Rob Dickinson, Carina Round, Rob Giles, The Lamps, Strangers Smile @ The Hotel Cafe more ›

If you're undaunted by rain or the rain-induced traffic, you haven't grown soft like so many Angelenos. You know you won't melt! In other cities it rains all the time! Maybe you're just dying to get out tonight, but don't know what's going on. more ›

20 musicians. One composer. 4 months to create, a year to rehearse, and one night of performance. more ›

Tonight marks the return of John Schneider & Just Strings playing the music, and custom-built microtonal instruments of Harry Partch at the Redcat. The event is part of MicroFest 2005, an annual event "devoted to the beauty that lies 'between the keys' of the piano." This year marks the 9th anniversary of the festival, which involves seven separate events in LA and surrounding communities. Last year's performance of Bitter Music was a sell-out event, and, much like last year, tonight's show will employ the eccentric composer's marvelously crafted instrument inventions, such as the Chromelodeon, Kithara (pictured), Adapted Viola, Diamond Marimba, Harmonic Canon (pictured), and Adapted Guitars. This evening this quirky musical ensemble will play Partch’s Castor & Pollux, Intrusions, San Francisco, Barstow: Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway, and "includes a rare film of Partch in his 1958 Chicago studio, demonstrating his microtonal instruments, and overdubbing sections of his composition Daphne of the Dunes." MicroFest is co-directed by KPFK personality John Schneider and composers Bill Alves and Kraig Grady. Tickets for tonight's show are $24.00 (General Admission) and $12 (Students/CalArts Faculty, Staff and Students). more ›