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Joe Bataan & Quetzal: Labor of Love
2025-10-25 20:00 - 22:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | Ford Amphitheatre, California
Poet and community activist Faith Santilla leads a soulful and empowering celebration of music and culture inspired by the solidarity formed between Filipino and Mexican workers during the California labor movement of the 1960s. Headlining the evening is Joe Bataan, the iconic “King of Latin Soul.” Born and raised in Spanish Harlem to Filipino and African American parents, Joe Bataan became the “King of Latin Soul” by embodying cross-cultural connections: He can be a street-tough worker one moment and a humble romantic the next. His distinctive fusion of soul, Latin boogaloo, and R&B has been the soundtrack for generations.
Quetzal has spent over two decades creating music that inspires social justice, resistance, and cultural pride movements. Their blend of Mexican folk music, rock, Afro-Cuban rhythms, and jazz delivers their message in rich, rhythmically powerful, and always celebratory way.
Soak up the spirit of a transformational moment in California’s cultural history—one that showed us sixty years ago the kinds of powerful things that can happen when communities come together.

Hadestown
2025-10-25 20:00 - 23:00, 2025-10-26 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-10-26 18:30 - 21:30, 2025-10-28 19:30 - 22:30, 2025-10-29 19:30 - 22:30 | Hollywood Pantages Theatre, 6233 Hollywood Blvd. Wayne McWorter (213)365-3500, Hollywood, CA, 90028.0

TELYKAST
2025-10-25 20:00 - 23:00 | The Roxy, 9009 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, California
TELYKAST is a Los Angeles-based music group known for their distinctive sound that blends high-energy electronic dance music (EDM) with catchy pop hooks and organic instrumentation. The trio, comprised of Linus Altman-Kurosaki (jazz guitarist background), Kyle Tonoli (DJ/producer), and Trevor Klaiman (former metal guitarist), fuses their diverse musical backgrounds to create anthemic, sentimental tracks. They have successfully established themselves in the dance-pop scene, accumulating hundreds of millions of streams across platforms through popular singles like “Unbreakable” and “Body to Body,” in addition to official remixes for major artists such as The Chainsmokers and Imagine Dragons. This unique combination of a live band dynamic with electronic production gives them a recognizable sound both on radio and in their dynamic live performances.

Disney Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas With Danny Elfman, Janelle Monae, Keith David, Riki Lindhome and John Stamos
2025-10-25 20:00 - 23:30, 2025-10-26 19:00 - 23:30 | Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood, California, 90068.0
Disney Tim Burton‘s The Nightmare Before Christmas in Concert featuring Danny Elfman singing as Jack, Janelle Monae singing as Sally, Keith David singing as Oogie Boogie, Riki Lindhome singing as Shock, and John Stamos singing as Lock with incredible eye-popping projections that bring Halloween Town to life. The holiday classic celebrates 10 years since its first show at the iconic venue! Conductor John Mauceri, founding Director of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, will once again be leading the full orchestra and choir performing the film’s full score as the special guests perform the film’s acclaimed songs live, plus an unforgettable virtuosic interlude with violinist Sandy Cameron. Get to the Bowl early to enjoy the Hollywood Bowl/Halloween Town transformation with special pre-show activities including a costume contest (Tim Burton-inspired costumes are encouraged!), unique photo opportunities, and trick-or-treating stations.

Kenny Garrett
2025-10-25 21:30 - 23:30, 2025-10-26 19:00 - 21:30, 2025-10-26 21:30 - 23:30 | California
Kenny Garrett is an American post-bop jazz musician and composer, widely regarded as one of the most important alto saxophonists of his generation. His music seamlessly blends traditional jazz with contemporary influences, including elements of funk, R&B, Gospel, and world music, often featuring African and Asian influences.

Paper Walls a play by Elliot Shoenman. Sundays Function
2025-10-26 15:00 - 19:30 | The Broadwater, 1076 Lillian Way, Los Angeles, California, 90038.0
Directed by Darin Anthony

Featuring: Derek Manson, Casey J. Adler, Dana Schwartz, Warren Davis

Paper Walls tells the story of the Goldman family, profoundly affected by Hitler’s rise to power, who find themselves desperately fleeing persecution while awaiting entry into the United States. Restrictive U.S. immigration policies and antisemitism intensified their struggle, and this poignant drama explores themes strikingly relevant to contemporary times.

