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Whenever we visit the Luckman Fine Arts Complex, we travel to other continents from within our very city of Angels. Malian singer, composer, producer, guitarist (wonder music woman extraordinaire), Rokia Traore did her Luckman debut this past Saturday, bringing songs from her new album, Beautiful Africa. Her music explores her initial love of rock blending traditional African […]

Delivering cutting edge music, dance, and visual arts from all over the globe, the Luckman Fine Arts Complex is a very special performance venue that not many Angelinos and surrounding neighbors know about. Hidden on the campus of California State University, Los Angeles and just five miles east of downtown, the Luckman Complex is home […]

NY’s Punch Brothers play the Luckman Fine Arts Complex on Saturday, December 1.  The progressive bluegrass, folk, jazz super group just released their Ahoy! EP featuring special song selections and covers from the recording session of their 2012 release Who’s Feeling Young Now?  You won’t want to miss their heartfelt live show.  Opening act The […]

We get to see so many spectacular shows and only with a few do the performers get up-close-and-personal with the audience, touching those special nerves that move something inside you. We saw “Flamenco queen” and Latin Grammy winner, Buika (“BWEE-kah”) last Saturday, November 17 at The Luckman Fine Arts Complex and this woman hit some nostalgic, bitter sweet […]

Oh yeah, we get fancy, and there’s no better way than visiting the Luckman Fine Arts Complex to make it happen.  This past Saturday we got to see one of Cuba’s greatest jazz pianist, Mr. Chucho Valdés. With his ultra fast fingers strolling like a magical mad-man across the keys accompanied by the support of smooth, young, […]

Latin Grammy winning, Flamenco songstress Buika plays the Luckman Fine Arts Complex on Saturday, November 17.  Her rich, raspy and passionate vocals meld beautifully with a sound that fuses flamenco, jazz, blues and soul – she can undoubtedly blow an audience away!  With several albums under her belt, including her newest release 2011’s En Mi […]

The “dean of Latin Jazz” Chucho Valdés will be returning to the Luckman Fine Arts Complex with the Chucho Valdés Quintet on Saturday, November 10. He’s a multi-Grammy Award winner nad has recorded over 80 albums throughout his career. He’s considered one of the greatest Latin jazz musicians today. This is going to be one fantastic […]

No thanks to Hurricane Sandy, Woodkid has canceled his U.S. tour including this weekend’s show at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex. Our ticket giveaway for this show is obviously offline since it’s not happening. Soon as we get new tour dates we will update with a new giveaway. Sorry! Blame it on Sandy!   FOR […]

The Luckman Fine Arts Complex recently started their new season with nothing but a stellar line up that promises quality shows for the months to come. Not only did they have a major songstress, Lila Downs but they also had one of L.A.’s truly sweet bands attached beautifully to their roots keeping it real in […]

Words can’t even describe how epic the CocoRosie  performance was at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex. Boasting a sultry fusion of hip hop, electronica, operatic vocals and some fresh beat-boxing that would even make the human-beat-box, Rahzel jealous—CocoRosie gave us a live show that was worth the wait. Their performance was by far one of the […]

Nikka Costa shares her musical talents at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex this Saturday, May 12.  The lovely songstress goes above and beyond to fuse the best of jazz, funk, and r&b into well crafted jams accented by her uniquely fierce rock n’ roll voice.  She’ll be performing some of her hits and songs of her newest release PRO*WHOA! so […]

Anoushka Shankar just headlined the Luckman Fine Arts Complex this past Saturday with her magnificent blend of Spanish forms of flamenco, fandango, and bulería. With graceful style and ease, she merges the seductive music of Spain with the lively ancient forms of the Indian classical tradition. Her music is carefully crafted and something you truly need to witness live to […]

Anoushka Shankar is headlining the Luckman Fine Arts Complex this Saturday, April 21 and we’re giving away tickets! Shankar breaks new ground as she brings together the passionate and diverse music of Spain with the vibrant, ancient forms of the Indian classical tradition. Tracing the musical commonalities of the Gypsies’ journey from Rajasthan to Spain, […]

