Summer Solstice in Silver Lake

Greetings friends, neighbors, & family,

We are warming up for the Summer ~ some great community events in Silver Lake this weekend!

Saturday 6/20 at Micheltorena Community Garden is our Barrel Cob Oven Build!
https://www.facebook.com/events/598692343606003/
A full day of mud, food and fun! We’ll have a potluck lunch and be led by Sir Cobalot (Miguel Elliott) to construct the wonderful new addition to our community garden, & we already have over 200 cob bricks made from a few weeks ago ready to build 🙂 Bread, pizza and pies made with delicious garden herbs, greens & vegetables all summer long!

Micheltorena Garden, Sunset & Micheltorena, 10am-5pm, FREE
please bring clothes that can get muddy and potluck food to add to the fun

and Sunday 6/21 in Sunset Triangle Plaza is the 3rd Annual Make Music Silver Lake free concert (part of Make Music LA & global festival Fete De La Musique)!

 

The concert will be in the morning this year, to welcome Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year, and to kick off the all-day festival Make Music Los Angeles! (Part of global festival Fete De La Musique) ~ exact moment of Solstice is actually around 9:30AM this Sunday morning!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1443218525994308/

www.makemusicla.org

Morning concert begins at 9AM in the Plaza with classical music/vocals, instrumental music, and soundscapes welcoming both the sun and the musical day, with piano, harp, tabla, violin, frame drum, guitar, other percussion, and a variety of eclectic musicians coming together to collaborate, including Indian classical vocalist Kamini Natarajan, world singer/pianist/percussionist Amy Clarke, improvised musical co-creation via Gaia Grove, soulful blues songwriter Renee Dawson, funk/rock/soul band Ian Thomas McCulloch & Dave Rundell (Stonefeather), ukelele diva Brit Rodriguez, power pop band Joyeur, singer-guitarist Mooney Starr, eclectic vocal loop-pedaling of Alan Ishii, and other special guest artists all joining us around the piano & congas in the Plaza.  At Noon, when the morning concert concludes, the Bijan Taghavi Jazz Trio will play an extended set until 2pm…

Sunset Triangle Plaza, Sunset Blvd & Griffith Park Blvd
at piano in front of Mornings Nights & Pine & Crane, 9am-2pm, FREE
please bring instruments if you have them & blankets to spread out in the Plaza picnic style…Thanks to Sunset Triangle Plaza, Genelle Le Vin & the Silver Lake Improvement Association, Silver Lake Neighborhood Council, Silver Lake Neighborhood Council Arts & Culture Committee, Make Music Los Angeles, Gaia Grove, Fête de la Musique, yummy.com, Pine & Crane, Mornings Nights, Nina Sorkin & more!

www.gaiagrove.org
www.makemusicla.org
www.silverlakenc.org

See you soon in Silver Lake, and remember ~ next Thurs 6/25 is the kickoff of The Silver Lake Picture show in the Plaza (running biweekly through the summer) and also the Thurs night Micheltorena Community Garden Potluck! (every Thursday night – including tonight…)

LOVE,

Amy

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Pianos are popping up all over Silver Lake!

Why do pianos keep appearing in interesting locations all over Silver Lake?

Last summer, a real Wurlitzer piano appeared in Sunset Triangle Plaza for Make Music Silver Lake  (part of the 2nd Annual Make Music LA) on Summer Solstice, then was wheeled back down Sunset Blvd to Micheltorena Elementary & Community Garden, where she has lived all year, entertaining young and old alike. https://gaiagrove.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/make-music-silver-lake-fri-jun-21-sunset-triangle-plaza-concert-make-music-la/

In October of last year, the same Wurlitzer was also wheeled down Sunset Blvd East to Laurel & Hardy Park for Music Box Steps Day, celebrating the famous Silver Lake staircase of the classic black & white comedic film “The Music Box Steps”, where she was played by many before being transported back to the garden.

 

This summer, a Story & Clark piano named Georgia appeared in the Plaza the day before Summer Solstice. She was played by many people leading up to and throughout Make Music LA on Summer Solstice, and then has been so beloved by all in the Plaza she is now living there permanently, after being adopted by Vivian of the tasty & popular Pine & Crane restaurant.

 

Then, just in the last week, a baby grand piano arrived at the Silver Lake Library – she has been donated to Friends of Silver Lake Library and will be dedicated this Thurs eve 7/10 at 6:30PM!

Why are all of these pianos popping up all over Silver Lake?  Could it have anything to do with the 20th Anniversary of Music Box Steps Day taking place Sat October 18, 2014?

The mystery unfurls …