OKTOBERFEST – A CELEBRATION OF SONG & SOUL | starring PAMELA CLAY and SUZI OLIVER , featuring MD David Moscoe (piano)
2025-10-26 18:00 - 23:30 | Catalina Jazz Club, 6725 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, California, 90028.0
Is a cabaret-style performance starring vocalists Pamela Clay and Suzi Oliver, often referred to as “The Dynamic Duo,” and featuring David Moscoe as the Musical Director and pianist. The show is typically a special engagement held at venues like the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood, California, around the time of the fall season. Clay and Oliver, both noted for their powerful voices and backgrounds in jazz and cabaret, deliver an unforgettable night of soul-stirring songs, crossing various genres with an emphasis on jazz, pop, and R&B, all supported by a full band accompanying Moscoe on the piano.

"ONCE UPON a ONE MORE TIME"
2025-10-26 19:00 - 21:30 | Jaxx Theatre Cabaret, 5432 SANTA MONICA BLVD, Los Angeles, CA, 90029, United States
When a fairy godmother goes rogue and plops copies of The Feminine Mystique
in the laps of classic heroines, the damsels embark on a quest to rewrite
their stories and redefine “happily ever after.”
Once Upon a One More Time weaves 23 of Britney Spears’ smash hits—like
“Crazy,” “Oops!…I Did It Again,” “Circus,” “Lucky,” and “Toxic”—into “a big,
modern, musical dance party, with Britney’s beating heart at its core.” (ABC
News) Once Upon a One More Time is a modern day Into the Woods and a jukebox
musical fantasy come true!
Once Upon a One More Time started previews on Broadway on May 13, 2023,
opened on June 22, 2023 and ran for 83 performances before closing on
September 3, 2023. Jaxx’s producing team saw the show on Broadway and
recognized its potential as a post-Broadway camp classic.

54 ULTRA
2025-10-26 19:00 - 22:00 | The Roxy, 9009 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, California
54 Ultra is the solo musical project of New Jersey-based singer, songwriter, and producer John Anthony Rodriguez. His sound is a distinctive blend of vintage aesthetics and modern sensibilities, combining elements of Latin soul, 1960s pop, New Wave, and indie rock. Drawing inspiration from his Dominican-Puerto Rican heritage, he often incorporates bilingual flair into his music, which is characterized by smooth vocals, dreamy synths, and classic production quality. The name “54 Ultra” itself is a mashup of the iconic Studio 54 disco club and Frank Ocean’s Nostalgia, Ultra. EP, reflecting his retro-futurist style. Although primarily a solo studio endeavor where he records all his music, 54 Ultra performs live with a full band to bring his analog soul revivalism to the stage, showcasing tracks like the highly streamed hit “Heaven Knows” and songs from his debut project, First Works (2025).

Hocus Pocus : Hollywood Glam! Rooftop Cult Classic Screening
2025-10-26 19:30 - 23:00 | The Montalban, 1615 Vine St, Hollywood, California, 90028.0
Hocus Pocus is a beloved 1993 American fantasy comedy film that has become a perennial Halloween cult classic, despite its initial box office disappointment. The movie centers on the wickedly funny trio of the Sanderson sisters—Winifred, Mary, and Sarah—a coven of witches famously portrayed by Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker. After being executed in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1693, the sisters are accidentally resurrected exactly 300 years later by a skeptical teenage boy, Max Dennison. The witches must then quickly try to drain the life force from the town’s children to secure their immortality before sunrise, leading to a frantic and hilarious chase across modern-day Salem as Max, his little sister Dani, and his crush Allison work with the help of an immortal talking cat, Thackery Binx, to stop them. The film’s enduring popularity, fueled by repeated annual airings, cemented its status as a seasonal staple and eventually led to a sequel in 2022.

Rachael & Vilray
2025-10-26 19:30 - 23:30 | Ford Amphitheatre, California
Rachael Price (vocalist for Lake Street Dive) and Vilray Bolles (Brooklyn-based guitarist and songwriter) conjure 1930s and ’40s swing as Rachael & Vilray. The jazz duo weaves enchanting spells with timeless songs of passion and whimsy that evoke the era of Fats Waller, Peggy Lee, and Johnny Mercer with a wink of modern wit. “She can sing anything; he can play anything … Tin Pan Alley meets the Lower East Side in a smoky bar, in songs with a twist of humor” (NPR). Following their 2019 self-titled album, 2022’s release I Love a Love Song! garnered widespread acclaim and gigs at legendary venues such as Jazz at Lincoln Center, Cafe Carlyle, and The Troubador. Friends for more than two decades, Rachael & Vilray make their debut at The Ford for an evening of storytelling and romance.

