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Watch Neel Agrawal

We invite you to join us online tonight for GP's Feature Presentation of COLA Artist Fellow Neel Agrawal's 'Interscapes' on YouTube and Facebook.

Tonight at 8pm, Neel Agrawal and special guest L. Shankar take the stage with a cinematic music experience that brings together Indian, Middle Eastern and jazz percussion with electronic textures and soaring vocals.

This is the first instalment of GP's annual collaboration with the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), which will continue next Thursday with dancer and choreographer Sarah Elgart. GP's digital programming will conclude on Thursday July 1 with Afro-Cuban pianist Dayramir González,

Grand Performances will return to the newly renovated California Plaza for our first public concert of 2021 on Friday July 9 featuring Ethio Cali, Cut Chemist and Rani de Leon.

Visit https://www.grandperformances.org/events for more information about all upcoming concerts. We're excited to see you soon!

Neel Agrawal


COLA Artist Fellow Neel Agrawal takes the digital stage to present his collaboration with legendary Indian violinist and vocalist L. Shankar, who has worked extensively over his 50-year career alongside Ornette Coleman, John McLaughlin, Peter Gabriel, Frank Zappa and many more.
  

Thursday June 17 @ 8pm PST

Grand Performances

presents
 

NEEL AGRAWAL
 

An Online Cinematic
Music Experience

Broadcasting From The
Skirball Cultural Center



WATCH HERE


Sarah Elgart

COLA Artist Fellow Sarah Elgart presents a site-specific dance performance at the Skirball Cultural Center in collaboration with Grand Performances. Elgart’s work engages audiences by transforming and catalyzing bus terminals, airports, museums and more with movement, music, and media to make magic out of the mundane, allowing viewers to see “old places with new eyes.”
  

Thursday June 24 @ 8pm PST

Grand Performances

presents
 

SARAH ELGART
 

An Online Cinematic
Music Experience

Broadcasting From The
Skirball Cultural Center


WATCH HERE


Dayramir González

Grand Performances presents Afro-Cuban pianist and composer Dayramir González on Thursday, July 1st at 8pm PT on GP's Facebook and YouTube!⁠ ⁠

This cinematic music event will feature a live medley of original and traditional compositions infused with Latin jazz and Afro-Cuban rhythms. ⁠⁠Representing the next generation of Afro-Cuban jazz.⁠ Dayramir is making his mark as a leading international composer, orchestrator, bandleader and pianist.⁠

 

Thursday July 1 @ 8pm PST

Grand Performances

presents
 

DAYRAMIR GONZÁLEZ 

An Online Cinematic
Music Experience


RSVP HERE

 


Summer Is Back

Friday July 9 - Ethio Cali + Cut Chemist

  • Friday July 16 - Katalyst

  • Sunday July 18 - Dance Baby Dance

  • Friday July 23 - La Tigresa y Briseyda Zárate

  • Friday July 30 - Surprise Show TBA

  • Saturday July 31 - DEEP w/ Marques Wyatt

  • Saturday August 7 - Dilla Fest ft. Talib Kweli

  • Friday August 13 - Jacque Hammond and Qur'an Shaheed

  • Saturday August 14 - Head Wraps in the Park

  • Friday August 20 - Katzù Oso

  • Saturday August 21 - Soulection

  • Friday August 27 - Garth Trinidad

  • Saturday August 28 - Hello Stranger ft. Brainstory, Chola Orange and Jason Joshua

  • Saturday September 4 - Subsuelo ft. Los Rakas, LNL, Reyna Tropical and Cumbiatón

  • Saturday September 18 - Buyepongo vs Quitapenas

  • Friday September 24 - Surprise Show TBA

  • Saturday September 25 - The Do-Over

More info at https://www.grandperformances.org/


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