Yasawa Group
YASAWA Group
The Paramount2708 E. Cesar E. Chavez Avenue, Los Angeles 90033
Yasawa Group is the sole act billed at The Paramount in Los Angeles on November 14. The listing gives no supporting performers, guest appearance, special set theme or release occasion, so the focus is simply on Yasawa Group’s performance. For a first listen before the show, the event page highlights “Comrades” as the group’s top track.
The event’s introduction frames Yasawa Group through Matt Taylor, who co-founded The Growlers “just past the turn of the century.” It describes that band as “an immense force in the bellowing sound of the great American west,” and places its story alongside the continuing work of making guitar-based pop music from California. No further personnel, hometown, recordings or collaborators are specified for Yasawa Group in the available listing, but Taylor’s Growlers connection is the clearest context offered for this date.
The Paramount’s second-floor ballroom carries a history that reaches back to its 1924 opening, and later became a focal point for Boyle Heights punk and new-wave music. Today, shows take place on a general-admission standing floor, with exposed brick around the room and a low stage; the venue says it can arrange seats by request for seniors and patrons with disabilities. Expect a bar serving drinks during the performance, and food from the ground-floor Brooklyn Ave Pizza Co., including pizza and wings, with some items brought upstairs. Shows generally start about an hour after doors open, with one to three support acts before a headliner who typically takes the stage at 10 or 11 p.m. It is in Boyle Heights, east of downtown Los Angeles.