Metallica to be a Weenie Roast offering
Metallica to be a Weenie Roast offering
The veteran thrash metal band is to be announced as a co-headliner at the KROQ event.
Concert fans in Southern California are getting a lesson from the old school these days. First, Roger Waters brought his floating pig and Pink Floyd laser show to the desert grounds of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and today KROQ-FM (106.7) will announce that Metallica, those graybeards of thrash metal, will co-headline the station’s annual Weenie Roast on May 17 at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre.
2 concerts will honor late roots rocker Chris Gaffney
Proceeds from events will help defray roots-rocker Chris Gaffney’s medical bills.
Musical associates, friends, fans and family of Southland roots-rock musician Chris Gaffney , who died last week of liver cancer, will memorialize the singer, songwriter and bandleader with two benefit events in the week ahead.
A Flood of Talent
Directing outdoor theater is challenging, but an ambitious family musical with tricky design elements and a cast of more than 200–most of them nonprofessionals and children–well, that’s just insanity.
‘Dido and Aeneas’
Choreographer Mark Morris brings his once taboo-breaking, now classic interpretation of Purcell’s opera to Irvine.
In 1988, Mark Morris was invited to make his dance company a resident ensemble at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie. As part of Brussels’ opera company, he was told to think as big as he liked. He did, and that was, for him, a new opportunity. During his three years in Belgium, he also thought differently, which was not so new for him but produced newly outrageous results when combined with thinking big in Old World operatic Europe.