Jul 31,2026
Hammer Summer Concert 2026 — Very Be Careful (July 31)
You cannot explain Colombian vallenato to someone in a paragraph - you have to stand in a courtyard at sunset while a seven-piece band drives it home on an accordion, and then they understand it in their body before their brain catches up. That is the whole gift of this night. Very Be Careful, the Los Angeles-based Colombian vallenato group that has been carrying the accordion-centered sound of Colombia's Caribbean coast to Southern California since the early 2000s, plays the Hammer courtyard in Westwood. They have filled venues twice this size; here it will be intimate. Vallenato is not salsa, and not cumbia as most Americans know it - it is older, more accordion-centered, rooted in the Colombian Caribbean coast, and this band is one of the best introductions to it anywhere in LA. Happy hour 6:30-7:30 PM. Concert at 7:30 PM. After-hours gallery access throughout the evening. Free admission, first-come, first-served. July 31, 2026 - 6:30 PM. Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024.
You cannot explain Colombian vallenato to someone in a paragraph - you have to stand in a courtyard at sunset while a seven-piece band drives it home on an accordion, and then they understand it in their body before their brain catches up. That is the whole gift of this night. Very Be Careful, the Los Angeles-based Colombian vallenato group that has been carrying the accordion-centered sound of Colombia's Caribbean coast to Southern California since the early 2000s, plays the Hammer courtyard in Westwood. They have filled venues twice this size; here it will be intimate. Vallenato is not salsa, and not cumbia as most Americans know it - it is older, more accordion-centered, rooted in the Colombian Caribbean coast, and this band is one of the best introductions to it anywhere in LA. Happy hour 6:30-7:30 PM. Concert at 7:30 PM. After-hours gallery access throughout the evening. Free admission, first-come, first-served. July 31, 2026 - 6:30 PM. Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024.
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A seven-piece Colombian vallenato group in a Westwood courtyard at sunset. Very Be Careful has filled rooms twice this size. July 31, the Hammer. Free.
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Friday, July 31, 2026
6:30 PM PDT – 10:00 PM PDT
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You cannot explain Colombian vallenato to someone in a paragraph - you have to stand in a courtyard at sunset while a seven-piece band drives it home on an accordion, and then they understand it in their body before their brain catches up. That is the whole gift of this night. Very Be Careful, the Los Angeles-based Colombian vallenato group that has been carrying the accordion-centered sound of Colombia's Caribbean coast to Southern California since the early 2000s, plays the Hammer courtyard in Westwood. They have filled venues twice this size; here it will be intimate. Vallenato is not salsa, and not cumbia as most Americans know it - it is older, more accordion-centered, rooted in the Colombian Caribbean coast, and this band is one of the best introductions to it anywhere in LA. Happy hour 6:30-7:30 PM. Concert at 7:30 PM. After-hours gallery access throughout the evening. Free admission, first-come, first-served. July 31, 2026 - 6:30 PM. Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024.
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