Esotouric Presents: The Hippodrome

party busThis is the Hippodrome, the official free shuttle of downtown's Art Walk, running every second Thursday from 6-10pm, which serves as a floating salon, featuring live music, art happenings, readings and curated conversations. Our route takes us up Main Street and down Spring from 2nd to 9th. Stops on request and where you flag us down. Map of Art Walk with Hippodrome route.

August 14 Schedule

  • 6pm-6:30pm Mooey Moobau, appearing in exaltation of his new CD, “All Murmur of Our Mothers’ Waters” (Ebola Music Records), which features many, many guests. Many guests. Many of these guests are in the Killsonic Marching Gang, who will be Mooey Moobau’s backup band for this show, his backup MARCHING band for this show. Together they will play the sounds of the solar radiation that makes of human skin some few shriveled ridges and of vegetable matter an ebullient conquering stew.
  • 7pm-7:20pm Patrick Ian Moore presents a mimed performance in the spirit of Downtown’s vaudeville and silent film legacy.
  • 7:30-8pm On-loan from Magicopolis, Erik Tait has won awards for his comedy and magic across the United States and Canada. This devilish wit brings comedy and magic up close and personal, the way it should be.
  • 8pm -8:45pm The Hats (featuring ZonaLilly's Alexandra and Derek, with Daddy Bone on mandolin) will transport Hippodrome passengers by singing them songs of transportation (train, truck, boat and plane), including “The L & N Don’t Stop Here Anymore,” “Six Days on the Road,” “Willin,” “Coming into Los Angeles” and “The Water is Wide.” And of course there will be a song about the bus: their crowd favorite from the July Art Walk, The Hippodrome Song.
  • 9pm-9:15pm- Nance Broderzen, accompanied by her pet python, Draco, will be performing spoken-word, inspired by Tzara's Manifeste Dada 1918, in honor of the freak show snakes who enriched life on Main Street during World War 1, and of the international art movement, born of this era.
  • 9:15pm-10pm- Dig Mike The Poet and an open mic for the roaming poets of downtown Los Angeles

  • ...and throughout the evening, tarot and palm reading by Miss Zella Grant.

If interested in performing on the Hippodrome, please email with details on your talent.

The Hippodrome is sponsored by Downtown LA Neighborhood Council in partnership with the DLANC Arts committee.