Grand Performances

📜Did you attend concerts at California Plaza in the 90s?  These flyers from 1996–1999 at California Plaza capture the early days of free concerts in Downtown LA. Now, 40 years later, the music and community continue.

🎙️ Inside the stories behind Grand Performances. 🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or Amazon Music.

🎶 GP Throwback: @lascafeteras with special guest @b.a.r.d.o__ of @chicanobatman performing “Ya Me Voy.” One of those unforgettable nights at California Plaza. Were you there? #chicanobatman #lascafeteras #grandperformances #bardomartinez

Join us at The Culver Steps with a Brazilian Block Party 🇧🇷🥁 featuring @viverbrasildance and @djpotira! eventbrite.com/e/brazilian-bl…

📜Did you attend concerts at California Plaza in the 90s?  These flyers from 1991–1994 at California Plaza capture the early days of free concerts in Downtown LA. Now, 40 years later, the music and community continue.

This support helps make our upcoming presentations of music, theatre, and dance possible. Stay tuned for details on when and where to catch GP in Culver City!

Acclaimed artist Thes One reflects on the origins of his iconic hip hop group, People Under the Stairs, doing life alongside renowned rapper Double K, and the significance of performing “Farewell, My Friend” live. open.spotify.com/episode/0KqhdW…

✊🏾Experiencing Black joy as a form of resistance, rhythm, and remembrance through words, drums, and moving bodies. Honoring the legacy of Max Roach and the radical joy that lives in Black music, Black movement, Black survival.🖤 Poet: @ajamonet

When @thisisframework takes over California Plaza. 🏙️ A standout rental event in an iconic DTLA setting. Interested in hosting here? 💌 DM us to find out how. #thisisframework #californiaplaza #dtla

💕🎻 This is what love sounds like, @mariachidivas singing At Last. Watch the full concert on our YouTube📺 #GrandPerformances #GPConcerts #DTLA #CaliforniaPlaza

💘Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️ Tag your boo and share the love 💕 A special thank you to @hellostrangerla for co-producing this amazing show! 🙌

💌 “This dedication goes out to…”If you know, you KNOW. 🤍

Endless grooves. Nonstop dancing. West African joy in full effect.🔥🕺🏾Honored to celebrate Black History Month by uplifting the sounds, stories, and rhythms that move culture forward. 🌍🎶 📸: @sandyaphotos_ #grandperformances

Honoring the birthday of J Dilla with a throwback to Dilla Fest at Grand Performances (2021) 🕊️🍩A true architect of sound whose influence continues to shape every era of hip-hop.

🎙️In Episode 2 of GP360 – A Grand Performances Podcast, we look back at the very beginning: How Grand Performances became a place where artists and audiences from all over the world meet — for free. open.spotify.com/show/2bYMigQaw…

🎺As we celebrate Black History Month, we honor Black women musicians carrying the legacy forward 🖤 Trumpeter @ttatemusic live at Grand Performances for the Max Roach Centennial Celebration (June 22, 2024). 🎶 #blackhistorymonth #grandperformances #gp40

Grand Performances’ very own President & CEO, Rafael Gonzalez, will be a panelist at this upcoming day-long symposium, brought to you by the Democracy Center at the Japanese American National Museum. janm.org/democracy/even…

Friday! 🎤🪩 @GrandPerfs

40 years of Grand Performances, free public multigenerational and global 🌍🎶Welcome to a monumental 2026! 🎉 📸: @farahsosa #gp40 #grandperformances #losangeles #culture #music #community

✊🏽In tandem with Skirllball and Zócalo Public Square, we honored Los Angeles’ deep ties to Mexico and Central America through collective gathering, cultural expression, and live music. 🌎 🎶 Looking back at Zona Libre: A Musical Celebration of Latino LA — September 14, 2025.