Jason Isbell and Sylvan Esso often arrive at the same place via different routes. Whether he’s cranking it up with the 400 Unit or settling into a soft acoustic lament, Isbell’s songs radiate hard-won truths in straightforward language. Sylvan Esso’s intricately plotted electronic pop can feel like a futuristic dreamworld, but it’s built around songs of love and heartbreak. In a special co-headlining concert at the Bowl, both artists’ songcraft will be on display.
Over two decades and eight solo albums, Jason Isbell established himself as one of the sharpest and most emotionally in-tune songwriters of his generation. Isbell’s songs are firmly rooted in his Southern home, but they’re equally awake to the realities of everyday life in America, often to devastating effect: The characters in his songs take on death, loss, redemption, love, regret, and pain, always illuminated by the songwriter’s hard-won wisdom. The four-time Grammy winner’s most recent album, *Weathervanes*, was called “brutally beautiful” and “his strongest album to date” by *Rolling Stone*.
Sylvan Esso arrives at the Bowl at the beginning of a new era. The band’s 2022 album *No Rules Sandy* found them breaking new ground, incorporating new production flourishes—and less rules—in their Grammy-nominated electro pop. At the center of it all is Nick Sanborn and Amelia Meath, whose lyrics keep these songs close to the ground and engaged with the complexities of life: “sad songs that sound really happy,” as Meath puts it. Or, as *The New York Times* put it, “lighthearted on the surface, purposeful at the core.”
All-Beethoven (7/25/24-7/25/24)
Chaka Khan with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra (7/26/24-7/26/24)
Barbie The Movie: In Concert (7/27/24-7/27/24)
Boublil and Schönberg’s Do You Hear the People Sing? (7/28/24-7/28/24)
Stravinsky & Khachaturian (7/30/24-7/30/24)
Schumann & Bruch (8/1/24-8/1/24)
Reggae Night XXII: Jamrock Reggae Night at the Bowl, Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley and Stephen Marley (8/4/24-8/4/24)
Prokofiev & Shostakovich (8/6/24-8/6/24)
Symphonic Tango & Flamenco (8/8/24-8/8/24)
India.Arie (8/9/24-8/9/24)
Khruangbin (8/10/24-8/11/24)
Herbie Hancock Head Hunters 50th (8/14/24-8/14/24)
The Elements with Joshua Bell (8/15/24-8/15/24)
The Gipsy Kings: Featuring Nicolas Reyes (8/16/24-8/16/24)
Sara Bareilles with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra (8/17/24-8/17/24)
Smooth Summer Jazz (8/18/24-8/18/24)
Los Angeles Philharmonic: All-Dvořák with Midori (8/20/24-8/20/24)
All-Dvořák with Midori (8/20/24-8/20/24)
Gary Clark Jr. and The War And Treaty (8/21/24-8/21/24)
The Rite of Spring (8/22/24-8/22/24)
Pink Martini featuring China Forbes (8/23/24-8/24/24)
Mt. Joy (8/25/24-8/25/24)
Singin' in the Rain in Concert (8/27/24-8/27/24)
Gustavo Dudamel & Yunchan Lim (8/29/24-8/29/24)
Marvel Studios’ Infinity Saga Concert Experience (8/30/24-8/30/24)
Toto (9/1/24-9/1/24)
Carmen and Carnival with Dudamel (9/3/24-9/5/24)
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Big Boi (9/4/24-9/4/24)
Natalia Lafourcade and Gustavo Dudamel (9/6/24-9/7/24)
Vance Joy "dream your life away" 10-Year Anniversary Show (9/8/24-9/8/24)
Dudamel Leads Beethoven 9 (9/10/24-9/10/24)
Jazz on Tap at the Bowl (9/11/24-9/11/24)
Dudamel and the Stars of Opera (9/12/24-9/12/24)
Fireworks Finale: Boyz II Men (9/15/24-9/15/24)
Rodrigo y Gabriela (9/18/24-9/18/24)
The Concert: A Tribute to ABBA (9/20/24-9/20/24)
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music Sing-A-Long (9/21/24-9/21/24)
Cumbia at the Bowl! (9/22/24-9/22/24)
Anderson .Paak and the Free Nationalswith Orchestra (9/24/24-9/24/24)
Anderson .Paak and the Free Nationals with Orchestra (9/24/24-9/24/24)
Camilo (9/26/24-9/26/24)
Mitski (9/28/24-9/28/24)
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Disney ’80s-’90s Celebration in Concert (7/19/24-7/19/24)
Ballet Folklórico de México with the LA Phil (7/18/24-7/18/24)
Big Band Night: Maria Schneider Orchestra, Count Basie Orchestra (7/17/24-7/17/24)
Ray Chen Plays Tchaikovsky (7/16/24-7/16/24)
All-Gershwin (7/11/24-7/11/24)
Scheherazade (7/9/24-7/9/24)
Patti LaBelle (7/7/24-7/7/24)
Beck with the LA Phil (7/6/24-7/6/24)
July Fourth Fireworks Spectacular with Harry Connick, Jr. (7/2/24-7/4/24)
Roots Picnic: Hip-Hop is the Love of My Life (6/29/24-6/29/24)
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Rhinoceros
Stella Adler Academy of Acting & Theatre (8/2 - 8/25)
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Stravinsky & Khachaturian
Hollywood Bowl (7/30 - 7/30) | |
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Matilda The Hun ..The Raw Meat
Zephyr theatre (7/26 - 7/28) LIMITED TICKETS REMAIN | |
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Symphonic Tango & Flamenco
Hollywood Bowl (8/8 - 8/8) | |
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Reefer Madness: The Musical in LA
The Whitley (5/30 - 8/18)
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Khruangbin
Hollywood Bowl (8/10 - 8/11) | |
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The Civility of Albert Cashier
The Colony Theatre (8/31 - 9/22) NEW MUSICAL | |
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Schumann & Bruch
Hollywood Bowl (8/1 - 8/1) | |
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Reggae Night XXII: Jamrock Reggae Night at the Bowl, Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley and Stephen Marley
Hollywood Bowl (8/4 - 8/4) | |
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Boublil and Schönberg’s Do You Hear the People Sing?
Hollywood Bowl (7/28 - 7/28) | |
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Barbie The Movie: In Concert
Hollywood Bowl (7/27 - 7/27) | |
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Marvel Studios’ Infinity Saga Concert Experience
Hollywood Bowl (8/30 - 8/30) | |
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The Effect
The Actor's Company (7/26 - 8/3) | |
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In the Unlikely Event of an Actual Emergency
Hudson Guild Theatre (9/20 - 10/26) | |
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Back to the Future: The Musical
Pantages Theatre (11/5 - 12/1) | |
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La Cage aux Folles
Pasadena Playhouse (11/12 - 12/15)
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