Soft Future at TreePeople (photo by Morgan Rindengan)
Lace up your hiking shoes & we’ll see you atop David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive!
Once a month we gather with our local heroic environmental stewards of TreePeople to love on live music and hot tea along a ridge trail of the Santa Monica Mountains. Once we’ve held time together to share in meaningful art, warm tea, (sometimes) a sunset, and good conversation, TreePeople’s eco educators then split us into three different hiking groups for peoples of all ages and abilities to learn more about the native ecology and history of these mountains.
To help us wave goodbye to 2025, we’ve invited our friend Steve Blum to soundtrack one of the longest nights of the year through his warm and gentle tones for synthesizer and place. We met Steve while playing music on a trail in the Angeles Forest and ever since we’ve only seen him in the most stunning of ensembles and carting his solar battery and synths back into the depths of our local mountains. We love his adventurous outdoors spirit and are so excited to have him soundtrack this final Moonlight Hike of the year.
Bring a blanket, pour some tea, and bliss in.
Check-in begins at 6:30pm, music shortly after 7pm, and we split into our hiking groups promptly at 8pm. Parking is limited so we ask that you please rsvp with us in advance.
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Steve Blum is a performer/composer whose music embodies a 21st-century aesthetic integrating jazz piano expertise, experimental electronic practice, and chamber music sensibilities. His work examines how identity and presence function in digital culture, our evolving relationship with the natural world, our positioning within communities, and our place in historical context.
Steve has had a diverse musical career as a performer, educator, conductor, and accompanist across nearly every genre. Having collaborated with artists on many albums and tours, he has appeared at major festivals and many of the West Coast's major venues (& just performed at the Hollywood Bowl!!). He has established himself as a solo performer and bandleader in LA, leading unique groups featuring his very favorite local musicians.
Born in 1973 from the hopes and dreams of a teenager, TreePeople is now one of the largest environmental organizations headquartered in Southern California.
They have inspired, engaged, and supported more than 3 million people to take action for our environment by planting and caring for more than 3 million trees in our local forests, mountains, parks, and our neighborhoods. Through on-the-ground research and educational programs, TreePeople shares knowledge with policymakers, students, educators, and communities around the world.
After fires burn, TreePeople reforests. When schools are covered in concrete, TreePeople creates green schoolyards. When communities experience food insecurity, TreePeople distributes fruit trees. When California is drought-stricken, TreePeople designs solutions to capture rainwater. As the world faces increasing threats from a more hostile climate, TreePeople helps create actionable solutions.