Free Concert: ACJF - Zeena Parker & the Smudges

Free concert part of Angel City Jazz Festival

Date: October 22, 2026 @ 8:00 pm

Venue: Wende Museum - A-Frame Theater
10808 Culver Blvd., Culver City, CA 90230

Free but you must register:
https://angelcityjazz.com/event/zeena-parkins-how-she-works-the-smudges/

Donate to support this free concert: https://angelcityjazz.com/zeena-parkins-fundraising-page/

SCHEDULE

8:00pm – The Smudges
Genre defying compositions, daring improvisations and electronically manipulated sounds; The Smudges are ‘cellist’ Maggie Parkins and violinist Jeff Gauthier.
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9:15pm – Zeena Parkins
With custom designed electronics, guitar pedals, bows, bolts, bells, corks, samples, sponges and visuals, the beginnings of a new solo project has emerged, How She Works.
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About

The Angel City Jazz Festival/Jazz Refractions was conceived in 2008 as a vehicle to present the best contemporary West Coast jazz, new music and beyond.
Since then it has grown into an essential multi-week celebration of creative live music from around the world, at some of the most exciting & prestigious venues in LA, such as LACMA, REDCAT at Disney Hall, the Nimoy, the World Stage, the Sierra Madre Playhouse and 2220 Arts + Archives.

As of 2026, the festival has been renamed Jazz Refractions. Jazz is the source light, and Angel City is the prism. The music featured at Jazz Refractions is rooted in the jazz tradition of radical improvisation, freedom, and technical mastery. However, once it passes through the Angel City’s lens, it bends, distorts, and shatters into entirely new forms unrestricted by musical genres.