Hope for live music in 2021 and Natalie Gelman waves goodbye to 2020
2021. hope and two grat music videos [...]
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#SAVEOURSTAGES and keep music alive
One of my favorite venues in Los Angeles is the Hotel Café, which is actually in Hollywood. I attended concerts there for over seven years. When I first encountered “The [...]
Dedicated fans fill Hollywood’s Roxy Club for Caloncho
The Roxy is one of Hollywood’s top hotspot clubs and one of my favorite Hollywood Boulevard venues. The club’s semi-circular stage is large, but not too high — [...]
Rocking out to Roach and Cafe R&B at historic Harvelle’s. Love being back in LA LA land
Harvelle’s blues club in Santa Monica bills itself as the oldest blues club in west Los Angeles. Crammed between a parking garage and a restaurant that used to be part [...]
Report on the Gong Show in Mexico.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote here that I had been tapped to judge the first, and apparently not the last, Karaoke Gong Show for Charity in Ajijic Mexico. [...]
Angels in Guadalajara? Getting lost after the Dream Rock Festival
The C3 Rooftop is a small-to-medium sized venue on the roof of a huge -1100 capacity – venue called the C3. It’s located on one of Guadalajara’s busiest [...]
The Woodstock 50th Anniversary in a packed Bar El Camaleón with music, beer and bratwurst.
Bethel New York, the actual site of the Woodstock Arts and Music Festival is 4205 kilometers and 50 years from Ajijic Mexico today, but none of that mattered to the [...]
“Life, Love, and Longevity”. Stephanie Spruill at Feinstein’s at Vitello’s
“Life, Love, and Longevity”, Stephanie Spruill informs the audience from the stage at Feinstein’s at Vitello’s about her secret to success. She was kicking off one [...]
Two Clubs, three bands and a surprise – Wednesday night in Hollywood
Patrick O’Heffernan I always try to support my friends who are singers or in bands that I love. So I was in a quandary Wednesday night when two of my [...]
Alih Jey and Cuñao at the High Hat: a perfect musical match, a magical night.
by Patrick O’Heffernan. Some collaborations in music are just perfect. Not only is the music magnificent, but the collaborators give each other new energy so that the final [...]
Muchachito vibrates Eastside Luv Wednesday night in a “total hoot”
Muchachito at LA's Eastside Luv a total hoot. [...]
Serena Foster at the Study: a great talent, when you could hear and see her.
Serena Foster is a fast rising talent. She deserves the best in sound and lights. [...]
Writers in the Round on a late Sunday night in Hollywood
by Patrick O’Heffernan There is a phenomenon in LA (and maybe other music-oriented cities) called the songwriters round or writers- in-the-round. At a songwriters [...]
Amanda Abizaid brings her Middle Eastern blues to a top LA jazz club
Patrick O’Heffernan Studio City, CA) I have seen Amanda Abizaid live twice, once at the Irish-themed rock club Molly Malone’s in the Fairfax district of LA and last week [...]
Hot rock and an epic guitar in small-town Mexico.
Rock and a world class guitarist in a small t
own in Mexico. [...]
Music release party in Hollywood with a conversation in an unlikely place.
Patrick O’Heffernan. Host, Music FridayLive!, Last Friday I attended a release party for X.ARI at the Sayers Club in Hollywood. X.ARI is a Canadian synth-pop singer [...]
X.ARI at Sayers Club in Hollywood: agony and ecstasy and blow you away music
Patrick O’Heffernan. Host, Music FridayLive!, X.ARI not only brings a high level of creativity to her music, but a kind of creativity that is unique, that stands out in a [...]
Whitney Tai in LA ‘s Classiest Dive Bar.
Patrick O’Heffernan. Host, Music FridayLive!, Los Angeles was originally called “El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Ángeles del Río Porciúncula” [...]
Amanda Abizaid: the perfect artist to celebrate World Peace Day
We'll find a place in time/
A place in time beyond the sun/We'll find a place in time/A place in time to call our home (from The 4400) [...]
A New Beat From Rockett Drumworks
A Special Announcement From Rikki Rockett Pork Pie Percussion and Rockett Drum Works will be working together on some interesting projects. We will be offering Kits and [...]