World Stage Performance Gallery
World Stage Performance Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
Project: Masterpiece, Masterminds – Saturday New Music Concert Series
In this project, World Stage Performance Gallery revives their Saturday concert series that highlights emerging jazz and indie musicians in Los Angeles and gives them the opportunity to debut new work for an audience.
Venue Info
The World Stage Performance Gallery, founded in 1987, by Jazz great and master drummer Billy Higgins, internationally known writer/poet Kamau Daaood and the late community activist/ Jazz pianist/composer, Horace Tapscott, is an iconic, cultural live music venue located in Leimert Park village, Los Angeles, CA. With a mission to secure, preserve, and advance the position of African American music, literature, and works in the oral tradition to a local, national and international audience, “The Stage”, as it is affectionately called, is a collective vision born out of a desire to fill a creative cultural void in the Los Angeles community. It provides a space for “genius homegrown artists and writers to jam and create.”
As a full service venue hosting live streamed concerts, recording sessions and in person live concert experiences, The World Stage, produces a Weekend concert series for more than 90 attendees. The World Stage has spawned the careers of noted international Jazz and Literary artists such as: Patrice Rushen, Kamasi Washington, Michael Datcher, PhD and Dwight Trible. Notable artists concerts include Benny Maupin, Billy Childs, Ernie Watts and Karen Briggs.
The World Stage fosters community through its intergenerational, multicultural, Artist collective. Bridging a cultural gap in southern Los Angeles, often underserved, with consistent live music concerts by seasoned and new Jazz, International and World music Artists, The World Stage Performance Gallery is a mecca for innovative Artistic expression and musicianship.
