2017 Twilight Concert Series - WEEK 7

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2017 TWILIGHT CONCERT SERIES

Schedule WEEK 1 6/22 NEO SOUL

KHALID Bibi Bourelly WEEK 2 6/29 INDIE POP

LEMAITRE Coast Modern WEEK 3 7/13 REGGAE

MARCIA GRIFFITHS Jah9 WEEK 4 7/20 ROCK

ERIC BURDON & THE ANIMALS Mr. Elevator Arms Akimbo/ Rusty's EAC WEEK 5 7/27 DANCE

MIAMI HORROR Cleopold WEEK 6 8/3 AMERICANA

VALERIE JUNE & IRMA THOMAS

Table of contents HEADLINER PROFILE P5

EVENT MAP P8, P9

RADIO PARTNERSHIP

BAND BIOS P10

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INSIDERS GUIDE P11

WEEK 7 8/10 LATIN

MON LAFERTE Buscabulla WEEK 8 8/17 INDIE ROCK

WARPAINT Wild Belle

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Excitement abounds when Mon Laferte takes the stage he Twilight Concert Series is held in the shadow of the Pier’s worldfamous amusement park but the biggest thrill ride of the night will be on the stage.

Singer/Songwriter Mon Laferte will be performing with her expansive band and she said the audience should be prepared for the ups and downs of a great show.

“I’ve created this character, a femme fatale kind a thing, I like to have this connection with the songs and at the same time entering the emotions through this character in a theatrical way,” she said.

“Our show is very energetic, we are eight on stage, it’s a roller coaster of emotions, sometimes it gets very minimalistic, I am alone with the guitar and it can be very intimate, but then the guys come in and the party is started!”

Mon Laferte has racked up awards and nominations throughout the Americas including double platinum album plus gold in Mexico, two MTV 2016 awards and nominations for two Latin Grammy Awards.

Her tour has taken her to the USA, Mexico and Chile with over 70 sold out date. She lands in Santa Monica prepared to bring her emotional show to the Los Angeles audience.

“I am very excited,” she said. “We all are! The whole band is! We know it is a marvelous place with so much history, I’ve never been but I know it is very pretty. I am very grateful for performing there.”

She said she prepares for all her shows by developing an emotional map, thinking about how she will feel in the space and how that can translate to the audience experience.

“The difference depends on the energy, from the audience and from our end as well, every show is different, I’ve had big stages and being super connected with the audience, other times I feel them far away, maybe because of the stage’s size,” she said. “I believe all concerts are different and that’s the beauty of it.”

Mon Laferte got an early start on her career, realizing she wanted to be a performer at 14 years of age. She has incorporated diverse music styles into her own sense of self and has combined classical music education with the real-world drive to take the music to people everywhere from stadiums to bars. She rapidly rose through the Chilean music scene eventually landing a position as a judge on the local version of the X Factor.

While she has released five albums to date, she still draws energy from a successful live show.

“To know if it was successful I think two things should blend. First it would be the personal connection, managing to live in the now, I mean, to experience the concert from beginning to end, in body and mind, this leads me to perform well and having a good chemistry with the band,” she said. “After that, the energy from the audience kicks in, sometimes

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there’s more receptive people than others. When the crowd that wants to listen and that wants to participate gathers plus the personal connection, I believe that’s a good concert.”

She has been inspired by diverse music acts and cited vintage performances by Queen, Janis Joplin and Juan

Gabriel among her favorites.

“Some months ago I went to see Bjork at the Auditorio Nacional, it was the best concert I have ever been to in all my life,” she said.

For her own performances, she said she wants people to remember the emotion, if not the melody.

“I always say this in my concerts, I wish for people to leave with something in their hearts, I don’t care for repeating notes and being super virtuosa and complex,” she said. “I want people to leave feeling alive, I want them to cry, to shout, at the end of the day that’s what life is… of feeling, of living.”

