deceitful, Lodato creates paintings that delve into this duality. Upon first read they are austere, geometric abstractions. After further observation, however, the paintings begin to vibrate: brushstrokes become evident and the surface reveals that there are numerous layers beneath. The hard edges of his often bi-chromatic works dissipate into sensuous fields of color that seem to push space in and out. Lodato’s reductive, divided compositions are visual confrontations between the planar simplicity of form and the resonance of particular pigments. A disciple of the AbEx color field painter, Barnett Newman, Lodato’s sumptuously colored canvases echo Newman’s concept of using division as a way to merge different areas of the canvas into a sublime whole.
Art Exhibition | April 7 -April 30, 2024