Over time, residents organized concerts and started to attract a different audience: Parisians looking for an underground scene.
She has organized concerts of works by female composers, of civil rights music and of composers who died in the Holocaust.
The city has organized concerts tonight by Doors look-alike bands -- the Bootleg Doors from the Netherlands; the L.A. Doors from Britain -- and showings of films about the Doors.
His radical politics (recently he organized concerts demanding immigrants' rights) and outlandish artiness may translate as Gallic cool, but his music offers a continent of charm.
Working with other local Greek immigrants, she has organized concerts and other events to raise money to pay for return flights for those who want to leave and hotel accommodations for those who insist on staying.
He organized concerts of salsa music — that lively hybrid of Cuban rhythms, big bands and American harmonies — in large halls like Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall and the Hollywood Bowl.
They have organized concerts and karaoke contests, temporary-tattoo parties and social clubs for children, and they have begun turning vast — and empty — stores into community theaters and health clinics.
Mr. Nygaard, who was enrolled as a piano student, tried to get into the conducting program, and when he failed to win a place, organized concerts of his own outside the school.
"When he played, he would move his hands in a dramatic fashion in dance-like moves," said John Santos, a San Francisco bandleader who organized concerts in tribute to Peraza in recent years.
Like their garage rock predecessors, these local scenes were facilitated by enthusiastic impresarios who operated nightclubs or organized concerts in venues such as schools, garages, or warehouses, advertised via inexpensively printed flyers and fanzines.
