*(Inglewood, CA) Summer time has formally arrived in Southern California. By that, I imply the times are longer, and vibrant sunny days provide many causes to get out and about. Don’t neglect to mud off your dancing footwear. I can’t consider a greater option to have fun the arrival of summer season than having fun with the inaugural Inglewood Music Pageant, Saturday, June 24, 2023. This occasion was held within the tree-lined, well-maintained, manicured garden of Darby Park within the Metropolis of Champions.
The outside music pageant scene in Southern California is alive, thriving, and all of a sudden heating up. We have now already skilled back-to-back weekends of Juneteenth celebrations together with the New Orleans Hall Naming Ceremony.
The Inaugural Inglewood Music Pageant paid homage to among the best icons in Music Historical past throughout Black Music Month.
Dionne Faulk is the primary African American girl to be elected and the second girl seated on the Inglewood Metropolis Council. Faulk’s ardour for neighborhood and constructing cultural relevance moved her to host the Inglewood Music Pageant, to convey all individuals collectively to take pleasure in music, meals & tradition!
The Inglewood Music Pageant, the place music, laughter, and scrumptious delicacies collide. Comic Tommy Davidson and Kameron Greene, 102.3 Radio Free KJLH hosted the epic day full of sensational reside performances, native distributors, and LA County’s most interesting meals delights.
DJ Karmel Camille, on the management boards of those and two, had the various, multi-ethnic get together individuals of Inglewood and surrounding communities grooving to the beats in between reside performances.
Inglewood’s personal Tia P received the present underway with a number of unique tracks with a decent band. Tia P opened with “I Get it Going,” and stored it rolling with a popping “Inexperienced Cadillac” and closed out with “That is My Metropolis” the unofficial, maybe in the future, the official anthem of the Metropolis of Champions.
Inglewood Music Pageant is one other welcome addition to the cultural portfolio for the Metropolis of Champions. Attendees had been in a position to get together for a objective. The pageant benefited native faculties. Elected officers had been in attendance for this historic event together with Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts Jr., Inglewood Metropolis Councilmembers Alex Padilla and Eloy Morales Jr., Senator Steven Bradford, Assemblymember Tina McKinnor, Lawndale Mayor Robert Pullen-Miles, and Hawthorne Metropolis Councilmember Katrina Manning. This requires a celebratory cake as nicely a bit of sip of bubbly. Music aficionados are already evaluating the Inglewood Music Pageant to different established, long-running festivals as a result of artistry and wizardry of Chuck Dennis Presents.
We had church up in Darby Park. CME Group Choir carried out an uplifting set of Reward alternatives full of Pleasure, “Extra Than that,” “I’m Praised” and “God Is My All the pieces.”
The soulful, melodic vocal styling of Frankie J was on full show as he entertained the group with the tracks “Don’t Wanna Strive,” “Easy methods to Deal,” “#1Fan.” He hit the entire excessive notes on “Greater than Phrases” and ended with crowd favourite “Suga Suga.”
Keiko Matsui delivered an superior crowd-pleasing set full of lots of vitality, full of hope and braveness. The excellent musicians backing Keiko consisted of smokin’ guitarist Tony Pulizzi, Wealthy Belled, bass and Jimmy Branly on drums. Keiko Matsui performed an exciting set of unique alternatives for her practically one-hour efficiency with ample alternatives for her band to stretch out. Highlights consisted of “Shifting On,” “Steps On the Globe,” “Mossy Mountain,” “Moon Over Gotham,” “Luminescence,” “Ceaselessly Ceaselessly,” “Neo,” “Casablanca,” and “Bridge Over the Star as an encore.
Pete Escovedo and Household turned up the warmth with a spicy set of Latin Jazz that introduced out the Salseros to the dance flooring for his or her infectious rhythms. They opened with “Don’t You Fear Bout a Factor,” La Cuna,” Angel in Disguise,” “Let’s Keep Collectively,” and “Ain’t No person” with vocalist Lynne Fiddmont. Pete Escovedo and Household ended their set with “What You Gonna Do.”
Attendees continued to be engaged as Sista Nancy delivered an invigorating set of unique reggae tracks.
The worldwide music neighborhood is celebrating the fiftieth Anniversary of Hip-Hop. What higher option to honor this historic and luxurious milestone than with a set by The Sugar Hill Gang and Melle Mel and Scorpio. They cranked all of it the way in which up as they performed a medley of their hits to the delight of all in attendance together with elected officers that had been entrance and heart.
Free Ends that includes Jane English by no means stop to amaze me within the many occasions that I’ve seen them carry out up to now. They didn’t disappoint as they carried out hits from their catalog.
The 70’s Soul Revue Tour featured a Tribute to Legends of Soul, The Stylistics Revue, and The Persuaders, a Tribute to The Delfonics, and The Dells and Girls of Motown. The 70’s Soul Revue Tour took the group on a nostalgic journey down reminiscence lane to shut out the Inaugural Inglewood Pageant on a excessive musical observe.
Ricky Richardson is a Southern California-based author, music reviewer, and photographer. contact him through: [email protected]
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