Kevin Bronson on February 7th, 2023

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Updated 5/1/23:
08/08/23 Elgar and Mozart, with the L.A. Phil, Ryan Bancroft, conductor. (not Beethoven)
07/15/23 Kool & the Gang, Village People at the Hollywood Bowl. (second show added)
07/29/23 Quincy Jones’ 90th Birthday Celebration, ft. the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Jules Buckley (conductor) and more at the Hollywood Bowl. (second show added)
08/12/23 Carla Morrison (Devendra Banhart added as opener).
08/16/23 Gladys Knight (Peabo Bryson added as opener).
09/23/23 John Legend featuring orchestra & gospel choir. (added show)
09/24/23 Los Auténticos Decadentes (Los Fabulosos Cadillacs added as co-headliner).

The Hollywood Bowl’s 2023 season is packed with pop, rock, jazz and soul luminaries — Janet Jackson, Sparks, Portugal. The Man, Café Tacvba, Culture Club, Fleet Foxes, Maggie Rogers, Alvvays, My Morning Jacket, King Gizzard, Jill Scott, Gladys Knight and Maxwell among them — along with the special events that make the Bowl so singular.

The lineup was announced today. Tickets for some individual shows (as well as new subscriptions and group sales) are on sale now; the Bowl’s “Create Your Own Package” option is available starting March 14; and single-ticket sales for all shows start May 2.

The Bowl’s signature events are also back. Among them: Three nights of fireworks for the 4th of July with the Beach Boys; the Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival (featuring Kamasi Washington, Leon Bridges and new Grammy winner Samara Joy, among others); three nights with “Maestro of the Movies” John Williams; the Sing-A-Long “Sound of Music;” music galore from stage and screen; the KCRW Festival series of concerts; and more than 20 classical programs on Tuesday and Thursday nights.

Artistic director Gustavo Dudamel is back for his 14th Bowl season, leading programs that include Mendelssohn, Verdi, Ellington and music from his Pan-American Music Initiative.

Here’s the schedule as it stands right now:

JUNE

06/10/23 Janet Jackson, Ludacris, members of Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles, Thomas Wilkins, conductor.
06/17-18/23 Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival, with Kamasi Washington, Leon Bridges, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, West Coast Get Down, Digable Planets, Poncho Sanchez, Samara Joy, Aziza, the Soul Rebels with Big Freedia, Butcher Brown and more, with Arsenio Hall (host).
06/21/23 King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.
06/22/23 Jill Scott.
06/24/23 “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” Part 2, with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.
06/25/23 The Game Awards 10-Year Celebration, with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.
06/30/23 Louis Tomlinson.

JULY

07/02/23 July 4th Fireworks Spectacular with The Beach Boys, ft. the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Thomas Wilkins, conductor.
07/03/23 July 4th Fireworks Spectacular with The Beach Boys, ft. the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Thomas Wilkins, conductor.
07/04/23 July 4th Fireworks Spectacular with The Beach Boys, ft. the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Thomas Wilkins, conductor.
07/06/23 A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with the L.A. Phil, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor, and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Grant Gershon, artistic director.
07/07/23 Maestro of the Movies: John Williams with the L.A. Phil, Gustavo Dudamel and John Williams, conductors.
07/08/23 Maestro of the Movies: John Williams with the L.A. Phil, Gustavo Dudamel and John Williams, conductors.
07/09/23 Maestro of the Movies: John Williams with the L.A. Phil, Gustavo Dudamel and John Williams, conductors.
07/11/23 Dudamel conducts Verdi’s Requiem, with the L.A. Phil, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor, and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Grant Gershon, artistic director.
07/12/23 Charlie Wilson, En Vogue.
07/13/23 An Ellington Celebration, with the L.A. Phil, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor.
07/14/23 Kool & the Gang, Village People.
07/17/23 Sparks, They Might Be Giants.
07/18/23 “Estancia” with Dudamel, with the L.A. Phil, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor, Grupo Corpo and more.
07/19/23 Diana Krall.
07/20/23 Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky with Dudamel, with the L.A. Phil, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor.
07/21/23 Café Tacvba, with the L.A. Phil, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor.
07/22/23 Café Tacvba, with the L.A. Phil, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor.
07/23/23 Reggae Night XXI, ft. Beres Hammond, Steel Pulse, Third World.
07/25/23 “Rhapsody in Blue,” with the L.A. Phil, Leonard Slatkin, conductor.
07/27/23 “Pictures at an Exhibition,” with the L.A. Phil, Stéphane Denève, conductor.
07/28/23 Quincy Jones’ 90th Birthday Celebration, ft. the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Jules Buckley, conductor. Special guests to be announced.
07/30/23 “Everybody Rise!” A Sondheim Celebration, with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Kevin Stites, conductor.

