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23
April
2024
The Pepper Moons
Eva Mikhailovna - Vocals, Guitar
Mark San Filippo - Drums
Phil Small - Piano
Gabe Davis - Bass
The Pepper Moons began heating up the Southern California vintage music scene in 2022. Focusing on the elegant, pre-bop styles from the glamorous days of the Swing Era, the group is fronted by acclaimed singer/songwriter Eva Mikhailovna (Postmodern Jukebox, Eva & the Vagabond Tales), backed by a top-shelf quintet consisting of Mark San Filippo on drums (Tom Kenny & the High Seas, Andy Paley) and more of LA’s finest jazz musicians.
30
April
2024
Courtney Lemmon Trio
7
May
2024
A Call 2 Peace
14
May
2024
Michelle Coltrane Quartet
21
May
2024
Evan Stone Quartet
Lia Booth - vocals
Eva Stone - drums
Adam Cohen - Bass
Aaron Provisor - Piano
28
May
2024
Fresh Mint Pharaohs
Ifunanya Nweke - vocals
Frankie Blue - guitar
Donald Bruner - piano
Roland Childs - bass
The LA-based quintet fuses jazz, neosoul, funk and strains of Afropop into infectious grooves that lift up and unite audiences in the shared joy of music.
The Band
Frankie Blue, guitar and vocals: Frankie made his mark in music as a songwriter and producer at Sony Records, where he worked with Prince, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Earth, Wind and Fire, among others. He then shifted his focus to writing music for movies and television, which led to an Emmy nomination.
Donald Bruner, keyboards and vocals: Donald has been playing keyboards and singing since he was 10. He has played with band members from The Counting Crows, Fiona Apple, Van Morrison, Ambrosia and Eddie Money, among others. In other words, always a bridesmaid, never a bride.
Ifunanya Nweke, lead vocals: Ifunanya is a striking new voice in the L.A. music scene. Born in Nigeria, Ifu blends her love of neosoul with African rhythms to create some of the most distinctive and nuanced singing in these parts.
4
June
2024
TBC
11
June
2024
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.
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 - June 30, 2024
Frank Gruber
Back to the South 1971
"In late July 1971, we spent several weeks in the South (Italy), “il Mezzogiorno,” while my father did some ethnography and my mother, an artist, sketched. There I was, in a place that was very foreign to me, with a camera, and that’s when I took these photographs. For me, the essential aspect of visual anthropology, and what should distinguish it from journalism, or “street photography,” or travel photography, is direct engagement with the subject. Meaning no subterfuge and no voyeurism. In a public setting, such as a public procession, one can infer consent from the public nature of the ceremony, but ideally the photographer engages with the people being photographed. In my best photographs, the subject looks directly into the camera. The photographer should allow his or her subjects to present themselves as they wish to be presented."
Projected Photo Exhibition | March 3 - April 7, 2024