The city of Beverly Hills’ Concerts on Canon summer season will kick off with a Pride Night concert on June 6 at 6 p.m. at Beverly Canon Gardens located at 241 North Canon Drive. Concerts on Canon is presented by the city’s Community Services Department and this year’s special Pride concert is in partnership with the Music Forward Foundation.
Artists Boyish and Yancyabril will perform and are past winners of Music Forward Foundation’s LGBTQ+ Emerging Artist Awards. Brian Sonia-Wallace and the Pride Poets will also be on hand to create personalized poems for guests in the audience.
“We are proud to support the LGBTQ+ community by kicking off our Concerts on Canon series with a special ‘Pride Night’ performance,” said Beverly Hills Mayor Lester Friedman. “Throughout the month of June, we will also be honoring the community with a book display in our library that celebrates the achievements and struggles of the LGBTQIA+ community and we will illuminate our palm trees outside of City Hall with colorful lights.”
Pride Night artist Boyish was formed by India Shore and Claire Altendahl in 2016 at Berklee College of Music. The duo have accumulated over 30 million streams across their catalogue and have been lauded by various publications including Billboard. They were named winners of the LGBTQ+ Emerging Artist Award in 2021 and were included on the 2022 Record Store x Vans compilation album, “Portraits of Her” alongside Taylor Swift, Julien Baker, Girl in Red and more. Boyish has released collaborative songs with artists like Rachel Chinouriri and King Princess and have supported acts like The Beaches, Spill Tab, Hippo Campus and MUNA.
New York City native and singer-songwriter Yancyabril fuses Latin, Folk, Jazz, and R&B into her music, drawing inspiration from her Dominican-American heritage. In 2022, Yancyabril became a contestant on Season 2 of “The Voice Dominicana.”
Concerts on Canon is a free outdoor concert series that takes place weekly through August 22, with two 45-minute musical sets at 6 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. This season features a lineup of summertime, family-friendly entertainment that brings live music to the Golden Triangle of Beverly Hills.
The 2024 summer lineup:
June 6: Beverly Hills Pride Night with Boyish and Yancyabril
June 13: Charlie’s Angel’s – The Band
June 20: AbSOULute – Celebrating Juneteenth
June 27: Bill Rotella & The Earthtones
July 4: Rod Lightning & the Thunderbolts of Love – Celebrating Independence Day Concert will take place from 4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
July 11: Beach St. A GoGo
July 18: Joyce Partise
July 25: Tom Nolan Band
August 1: Leslie Paul & the Latin Soul Band
August 8: Upstream
August 15: David Gab
August 22: The Tokens
For more information about Concerts on Canon and the musical season this summer, visit beverlyhills.org/csevents or call 310-285-1000.
