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January 30, 2008

Dodgers And Hollywood Bowl Go Together Like Peanuts And Cracker Jack

Jackier The fireworks display on the Fourth of July at the Hollywood Bowl is one of the city's best. Most years, though, the headliners are negligible, background music actually to the party in the seats. This year, though, they have a pretty good plan, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Dodgers departing Brooklyn and moving to Los Angeles where they eventually displaced the lower-income folks living in the Chavez Ravine area and came to own the town.
The program for July 2, 3 and 4 will feature baseball music and Dodger players plus fireworks. (Wouldn't the current players be working those days? Perhaps they mean Steve Garvey or Tom Niedenfuer).
Other acts booked for the Bowl this year include Chris Isaak, Diana Ross, Brian Wilson, Wynton Marsalis, Jamie Cullum, Hank Jones, a double bill of Gilberto Gil and Devendra Banhart, Gnarls Barkley and Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. UB40 is on the schedule, too, but will they ever be the same without Ali Campbell? 
Imagine, though, if the Fourth of July featured Nancy Bea Hefley at the organ. Talk about a treat for real baseball fans.

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