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he Twilight Concert Series continues to have the strong partnership with public radio station, KCRW. The partnership began seven years ago and working with them has been great, said Craig Hoffman, Santa Monica Pier Corporation Director of Partnerships & Development. KCRW is the official public media partner to TCS and both plan to continue this partnership in future years.

KCRW is rooted in Santa Monica and is a community service of Santa Monica College. The station prides itself on being much more than a radio station; in fact they believe KCRW is a curious community bringing people new music, NPR news and a wide variety of cultural programs.

Jill Smayo, KCRW Vice-President of Operations said, “KCRW is a public radio station that creates a unique mix of content centered around music discovery.”

The station has over 20 years of audio and video in studio performances.

Smayo said, “We have about 70,000 people just in Los Angeles that listen to us over radio. Anyone in the areas of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Ventura, and even Palm Springs can find us on air.”

Hoffman admires KCRW for their one rule they give to their talented DJ’s, play what you love. He said, “Jason Bentley

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music director and produces various shows on KCRW is amazing. He is constantly producing in a very organic way, and it makes them different from a lot of other public radio stations out there.”

“We do a series called Summer Nights and do about 33 different concerts throughout Los Angeles and other areas like Santa Barbara and Anaheim.

The concerts are hosted at places like the Santa Monica Pier and Colorado One,” said Smayo.

Each week at the Pier a KCRW DJ will come out and introduce the headlining, and supporting acts and depending on the show they will also perform a short set.

DJ Raul Campos will host Latin Night as he will introduce the Mon Laferte and Buscabulla. Campos is known for bringing current favorites and unique sound to the stage, with of course a Latin twist.

“What makes our partnership unique is the fact that KCRW is our only public media partner, and that is hard to find for most station,” said Hoffman.

KCRW has a history of brining musical talent, and important topics and conversations to listeners and they plan to continue doing just that, while partnering with the Twilight Concert Series.

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2017 Twilight Concert Series bios

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Buscabulla (Spanish slang for troublemaker) is the experimental pop project of Raquel Berrios and Luis del Valle.

Heavily influenced by vintage Latin music like salsa gorda, Cuban psych and '80s Argentinian rock, Buscabulla combines both electronic and live instrumentation. The group create a hybrid sound they like to call the "Caribbean music of the future."

Raquel, a designer, record collector, and producer teamed up with multi instrumentalist and producer Luis del Valle in 2011 and they have since been warming hearts. In 2015, Kitsuné released their self-titled debut EP which was produced by Dev Hynes of Blood Orange. Their second EP, released in 2017, includes the singles "Tártaro" and "Frío (feat. Helado Negro)," as heard on KCRW. Pitchfork describes "Frío" as a "blissful beach daydream."

WARPAINT Wild Belle

WARPAINT It’s easy to get the wrong impression about Warpaint. The band’s studio albums (including their most recent full-length, 2014’s Warpaint) tend to emphasize moody atmospheres: gauzy keyboards, hypnotic harmonies and sinister grooves. In concert, however, the Los Angeles quartet—vocalist/guitarist Emily Kokal, vocalist/guitarist Theresa Wayman, bassist/vocalist Jenny Lee Lindberg and drummer/keyboardist Stella Mozgawa—pair this moodiness with bumped-up tempos and sinewy beats.

Of course, confounding expectations has been part of Warpaint’s m.o. since the band formed in 2004. And so when the band convened to make their third studio album, Heads Up, they shared a common goal: to make a faster, dance-oriented record.

“We’ve always had this really jammy, highenergy live show compared to some of our records,” Kokal says. “We all love to dance.

We didn’t want to take away from the emotion or the core feeling of what our band is all about—which I don’t even think we could take out if we wanted, because it is who we are—but we wanted to bump the speed up and have a little bit more fun.”

Warpaint spent only four months in the studio making Heads Up, the quickest

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they’ve ever made a record. “We have a tendency to over-marinate on certain ideas,” Mozgawa says. “There wasn’t a great deal of laboring over things or doing things a million different ways and overdubbing for months.”

