The Center and KCRW Host Summer Nights Dance Party 9/12 with DJs Jason Bentley and Jeremy Sole

The Orange County Performing Arts Center welcomes back Santa Monica-based public radio station KCRW's (89.9 FM and KCRW.com) Music Director and Morning Becomes Eclectic host Jason Bentley for a magical night of music and dancing under the stars Saturday, September 12 from 9 to 11:30 p.m. on the Center's community plaza. This free outdoor dance party is open to the public and will feature Bentley and DJ Jeremy Sole spinning live DJ sets and Sole will also perform with Musaics, his eight-piece band. The dance party is being presented as part of the Center's immensely popular Free for All Series, which offers guests opportunities to experience the Center in new and unique ways - and for free.

On his return visit to the Center, Bentley will bring up-and-coming KCRW DJ Sole who is known for
combining a world vibe with a dance element. Sole will get the evening going and then be joined by
Musaics for a live performance juxtaposing Afro-beat, cumbia, Highlife, jazz, dub and experimental beats.

Sole's band mates include Todd Simon, Tracy Wannomae, James King, Dan Ubick, Ethan Phillips, Dan Hastie, Alan Lightner and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson. Bentley will close the dance party with his own set of beats and rhythms.

Drinks and food will be available for purchase at Leatherby's Café Rouge (adjacent to the community plaza). A bar will also be set up outside on the plaza.

Over the past year, the Center and KCRW have partnered to provide free and fun events for Orange County residents: Bentley appeared at the Center for the hugely successful Uptown Underground OC event which drew nearly 5,000 people and this past July, KCRW helped the Center kick off Free for All Movie Mondays with Matt Holzman of Matt's Movies for more than 2,800 people.

Orange County Performing Arts Center
The Orange County Performing Arts Center presents a wide variety of the most significant national and international productions of music, dance and theater to the people of Southern California. It is
committed to supporting artistic excellence on all of its stages and offering unsurpassed experiences, engaging the entire community in new and exciting ways through the unique power of live performance and an array of inspiring programs.
As Orange County's largest non-profit arts organization, the Center owns and operates the 3,000-seat Segerstrom Hall and intimate 250-seat Founders Hall, which opened in 1986, and the 2,000-seat Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, which opened in 2006 and also houses the 500-seat Samueli Theater, and the Lawrence and Kristina Dodge Education Center's studio performance space and Boeing Education Lab. These state-of-the-art facilities are united by a community arts plaza.

The Center's Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall and community plaza, along with facilities of the adjacent Tony® Award-winning South Coast Repertory and a site designated as the new home of the Orange County Museum of Art, are located at Segerstrom Center for the Arts.

The Orange County Performing Arts Center presents a broad range of programming each season for
audiences of all ages from throughout Orange County, and beyond, including international ballet and dance, national tours of top Broadway shows, intimate performances of jazz and cabaret, contemporary artists, classical music performed by renowned chamber orchestras and ensembles, family-friendly programming, free performances open to the public from outdoor movie screenings to dancing on the plaza and many other special events.

It offers many education programs designed to inspire young people through the arts. These programs reach hundreds of thousands of students of all ages with vital arts-in-education programs, enhancing their studies and enriching their lives well into the future.

The Orange County Performing Arts Center is proud to serve as the artistic home to the region's major performing arts organizations: Pacific Symphony, the Philharmonic Society of Orange County and the Pacific Chorale.

For more information, visit OCPAC.org. The Center can also be found online at Blogger, YouTube,
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