Skirball Free Thursdays
Thu Oct 29
Free museum Thursdays
This event is in the past.It took place on July 30, 2026 at Skirball Cultural Center.
Brentwood, Los Angeles
🧥Bring layers, the courtyard gets chilly at night.
🎟️Advance reservations are recommended.
🚗Parking fee is charged on arrival.
Tortoise and Kassa Overall bring their distinct sounds to the Skirball courtyard for a night of experimental music. The performance is part of the museum's 29th annual Sunset Concerts series.
Outdoor summer concert
Live jazz music
Family-friendly evening
Museum courtyard setting
Tortoise
Chicago post-rock instrumental band, genre-less experimental
Tortoise is a Chicago‑originating band formed in 1990, known as pioneers of the post‑rock sound. The lineup includes Jeff Parker, Dan Bitney, Douglas McCombs, John Herndon, and John McEntire, and they have released seven albums such as Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996) and Standards (2001). Critics cite their live shows as a “supremely fun band, wide open to all sorts of sonic possibilities.”
Kassa Overall
Los Angeles hip‑hop/jazz drummer and producer
Kassa Overall is a Los Angeles‑based drummer, rapper and producer whose solo work blends jazz drumming with hip‑hop rhythms. Albums include Got Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz (2019), I Think I’m Good (2020) and Animals (2023), and he has collaborated with artists such as Thom Yorke and Iggy Pop. He received the 2025 Doris Duke Foundation Prize.
Dave Orlando aka Boss Harmz
Los Angeles DJ and promoter, eclectic electronic
David Orlando, known as Boss Harmz, is a Los Angeles artist who DJs and promotes club nights like Dub Club and Punky Reggae Party. He also drums in the LA band El Colmo and provides an opening DJ set for the Sunset Concerts.
Brentwood, Los Angeles
🧥Bring layers, the courtyard gets chilly at night.
🎟️Advance reservations are recommended.
🚗Parking fee is charged on arrival.
Tortoise and Kassa Overall bring their distinct sounds to the Skirball courtyard for a night of experimental music. The performance is part of the museum's 29th annual Sunset Concerts series.
Outdoor summer concert
Live jazz music
Family-friendly evening
Museum courtyard setting
Tortoise
Chicago post-rock instrumental band, genre-less experimental
Tortoise is a Chicago‑originating band formed in 1990, known as pioneers of the post‑rock sound. The lineup includes Jeff Parker, Dan Bitney, Douglas McCombs, John Herndon, and John McEntire, and they have released seven albums such as Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996) and Standards (2001). Critics cite their live shows as a “supremely fun band, wide open to all sorts of sonic possibilities.”
Kassa Overall
Los Angeles hip‑hop/jazz drummer and producer
Kassa Overall is a Los Angeles‑based drummer, rapper and producer whose solo work blends jazz drumming with hip‑hop rhythms. Albums include Got Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz (2019), I Think I’m Good (2020) and Animals (2023), and he has collaborated with artists such as Thom Yorke and Iggy Pop. He received the 2025 Doris Duke Foundation Prize.
Dave Orlando aka Boss Harmz
Los Angeles DJ and promoter, eclectic electronic
David Orlando, known as Boss Harmz, is a Los Angeles artist who DJs and promotes club nights like Dub Club and Punky Reggae Party. He also drums in the LA band El Colmo and provides an opening DJ set for the Sunset Concerts.
Matches these interests
- Outdoor summer concert
- Live jazz music
- Family-friendly evening
- Museum courtyard setting
- Skirball Cultural Center
- Brentwood
- Los Angeles
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