
July 5 – Celebrate the 4th of July on Saturday, July 3, Sunday July 4 and the BIG parade, Monday, July 5. Festivities start at 6:00 p.m. at Memorial Park with Aluminum Marshmallow playing to the beer garden on Saturday night. Sunday night beginning at 5:30 p.m., the sounds of classic rock continue and the [...]

July 7 – Cold Duck with Top 40 tunes has been around and have a good following. Members are Jose A. Cuadra, trumpet, percussion, lead vocals; Gene Chavez, trumpet; Saul Chavez, bass; Tony Mason, sax; Ray Ortega, drums; Gregory Smith, keyboard; Jeff Way, trombone; Eddie Estrada, guitar. Music starts at 7:00 p.m. but the fun [...]

REVIEW… The new band shell erected by the Pasadena Symphony and and POPS for its new location for 2010 POPS Summer Series creates a great backstop to an otherwise dreary location, Lot H, outside Pasadena’s Rose Bowl. The tables with white linens turned the grass area into a festive party-like atmosphere for the estimated 2000+ [...]

Summer Jazz series at Descanso Gardens. Tickets to gardens required. July 1—Brazilian sound of the Robert Kyle Trio, 5:30 p.m. at Descanso Gardens. Kyle is a Saxophonist/flutist/composer who has worked with all the top pops and jazz singers and is a top rated studio musician. Kyle lives in Altadena. Picnic on the lawn (a rarity [...]

July 3 –The Sheriff’s Support Group of Altadena presents the Elk’s #99 Concert Band performing patriotic music at 7:00 p.m. with vocals by Marvin Bonds, Woody James and Malinda Zenor; Phyllis Newman, and Mark Brewer, flute and piccolo. Richard Babcock conducts. Picnic suppers can be pre-ordered at Amy’s Patio Café in Altadena. Farrnsworth Park, 568 [...]

Levitt Pavilion offers concerts Wednesday through Sunday at Pasadena’s Memorial Park, corner of Raymond Ave. and Walnut St., in Old Pasadena. Free. July 1—Daniela Cotton sings soul, folk, blues, jazz and more, 8:00 p.m.. July 2—Fishtank Ensemble combines flamenco, klezmer and Romanian folk music. How, you may ask, 8:00 p.m. July 3—Los Pinguos with Latin [...]


From Renaissance to contemporary, Enlightenment Chamber Music hopes to, well, do just that, enlighten you to what a comprehensive perspective of chamber music might entail at their opening concert at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 27 at Neighborhood Church, Pasadena. They say whether you are a chamber music connoisseur or a newcomer—young or old—this group [...]

Paul Sherman, highly regarded oboist with Southwest Chamber Music, Director of Ensemble GREEN and conductor of two local community symphony orchestras will take the baton to conduct the Pasadena Summer Youth Chamber Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 27 at the First Church of the Nazarene, Pasadena. A program of the music of Mozart, [...]

Hoping to be mutually beneficial to each other and an audience, SYMBIOSIS Ensemble presents their first concert tonight, Friday, June 25 at 8:00 p.m. at the First Church of the Nazarene, Pasadena. Artistic Director for the group, cellist Joo Lee, says the ensemble will be a collaborative effort of musicians drawn from the freelancing corps [...]