Grantee Database
ANGEL CITY ARTS
Grant Year
2023-24
Grant Program
General Operating Support
Award Amount
$38,499.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, ANGEL CITY ARTS will produce the Angel City Jazz festival which consistently features the most innovative and original musicians working in Los Angeles today, balancing established artists with emerging talent, and focusing on west coast creative jazz, past, present and future.The funds will help us pay competitive wages to all of our participating musicians that will grow from 80 to 100 per year as well as enable us to pay the high profile venues where they will be featured.
Organization Summary
Angel City Arts is responsible for producing:
– The Angel City Jazz Festival, a multi-week event featuring the best contemporary Jazz artists from LA as well as on the national scene.
– Commissioning new musical and multi-disciplinary work to be played at the festival or in alternative spaces/ time slots.
– The Young Artist Competition, an avenue for young musicians/composers (18 to 24) to present their original work at a high profile concert during the Angel City Jazz Festival.
– The annual Young Artist Competition open to all LA based musicians aged 16 to 24.
– Concerted/Rest a new program designed to bring live performances and sound/light installations to parks where unhouse people seek refuge
Organization
Angel City Jazz
Address
520 BAUGHMAN AVE
CLAREMONT
91711-3732
County
Los Angeles
Region
South – Los Angeles & Orange
Phone
(323) 573-2110
