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GRAND PERFORMANCES NEW LOOK & NEW CREATIVE DIRECTOR
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Longtime visual artist, DJ, promoter, and music producer Azul Amaral joins Grand Performances as creative director
Boasting an impressive “What I wanted to do Now he brings his career that spans over here,” Azul says, “is to impressive collection
twenty years, it seems establish itself in a new of skills and authentic there isn’t anything way because Grand artistic vision to his excluded from work- Performances is not next adventure: ing artist Azul Amaral’s necessarily a place. wheelhouse. From having Grand Performances Grand his photography pub- needs to exist in the mind. Performances. lished in publications like “Vice Magazine” or “Wax Poetics Magazine”, to bringing the community together through years of DJing, to working as the program Manager at Grand Park, Azul has been a dedicated, working artist in Los Angeles for decades. The beloved summer concert series that has been running for over 30 years brought Azul in as creative director at the beginning of 2020. But as the world reshapes itself during Covid-19, Azul’s greatest question is: how does Grand Performances exist now? CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 And that’s something that really fits into the future with online performances and with expanding our reach globally. “