Easy Star All-Stars

Flights & Sounds of Summer

September 26, 2009, 8:00 PM Free Admission, $8 Parking (Map) Lonely Hearts Dub Band, Dub Side of the Moon, RadioDread… the Easy Star All-Stars are the very soul of dub reggae. Almost anybody can sing along to their favorite tunes, but only an artist can take something familiar and make it entirely their own, exploring [...]

HAPA

Flights & Sounds of Summer

September 19, 2009, 8:00 PM Free Admission, $8 Parking (Map) Last summer’s HAPA concert at the Great Park was among our favorites; this year Barry Flanagan and Nathan Aweau are joined by traditional chant master Charles Ka’upu for an evening of Hawaiian bliss. Known as “the sound of Maui,” HAPA filters the pan-Polynesian traditions of [...]

Niyaz

Flights & Sounds of Summer

September 12, 2009, 8:00 PM Free Admission, $8 Parking (Map) “Call it Sufi music or World Fusion, but one thing is for sure, the band Niyaz is an Iranian musical trio whose debut album ranked #1 on world music charts on iTunes…” This is trance music for the 21st century: hypnotic, ecstatic, ghostly, delicious. Azam [...]

17 Hippies

Flights & Sounds of Summer

September 5, 2009, 8:00 PM Free Admission, $8 Parking (Map) For the past 12 years Berlin’s very own “orchester spezial” has been playing its whirling, crashing, diving, bobbing and weaving mixture of music that morphs French songs, English ballads and international rhythms into a captivating cocktail of sound. An eclectic band of virtuosi, the17 Hippies [...]

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

Flights & Sounds of Summer

August 29, 2009, 8:00 PM Free Admission, $8 Parking (Map) True heroes of the swing revival, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy celebrates 100 years of Cab Calloway, the legendary fireball of talent whose goofy “hi-de-hi’s” and “ho-de-ho’s” in a rich and vibrant baritone brought a much-needed, high-voltage jolt of winning, feel-good energy to a country slogging [...]

Francesca Gagnon “The Voice of Alegria” & Inti-Illimani

Flights & Sounds of Summer

Music of Cirque du Soleil August 22, 2009, 8:00 PM Free Admission, $8 Parking (Map) Win Tickets to Cirque du Soleil’s KOOZA! Concert guests on Saturday, August 22, will receive a raffle ticket upon entry for a chance to win a family four-pack of tickets to Cirque du Soleil’s KOOZA, opening at the Great Park [...]

Totó la Momposina

Flights & Sounds of Summer

August 15, 2009, 8:00 PM Free Admission, $8 Parking (Map) Mixing infectious Caribbean rhythms with lush romantic melodies and great vocal style, Totó la Momposina and her 10-piece band are frequent headline attractions at music festivals worldwide but they rarely perform in California. Her Great Park appearance is one of only four engagements on the [...]

Don Vappie & the Creole Jazz Serenaders

Flights & Sounds of Summer

August 8, 2009, 8:00 PM Free Admission, $8 Parking (Map) Classic jazz from the likes of Jelly Roll Morton, Jabbo Smith, Sam Morton and the New Orleans Owls – this unique American music explodes on stage with all the excitement and sizzle and satisfaction that defined the French Quarter 70 years ago. Vappie’s virtuosic banjo [...]

Eileen Ivers and Immigrant Soul

Flights & Sounds of Summer

August 1, 2009, 8:00 PM Free Admission, $8 Parking (Map) Orange County Great Park summer festival opens with one of last summer’s stand-outs; nine-time All-Ireland Award-winning Celtic fiddler, Eileen Ivers, and her heart-stopping band of Irish-American musicians. But don’t miss the “soul” in Immigrant Soul; the New York Times called Ivers “the Jimi Hendrix of [...]

ASLA 2009 Professional Honor Award

May 28, 2009 – IRVINE, California – The Orange County Great Park Design Team, led by Master Designer and Landscape Architect Ken Smith, won a 2009 Professional Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) for their work on the Observation Balloon Preview Park . The Design Team was selected from over 600 entries [...]