Lummis Day Is Coming

Los Angeles (myFOXla.com) - Sunday is "Lummis Day." Do you know what that means? Bob Decastro is at the Casa de Adobe on North Figueroa Street with an answer.

Here's a rundown of Sunday's Lummis Day activities:
Lummis Day 2009 will present an expanded line-up of musicians, dance groups, poets, puppets and restaurants and has added theatrical performances to the program for the fourth annual Northeast Los Angeles community celebration on Sunday, June 7.

Admission to all events is free.

This year's 4th annual Lummis Day event will feature over 20 music, dance, theatre and poetry performances on four stages and two satellite locations with the participation of almost 100 performing artists. The event will also feature art exhibits, ethnic food offerings and appearances by local radio and TV personalities, including Channel 11's own Hal Eisner.

Lummis Day will be celebrated at three sites: Lummis Home (poetry and music, 10: 30 am-noon) Sycamore Grove Park (music, dance, theater and food, 12:30pm-7: 30pm) and Casa de Adobe (art exhibitions, 1:00pm-6:00pm). The addition of an additional mobile stage provided by the Department of Recreation and Parks has made it possible to add
additional bands to the music line-up. A fourth stage will be used for theater, puppets, and storytelling.

Among the many highlights of this year's event will be:

-A concert by Wil-Dog, who has won three Grammy Awards as a co-founder, songwriter, bassist and vocalist with the renowned Ozomatli. Wil-Dog, who has recently returned from an Asian tour, will be performing with his "Banda."

-A concert by the acclaimed "psychedelic country" band, I See Hawks in L.A., winner of several "Best Country Band" honors. The Hawks have toured with Lucinda Williams, Chris Hillman, and Dave Alvin and recently had their music featured in the HBO series, "True Blood."

-A repeat appearance by the members of the great Los Angeles theatre and comedy group, Culture Clash,

-An excerpt of playwright Juli Crockett's "Dawn of Quixote: Chapter the First", which has been selected for a run this summer at the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival. On the Lummis Day stage, a version of the
play will be staged with a live original score performed by the Highland Park band, The Evangenitals.

-Performances by local Northeast L.A bands The Monolators, the Carlos Guitarlos Band, BombaChante, Eugene Edwards, Seasons, Cougar Blues, and Pretentious Pigeons.

-Poetry by author and Emmy Award-winning PBS host Ruben Martinez as well as by acclaimed poets Suzanne Lummis and Gaily Wronsky with an introductory Native American music performance by Glenn Ahhaitty at Lummis Home.

-Art exhibits at Casa de Adobe by, among others, J. Michael Walker, whose "All the Saints in the City of the Angels" exhibit won several awards and Raoul de La Sota, who has exhibited throughout the United States and Mexico and has had his work shown locally at the Laguna Art
Museum and the UCLA Armand Hammer Museum.

Lummis Day program information can be found at www.lummisday.org

Lummis Day takes its name from Charles Fletcher Lummis, who joined the L.A. Times as the newspaper's first city editor in 1876. A prolific writer and photographer, Lummis was also one of the city's first librarians, founded the Southwest Museum and helped introduce the concept of multi-culturalism to Southern California.

The 4th Annual Lummis Day: The Festival of Northeast Los Angeles will be presented on Sunday June 7 by the Autry National Center, the Annenberg Foundation and the neighborhood councils of Northeast Los Angeles
(Arroyo Seco, Historic Highland Park, Greater Cypress Park, Eagle Rock, L.A. 32 and Glassell Park.)