Preservation Hall Jazz Band brings New Orleans to Malibu

MALIBU, CA – September 3, 2024 – Be transported to New Orleans with Preservation Hall Jazz Band at Smothers Theatre on Pepperdine University’s Malibu campus on Saturday, September 28 at 8 p.m. “Laissez les bons temps rouler” with this high-energy, joyous performance. 

Preservation Hall Jazz Band tours worldwide with a mission of nurturing and perpetuating the art of New Orleans jazz. Throughout its history, New Orleans has been the point at which sounds and cultures from around the world converge, mingle, and resurface. Preservation Hall Jazz Band has held the torch of New Orleans music aloft for more than 60 years, forging boldly forward into the future while proudly preserving its vibrant sonic past. 

Marching that tradition forward once again, Preservation Hall’s album “So It Is” redefines what New Orleans music means today by tapping into a continuum that stretches back to the city’s Afro-Cuban roots, through its common ancestry with the Afrobeat of Fela Kuti and the Fire Music of Pharoah Sanders and John Coltrane, and forward to cutting-edge artists with whom the band has shared stages with. Preservation Hall has performed with legends such as Stevie Wonder, Elvis Costello, the Grateful Dead, Beck, The Foo Fighters, My Morning Jacket, and the Black Keys. 

“I’ve been playing since I was 11 years old,” band member Charlie Gabriel says, “I never did anything in my life but play music. I’ve been blessed with that gift that God gave me, and I’ve tried to nurse it the best way I [know] how.” Gabriel has been a musician for over 75 years and a member of Preservation Hall Jazz Band since 2006. With the group’s bassist and tuba player, Ben Jaffe, and guitarist, Joshua Starkman, they recorded Gabriel’s debut album “89” presented by Preservation Hall.  

Tickets are available now and are priced at $43–$78 for the public. Price includes ticket fees. Discounted tickets are available for groups, Military, Wave Associates, and Pepperdine faculty, staff, students, and alumni. To purchase tickets, call the Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts box office at (310) 506-4522 or visit the Preservation Hall Jazz Band event page. 

 

About the Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts

Delighting more than 50,000 patrons and participants annually with live performances, art exhibitions, and local outreach opportunities, the Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts serves as a hub for the arts on Pepperdine University’s Malibu campus, uniquely linking professional guest artists with Pepperdine students as well as patrons from surrounding Southern California communities. Three performance spaces, including the 450-seat Smothers Theatre, the 124-seat Raitt Recital Hall, and the “black box” Lindhurst Theatre, host hundreds of performances, rehearsals, and master classes throughout the year. The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, a dynamic, two-story exhibition space, showcases a revolving selection of modern and contemporary art with a focus on art made in California.

 

Event Details

WHAT: Preservation Hall Jazz Band
WHEN: Saturday, September 28 at 8 p.m.
WHERE: Smothers Theatre, Pepperdine University, 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA
TICKETS: (310) 506-4522 or Preservation Hall Jazz Band event page
PRICES: $43–$78 for the public. Price includes ticket fees. Discounted tickets are available for groups, Military, Wave Associates, and Pepperdine faculty, staff, students, and alumni.

 

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Media Contact 

Jessica Burdzinski
Marketing and Publicity Manager
jessica.burdzinski@pepperdine.edu
310.506.4055