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The Hollywood Bowl summer concert season for 2023 has been revealed. Here’s a peek at some of the acts slated for this iconic amphitheater this year.
The LA Phil will continue its tradition of presenting classical concerts under the stars with the LA Phil Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel conducting the orchestra. “There is no place like the Hollywood Bowl on a summer night, and we look forward to welcoming everyone back for another unforgettable season of music led by the extraordinary vision of Gustavo Dudamel,” adds LA Phil Chief Content and Engagement Officer, Renae Williams Niles.
Opening night kicks off on June 10 with Janet Jackson, joined by Ludacris and with several appearances by musicians of the Youth Orchestra Los Angeles, conducted by Thomas Wilkins.
The annual July 4th Fireworks Spectacular will feature The Beach Boys performing with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, led by HBO Principal Conductor Thomas Wilkins. Following on in July is Kool & The Gang and the Village People on July 14-15 and one night only featuring Sparks, and They Might Be Giants on July 16.
A special birthday concert, Quincy Jones’ 90th-Birthday Tribute: A Musical Celebration, will feature performances of the recording legend’s songs by a roster of special guests and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, led by composer, conductor, and Jones collaborator Jules Buckley on July 28-29. Here’s a peek at the full schedule below.
Hollywood Bowl Summer Concert Season 2023
June
- 10 | Janet Jackson, Ludacris, YOLA
- 17 | Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival hosted by Arsenio Hall
- 18 | Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival hosted by Arsenio Hall
- 21 | King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
- 22 | Jill Scott
July
- 02 | The Beach Boys & Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
- 03 | The Beach Boys & Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
- 04 |The Beach Boys & Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
- 06 | A Midsummer Night’s Dream – LA Phil
- 07 | Maestro of the Movies with John Williams & LA Phil
- 08 | Maestro of the Movies with John Williams & LA Phil
- 09 | Maestro of the Movies with John Williams & LA Phil
- 11 | Verdi’s Requiem
- 12 | Charlie Wilson
- 13 | An Ellington Celebration of Duke Ellington
- 14 | Kool & The Gang, Village People
- 15 | Kool & The Gang, Village People
- 16 | They Might Be Giants
- 18 | Escancia with Dudamel
- 19 | Diana Krall
- 20 | Russian Music & Cellist Alisa Weilerstein
- 21 | LA Phil & Café Tacvba
- 22 | LA Phil & Café Tacvba
- 23 | Reggae Night XXI
- 24 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
- 25 | The Game Awards 10-Year Celebration
- 28 | Quincy Jones Birthday Musical Tribute
- 29 | Quincy Jones Birthday Musical Tribute
- 30 | Louis Tomlinson
- 30 | Everybody Rise! A Sondheim Celebration
August
- 01 | Shiyeon Sung Conducting Symphonic Dances
- 03 | 2001: A Spacy Odyssey performed live by LA Phil
- 04 | Walt Disney Animation Studios: The Concert
- 05 | Walt Disney Animation Studios: The Concert
- 06 | Portugal. The Man, Chicano Batman, Say She She
- 08 | Ryan Bancroft leads Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte and Elgar’s Enigma Variations
- 09 | Joe Bonamassa
- 10 | Anton Mejias playing Grieg’s Piano Concerto, led by Tarmo Peltokoski, who also conducts Kaija Saariaho’s Ciel d’hiver and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2
- 11 | Roben Blades
- 12 | Carla Morrison
- 13 | maggie Rogers and Alvvays
- 15 | Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet with Jonathon Heyward conducting Lili Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique
- 16 | Gladys Knight
- 17 | Sterling Elliot, LA Phil, led by Anna Rakitina
- 18 | Tchaikovsky Spectacular
- 19 | Tchaikovsky Spectacular
- 20 | My Morning Jacket Fleet Foxes
- 22 | Teddy Abrams leads Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring Suite
- 23 | Herbie Hancock
- 24 | Joe Hisaishi leads LA Phil in Debussy’s La mer
- 25 | Leonard Slatkin conducts LA Phil in Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony
- 25 | Culture Club
- 26 | Culture Club
- 27 | Smooth Summer Jazz with Dave Koz & Friends
- 27 | Stephane Deneve leads LA Phil with violinist Rachel Baron Pine in Billy Childs’ Violin Concerto No. 2.
- 29 | Conductor Simone Menezes leads Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3
- 31 | Conductor Gemma New with the LA Phil leads Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons
September
- 01 | Star Wars: Return of the Jedi in Concert
- 02 | Star Wars: Return of the Jedi in Concert
- 03 | Air Supply and Michael Bolton
- 05 | Mozart Under the Stars
- 06 | Buddy Guy & Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram
- 07 | Masaaki Suzuki conducting Back’s Violin Concerto in E Major
- 08 | Maxwell leads the Fireworks Finale
- 09 | Maxwell leads the Fireworks Finale
- 10 | Maxwell leads the Fireworks Finale
- 12 | LA Phil conducted by Karen Kamensek ft. Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers to perform Philip Glass’ Violin Concerto No 1, followed by Gustav Holst’s The Planets
- 13 | Jacob Collier
- 16 | Sing-A-Long Sound of Music
- 20 | Floating Points, Shabaka Hutchings & More
- 24 | Los Auténticos Decadentes