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We've compiled them all below (and on our solstice calendar), from BRRR! Winter Solstice Celebration at Lo-Fi to the Winter Solstice Night Market. If that makes you sad, there are many ways for you to keep your days (nights?) warm and bright with winter solstice events in Seattle. With her long thread of experience working with record labels and music festivals (e.g., Coachella), she is also the founder of Falling Mirrors Collective, an event production company that focuses on bringing cutting-edge artists to Long Beach.Īll photos and copy are ©2015 Downtown Long Beach Associates unless otherwise stated.Northern Hemisphere dwellers will experience the shortest day of the year (or the longest night, depending on your outlook) on Saturday, December 21-the solstice occurs at approximately 8:19 p.m PST. Tokotah Ashcraft is no stranger to Long Beach, as she is the main events coordinator of regionally-renowned First Fridays at Bixby Knolls – a monthly art walk that celebrates small business, music, and community. Caliboso is also the founder of local music group Bootleg Orchestra as well as the music-and-culture think tank Society for Long Beach Music. from Berklee College of Music and her M.A. Hailing from Long Beach, Caliboso received her B.M. That is, she uses research to address issues in health care, and she uses music to help uplift people and communities. Menchie Caliboso is a researcher by day and a musician by night. We are a diverse city and we are not shy of celebrating the diverse sounds of music.” “Jazz in Long Beach goes as far back as Nat King Cole-maybe earlier-before he met mainstream success, and today, many of our homebred musicians continue to make a career out of jazz. ”We wanted to bring this to Long Beach, as Long Beach continues to be a cultural hub for so many musicians and music listeners,” Caliboso said. This isn’t to mention the university’s studio home to famed station K-Jazz (or what was formerly KLON, the entity that hosted the Blues and Gospel Festival before it became known as the Long Beach Blues Festival). in Jazz Studies in 1978 followed by an M.M.

When it comes to jazz and the blues, Long Beach has hosted the best of the best: from Chuck Berry to James Brown, Buddy Guy to the Blues Brothers Band, Gladys Knight to The O’Jays…Įven our university, CSULB, became the first four-year university in the nation to offer a B.M. The rising tide of live music invading Long Beach-largely led by programs like Live After 5 and a deepened interest in live music-harkens to the days when Jazz Safari, Vault 350, and the Arena regularly hosted local and international musicians of the highest caliber. This attention to jazz makes sense since Long Beach is steeped in jazz history. To top it all off, the Breakers-closed for a while due to a renovation-is now being opened to the public to unveil its new design. We also have a separate room for spoken word artists, a movement that parallels the foundations of jazz.” The same goes for DJs NiceGuyxVinny and Eusebio Akasha, who often spin jazz-inspired hip hop and funk.

Katalyst is the epitome of jazz and hip hop they’re an Inglewood-based group of young jazz musicians who have played with esteemed musicians, such as Roy Hargrove, Anderson Paak, and even Kendrick Lamar. “Jungle Fire reflects jazz in funk and afro-beat, Tiffany Gouche in neo-soul/R&B, Black Noise in rock/R&B, and Bootleg Orchestra in soul/pop. Spoken word artists will include Shy but Flyy, The Loneliest Casanova, Jragonfly Jon, Nerd, and Micah Bournes. Joining them will be The Black Noise, Katalyst, Bootleg Orchestra, Eusebio Akasa, and NiceGuyxVinny. That lineup will feature headliners Tiffany Gouche and Jungle Fire.

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“It’s just being manifested in so many different new and exciting sounds of today and I like to think we have the full spectrum in this lineup.” ”There is a misconception that jazz is dead but it is alive and well,” said Menchie Caliboso, curator for this month’s Live After 5.

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We’ve got a whole new vibe coming to our free live music series, Live After 5, as it takes over the historic Breakers Building come March 10 from 5PM to 11PM.ĭubbed Neo Soulstice, this month’s event is set to spotlight the impact jazz has made one contemporary music and artists-and also marks our first guest curators for Live After 5, Menchie Caliboso and Tokotah Ashcraft.

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