*(Lengthy Seashore, CA) — The beat goes on. Music fans of Lengthy Seashore can breathe a sigh of aid. This comes because the decade-long beloved Uptown Jazz Pageant will proceed to be held annually in Houghton Park.
“The Uptown Jazz Pageant is a beloved staple of the North Lengthy Seashore group. For greater than a decade, it has introduced residents collectively to get pleasure from a summer season afternoon filled with nice music, scrumptious meals and a robust sense of group,” stated Mayor Rex Richardson. “I sit up for this yr’s celebration and I hope to see you all there!”
“I’m excited to host the Uptown Jazz Pageant for its twelfth yr,” stated Ninth District Councilmember Dr. Joni Ricks-Oddie. “Our theme this yr, ‘The Legacy Continues,” celebrates what has turn into the signature occasion in North Lengthy Seashore, and my dedication to proceed the custom as your District 9 Councilmember. I sit up for welcoming our group to share in a day filled with music, meals, household, and tradition!”
Sure, women and gents, girls and boys, the Metropolis of Lengthy Seashore, and the Workplace of Ninth District Councilmember Dr. Joni Ricks-Oddie introduced the twelfth Annual Uptown Jazz Pageant on Saturday, August 19, 2023, from 2-7pm. The pageant was held at Houghton Park, (6301 Myrtle Avenue, Lengthy Seashore, CA 90805). The afternoon occasion featured a lineup of unbelievable music and leisure headlined by American funk band The Authentic Lakeside.
The pageant website featured a meals and beverage backyard, a child’s zone, and a wide range of vendor and group useful resource cubicles.
DJ Mr. Fast returned to those and twos enjoying old-fashioned and new college picks as individuals arrived to the park and intermittingly all through the day, that saved the get together individuals dancing all day lengthy.
Los Chicos Del Mambo feels like seasoned professionals, even supposing they’ve solely been enjoying collectively for 5 months. This can be a high-energy Latin band from San Fernando Valley. They carried out a scorching set, giving tribute to the nightlife of the ’50s and ’60s with traditional Mambo, Salsa, Cumbia, and extra! Evidently, the infectious sounds introduced the group to their ft in addition to Conserving Mervin, the mascot for Lengthy Seashore Utilities, to the dance ground all through their set. They honored a number of salsa music icons on the next tracks “Quimbara,” “Cucala,” La Vida es un Carnival,” with Reina on lead vocals. Reina was the precise individual to sing to honor the Queen of Salsa, Celia Cruz. The band continued with “Señor Sereno” by Ismael Miranda and Larry Harlow, with Andy Ocampo entrance and middle on vocals for “Llorarás,” by Oscar De Leon, “Todo Tiene Su Closing” by Hector Lavoe and “Brujeria” by El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico. I’m wanting ahead to listening to extra from Los Chicos Del Mambo as they blaze a path within the Latin music trade. Reina is the granddaughter of bassist Verdine White of the world-famous Earth, Wind and Fireplace.
Biscuits and Gravy Dwell’s contagious grooves saved the group on the dance ground for his or her energetic set of old-school funk, R&B, and Soul. They opened with their Intro track in preparation to rev up the group to get down with it! The picks carried out have been “Humpin,” “I Simply Wanna Be,” “Rumour,” “Better of Me,” “Maintain Your Head to the Sky” and “Devotion” by Earth, Wind and Fireplace. “It’s Your Thang,” “Pop That Thang,” “Ain’t Gonna Damage No person,” “Groove Me,” and “Payback” as an encore.
It’s no shock that the final word get together band, DW3, will get invited again annually to carry out on the Uptown Jazz Pageant to work the group into and dance and romance frenzy. If reminiscence serves me proper, they’ve carried out at each iteration of the Uptown Jazz Pageant. This can be a nice testomony to their artistry and musicianship. The viewers was dancing and swaying, hypnotized by their R&B, old-fashioned, funk, and Latin hearth magic. They opened with “Candy Child,” and the next picks “Cali Love,” “Your Physique,” Proper On,” “Let the Music,” and “Rapper’s Delight” by The Sugar Hill Gang, in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Hip Hop. The get together continued with “Earlier than I Let Go,” “By no means Too A lot,” and “1999.”
The Authentic Lakeside invaded the pageant, opening up with “Raid.” The gang had no selection however to give up to the traditional hits from their catalog. “It’s All of the Method Dwell,” “Outrageous,” and “I Need to Maintain Your Hand,” have been extra tracks performed to the delight of the captivated viewers.
The twelfth Annual Uptown Jazz Pageant celebrated greater than a decade of fine stress-free vibes, nice music, and cultural enrichment, with household, associates, neighbors, and guests, Neighborhood! Y’all.
Ricky Richardson is a Southern California-based author, music reviewer, and photographer. Contact him by way of: [email protected]
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