PERFORMERS

Leopold Nunan

Also known as Leo From Rio, this dance music award-winning artist and performer extraordinaire, originally from Brazil, brings Carnaval everywhere Nunan performs.  With a strong stage show and uplifting music, Nunan gets the crowd to dance.  Nunan is a multi-disciplinary artist, LA community leader, and queer activist, as well as a 2021 Music Forward Foundation Emerging Artist Award recipient.

KYMISTRY

Based in Los Angeles, Kymistry is an emerging contemporary R&B artist known for her chilled, healing, and empowering neo-soul sound. Winner of a Soulger Award for her performance at Skidrow’s Kingdom Koncert and a Mercado La Paloma runner-up, she was a 2021 recipient of the Music Forward Foundation’s Emerging Artist Award.

Pride Poets 

Everyone deserves a poem. Come get yours. 

Get a custom poem from an LGBTQ+ poet with Pride Poets, based on a word, theme, or story that you give us. Founded by West Hollywood City Poet Laureate, Brian Sonia-Wallace, Pride Poets are a queer poetry incubator that brings queer poets to write for their community, honoring and recording their stories and spreading love. Our mission is to connect people through ink in a wired-in world.

A RONSTADT AND LAUREL CANYON 1970’S ROCK REVIEW

Linda and Friends play live Rock 'n Roll shaped and inspired by an generation, including the best hits by Linda Ronstadt.   Just minutes above the infamous Sunset Strip’s rock clubs lies the rural retreat of Laurel Canyon, where young musicians and songwriters regularly banded together to create some of the best vintage Rock ‘n Roll hits ever produced.

The LINDA AND FRIENDS band is made up of top Los Angeles recording artists, performers and composers who have recorded and performed with Rock 'n Roll royalty including James Taylor, Buddy Miles, Lee Ritenour, Toto, The Babys, Jackson Browne, Lita Ford, Frank Zappa, Tower of Power, Leland Sklar, Simon Phillips,  Spandau Ballet, Stone Temple Pilots, Dolly Parton, Colbie Caillat, Dave Mason, even Pope Francis... not to mention performances on TV, film scores, and on stages around the world.

Upstream has been spreading their message of love and positivity through their exhilarating Caribbean Music, namely, Reggae, Calypso, Soca and Steel Drum Music, for quite some time now.

Bandleader and Lead Singer/Guitarist Haile Blackman is originally from The Republic of Trinidad & Tobago and the Son of the Legendary Creator of Soca Music, the late Ras Shorty I.  The band boasts a very seasoned and celebrated line up:  Derek Brewstafari  (Steel Drums, Vocals), Steel Drum Extraordinaire is also a Trinidad and Tobago native and will tug at your heartstrings with his melodic Steel Drum tones.  Granville Cayetano (Bass/Keys & Background Vocals), Daniel Lopilato (Keys, Guitar & Background Vocals) and Mark Spiller (Drums & Background Vocals) complete the stellar crew.

Through songs, stories, jokes, dances and props, Zetz educates, entertains and engages audiences of all ages about what Klezmer music is and what it reveals about the Jewish history, culture and it’s people.  

Zetz, which means to jab or poke (physically or verbally) in Yiddish, is an energetic, entertaining ensemble that charms audiences across all age groups.

Their music is firmly based in the classic klezmer traditions of Eastern European Jews, but they also take colors from across the musical spectrum. These creative musicians weave the intimacy of European chamber music together with the infectious fun and entertainment of a dance band. They perform music ranging from originals composed by their own band members to Arabic and Turkish folk songs from the 15th century, to Jewish wedding standards, to popular Yiddish vaudeville music of the 1920s and ‘30s.

Whether or not one is intimate with Jewish culture and music, klezmer music opens the door to a world rich with energy and emotion that is truly universal. It captures the poignancy and fragility of life while, at the same time, emphasizes its joys and triumphs as well.

A Tribute To The Groovy Sounds Of The 60’s.

