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January 6, 2016

The
VELASLAVASAY PANORAMA
! Welcomes you to the year 2016 !

Do not think you are coming to any prim nonsensical house -- that is nonsensical in the ordinary way. You must be much bored with punctilios. You may do what you please -- say or say not what you please...We will have mulled wine with wisdom, & buttered toast with story-telling & crack jokes & bottles from morning till night.

Herman Melville, 1851

 

~ 2016 ~

An Evening with Ben Townsend & Friends

This Saturday, Janurary 9th, 2016
Doors open at 7:30 P.M.
Show begins at 8:00 P.M.
Tickets $20 & $15 for VPES Members

Join Ben Townsend and Ben Guzman for an evening of storytelling, live music and film as they celebrate the release of a new album of old-time music, Deep End Sessions Volume 3: Ben Townsend and Friends. In this evening performance, the two Bens will take you on a multimedia bicycle tour starting in Hampshire County, West Virginia through the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Louisiana Bayou, along the Mexican border, through the southwestern desert, finally landing in Los Angeles, California. They will present songs harvested from each state they traveled through and will be joined by friends Triple Chicken Foot, Sausage Grinder, members of The Hi Fi Honeydrops, Erin Schneider, and Joe Wack. 

~ Forthcoming ~

In India - 1903 to 1949: The 78rpm Phenomenon

An illustrated lecture by Robert Millis with musical demonstration by Jonathan Ward.

  Robert Millis' Archive

Saturday, January 30th, 2016
Doors open at 7 o'clock P.M.
Lecture begins promptly at 7:30 P.M.
Tickets $15 & $12 for VPES Members

The lecture is a result of Millis' year spent in India photographing record collections, interviewing collectors, and visiting archives and record markets: photographs of shelves groaning under the weight of unimaginable titles, beautiful label and sleeve designs from long gone eras, wind up talking machines, crammed antique shops, forgotten artists, and more that somehow survived the difficult "archival" issues of India.

This presentation will feature several short Sublime Frequencies films, rare music from 78rpm discs, glimpses of the city of Calcutta, the shellac industry, and 78rpm record collectors.

Velaslavasay Panorama
1122 W. 24th St.
Los Angeles, California 90007
event@panoramaonview.org
(213) 746-2166