Featuring live music, art, community, and more in support of Keeping Heritage Alive!
- MUSIC by legendary bands Venice & Cosmic Vibrations + DJ Goxxa
- MC’d by KCRW’s iconic LeRoy Downs
- ART by Francisco Letelier
- FOOD available from La Chingona Tacos, Ozi’s Kitchen, and All Chill Ice Cream
- Available PRIZES include a top hat signed by Slash from Guns N’ Roses, a limited-edition print by Venice artist Muck Rock, a painting by Venice artist MB Boissannault, a photograph by Rod Bradley, a necklace from LFrank Jewelry, and more!
- SPONSORED by LOST iN and Hotel Erwin
This high-energy event will be co-hosted by renowned jazz journalist and KCRW personality LeRoy Downs and feature powerhouse performances by two iconic bands with deep Venice roots: Venice and Cosmic Vibrations.
Also expect to enjoy a set from DJ Goxxa, food, drinks, and an interactive art installation by acclaimed Venice artist Francisco Letelier featuring the poetry of the legendary Wanda Coleman.
The Venice Heritage Museum belongs to the community—in a time when arts and humanities face unprecedented challenges and funding cuts, your support is more vital than ever.
- Saturday, May 10, 20256:00–9:00 pm
- Venice Vibrations Fundraiser
- VHM, 228 Main Street, Venice 90291
ABOUT VHM:
The Venice Heritage Museum (VHM)’s mission is to preserve, showcase, and nurture Venice’s diverse historical legacy. The museum gives visitors to Venice the opportunity to experience stories, collections, and archives from one of the country’s most culturally rich and innovative communities: Venice, California. Venice’s accepting and progressive past is on display, highlighting both well-known and more obscure stories and showcasing their relevance to the Venice of today.
ABOUT THE BANDS
VENICE
Americana-Pop quartet, Venice consists of two sets of brothers, Mark and Michael Lennon, and their cousins, Kipp and Pat Lennon, who have been performing together since the 1980s and singing all of their lives. They have recorded and toured around the world performing for a loyal, devoted fan base with a deep catalog of rich songs from over 20 albums. Venice’s trademarks are their harmonies, personal lyrics, and high energy, communal shows which garner them ovations and encores at virtually every performance they’ve given, from intimate theaters to sprawling festivals, across the U.S. as well as in Europe. The Lennon family has been in Venice for more than 100 years!
COSMIC VIBRATIONS
The original AZZ IZZ Jazz Club was located on Abbot Kinney Blvd. (West Washington Blvd. at that time) from 1970 to 1978. The desire to spotlight the art, creativity, and community that exemplified Venice during that period was the spark from which the current day Azz-Is Jazz Festival was born.
The all-star Cosmic Vibrations band represents an extension of that legendary Venice nightclub. Featuring the vocals of L.A.’s own Dwight Trible, this moving ensemble often features players from the original AZZ IZZ house band as well as bringing L.A.’s World Stage in Leimert Park all the way out to the westside!
Along with being one of the world’s most sought-after Jazz vocal improvisers, Dwight is also current Director of the World Stage, which is where some of the main players from the AZZ IZZ took their tribe and the vibe, when the Venice jazz spot shut its doors.
TICKETS ON SALE HERE!
- $50 in advance | $65 at the door
For all Venice Heritage Museum happenings go to veniceheritagemuseum.org