Sometimes moving forward and looking to the future of music is best done by honoring and celebrating musical greats of the past.  The talented musicians of the Luckman Jazz Orchestra (LJO), conducted by Charles Owens, will be doing just that when they pay tribute to tenor saxophone champion Hank Mobley at the Luckman Fine Arts […]

AN EVENING WITH JANE BIRKIN PRESENTING “SERGE GAINSBOURG & JANE VIA JAPAN” Wow, now this a beautiful and meaningful performance not to be missed. The renowned English actress and musician Jane Birkin makes her first Los Angeles concert appearance in seven years this Saturday, Dec. 3 at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex. The epitome of the […]

Violinist extraordinaire, Ray Chen put on a spectacular performance at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex this past Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. Chen began learning violin at the age of four. Within five years he completed all 10 levels of the Suzuki Music Education (Suzuki method) in Queensland, Australia. This guy is extraordinary and an aural and visual […]

German trio, Brandt Brauer Frick are bringing their eclectic mix of drums, strings, and pianos to the Luckman Fine Arts Complex this Saturday, Nov. 12. These guys are straight up original and precise in their carefully tailored live slaying of beats — and it’s all done with real instruments! Need to see it to believe it? […]

The spectacular and unique African orchestrations of Tinariwen graced the Luckman Fine Arts Complex this past Saturday, Oct. 29 with support from  Sophie Hunger. Creating a sweet gumbo of world music with an array of exotic instruments including acoustic and electric guitars, electric bass, drums, and gnarled picking patterns from West African lutes—it was truly a majestic evening that can not […]

If you have yet to bless your ears with the spectacular African orchestrations of Tinariwen, I highly suggest you enter this contest to win a free pair of tickets to Tinariwen this Saturday, Oct. 29 (8pm) at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex. They’ve done two Los Angeles shows in the past few months and this may […]

Grammy Award winner, India.Arie brought her gorgeous neo soul to the Luckman Fine Arts Complex this past Thursday, October 13 with Israeli singer-songwriter, Idan Raichel. It was an evening of beautiful world music at a very awesome venue. If you have yet to visit a show at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex, we highly reccommend […]

There are a lot of spectacular concerts and theatrical presentations going on this year (and 2012) at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex and it all kicks off this Saturday, Sept. 17. with the French theatre collective, Macadâmes. Using elements of mime, clowning, acrobatics, object manipulation, theatre, music, and dance the group presents Chaussée Interdite Aux Piétons. […]

The Luckman Fine Arts Complex is rolling out their 2011/2012 season and my-oh-my have they assembled an eclectic line-up of upcoming world music acts including some amazing dance presentations. From India.Arie + Idan Raichel, CocoRosie, Tinariwen, Jane Birkin and many more, we want to offer you the chance to pick your own show! We’ll be […]

The Luckman Fine Arts Complex has just rolled out their new concert series and it is looking all sorts of hot. To celebrate their new concerts schedule, we have an awesome ticket give-away to the gorgeous French pop-folk artist, Keren Ann. Ann’s music is as sultry as it is poetic and bustles with life. With […]

Delivering cutting edge music, dance, and visual arts from all over the globe, the Luckman Fine Arts Complex has rolled out their upcoming concert schedule and it’s looking oh-so-appealing! The Luckman concert season will feature hot International acts such as Jane Birkin, CocoRosie, India.Arie, Nikka Costa and many more! Check out the full line-up below […]

Atop a hill in Burbank, hip hop icon Common descended backed by Double G and his 50-piece Stardust Symphony, incandescent and bombastic. Though much of the atmosphere was owed to the Starlight Bowl itself — a kind of shrunk-down Hollywood Bowl, complete with a grassy knoll from which to picnic and watch the show. But […]