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ABBA LA

ABBA LA

Enjoy the music of one of the most beloved ’70s super-groups. Hear hits Dancing Queen, Waterloo, Take A Chance On Me, Mamma Mia, and many more!
Team Taiko Drumming

Team Taiko Drumming

We believe in creating unique opportunities for people to meet their neighbors and engage in their community in a new way. Come play with us! Taiko is a Japanese traditional drumming practice that, over the last several decades, has become a global phenomenon. Since...
Jimmy’s Buffet

Jimmy’s Buffet

Calling all Parrot Heads! Celebrate the music and vibes of – you guessed it! – Jimmy Buffett. Experience a truly authentic Buffett sound with 12 of California’s best musicians. The Grand Annex will transform into a tropical beach party as Jimmy’s Buffet honors their...
The CRayProject Presents : P.I.N.S Royal Renaissance

The CRayProject Presents : P.I.N.S Royal Renaissance

In a grand celebration of a half-decade adorned with glamour, The CRayProject celebrates PINS marked at its 5th anniversary with “The Royal Renaissance,” an opulent ode to urban burlesque. Set against the backdrop of a resplendent metropolis, the night unfolded as a...
Bella & Rudy with Sudden Strangers

Bella & Rudy with Sudden Strangers

Rudy Rios (guitar/vocals), Bella Gomez (lead vocals), Isaac Sharp (bass), Jack Ghekiere (guitar). Sudden Strangers, an indie rock band from San Pedro, California, comprises Bella and Rudy on vocals, Jack on drums, and Isaac on bass. United by years of friendship and...
Bella & Rudy with Sudden Strangers

Bella & Rudy with Sudden Strangers

Rudy Rios (guitar/vocals), Bella Gomez (lead vocals), Isaac Sharp (bass), Jack Ghekiere (guitar). Sudden Strangers, an indie rock band from San Pedro, California, comprises Bella and Rudy on vocals, Jack on drums, and Isaac on bass. United by years of friendship and...
Gathering for the Grand Gala Gidget’s Glamorous Beach Party

Gathering for the Grand Gala Gidget’s Glamorous Beach Party

The 2024 Gathering for the Grand Gala will be held Saturday, May 11, 2024, at 5 PM at the Palos Verdes Golf Club located at 3301 Vía Campesina in Palos Verdes Estates. The guest of honor is Yolanda Valle Perry, a San Pedro native who grew up loving the Warner Grand...
Abby Posner & The Big Fall Band Opener: Joselyn & Don

Abby Posner & The Big Fall Band Opener: Joselyn & Don

Abby is a multi-instrumentalist and winner of the Annual 2023 USA Songwriting Competition. She is known for her incredibly versatile musicianship, superfun live shows, and commercial scores. Her music is featured in TV, films, and radio shows around the world. You can...
The Long Beach Black Dance Festival

The Long Beach Black Dance Festival

Celebrating our 4th Long Beach Black Dance Festival and International Dance Day, come and dance all day with us! Come and take classes with Creative Corps recipient, Chatiera “Cookie” Ray and other local dance artists on a day filled with dance styles such...
What Can You Make With This?  ~ Adults Only Version

What Can You Make With This? ~ Adults Only Version

Trash + Fashion = Trashion! Come to the Wicked Wolf Cocktail Lounge for a cocktail or mocktail and turn some trash into wearable art! Learn about the upcoming Trashion Show Long Beach. How to be a designer and/or attend. CLEAN rubbish welcomed but not required. Hosted...
Peak to Pasifika Cordage Demonstration

Peak to Pasifika Cordage Demonstration

Join Pasifika community members as they demonstrate cordage making from a local native plant: dogbane. Gathered from the Sespe Condor Preserve at 3,000 feet, this demo is taught by Chumash weaver, Tima Lotah Link. Cordage making is a skill shared by people across the...
The Creative Recovery Workshop

The Creative Recovery Workshop

The Creative Recovery Workshop is a 2-hour gathering of those looking to open themselves up to spiritual renewal and revived creative inspiration through art, journaling, community, spirituality, growth and renewal. Every attendee will take home an accompanying...
Premiere – Marketplace Mambo: Stepping Up Food Access

