Reconnect with your inner musician and participate in a collective music-making experience via a series of learning/instructional participatory workshops. Get Your Chops Back (GYCB) is a gathering of adult non-professional musicians who have not made music in a while, or as often as they like. It provides the opportunity to engage, re-connect, and make music again in a mistakes-allowed, stress-free encouraging environment, and to have fun.

Choose from 3 music-making experiences this summer:

1. GYCB Afro-Cuban Jam in Downtown Los Angeles
   Experience and explore the traditional Afro-Cuban styles of Rumba (Yambu, Guaguancó, Columbia) and Congo (Makuta). For singers and drummers with prior music-making experience in any tradition.
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2. GYCB Jazz Combo in San Pedro
   Choose to focus on Straight Ahead, Traditional & New Orleans, Brazilian or Modern jazz. For those looking to tune up jazz skills.
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3. GYCB Zydeco Boot Camp in Downtown Los Angeles
   Explore and learn this earthy music and rhythms used to create a spectrum of possibilities such as Two-Step, Shuffle and Waltz - a simmering American melting pot of sound! For violin/fiddle and keyboard accordion players who would like to make music more often.
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Active Arts® at the Music Center invites you to come sing, dance, make music and tell stories in Downtown Los Angeles. BE ACTIVE with this series of low or no cost do-it-yourself programs.

The Music Center is located at 135 N. Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles. Parking is available in the Music Center garage for $9 (evenings and weekends). No photography, videotaping and/or recordings of any kind. Information is subject to change.

PROJECT PARTNERS: Los Angeles Jazz Collective, Ketchum-Downtown YMCA, and San Pedro & Peninsula YMCA.