THE DISCO ERA THEME SHOW FUNDRAISER 2025! Featuring special guests: SCHERRIE PAYNE & LYNDA LAURENCE of The Supremes!
2025-10-27 18:30 - 23:30 | Catalina Jazz Club, 6725 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, California, 90028.0
The “DISCO ERA THEME SHOW FUNDRAISER 2025” is a special event dedicated to reliving the music, soul, and glamour of disco’s golden age, with a key fundraising component for a music education organization, the Maison de Music Foundation. This one-night-only spectacular is presented by La Voix Studio and is scheduled to take place at the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood, California, on Monday, October 27, 2025. The show’s main draw is the appearance of legendary special guests Scherrie Payne & Lynda Laurence, both former members of the iconic Motown group The Supremes, whose own later career included popular disco hits like “I’m Gonna Let My Heart Do the Walking.” Attendees are encouraged to wear their best disco-themed outfits for a contest, all in support of a good cause

Amaro Freitas
2025-10-27 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-10-27 21:30 - 23:30 | California
Amaro Freitas is a highly acclaimed Brazilian jazz pianist and composer who is pioneering a distinct, contemporary sound in global jazz, moving beyond traditional Brazilian styles. Born in Recife, Brazil, his music is characterized by a heavily percussive and polyrhythmic approach that draws deeply from the cultural traditions of Northeast Brazil, such as maracatu, frevo, and baião. His unique technique often incorporates complex time signatures and features elements of prepared piano, where he places objects inside the instrument to generate unique sounds, notably used in his album Y’Y to evoke the Amazon rainforest. His work, including the album Sankofa, explores themes of Black ancestry and social justice, seamlessly blending the intellectual rigor of post-bop jazz with the rich, spiritual, and rhythmic heritage of his African-Brazilian roots.

AN EVENING OF COMEDY, MUSIC, & ART honoring CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER || Hosted by BILL BELLAMY
2025-10-28 08:00 - 17:00 | Catalina Jazz Club, 6725 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, California, 90028.0
“AN EVENING OF COMEDY, MUSIC, & ART honoring CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER,” is a high-profile tribute and benefit show presented by the Angela & John Witherspoon Foundation. Scheduled for Tuesday, October 28, 2025, at the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood, the evening is dedicated to honoring the esteemed comedian, actor, and producer, Cedric the Entertainer. The event will be hosted by fellow comedian and actor Bill Bellamy and is structured as a multi-disciplinary evening, blending comedy, musical performances, and artistic elements to celebrate Cedric’s contributions. This is a special, high-value ticketed affair designed to raise funds and awareness for the foundation’s charitable work.

Dijon
2025-10-28 18:30 - 23:30, 2025-10-29 18:30 - 23:30 | Greek Theatre, 2700 North Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, California, 90027.0
Dijon is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer known for his raw, emotionally resonant, and genre-defying music. His sound blends elements of alternative R&B, neo-soul, Americana, and indie-folk, often characterized by a distinctive lo-fi, “bedroom” production style that emphasizes vocal vulnerability, acoustic instrumentation, and spontaneous, jam-like performances. After gaining recognition as half of the alternative R&B duo Abhi//Dijon, he launched his solo career, culminating in the critically acclaimed debut album, Absolutely (2021). His work is celebrated for its deeply personal lyrics, which explore themes of romance, anxiety, and modern masculinity, often delivered with a dynamic voice that can shift from a tender whisper to a powerful, strained plea.

Miki Berenyi Trio with Gina Birch and The Unreasonables
2025-10-28 19:00 - 23:30 | The Roxy, 9009 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, California
Miki Berenyi began her career as a recording artist in 1989, as co-founder of the band Lush, releasing a series of EPs (Scar, Mad Love and Black Spring compiled as Gala) and LPs (Spooky, Split and Lovelife) on the iconic 4AD label. The band toured extensively, many times in the US — with Ride, Babes in Toyland, Jane’s Addiction, Flaming Lips, Weezer and, most notably, as openers on the 1992 Lollapalooza tour.
Lush split in 1996, and Miki retired from music, but a 2015-16 Lush reunion tour, which included a Coachella date and release of an EP Blond Spot, revived her enthusiasm and she formed Piroshka, who released two albums on Bella Union: Brickbat (2019) and Love Drips and Gathers (2021).
When the global pandemic made touring impossible, Miki spent the lockdown months writing her memoir, Fingers Crossed, released in 2022 to widespread acclaim. To provide some musical accompaniment for the string of book events and signings, Miki Berenyi Trio was formed, with her partner Kevin ‘Moose’ McKillop on guitar and Oliver Cherer on bass (both had played in Piroshka).
The band has developed a momentum of its own and they are now writing new songs, inserted into the set of Lush and Piroshka tracks as they continue to fulfil live bookings, with a plan to record and release an album in 2024. For the US dates, they will be joined by Michael Conroy — also a founder member of Piroshka and Modern English.

