First of two parts
See if this tickles your attention:
“One hundred years ago today, Harry Culver taught the band to play.”
Nobody around Culver City this morning was hanging here in 1917.
Therefore, imaginative Gary Mandell’s magnetic assertion stands.
His eye-catcher is dripping with timeliness.
The community is 75 percent of the way through its Centennial Year.
This reminded the semi-legendary but fully humorous producer of the Summer Music Festival – now beginning his third decade – that the Centennial has been competition for scarce dollars when he has gone sponsor-shopping this spring.
“Instead of telling me ‘I gave at the office,” said Mr. Mandell, “people say ‘I gave to the Centennial.’”
The six weeks of Thursday night concerts starting at 7 o’clock in the courtyard of City Hall are the same as before, and that story will be told in the next part.
Mr. Mandell’s lineup:
- July 6 — Country/bluegrass music from 2016 Grammy- nominated Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands
- July 13 — The sounds of zydeco with blues/jazz/rock from Andre Thierry and Zydeco Magic
- July 20 — High energy Afro/Cuban rhythms handy for dancing from Ricardo Lemvo and Makina Loca
- July 27 — Soaring Gypsy Jazz from the John Jorgenson Quintet
- Aug. 3 — Classic rock done acoustic with string quartet by Led Zepagain
- Aug. 10 — Country/rock/blues from guitar legend Albert Lee and his band
(To be continued)