Coming Soon: Arts, Culture and Concerts in Los Angeles

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There's always something exciting happening in Los Angeles! From cultural events to superstar concerts, exciting nightlife and world-class sports, Discover LA is your go-to source for the latest and greatest in LA. Read on for highlights of coming attractions and book your stay today.
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Arts & Culture

Los Angeles is home to a world-class collection of museums and cultural attractions. Best of all, you can view masterpieces at LA museums for free! From automotive to natural history museums, read our guide to more than 20 of the best museums in LA with free admission.

Grand Performances: Mike the PoeT (July 26)
Grand Performances is hosting a special Friday night poetry show featuring LA Stories: Music is History with Mike the PoeT. Inspired by Questlove’s Music is History, this night will be an exploration through spoken word of the history of music in LA, from the jazz era on Central Avenue to the punk scene of the 70s and 80s, to the bands from Laurel Canyon and homegrown Latinx acts.

Love in Focus: Black Queer Rhapsody - The Broad (July 25)
Jazz at LACMA: Bruns & Bache (July 26)
Art Night: Improvised Art - Petersen Automotive Museum (July 26)
Queering Memory - Hammer Museum (July 26)
Back to the Future Part III - The Autry (July 27)

Concerts

Even a few days in Los Angeles can be a musical journey across time and space! Just the week of shows selected from hundreds of concerts in late July includes mainstream rock, honky-tonk country, a celebrated Broadway mezzo-soprano, soulful jazz, adrenalized punk, psychedelic Americana, throwback instrumental surf music, and much more. Book a SoCal trip that will take your ears and soul much, much further.

Idina Menzel - The Wiltern (July 23)

Idina Menzel 

With her potent pipes and commanding stage presence, Idina Menzel has been dubbed both the “Queen of Broadway” and a Disney Legend. After her 1996 Broadway debut in Rent, she earned a huge musical theatre following with celebrated performances on both sides of the Atlantic. But what propelled Menzel into living rooms and onto playlists worldwide was her early 2000s appearances in Enchanted, Glee, and the massively successful Frozen franchise.

X: Smoke & Fiction - The Regent Theater (July 25)
Dwight Yoakam & The Mavericks - The Greek Theatre (July 25)
Chaka Khan - Hollywood Bowl (July 26)
Melissa Etheridge & Jewel - YouTube Theater (July 26)
Surf Guitar 101 Festival - Golden Sails Hotel (July 26-28)
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