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Best of 2025: Levitt Staff Favorites
As 2025 comes to a close, it’s once again time to share the songs that soundtracked our days and brought joy to the Levitt Foundtion team throughout another year of building community through music. If there was any doubt, this year’s staff top tracks prove that we are truly in a golden era of women…
The 2025 Levitt Season is Underway!
Grab your picnic blankets and lawn chairs and mark your calendars—free Levitt concerts have returned to towns and cities across America, gathering friends, family and neighbors for outdoor fun for everyone all season long! Now through October, the 2025 Levitt concert season is bringing nearly one million people together of all ages and backgrounds in public spaces…
Favorite Tracks of the Levitt Staff for 2024
As a foundation dedicated to bringing free outdoor concerts to communities across the country, our love for music knows no bounds. On that note, we are excited to share our annual staff-favorites list of 2024! This year our musical tastes continued to embrace everything from chart-topping hits to emerging underground sounds. Queen Bey reigned supreme,…
Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation Board Names Sharon Yazowski President & CEO
On June 27, 2024, Sharon Yazowski was named President & CEO by the Levitt Foundation Board of Directors. Sharon joined Levitt in 2007 as the first executive director of Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles. She then transitioned in 2009 to Executive Director of the Levitt Foundation, as the Foundation’s first employee, and was named Chief Executive…
Get Ready for the Levitt Season!
Daylight savings, denim shorts, and summery, feel-good tunes are all back in rotation—and with them, free Levitt concerts across the country. The 2024 Levitt concert season, already underway in a handful of communities, is as exhilarating as it is monumental: As the Levitt Foundation spends down, we are supporting more towns, cities, and neighborhoods throughout…
Levitt Staff Favorites 2023: 14 New Songs We Kept on Repeat
When it comes to music, the Levitt Foundation team has capital-T taste. This might not come as a surprise, given that our whole raison d’etre is building community through the power of free, live concerts. So it makes sense that if you were to swing by the Levitt offices any given weekday, you’d probably find…
Free Levitt Concerts Return Across the Country
The days are getting longer, the air is getting warmer, and all across the country communities are getting ready to present another exhilarating season of free music under the stars. This year, more than 650+ free Levitt concerts will be presented in 41 towns and cities—strengthening our social fabric, amplifying local pride, injecting joy into…
10 Key Takeaways from the Levitt National Convening
Bringing together over 150 people from the Levitt network of 41 towns and cities, the 2023 Levitt National Convening was a joyful gathering, inspiring exchange of ideas and celebration of collective impact. While Southern California sunshine was in short supply given the historic rainfall, the Levitt network’s spirit of collaboration and community-mindedness shone through brightly,…
PRESS RELEASE: La Santa Cecilia to Headline the 2023 Levitt National Tour
Media Contact: Vanessa Silberman, vanessa@levitt.org The captivating GRAMMY-winning band La Santa Cecilia brings its energetic blend of cumbia, rock, bolero, bossa nova and more to Levitt venues across the country. LOS ANGELES (March 28, 2023)—The Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation, a social impact funder supporting nonprofits nationwide at the intersection of music, public space, and…