AUGUST

08/01/23 All-Rachmaninoff, with the L.A. Phil, Shiyeon Sung, conductor.
08/03/23 “2001: A Space Odyssey” Live, with the L.A. Phil, Caleb Young, conductor, and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Grant Gershon, artistic director.
08/04-05/23 Walt Disney Animation Studio, with the L.A. Phil, Thomas Wilkins, conductor.
08/06/23 Portugal. The Man, Chicano Batman, Say She She.
08/08/23 Elgar and Mozart, with the L.A. Phil, Ryan Bancroft, conductor.
08/09/23 Joe Bonamassa with Orchestra.
08/10/23 Sibelius and Grieg, with the L.A. Phil, Tarmo Peitokoski, conductor.
08/11/23 Rubén Blades & Roberto Delgado Big Band, Salswing Tour.
08/12/23 Carla Morrison, Devendra Banhart.
08/13/23 Maggie Rogers, Alvvays.
08/15/23 Symphonie Fantastique, with the L.A. Phil, Jonathon Heyward, conductor.
08/16/23 Gladys Knight, Peabo Bryson.
08/17/23 Shostakovich and Dvořák, with the L.A. Phil, Anna Rakitina, conductor.
08/18-19/23 Tchaikovsky Spectacular, with the L.A. Phil, Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser, conductor, the USC Trojan Marching Band and more.
08/20/23 My Morning Jacket, Fleet Foxes.
08/22/23 Chris Thile and Appalachian Spring, with the L.A. Phil, Teddy Abrams, conductor.
08/23/23 Herbie Hancock.
08/24/23 Joe Hisaishi and La mer, with the L.A. Phil, Joe Hisaishi, conductor.
08/25-26/23 Culture Club.
08/27/23 Smooth Summer Jazz with Dave Koz and Friends, ft. Candy Dulfer, Eric Darius and Morris Day & the Time.
08/29/23 Beethoven at the Bowl, with the L.A. Phil, Simone Menezes, conductor.
08/31/23 “The Four Seasons,” with the L.A. Phil, Gemma New, conductor.

SEPTEMBER

09/01-02/23 “Star Wars: Return of the Jedi” in Concert, with the L.A. Phil, David Newman, conductor.
09/03/23 Air Supply, Michael Bolton.
09/05/23 Mozart Under the Stars, with the L.A. Phil, Nicholas McGegan, conductor.
09/06/23 Buddy Guy, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram.
09/07/23 Bach and Mendelssohn, with the L.A. Phil, Masaaki Suzuki, conductor.
09/08/23 Maxwell (Fireworks Finale).
09/09/23 Maxwell (Fireworks Finale).
09/10/23 Maxwell (Fireworks Finale).
09/12/23 “The Planets,” with the L.A. Phil, Karen Kamensek, conductor, and the Pacific Chorale, Robert Istad, artistic director. Also: Adam Schoenberg’s “Cool Cat” (world premiere, L.A. Phil commission).
09/13/23 Jacob Collier with the L.A. Phil, Thomas Wilkins, conductor.
09/16/23 Sing-A-Long “Sound of Music,” Melissa Peterman, host.
09/17/23 KCRW Festival, artists to be announced.
09/20/23 “Promises,” feat. Floating Points, with Shabaka Hutchings and more.
09/23/23 John Legend featuring orchestra & gospel choir. (added show)
09/24/23 Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Los Auténticos Decadentes.