Creating the master plan with the jazz-influenced dance company.
Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad take us behind the scenes
Enjoy this snapshot of The Ford's fantastic 2025 summer season!
See how Cumbiatón LA powered an intergenerational cultural movement through dance, music, and community.
Mexico's revolutionary history comes to life through ballet folklórico by Las Fotos Project's Maria Evelyn Romero Gomez
The hosts of pop culture podcast Vibe Check—Sam Sanders, Saeed Jones, and Zach Stafford—dig into some of their favorite and most memorable episodes.
Singer. Songwriter. Multi-instrumentalist. Jazz queen.
When you step off the shuttle, you step into another world.
An introduction to Latin American music through some of its more popular styles: cumbia, salsa reggaetón, bolero, ranchera, and música norteña.
Explore a hi-fi deep dive into the mystic minimalist's catalog of hypnotic recordings.
Enjoy this snapshot of The Ford's amazing 2024 summer season!
In honor of Black History Month, we’re spotlighting 10 of today’s most accomplished Black composers in classical music and beyond.
Get to know Element Band
Enjoy this snapshot of The Ford's spectacular season lineup for 2023!
Enjoy this snapshot of The Ford's amazing 2022 summer season!
In 2021 The Ford brought us a taste of Mexican nightlife, smoky jazz-pop, future-facing music from Latin America, Brazilian balladry, and so much more. Get…
Hear cuts from some of our favorite boundary pushers
Achinta S. McDaniel, the talented Artistic Director/Choreographer for Blue13 Dance Company, offers this addictive playlist featuring some of the best in Bollywood music.
From Afro-Mexican dance to progressive R&B to provocative hip-hop, check out the artists who are setting the tone for The Ford’s digital season.
Enjoy this summer playlist made for The Ford community by new Director Cynthia Fuentes.
The Band Quetzal and poet Faith Santilla on music, movement, and cross-cultural unity in Los Angeles.
Holding death and life in tension, Las Cafeteras embrace the contradictions and prepares for a celebration.
Discover how Element Band's melodies are crafted not just with vibrant instruments, but also through their devotion to preserving Armenian culture.
Caitlin Jane Calica captures The Pharcyde at Ventura Music Hall, part of their high-energy lead-up to the Labcabincalifornia 30th anniversary at The Ford.
Celebrating 45 years of inspiring and thought-provoking repertoire, dive into the Lula Washington Dance Theater’s feature by Las Fotos Project’s Ruth Gutierrez.
Culture photographer Farah Sosa opens up about exciting adventures from her career, the beauty of capturing live performances, and her mentorship role with Las Fotos…
How the hit podcast came together
Explore the vibrant artistry and resilience of Blue13 Dance Company as they fuse tradition with contemporary expression.
The two artists sit down together
When The Ford reopens in summer 2021 for its 100th season, there will be a new face leading the way.
Tom Carroll of Tom Explores Los Angeles explains why there's a cross on top of the hills above The Ford.
The legacy of dance is alive and leaping across the stages of both the Bowl and The Ford.
From its construction in 1920 to its renovation in 2017 and beyond, learn about more than a century of Ford history.
Explore relics uncovered during The Ford’s 2014–2017 renovation.
The Ford transforms for a 1938 production of Goethe’s Faust.
Watch the venue’s 2014-2017 transformation take shape.
Solving one of The Ford’s most perplexing archival mysteries.
A visual history of dance performance at The Ford.
Playwrights, directors, and actors tell the story of the Mark Taper Forum’s The Lab and Taper, Too.
From Jane's Addiction to Social Distortion to X, The Ford has played host to legendary Southern California punk bands. Learn more about our history as…