Vibe Check Live
2025-10-28 20:00 - 23:30 | Ford Amphitheatre, California
Kicking off , acclaimed podcast Vibe Check returns to The Ford stage to explore the poetry and politics of the genre and more. Described as your “favorite group chat come to life,” the weekly podcast, hosted by audio-journalist Sam Sanders, poet Saeed Jones, and theater producer Zach Stafford, takes on the news and culture of the day from a Black queer perspective. In this special presentation, the audience will be seated on stage with the hosts for an intimate Halloween experience.
Tananarive Due, an award-winning author, educator, and expert in Black Horror and Afrofuturism, joins the hosts for a conversation about her book, The Reformatory, “one of the best novels published in 2023” (NPR), as well as her work on Shudder’s Horror Noire documentary and Jordan Peele’s The Twilight Zone.

Shintaro Sakamoto
2025-10-28 20:00 - 23:30 | The Fonda, 6126 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, California
Shintaro Sakamoto is a highly influential Japanese musician, singer, and producer, first gaining renown as the frontman and creative force behind the legendary psychedelic rock band Yura Yura Teikoku, which was active from 1989 until its amicable disbandment in 2010. Following the end of the band, Sakamoto launched a solo career that saw him evolve his sound from raw psychedelia into a unique, sophisticated blend of soft rock, dub, city pop, and exotica, often described as a Japanese version of Steely Dan or tropicália. Operating his own label, zelone records, his solo work—including albums like How To Live With A Phantom and Let’s Dance Raw—is characterized by smooth, laid-back grooves, subtle wit, and a distinctive deadpan vocal delivery, establishing him as one of the most distinctive and internationally acclaimed voices in modern Japanese indie music.

Peces Raros
2025-10-29 19:00 - 22:00 | The Roxy, 9009 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, California
Peces Raros is an Argentinian duo from La Plata, Buenos Aires, known for pioneering a unique and compelling fusion of electronic music and rock, often described as electronic rock or indie-pop. Led by Lucio Consolo (vocals) and Marco Viera, the band is defined by its pulsing, dance-driven sound that heavily utilizes synthesizers, electronic textures, and immersive guitar work. They are renowned for their intense and continuous “set-mode” live performances, which blur the line between a rock concert and a DJ session, compelling audiences to move. With albums like Anestesia (2018) and the award-nominated Dogma (2021) and Artificial (2024), Peces Raros has become a prominent and innovative act in the Latin American music scene, performing at major festivals and gaining a strong international following.

Pacific Jazz Orchestra featuring special guest Jane Monheit
2025-10-29 19:30 - 21:00 | Blue Note Jazz Club
The Pacific Jazz Orchestra (PJO), led by seven-time Grammy-nominated conductor Chris Walden, is Los Angeles’ premier 40-piece ensemble, known for pioneering a hybrid sound that merges a jazz big band with a lush string orchestra to perform an expansive repertoire across genres from swing to Brazilian jazz. When featuring special guest vocalist Jane Monheit, a Grammy-nominated interpreter of the Great American Songbook and Brazilian repertoire, the collaboration results in a unique performance that showcases Monheit’s warm, sophisticated voice against the PJO’s dynamic, custom-arranged orchestrations, delivering a fresh and grand take on classic and contemporary jazz material.

Noga Erez
2025-10-29 20:00 - 23:30 | The Fonda, 6126 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, California
Noga Erez is an acclaimed Israeli singer-songwriter and producer known for her bold, genre-bending electronic music. Born in Tel Aviv in 1989, her sound is a vibrant fusion of electro-pop, alternative pop, and sample-based hip-hop, often characterized by punchy, experimental beats and sharp, witty lyrics. Erez gained international recognition with her 2017 debut album, Off the Radar, which featured the hit single “Dance While You Shoot.” She solidified her unique artistic voice with her 2021 album, Kids, and her 2024 release, The Vandalist, all created in close collaboration with her partner and producer, Ori Rousso. While she’s been reticent to label her work “political,” her songs frequently process and critique global and societal issues with a fearless energy that makes her one of the most exciting contemporary artists to emerge from Israel.
