Naima Bock at TreePeople (photo by Adam Corey Thomas)
When was the last time that you ventured into the wilderness at night for a stroll among the owls, coyotes, and crickets?
At the end of every month we gather with the heroic environmental stewards of TreePeople to love on live music and hot tea along a ridge trail of the Santa Monica Mountains. Following a performance, steeped herbs, a sunset, and some good conversation, TreePeople’s eco educators offer us three different hiking groups for peoples of all ages and abilities to learn more about the native ecology and history of these mountains.
This month we sit atop Mulholland Drive with our dear friends and day ones of Sonoda. Fronted by the one and only Lisa Sonoda, a most mystical songwriter of our wondrous Los Angeles arts ecosystem, Sonoda will be pulling up as a full band this evening featuring Adrian Garcia, Jacob Maag, and Eddie Ramos. If meditative pop music of the ambient, spiritual, and electronic variety is your cup of tea, you’re definitely going to want to pack a sweater and find us in the mountains. Our friends have been hard at work on their next record, largely recorded in a cabin within the San Gabriel Mountains, and tonight try out these new songs under the moon.
Bring a blanket, pour some tea, and bliss in.
Check-in begins around 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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Sonoda is a meditative pop quartet based in Los Angeles, CA. Their music weaves melodic dream pop rock with an affinity for mysterious and otherworldly soundscapes, informed by their love of the bands Broadcast and Beach House, and how music can create a foreign, yet comforting new world. They are currently working on a full length album
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.