There will be dozens of chances to catch a live performance in Long Beach Thursday when it joins with 750 other cities in 120 countries to celebrate Make Music Day.<\/p>\n
Citywide, more than 50 locations will host performances by local musicians and groups from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. for Make Music Long Beach.<\/p>\n
The downtown area has the largest cluster of businesses hosting live performances, including MADE by Millworks from 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. and Public Beer Wine Shop from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., not to mention Live After 5 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Then head over to the East Village Arts Park from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. for a jam session and jazz performances; look out for additional events throughout the arts district. In Cambodia Town, check out the Box of Boom, a robotic drum machine, set to perform at the Vault Warehouse 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.<\/p>\n
Across town at Delightful Crepes Cafe, listen to a blues, country and folk group 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., while a ways north in Bixby Knolls you can find an indie-folk artist at The Pan 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., bluegrass at the Concert in the Park(ing) Lot 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. and more. And during Belmont Shore\u2019s summer Stroll & Savor event from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., expect live bands to be playing up and down Second Street.<\/p>\n
Make Music Day first launched in 1982 as the F\u00eate de la Musique on the Summer Solstice. To learn more about it visit the Make Music Day website here<\/a>. For a map of participating artists and locations, visit the Make Music Long Beach website here<\/a>. You can also use the Make Music Day app, found here\u00a0<\/a>to find a specific performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There will be dozens of chances to catch a live performance in Long Beach Thursday when it joins with 750 other cities in 120 countries to celebrate Make Music Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":66226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[383],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-make-music-day","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}