Kevin Bronson on June 24th, 2015

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Individual tickets for shows as part of UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) series go on sale Friday, with the 2015-16 season bulging with tasty musical offerings along with its usual slate of theater, dance and spoken word.

The season kicks off Aug. 13 with blues legend Buddy Guy [pictured], with L.A. rockers the Record Company opening, and includes an array of roots, blues, jazz, global and pop music, including fusionists Snarky Puppy, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Randy Newman, Ukrainian folk quartet DakhaBrakha, saxophonist David Sanborn, South American octet Bajofondo, Booker T. Jones, Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Lucinda Williams, Mauritanian psychedelic blues artist Noura Mint Seymali and Anoushka Shankar, among others.

Among the spoken word offerings: “Pussy Riot in conversation with Edward Goldman: Art, Sex & Disobedience” (Feb. 16).

Get tickets here. Full schedule below:

CAP UCLA 2015-16 Season

Show times, details and specific venues here

Aug. 13 — Buddy Guy plus The Record Company
Sept. 20 — Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO): Schubert Unfinished
Sept. 24 — Snarky Puppy plus Kneebody
Sept. 25 — DakhaBrakha plus Huun Huur Tu: Soviet Bloc Party
Oct. 3 — An evening with Randy Newman
Oct. 6 — Zakir Hussain, Dave Holland & Shankar Mahadevan: Jazz – A Musical Bridge East to West
Oct. 8, 9, 10 and 11 — “Desdemona” by Toni Morrison and Rokia Traoré with Tina Benko; directed by Peter Sellars
Oct. 10 — evening with David Sanborn
Oct. 16 and 17 — Sankai Juku: UMUSUNA – Memories Before History; Choreography, Concept and Direction by Ushio Amagatsu
Oct. 17 and 18 — Miranda July: New Society
Oct. 18 — LACO: Mozart to Marimba
Oct. 23 and 24 — Julia Wolfe / SITI Company / Bang on a Can All-Stars: Steel Hammer
Oct. 25 — Bang on a Can All-Stars: Field Recordings
Nov. 6 — An evening with Bajofondo
Nov. 7 — Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
Nov. 7 — Kaija Saariaho: A Portrait Concert
Nov. 8 — Jean-Baptiste Barrière: A Visual Concert
Nov. 10 — Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas: Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich
Nov. 12 — Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas: Rosas danst Rosas
Nov. 13 — Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas: Verklärte Nacht
Nov. 14 — Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas: Vortex Temporum featuring Ictus
Nov. 15 —  Ursula K. Le Guin: Unlimited Stories
Nov. 20 —  Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company: “Straight White Men” (CAP UCLA preview night; performances run through Dec. 20)
Nov. 21 — Ann Carlson: The Symphonic Body UCLA
Dec. 4 — Booker T. Jones plus special guest
Dec. 5 — Tigran Hamasyan: Luys i Luso, featuring members of the Yerevan State Chamber Choir
Dec. 13 — LACO: Beethoven & Mendelssohn
Jan. 14, 16, 17, 21, 23 and 24 — CONTRA-TIEMPO Urban-Latin Dance Theater: Agua Furiosa
Jan. 29 — Kid Koala’s Nufonia Must Fall
Jan. 31 — Roz Chast: Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Feb. 9 — Butler, Bernstein & The Hot 9 plus Red Baraat: Mardi Grass Bhangra
Feb. 11 —  Pussy Riot in conversation with Edward Goldman: Art, Sex & Disobedience
Feb. 21 — LACO: Ravel & Beethoven
Feb. 26 — Regina Carter’s Southern Comfort plus Sam Amidon
March 4 — Lucinda Williams with special guest Bill Frisell, plus Sean Rowe
March 5 — Noura Mint Seymali & Tal National: Desert Rock Revue
March 12 — Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music: The 20th Century Abridged
March 18 and 19 — Akram Khan & Israel Galván: Torobaka
March 20 — LACO: Wolfgang & Mozart
April 8 and 9 — Phantom Limb Company: Memory Rings
April 13 — An evening with Anoushka Shankar
April 15 — ODC: boulders and bones
April 17 — LACO: Prokofiev Classical
May 15 — LACO: Mozart & Schumann

Photo courtesy of Monterey International