{"id":1020990,"date":"2026-08-24T13:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T13:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1020990\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T13:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T13:01:19","slug":"concerts-return-to-freedom-plaza-stage-desert-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1020990\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerts return to Freedom Plaza stage | Desert Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">TWENTYNINE PALMS \u2014 Vocalist and guitar player Alice Howe and fretless bass player Freebo will open the fall free concerts at Freedom Plaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The fall concert series, made possible by a grant from the Levitt Foundation, will run Saturdays Sept. 26 through Oct. 24. Each evening will begin with food vendors at 6, followed by music from 7 to 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Cassazulu will open for Howe and Freebo Sept. 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Born in a rural farming district in South Africa, Cassazulu frontman John Zulu writes music in English and Zulu. He is accompanied by Californian vocalist Cassidy Sargeant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Their Joshua Tree band mixes English pop and Afro beat harmonies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Howe and Freebo will take the stage at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Howe is a singer\/songwriter from Boston with a musical style rooted in the Laurel Canyon scene of Los Angeles in the 1960s and \u201970s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">She was named Best Female Artist at the 2023 International Acoustic Music Awards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Her collaborator since 2017, Freebo toured and recorded with Bonnie Raitt for a decade. He has played bass on recordings by John Mayall, Ringo Starr, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Maria Muldaur, Joe Walsh and Dr. John.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Concerts will continue every Saturday through Oct. 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u2022 Oct. 3: The Kearns Family Band (Hi-Desert folk); Joshua Josu\u00e9 opens with Chicano rock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u2022 Oct. 10: Terrell Edwards (motown); Hotel Mercy opens with punk Americana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u2022 Oct. 17: Hu Dost (world rock and electric folks); Palo Xanto opens with desert groove music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u2022 Oct. 24: Mark Taylor (contemporary country); Local group Los Poncho Tones opens with \u201cgreasy tumbleweed\u201d music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">For more information, go online to www.29palms<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/music.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">music.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TWENTYNINE PALMS \u2014 Vocalist and guitar player Alice Howe and fretless bass player Freebo will open the fall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1020991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[408514,408519,8067,263795,2731,1582,276,408527,408515,63604,8599,246,82132,408523,9306,408526,408522,28615,408525,408516,70715,408517,2961,408521,408530,224,408518,5337,408520,253120,408513,10195,977,137824,2241,408528,408512,408524,408529],"class_list":["post-1020990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-agcc","tag-alice-howe","tag-artist","tag-bonnie-raitt","tag-boston","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-californian-vocalist","tag-cassidy-sargeant","tag-crosby","tag-edwards","tag-family","tag-food-vendors","tag-freebo","tag-freedom-plaza","tag-fretless-bass-player","tag-hotel-mercy","tag-joe-walsh","tag-john-mayall","tag-john-zulu","tag-joshua","tag-joshua-josu","tag-la","tag-laurel-canyon","tag-levitt-foundation","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-poncho-tones","tag-losangeles","tag-maria-muldaur","tag-mark-taylor","tag-morongo-unified-school-district","tag-nash","tag-ringo-starr","tag-singer-songwriter","tag-south-africa","tag-the-2023-international-acoustic-music-awards","tag-twentynine-palms","tag-vocalist-and-guitar-player","tag-www-29palms-music-org"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1020991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}