Originally formed in 2011 by founder and lead singer TJ Rosenman from Florida, Beach St. A GoGo has been recast on the West Coast in 2017 and is entertaining audiences at festivals, corporate events, private functions, social clubs, VFW’s, restaurants with entertainment, weddings, nightclubs and car shows.

The selection of songs that are fun to listen, dance and sing along to, are #1 Hits or Top 10 from Billboard magazine's 1960's Top 100.

Hits from The Beatles, Beach Boys, Elvis, those Fab 60’s girl groups, One Hit Wonders, Motown and More!

BEACH St. A GoGo! will Rock, Roll and Remember as they play “BOSS” hits by over 40 bands or singers that defined a generation. 

American Songbook, Jazz & Brazilian Bossa Nova Vocalist.

For over two decades, Joyce Partise has entertained audiences large and small throughout the West Coast. Her appearances include intimate cocktail parties, weddings, and business gatherings, to major conventions and weekly appearances at hotels in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles. Joyce Partise brings sultry style, flair and excitement to those she entertains. She has an impressive ability to tell a story through a song, and her music, sung in both Portuguese and English, which creates an air of sensuality, romance, and allure that reaches the hearts of those who hear her. Since childhood, Joyce Partise has been most influenced by Brazilian Bossa Nova, Samba, and the timeless standards of the American Songbook, and she features classics from Antonio Carlos Jobim, Astrud Gilberto, and other Brazilian legends during each of her performances.

 Joyce Partise partnered with Bill Brendle, former Pianist and Music Director for Brazilian Jazz icon Sergio Mendes. Together the two produced Joyce’s album, My Brazilian Heart, with some of the world’s top jazz musicians in a record that features classics such as Sway, Mas Que Nada, and My Foolish Heart. Her YouTube following has touched millions of followers throughout the world.

Whether you’re 25 or 75 you’ll instantly recognize – and fall in love with – Joyce’s music which has also been played on LA’s premiere jazz station, Kjazz 88.1. 

The Susie Hansen Latin Band plays salsa and Latin jazz -- salsa, cumbia, merengue, cha cha cha, bolero and bachata.  The band has been together for 32 years.  Susie plays the electric violin and sings, and the the Long Beach Press-Telegram has called her "a hot Latin fiddler and bandleader."  Lead vocalist Daniel Castillo from Venezuela also plays congas.  Electric guitarist Kaspar Abbo from London England sings lead vocals in English.  Also in her six-piece band are piano, bass and drums/timbales. 

Hansen has performed with Cuba's premier dance band, Los Van Van, both in Los Angeles and in Havana, Cuba.  She has also played with Orquesta Aragon, Cuba's preeminent Charanga band.  She performed or recorded with Tito Puente, Paquito d’Rivera, Vikki Carr, Macy Gray, Orquesta Broadway, Giovani Hidalgo, Jose Rizo’s Jazz on the Latin Side All-Stars and others. 

Susie also pursued an education in math and computer science, ultimately earning two master's degrees in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), but ultimately her musical career took precedence.  She has released three albums on the Jazz Caliente label.   An original Latin jazz song Susie wrote, "Las Calles de Chicago," has been on rotation with Sirius Satellite Radio for eleven years.  The song, "La Salsa Nunca Se Acaba," has been popular across the country and around the world for the past seventeen years, regularly selling hundreds of downloads to this day.  Her CD "Solo Flight" was named by Latin Beat Magazine as one of its "Top One Hundred Independent Latin Jazz Recordings." 

The Smokin' Cobras perform classic AM radio's greatest hits from the fabulous 50's, rockin' 60's, funky 70's and restro 80's.  Hit songs from soul, to rock and pop, and back again.  High energy. Big show. Iconic artists.  From Dodger Stadium to Japan, The Smokin' Cobras have thrilled audiences at festivals, casinos, corporate functions and private events.

The Smokin' Cobras are proud to be servin' up classic AM radio hits to a new millennium!