Editing Long Beach, California (section)

===Music===

<!--need info on the Municipal Band-->

The [[Bob Cole Conservatory of Music]], the recently renamed school of music at CSULB, presents a wide variety of classical, jazz, and world music concerts each year. The Conservatory is part of CSULB's renowned College of the Arts.

The [[Long Beach Symphony Orchestra|Long Beach Symphony]] plays numerous [[European classical music|classical]] and [[Popular Music|pop]] music concerts throughout the year. The symphony plays at the Terrace Theater in the [[Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.lbso.org/ | title=Long Beach Symphony Orchestra | access-date=August 12, 2004 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040730222731/http://www.lbso.org/ | archive-date=July 30, 2004 | url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Long Beach Opera]], founded in 1979, is the oldest professional opera company serving the Los Angeles and Orange County regions. It presents performances of standard and non-standard opera repertoire at various locations, including the [[Terrace Theater]] and Center Theater of the [[Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center]] and the Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center at CSULB.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.longbeachopera.org | title=Opera Long Beach | access-date=May 9, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417142847/https://www.longbeachopera.org/ | archive-date=April 17, 2020 | url-status=live }}</ref>

Long Beach Community Concert Association<ref>{{cite web|title=Long Beach Community Concert Association |url=http://lbcca.org/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722174255/http://lbcca.org/ |archive-date=July 22, 2015 }}</ref> is a volunteer organization that provides musical entertainment appealing to seniors and others, four Sunday afternoons a year at the [[Carpenter Performing Arts Center]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.carpenterarts.org/residentcompanies.html |title=Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center |publisher=Carpenterarts.org |access-date=July 2, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110510100321/http://www.carpenterarts.org/residentcompanies.html |archive-date=May 10, 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> at CSULB. LBCCA also has an outreach program taking musical entertainment to senior care and senior housing facilities around the greater Long Beach area.

[[KKJZ|KJAZZ]] 88.1 FM (KKJZ) broadcasts from [[California State University, Long Beach]]. The station originally featured [[jazz]] and [[blues]] music exclusively but now plays a broader range of music including Rhythm and Blues (R&b). KKJZ can also be listened to over the [[Internet]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kkjz.org/|title=KJazz 88.1 – America's Jazz and Blues Station|website=kkjz.org|access-date=May 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190516194829/https://kkjz.org/|archive-date=May 16, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Kbeach is the student owned and operated web-only radio at CSULB.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kbeach.org |title=Kbeach website |publisher=Kbeach.org |access-date=July 2, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110208210321/http://www.kbeach.org/ |archive-date=February 8, 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Long Beach City College operates two internet student-run radio stations, KCTY FM<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcty.org |title=KCTY website |publisher=Kcty.org |access-date=July 2, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100903212328/http://kcty.org/ |archive-date=September 3, 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref> and KLBC AM.

Long Beach is the host to a number of long-running music festivals. They include the Bob Marley Reggae Festival (February), the Cajun & Zydeco Festival (May), the El Dia De San Juan [[Puerto Rican culture|Puerto Rican]] Festival (Salsa music, June) the Aloha Concert Jam (Hawaiian music, June), the Long Beach Jazz Festival (August), the [[Long Beach Blues Festival]] (September, since 1980), and the [[Brazilian Street Carnaval]] (Brazilian music, September).

The Long Beach Municipal Band, founded in 1909, is the longest running, municipally supported band in the country. In 2005, the band played 24 concerts in various parks around Long Beach.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://longbeach.gov/park/recreation-programs/programs-and-classes/live-outdoor-bands/|title=Live Outdoor Bands|work=longbeach.gov|access-date=June 3, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150609095335/http://www.longbeach.gov/Park/Recreation-Programs/Programs-and-Classes/Live-Outdoor-Bands/|archive-date=June 9, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Huntington Beach]]-based Heavy Metal band [[Avenged Sevenfold]] performed their [[Live in the LBC & Diamonds in the Rough|'Live in the LBC']] show on April 10, 2008, closing out the [[Taste of Chaos]] tour for the year. This show was recorded and has become one of the 2000s' most iconic live metal albums.

Long Beach is also the point of origin for bands and musicians such as [[Daz Dillinger]], [[the Pussycat Dolls]], [[the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band]], [[Jenni Rivera]], [[T.S.O.L.]], [[Frank Ocean]], [[Sublime (band)|Sublime]], [[Snoop Dogg]], [[Tha Mexakinz]], [[Nate Dogg]], [[Warren G]], [[Tha Dogg Pound]], [[Knoc-Turn'al]], the [[Long Beach Dub Allstars]], [[Avi Buffalo]], [[Crystal Antlers]], [[the Emperors]], [[The Pyramids (band)|the Pyramids]], [[Crooked I]], [[Stick to Your Guns (band)|Stick to Your Guns]], [[War (American band)|War]] and [[Vince Staples]].