In its brief history, the Hollywood Bowl's World Festival has been far and away the most interesting, offbeat and, more often than not, most cleverly programmed series of concerts on the whole ...

The title of Cesaria Evora's just-released RCA album, "Rogamar," translates into "praise the sea," or "pray to the sea," and Friday night at Royce Hall, you could feel a sultry salt-rimed languor in ...