Premiere – Marketplace Mambo: Stepping Up Food Access

Join us for the premiere of a groundbreaking music video that brings the critical issue of food access in Long Beach to life, happening at the Bixby Knolls First Fridays in the EXPO Arts Building. This captivating video stars neurodiverse youth from the Sowing Seeds...
Loiter Galleries presents: “Keepin’ it Local” group exhibit

Loiter Galleries presents: “Keepin’ it Local” group exhibit

Fresh, local artists picked by Loiter Galleries: This Saturday, March 30th for the GRAND OPENING of the “Keepin’ it Local” Art Exhibition. Open to the public, free as always. Come see these fantastic local Long Beach artists like: Jackie Anne – @art.jackieanne...
Camerata Sings for a Cause

Camerata Sings for a Cause

A benefit concert for Open Gallery.  All proceeds to help rebuild the Gallery. APRIL 12, 2024 at 8pm Grace First Presbyterian Church | 3955 N. Studebaker Road, Long Beach, CA 90808
River Session #3 | MILE 0: San Pedro

River Session #3 | MILE 0: San Pedro

Join us for River Session #3, Mile 0: San Pedro/Angels Gate, as we explore San Pedro alongside poet and Creative Corps collaborator Nancy Lynée Woo and Long Beach Community Theater Artistic Director Ann Wellman. Our meeting point is the iconic Korean Friendship Bell,...
Mara Kaye

Mara Kaye

Referred to by Jazz Lives as “one of New York’s great gifts to the world,” blues and jazz vocalist Mara Kaye is “like some lost pocket of the blues that had never been explored in the old days, all wrapped up in a ball of 21st-century Brooklyn-bred attitude.” For over...
Street Corner Renaissance

Street Corner Renaissance

With infectious energy, humor and delightful harmony, Street Corner Renaissance sings a cappella versions of doo-wop and R&B music from days gone by. The quintet is led by NAACP award-winner Maurice Kitchen and joined recently by Bob Henley, touring artist with...
Twanguero & Los Silverbacks

Twanguero & Los Silverbacks

Grammy-winning Spanish guitarist Diego Garcia returns to the Annex for a night of unbridled rhythm with members of his new collective: Adrian Buono & Jose Agote of the band Los Pinguos of Argentina and Jason Tamba & Mermans Mosengo of Afro Fiesta from the...
The Grand Annex Music Hall 15th Anniversary Mixer

The Grand Annex Music Hall 15th Anniversary Mixer

It’s the 15th Anniversary of the Grand Annex Music Hall! Come on down to the Annex for a Ribbon Cutting Celebration and Mixer with San Pedro’s Chamber of Commerce. Meet and mingle with San Pedro’s business and arts communities and enjoy appetizers and drinks as we...
Nomad Eel Records Music Fest

Nomad Eel Records Music Fest

San Pedro’s own Nomad Eel Records showcases a line-up of LA-based bands. Nomad Eel Records was born from the love of music and art. We are not bound to any one genre and have a more eclectic range of tastes. As much as life is a journey, so is music and art. Come...
Laurence Juber

Laurence Juber

“A stunning sense of space and fluidity…a truly wondrous sound” – Guitar World “Uniformly exquisite and dazzlingly executed” – L.A.Times Laurence Juber is a solo performer, recording artist, composer, and arranger. His finger-picking playing fuses folk, jazz, blues,...
Long Beach Community Band – Celebrating American Composers

Long Beach Community Band – Celebrating American Composers

Join your Long Beach Community Band for a celebration of music by American composers in the beautiful and acoustically-excellent Scottish Rite Cathedral. The concert will feature works by American composers who changed the world of music. April 7 at 3:00 pm FREE...
Auntie Kayte After-School Concert at Michelle Obama Library

Auntie Kayte After-School Concert at Michelle Obama Library

Award-winning singer/songwriter, Auntie Kayte, brings her original “Songs to Talk About” to Michelle Obama Library for an after-school concert on March 26th. Auntie Kayte’s irresistibly catchy songs use the power of music and words to plant seeds of...
Brother to Brother: The Unpacking

Brother to Brother: The Unpacking

Created by C-Squared in partnership with the Center of Long Beach, “Brother to Brother” brings together black gay men from all walks of life to discuss topics that have affected us as a community. Love, religion, social Justice, black pride and mental health are areas...