In another switch, Warpaint tended to work one-on-one or in pairs with producer Jake Bercovici (who produced their EP Exquisite Corpse) in the studio. “The doors were a little more open in terms of what was accepted and what wasn’t, because we were sharing ideas so rapidly between us,” Mozgawa says.

These looser vibes and individual experiences ensured that once Heads Up was complete, even Warpaint themselves were surprised—in a good way—at how the album turned out. “We’ve been on tour, and we’ve been around each and other,” Lindberg says.

“But you need to take a break from that sometimes to get a fresh perspective, and to be excited and inspired about what you’re doing. I feel like we did that.

“I feel really proud of what we made—almost surprised and shocked,” she continues. “When we were making it, I was like, ‘I wonder what this is going to sound like? How’s this going to come together?’ I love the way that it came together so nicely. I feel so proud of it, and like it’s an evolution of our band. It sounds like a mature version of Warpaint.”

Wild Belle The brother/sister duo started writing music together several years ago, after Elliot Bergman took a sixteen year-old Natalie on tour to play percussion with his acclaimed Afrobeat ensemble, NOMO. Work on the album began in early 2014, in Chicago. They tracked several songs at home in Chicago last year, and then at the start of 2015, Natalie packed all of her belongings into the Wild Belle van and drove from Chicago to Venice, California. She rented a house where Elliot joined her a couple weeks later.

Recorded at studios in their native Chicago, Natalie Bergman's new home of Los Angeles, Nashville and Toronto, Dreamland — Wild Belle's bold, evolutionary new album — derives from an era in the singer's life when she was struggling to get control of what she describes as the "anger and deep sorrow" that plagued her at the end of her most recent romantic relationship. For a woman whose music has always been inspired by her desire to translate her complicated feelings into immediately relatable songs, there was certainly plenty of grist for the mill.

Dreamland tracks such as "Losing You" and "It Was You (Baby Come Back)" offer glimpses of the darkness that Natalie battled during the early months writing for the duo's sophomore full-length. But there are also genuine moments of lightness and ecstatic triumph, like "Giving Up On You" — an irresistibly kinetic, punk number Wild Belle recorded with TV On The Radio's Dave Sitek producing.

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There is a 21-and-over Concert Garden featuring refreshments from Boulevard and Duvel beers, Deep Eddy Vodka, and an assortment of cocktails and non-alcoholic beverages. Do not miss this view.

We couldn't put on this free amazing event without a little (or a lot) of help from our friends.

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If you need first aid or assistance, please visit the Pier Tent or flag down a security officer. If it is an emergency, please call 911.

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There are plenty of great food and beverage options on the deck and at the various restaurants on the Pier. Most even have to-go options perfect for munching during the show. As a reminder, alcohol consumption is not permitted in public spaces, but there are several full-service bars in the area.

Friendly dogs are welcome on the Pier only and must be on a leash.

TIME 7PM - 10PM, but those in the know stake out a good spot early.

METRO EXPO Arrive in style on the new EXPO line.

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WEATHER & ATTIRE It never gets too cold, but sometimes it gets a little chilly once the sun goes down. So bring something or head up to the Pier Tent on the deck to grab this year's limited-edition sweatshirt or t-shirt!

PARKING We highly recommend alternate transport for a hassle-free experience (EXPO, Bus, Breeze Bike Share, rideshare, skateboard, walk, llama), but if you need to drive, parking is available in the 1550 Pacific Coast Highway Lot next to the Pier on a first-come, first-served basis. Those wanting to avoid long waits and higher fees should try one of the municipal lots a few blocks inland around 2nd/Colorado or 4th/Olympic.

BIKE/SKATEBOARD VALET Park your wheels at the free bike and skateboard valet located next to the beach bike path just south of the Pier. Make it even easier and cruise over on a bike from the new BREEZE bike share.

SMOKING Don't even think about it, it's a 100-year-old wooden Pier, and we really like it.

FRIENDS & FAMILY Bring them, the more the merrier. You will not regret it. This is one epic Summer tradition.

SEATING Seating is not provided, so feel free to bring your own chairs, blankets, etc...

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